A Cold Wind Is Blowin In...The White House Steps Up Smear Campaign Against Fox News.

[hvacjones]

In recent weeks this White House has been engaged in an aggressive and vicious Smear Campaign targeting any Media Outlet which dares to criticize them. Their main target seems to be Fox News at this point. They have been producing an increasing steady stream of hateful Anti-Fox News propaganda since seizing power. Now i know all the loyal Hopey Changeys will see this as a "good" thing but many on both the Left & Right have become very concerned about these clearly premeditated daily attacks.

This White House has also stepped up its attacks on Talk Radio as well. It seems that any Media Outlet that dares to criticize this White House will be immediately targeted for a White House Smear Campaign. This has many in the Press very worried. It almost seems like this White House is taking a page out of the Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro playbooks. These vicious attacks on Fox News are especially disturbing when you consider that they have actually been found by independent studies to be the most balanced Media Outlet in TV News. The CMPA (The Center for Media and Public Affairs) found that during the Election,Fox News was the most balanced in its coverage towards both parties. These results are based on a scientific content analysis of all 481 election news stories that aired on the flagship evening news shows on ABC,CBS,NBC,and Fox's Special Report with Brit Hume in the months leading up to th Election. Their study concluded that Fox News treated both parties equally as far as positive and negative coverage goes. They found that the others were much more prone to slanted coverage favoring Democrats over Republicans.

So why all the vicious attacks on Fox News and Talk Radio? Well the answer seems to be pretty simple to me. These Media Outlets have actually dared to criticize this President while the rest of the MSM seems to be completely compliant and submissive. These kinds of premeditated Smear Campaigns against the Press should be disturbing to all,both on the Left and Right. Freedom of Press and Freedom of Speech seem to be under attack right now in this country and i'm a bit surprised that more people aren't outraged. Oh yes,a Cold Wind is definitely blowin in. Will this be a long bitter Winter of Discontent?

The center for media and public affairs is hardly non-partison. Linked to Goerge Mason university, where mant NON partisans such as Karl Rove were incubated

 

[Polk]

The Donahue show was cancelled and silenced for daring to speak up against the Iraq war...... didn't hear much screaming from the right on that one....

BULLSHIT...Donahue failed because he was a total progressive libtard dipshit molded by Air America and Janine Garafalo.

At the time of it's cancellation, Donahue's show was the highest rated on the network. Donahue got canned because the bosses at GE though he might endanger their military contracts.

 

[Polk]

Maybe Obama should take the Bush route and just blow them up.

 

[007]

Yea i'm just gonna have to say that this is by far the whiniest White House in History. My God,the guy has just about all of the MSM bowing to lick his boots yet he's whining about just a couple of MSM outlets who dare to criticize him? Geez wasn't CNN (Communist News Network) singing songs of praise for their Supreme Leader just the other day? So what's all the smearing & bitchin about? I would even say that there has been no other President in our History who has received the kind of MSM Boot-Licking this President has. I think this whole Whiner strategy thing really is going to backfire on them in the end. Fox News ratings are better than ever and still climbing. However the point was still missed by most. When the White House begins a premeditated aggressive smear campaign against the Press,it really does set a very dangerous precedent. Some on the Left have spoken out about this issue but not enough have in my opinion.

It's no longer the Main Stream Media, it's the Left Stream Media... and it's no longer the White House. Now it's the Black House.

It's all part of the messiahs "fundamental transformation of America."

 

[PatekPhilippe]

The Donahue show was cancelled and silenced for daring to speak up against the Iraq war...... didn't hear much screaming from the right on that one....

BULLSHIT...Donahue failed because he was a total progressive libtard dipshit molded by Air America and Janine Garafalo.

Pattycakes you were a liar, failure and loser on the MSNBC site and here you are keeping your record up....please for fuck-sake post just one link to back up just one thing you post ....just once dildo....please?

What was that prom queen? I didn't catch that.......

