Marion Morrison
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They are free to report the news from any angle they wish. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it is not free.Most conservatives are okay with this because a free press is the last of this Nation’s institutions the right doesn’t control.Something interesting to consider regarding rightwing media:
“Monday's disclosure [of the Cohen-Hannity relationship] demonstrates just how tight-knit the pro-Trump media world is. Not only does Hannity advise Trump, not only does Trump promote Hannity's show, not only does Hannity attack Trump's critics -- Hannity and Trump even share the same lawyer.
Cohen is one kind of Trump protector, Hannity is another kind.”
Stelter: Sean Hannity has few rules, and now Fox News has a problem
From your link;
Simon Maloy of the anti-Fox group Media Matters tweeted: "Pause for a moment to reflect upon what one Sean Hannity might do with news that an MSNBC personality had hidden a relationship with a Clinton attorney under criminal investigation."
Even a fellow Fox host, Juan Williams, raised this issue on the network's 5 p.m. talk show "The Five" Monday evening.
"The question for me is why Sean didn't disclose this earlier," Williams said.
But Fox sometimes asserts that Hannity plays by different rules. While "News" is in the Fox name, Hannity proudly says he's not a journalist. In fact, he likes to say journalism is "dead."
No, Sean; journalism is not dead. It's only dead at FOX.
Him saying that should be a wake-up call for every FOX viewer, but I have no doubt it won't be. Proof has been supplied over and over again that FOX is an entertainment network, and people such as Chris Wallace and Shep Smith are the exceptions, not the norm.
Speaking of journalism being dead - is this where America is headed? No truth, just the GOP propaganda network, everything else is derided and denigrated. And if people continue to speak up/out, ah. Well. They wind up dead.
Russian reporter dies after mystery fall
Vyacheslav Bashkov described Borodin as a "principled, honest journalist" and said Borodin had contacted him at five o'clock in the morning on 11 April saying there was "someone with a weapon on his balcony and people in camouflage and masks on the staircase landing".
Borodin had been looking for a lawyer, he explained, although he later called him back saying he was wrong and that the security men had been taking part in some sort of exercise.
After he was found badly injured at the foot of the building on Thursday, regional authorities said the door of his flat had been locked from the inside, indicating that no-one else had either entered or left the flat.
Journalism is a dangerous business in Russia, and it will become so here, if Trump has his way. Just one of the many attempts he is making to turn this country into an authoritarian state, which leads to another question.
Why are you all okay with that?
Conservatives control all three branches of the Federal government and most of the states, whose Congressional districts are so heavily gerrymandered in favor of Republicans that the democratic process no longer functions in those states, and where opposing views and dissent can find no political purchase.
The elimination of a free press would facilitate the right’s political hegemony for generations to come.
Where's the "free press", buddy?
Most of the major networks are nothing but a propaganda arm for the globalists/Democrat party.
I know a secret I won't tell about that one.
What you call "angles", I call being dishonest. Lying by omission is still lying.