From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue May 13 2003 - 19:56:07 MDT
--- gts <gts_2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Lee Corbin wrote:
>
> > Two things are refreshing about Fox News (and at least one or
> > two newscasters on MSNBC): they're not only providing
> > balance to ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, but they're quite open
> > about it. What I hate is people pretending they're objective, when
> > they're not.
>
> We disagree here (I think we covered this once before). Yes FOX is
> blatantly right-wing, but it advertises itself as unbiased. The FOX
> slogan, repeated many times each day, is something like "News
> Without the Spin," but in fact they offer more spin than any network
> I've ever seen in all my life.
Only OReilly bills his time slot as "The No Spin Zone". Furthermore, I
don't consider OReilly a spinmeister. He doesn't mince words or parse
sentences, he tells it like it is as he sees it. That isn't spin. What
he doesn't do is allow guests to twist the truth or write new
definitions of the word "is". That is what spin is: disinformation,
deflection, obfuscation.
> O'Reilly bills himself as "independent" but I don't think he's ever
> once entertained an opinion that serious liberals would find
> acceptable.
Shows how much you've been paying attention. OReilly is specifically
for gun control and for gay/lesbian adoption, just to name a few
liberal positions he holds.
> He was registered GOP until recently when a reporter on another
> network called him on his dishonesty in billing himself as
> independent. Cavuto and Hannity are like rabid junior Newt
> Gingrichs.
Hannity doesnt advertise himself as any kind of a news anchor, and
while Cavuto has editorials, he clearly identifies them as such, unlike
CNN, ABC, CBS, or NBC anchors.
FOX clearly identifies its editorial programming from its news
programming, unlike what the rest of the media does.
>
> >> Cable news networks are not obliged by law to serve the public
> >> interest, which is one reason we see extreme advocacy journalism
> >> on cable like that which comes from FOX.
> >
> > Well, we know how to fix that, don't we? How about a
> > "Fairness Doctrine"
>
> Nah. I want less regulation, not more.
Actually, cable is allowed to ghettoize it, which is where public
access channels come from.
=====
Mike Lorrey
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