 

[Jay Canuck]

BULLSHIT...Donahue failed because he was a total progressive libtard dipshit molded by Air America and Janine Garafalo.

Pattycakes you were a liar, failure and loser on the MSNBC site and here you are keeping your record up....please for fuck-sake post just one link to back up just one thing you post ....just once dildo....please?

What was that prom queen? I didn't catch that.......

you can fucking read can't you? - also.... I may be the prom-queen in your fantasies but you have held the title of Drama Queen for years.

 

[LibocalypseNow]

I really do have to edit something i said earlier. This White House is not only taking a page out of the Hugo Chavez & Fidel Castro Playbooks but is also borrowing from their Hero Mao Tse Tung as well. This is according to one of Hopey Changey's own lackeys anyway. Anita Dunn,White House Communications Director,was recently caught openly boasting about controlling the Media by using Mao Tse Tung's tactics in Communist China. Is there still any doubt left that our country has been seized by the Neo-Marxists/Socialists? Pretty sad stuff.

 

[Contessa_Sharra]

A prolonged overt battle will hurt Obama more than Fox. It will probably drive up ratings for a while. Your thread was more true during the honeymoon 100 days. Lately I see a more consistent critical view by NBC. MSNBC was a big offender when the bailout was being created. Wall Street was blameless in their eyes. No hope for CBS, but then few watch, so no harm, no foul.

CMPA operates as a tax-exempt nonprofit group under a 501(c)(3) designation of the Internal Revenue Code. Since 2004 CMPA has been an affiliate of the George Mason University, ..........................Isn't George Mason U one of those VERY REPUBLICAN SCHOOLS............


When radio went to yap yap yap yapping all the time, I stopped bothering to even tune in.

Jazz radio, that's the good stuff.

As for that boilbutt druggy, limbaugh, and that schlafly slut and there is one other one, why even bother! Those are some of the most hypocritical bitches ever.....

 

[saveliberty]

Donahue suffered the same fate as Air America. Low ratings. MSNBC wanted 1,000,000 viewers. Donahue delivered 440,000.

 

[Contessa_Sharra]

The center for media and public affairs is hardly non-partison. Linked to Goerge Mason university, where mant NON partisans such as Karl Rove were incubated

Didn't find your exact thing, but knew "George Mason U" was a suspect entity..... thanks for supplying the connection!


However, they seem to have graduated a bunch of Democrats too:

List of George Washington University people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Interesting List!

 

[LibocalypseNow]

Many independent studies have been done on this and all have shown that the overall MSM does lean Liberal/Democrat. They have all consistently found that overall the MSM does do far more Favorable and Positive stories on Democrats than they do Republicans. They have also been proven to do far more Negative and Unfavorable stories on Republicans than they do Democrats. In fact they also found that most in the Mainstream News Media are registered Democrats. These studies examined all TV Media including Government funded Media outlets like PBS. So the case really is closed on the whole Media Bias thing. The Mainstream Media is overwhelmingly biased and does favor Liberals/Democrats. Fox News and a couple of others are rare exceptions to this rule. So why all the whining and smearing from this White House? What a scam.

 

[Political Junky]

How did the White House smear FoxNews??

Did they say anything that is inaccurate or just state the truth that Fox is a rightwing mouthpiece?

Nope, the truth hurts.

 

[Jay Canuck]

White House versus FoxNoise

A week after White House Communications Director Anita Dunn said Fox News operates like a wing of the Republican Party, President Obama’s Chief of Staff provided another window into the administration’s thinking on the cable news outlet.

“It’s not so much a conflict with Fox News,“ Emanuel said Sunday during CNN’s State of the Union, “I suppose the way to look at it and the way the president looks at it and we look at is: it’s not a news organization so much as it has a perspective. And that’s a different take.”

 

[namvet]

Pattycakes you were a liar, failure and loser on the MSNBC site and here you are keeping your record up....please for fuck-sake post just one link to back up just one thing you post ....just once dildo....please?

