[holymoly]

My apologies if this has already been posted, nothing turned up in a search.

[theDentist]

My apologies if this has already been posted, nothing turned up in a search.

That's OK. There was nothing to the article either.

[Revolting cat!]

Antonia sure looks butch, doesn't she?!

[WorkingClassFilth]

This man's problem is not drywall embedded in his forehead. His problem is the concrete between his ears.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

The Reagans were never menat to be a news program.
...so it's alright if they lie about what Reagan said, giving him a bad image that he doesn't deserve. News flash you f!@#$%^ idiot... the National Enquirer isn't meant to be a realistic news source, but they get sued for libel.

[Revolting cat!]

[Timesink]

Can you imagine an American newspaper, even one in a city right across the Canadian border, running an 800-word diatribe about a Canadian network canceling a TV movie about Brian Mulroney due to its being quite possibly libelous?

Too many Canadians - especially the writers of the Toronto Star, arguably one of the most liberal papers in that country - have an extremely unhealthy obsession with the United States. Why the hell should they care what an American network decides to do about a miniseries about an American president?

Oh yeah, because Reagan's a conservative and all TV networks everywhere have a sworn duty to air nothing but far-left propaganda hit pieces 24/7. Right.

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[CaptRon]

The script here is that, when the media report news that the right doesn't like, its defenders counterattack by screaming left-wing bias rather than admit that Bush could be a big fat liar. Last week, one of my favourite cartoonists Tom Toles illustrated this brilliantly by showing a CBS announcer saying the network won't be airing The Reagans "because it's full of inaccuracies, hostile in tone and completely misleading" and then, looking off camera, asking, "What do we do about this Bush press conference?''

Up yours, Antonia. The media has a permanent left-wing bias, not just when it suits the right, and, further, I defy you to find one instance of an outright lie told by the President.

[oh8eleven]

... the late great Edward R. Murrow who, along with his producer Fred Friendly and CBS, helped bring down Commie-hunter Joseph McCarthy

CBS - fighting democracy for the last half century (at least).

[Post Toasties]

I'm waiting for the major network docudrama of 'Xlowntoon: the Early Years' featuring his stepfathers, Juanita Broaddrick, cocaine habit, etc.

[Cultural Jihad]

Apparently this person agrees with Anti-President Al Gore that CBS/Viacom has a 1st Amendment right to our wallets.

[Numbers Guy]

But abolishing it [the Fairness Doctrine] led to even more trouble in television land, including the creation of entire "news" networks that spew lots of opinion and little fact.

You see, according to our intrepid author, prior to 1987 there was no bias in television news. It's only emerged since then . . .

[<1/1,000,000th%]

I'm thinking of having the above photo retaken in order to show the drywall embedded in my forehead. It's a wonder I stopped bashing my head long enough to eke out this column.

This pretty much explains the left-wing mind-set.

[alloysteel]

"CBS dancing to Republican tune"

More like the "perp walk" as the miscreant is being hauled into the station to be booked....

Nothing will come of the charges, as they will be dismissed by the liberal media acting on behalf of the "court of public opinion", but the reputation continues to build.

[Plutarch]

...helped bring down Commie-hunter Joseph McCarthy...

Revealing slip. He derides McCarthy only because he was a "Commie-hunter." Oh, then there were Commies, were there? In the State Department?

McCarthy is supposed to be reviled for "ruining innocent lives". He must not have gotten the memo.

[HarleyD]

"...how the Bushies made their case for killing thousands of people in Iraq..."

It never ceases to amaze me how the LEFT uses the same pithy statements at the same time as if scripted. This seems to be the latest. I've noticed this in several articles today in different variations. It's like they're all listening to the Wizard of Oz.

[Qwinn]

"I got into a surreal argument with a TV network foreign affairs producer who made the outrageous claim that the U.S. never lied about its motives for attacking Iraq."

Don't you love it how morons like this claim that anyone who doesn't take their side in a controversial charge, in which people don't buy the leftist media line, are "surreal" and "outrageous"? According to this guy, half the U.S. population is "surreal" and "outrageous". The arrogance is mind-blowing.

Qwinn

[weegee]

Jimmy Carter couldn't pronounce nuclear either and he was a nuclear physicist.

[weegee]

But the Ronald Reagan-loving critics overlook that, claiming victory over the liberal media, which had merely set out to trash their beloved Gipper and, among other things, his appalling record on AIDS. Even though these critics never saw the show, and even though Reagan never mentioned AIDS for the first six years of his administration.

Salon posted the whole script as a PDF. This dumba$$ can read the venom for himself. I hope that this bed wetting liberal has put fresh rubber sheets on his bed...

[weegee]

This is not to say that the Fairness Doctrine was without problems from a freedom of the press standpoint. But abolishing it led to even more trouble in television land, including the creation of entire "news" networks that spew lots of opinion and little fact.

We've "had" entire "news" networks that spewed lots of opinion and little fact. Only they all tilted left. Now that some obviously conservative news networks/radio is getting exposure people are waking up to just how socialist left leaning the news editors/anchors at Big Media were.

Beyond the "Fairness Doctrine", we have commercial free 501(c)3 radio stations on the left end of the radio dial; stations that are voluntarily limited in their political speech because of the tax dodge they take. Of course anyone who has listened to US taxpayer supported Pacifica or NPR will tell you that they violate their 501C3 charter everyday.

[The Wizard]

can you spell a-s-s--h-o-l-e