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To: OESY
What this proves is that the LEFTIST Democrats are much better at this GAME than are Republicans. Media Bias has existed for 35 plus years on the network and cable news shows and all the GOP could muster is a periodic whimper about the bias.

In just a "FEW" years after Fox News channels appearance on Cable the Dims have an ORGANIZED effort underway that they say will EXPOSE the bias on FNC, by showing on VIDEO excerpts of said BIAS.

The LEFTISTS are so much better at this than are the Republicans. Someday I hope the GOP gets a pair!!!

15 posted on 07/20/2004 6:39:04 AM PDT by PISANO (NEVER FORGET 911 !!!!)
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To: PISANO
No, they aren't.

Starting w/*Bias* and ending w/the recently released Stanford/UC study on bias, our side has gotten the word out beyond the echo chamber of talk radio and FR on the lamestream media over the past couple of years.

First Uncle Walter admitted media is liberal, then all the media said, "Yeah, we're liberal, so what?"

It is not longer debatable: they are biased. So, now, they have to do the *Everyone does it* routine.

This is going nowhere. FTC can only act if there are substantial instances of consumers being harmed. I recall a quack being cited by FTC for false advertising with several hundred documented cases of harm and the quack simply renamed the product and was back in business quickly.

FTC is relatively toothless and they have said they have no authority.

FNC is run by a liberal who donated big to Gore and supported Kerry w/donations. The Party isn't going to go to the wall against Murdoch. In addition, FNC can nail CNN and MSNBC via their own memos and has publicly so stated. Outfoxed will only be shown on DVD to the faithful, as they used proprietary clips from video feeds that belong to FNC. The so-called employee *whistleblowers* are either not FNC employees or have personnel files that are damning.

This is about discrediting FNC in the eyes of the viewers. Since their conservative viewers are increasing and their liberal viewers decreasing, it adds up to free PR to the base for FNC....which isn't all that right-leaning, anyway.
30 posted on 07/20/2004 7:17:47 AM PDT by reformedliberal (Proud Bush-Cheney04 volunteer)
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To: PISANO
I disagree, and I think the time has passed for the right to claim victimhood in the media game. We have the mainstream media gasping for breath. Newspapers aren't being read, network news isn't being watched, and skepticism of reporters and news organizations is at an all time high. We own talk radio. We are on the internet frontlines, holding our own, and FOXNews leaves the other cables in their dust.

Just think what grand survivors the right has been during the dark years! I loved hearing William F. Buckley describe how the left controlled political debate for decades, and how the right continued to gain prominence and win the national debate. That was done despite the left portraying the right as knuckle draggers.

Now isnt' the time to whine about unfair attacks from the left. We need to continue winning the war of words with truth. That's the most deadly weapon, and the left doesn't have it in their arsenal...we do.

35 posted on 07/20/2004 7:33:45 AM PDT by YaYa123 (@Kerry +Edwards + Wilson +Berger = gigolo, ambulance chaser, liar, thief.com)
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