What was that prom queen? I didn't catch that.......

you can fucking read can't you? - also.... I may be the prom-queen in your fantasies but you have held the title of Drama Queen for years.

so you post your sexual preference like we didn't already know ?????

 

[Dr.Traveler]

... independent studies which have consistently shown that Fox News really is the most balanced News Network on TV.

The most recent CMPA study just took each network's own reports and examined them for balance. Fox News did fare much better than most. Hmm?

...these independent studies showing that Fox News really is the most balanced News Network. Hmm?

Most independent studies including this most recent study by the CMPA (Center for Media and Public Affairs) have shown that Fox News is the most balanced News Network on TV.

Well most independent studies don't show Fox News as being so biased.

Based on independent analysis of the last Election,Fox News did provide the most balanced coverage overall.

The study was called the CMPA 2008 Election News Watch Project. They concluded that Fox News Channel's coverage was more balanced towards both parties than the broadcast networks were. It really is true.

Many independent studies have been done on this and all have shown that the overall MSM does lean Liberal/Democrat.... Fox News and a couple of others are rare exceptions to this rule.

Post the link to these studies because it seems silly. Simply repeating something 8 times in 15 pages doesn't make it true. If anything it makes you look silly. If this is an important enough point to repeat it so often, then its important enough to do the leg work and back it up or you risk looking silly. Otherwise you just look silly because you can't back it up. It really is just silly behavior. Isn't it silly to just repeat the same words and phrases over and over. Silly. Silly.Silly. Silly.Silly. Silly.Silly. Silly.Silly. Silly.Silly. Silly.Silly. Silly.Silly. Silly.Silly. Silly.Silly. Silly.Silly. Silly.Silly. Silly.Silly. Silly.Silly. Silly.Silly. Silly.Silly. Silly.Silly. Silly.Silly. Silly.Silly. Silly.Silly. Silly.

 

[EriktheRed]

This is nothing new.

The previous administration routinely rewarded Fox News for being so compliant to their needs and called out Journalists that dared to investigate them. Wasn't the New York Times routinely accused of Treason under Bush?

Journalists need to remember that if they're doing their job right, no one is going to like them.

Does not sound like the Bush white house to me. Do you have any quotes, citations on this?

Posted some stories earlier, including some Cheney quotes on the New York Times reporting on various activities of the Bush Administration.

They're all partisan sources, but they back up what they say, at least:


New York Times Still Awaiting First Interview With President George W. Bush

Think Progress » FLASHBACK: Fox News Supported Bush White House’s War Against NBC

The Raw Story | Fox host: Olbermann crossed line when he picked on my kid

 

[Jay Canuck]

you think whatever you want about my preferences cupcake....I'm sure it keeps you up at night.

 

[namvet]

you think whatever you want about my preferences cupcake....I'm sure it keeps you up at night.

2 black males in bed makes your pee pee hard. keeps you up all night long

 

[EriktheRed]

Point still missed by so many. This isn't just a Left vs. Right thing. This issue is far more serious than that. Government intimidation of the Free Press should alarm all Americans. This is just plain bad for America. Too bad so many are just too petty & small-minded to see this.

of course you were ALL over the media in the Bush years........sure!

During the Bush years, the media did their job.

Had the so-called Liberal Media™ actually done its job, there would have been more coverage of both sides of the WMD argument for invading Iraq. The supposedly liberal New York Times was one of the main outlets to drop the ball on that. Not to mention the NYT also sat on the warrantless wiretapping story until after the '04 election.*




*Yeah, I know I said it already, but it bears repeating.

 

[nodoginnafight]

The Raw Story | Fox host: Olbermann crossed line when he picked on my kid

Intersting part of that link was the "scathing letter" the Bush White House sent to NBC news regarding how they edited an interview .....

hmmmmm ........ was the wind as cold THAT day ??????????