When antiwar demonstrators gathered outside the Fox News building in Manhattan, the network's outdoor news zipper replaced its headlines with taunts:
"War protester auditions here today. . . . Thanks for coming!" And: "How do you keep a war protester in suspense? Ignore them." And: "Attention protesters: The Michael Moore Fan Club meets Thursday at a phone booth at Sixth Avenue and 50th Street."
Unfair and unbalanced? "I thought I'd have some fun with it," says Fox zipper-writer Marvin Himelfarb, a former Hollywood screenwriter. "I couldn't resist."
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How delightful, if the activists weren't pissed before they are now. A very pleasing thought...
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Further reinforcing the notion of fair and balanced reporting eh Fox News?
Note I'm not saying that CNN or anything else is balanced/fair, it's just that news services are at least supposed to maintain the appearance of impartiality...
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Strafe wrote:Further reinforcing the notion of fair and balanced reporting eh Fox News?
Note I'm not saying that CNN or anything else is balanced/fair, it's just that news services are at least supposed to maintain the appearance of impartiality...
Oh lighten up. It's a Murdoch network for Chrissakes. The only people who think it's fair and balanced are the people who agree with everything it says anyway.
Here's a question: who says the news has to be balanced at all? The anchors, reporters, producers, editors, and the rest are all human and they all have opinions just like the viewers. As long as they get the facts right, who gives a shit what the network's opinion is?
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>ahem< As an anti-war advocate and protestor, I feel it necessary to come right out and say what is on the minds of every anti-war protestor who has read this article. There are four words that burn with a passion in the minds of all those whom you have deemed "hippies" and "pot-smokers" and "peace Nazis." These four words are the crux of demonstrations in general, idealizing the general sentiment that has arisen as a result of persistent and vehement rallies against this war. Those words are:
That was damned funny.
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Queeb Salaron wrote:>ahem< As an anti-war advocate and protestor, I feel it necessary to come right out and say what is on the minds of every anti-war protestor who has read this article. There are four words that burn with a passion in the minds of all those whom you have deemed "hippies" and "pot-smokers" and "peace Nazis." These four words are the crux of demonstrations in general, idealizing the general sentiment that has arisen as a result of persistent and vehement rallies against this war. Those words are:
That was damned funny.
And that...was pretty good as well.
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Andrew J. wrote:Indeed, Fox basically admitting that they have a conservative slant is a breath of fresh air.
That'll screw over some people who claim that Fox is a liberal news source.
ROFL, hell yea!
What kind of people think Fox is liberal in the FIRST PLACE?!!!
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Soontir C'boath wrote:What kind of people think Fox is liberal in the FIRST PLACE?!!!
Probably the same people who refer to CNN as the "Communist News Network".
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Soontir C'boath wrote:What kind of people think Fox is liberal in the FIRST PLACE?!!!
Probably the same people who refer to CNN as the "Communist News Network".
And the people who call NPR "National Petroleum Radio"
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