News Corp. President Endorses Kerry

Broadcasting & Cable ^ | 8.4.04 | John Eggerton

[nutmeg]

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[Dane]

Well there goes the DUmmies mantra that Fox News is in the pocket of the Pubbies.

[sionnsar]

I watch Fox less and less, usually just to watch Hume, who also seems to be there less and less.

I don't have cable ("cable-free since, um, 1990") so the only time I see Fox is when travelling and the hotel carries it. Don't know what the fuss is about -- I get better, more complete news (than what I see on television), via FR and other Internet sites.

Last trip the hotel set didn't even get turned on. Trip before that I got curious about today's BBC... for all of two minutes before I'd had enough... yawn.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

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Why do the TV and Cable Newsrooms
hide Hanoi Kerry's past?

[arasina]

Honey, your naivete is showing...bigtime. That blogspot is not written by Roger Ailes. Don't you know you can put any name you wish on a blog? I hope you don't believe whitehouse.com is the real White House.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

If you recall the media tried to give FL to Gore in 2000
VNS was a private consortium owned by
ABC News, The Associated Press, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, and NBC.
4 of the 5 of the networks and cable newsrooms
(only ABC waited till both time zones closed)
"announced" Gore had won
BEFORE the 2nd time zone in FL had closed.
This cost President Bush votes in the FL panhandle.

I was at a friends house and the State of FL election website results showed President Bush was winning

In fact, the networks which called Florida for Gore did so early in the evening—before polls had even closed in the Florida panhandle, which is part of the Central Time Zone. NBC called Florida for Gore at 7:49:40 p.m., Eastern Time. This was 10 minutes before polls closed in the Florida panhandle. Thirty seconds later, CBS called Florida for Gore. And at 7:52 p.m., Fox called Florida for Gore. Moore never lets the audience know that Fox was among the networks which made the error of calling Florida for Gore prematurely. Then at 8:02 p.m., ABC called Florida for Gore. Only ABC had waited until the Florida polls were closed.

About an hour before the polls closed in panhandle Florida,
the networks called the U.S. Senate race in favor of the Democratic candidate.

The premature calls may have cost Bush thousands of votes from the conservative panhandle, as discouraged last-minute voters heard that their state had already been decided;
some last-minute voters on their way to the polling place turned around and went home. Other voters who were waiting in line left the polling place. In Florida, as elsewhere, voters who have arrived at the polling place before closing time often end up voting after closing time, because of long lines. The conventional wisdom of politics is that supporters of the losing candidate are most likely to give up on voting when they hear that their side has already lost. Thus, on election night 1980, when incumbent President Jimmy Carter gave a concession speech while polls were still open on the west coast, the early concession was blamed for costing the Democrats several Congressional seats in the West, such as that of 20-year incumbent James Corman. The fact that all the networks had declared Reagan a landslide winner while west coast voting was still in progress was also blamed for Democratic losses in the West; Congress even held hearings about prohibiting the disclosure of exit polls before voting had ended in the any of the 48 contiguous states.

Even if the premature television calls affected all potential voters equally, the effect was to reduce Republican votes significantly, because the Florida panhandle is a Republican stronghold. Most of Central Time Zone Florida is in the 1st Congressional District, which is known as the "Redneck Riviera." In that district, Bob Dole beat Bill Clinton by 69,000 votes in 1996, even though Clinton won the state by 300,000 votes.

So depress overall turnout in the panhandle,
and you will necessarily depress more Republican than Democratic votes.

A 2001 study by John Lott suggested that the early calls cost Bush at least 7,500 votes,
and perhaps many more.

At 10:00 p.m., which network took the lead in retracting the premature Florida win for Gore?
The first retracting network was CBS, not Fox.

Over four hours later, at 2:16 a.m., Fox projected Bush as the Florida winner,
as did all the other networks by 2:20 a.m.

At 3:59 a.m., CBS took the lead in retracting the Florida call for Bush. All the other networks, including Fox, followed the CBS lead within eight minutes. That the networks arrived at similar conclusions within a short period of time is not surprising, since they were all using the same data from the Voter News Service. (Linda Mason, Kathleen Francovic & Kathleen Hall Jamieson, “CBS News Coverage of Election Night 2000: Investigation, Analysis, Recommendations” (CBS News, Jan. 2001), pp. 12-25.)

The big 5 media TV and Cable newsrooms are the real threat to the 2004 election.

..."Early on Tuesday, November 7th 2000, TV stations and various media based in Florida reported that Gore has won Florida which was a big surprise for everyone because of strong republican support. Bush's brother Jeb is governor there and Florida usually gives support to the Republicans. Some of them questioned that and during the night CNN showed 52% Bush's lead over 46% for Gore. It is almost impossible to believe that media could have been that blind and biased to report Gore's victory."...

[jpl]

It really pains me to say this, but in my opinion this is simply a craven move on the part of FNC and News Corp in order to curry favor with the left wing and to try to gain acceptance among the so-called mainstream media, and to try to get more viewers during the election season.

[hansel]

I stand corrected.

[Lady Jag]

Media is against all things good

[zip]

I think the other thing is a real global focus, a focus on, you know, it's a world-wide market of 5 billion people, and I think the more this country looks outward and develops close relationships with economies and countries around the world, I think it creates bigger markets for our products and our ideas.

There it is. One world government or UN controlled business. sKerry is the right one if you're looking for someone to give away America's concept of self rule and turn our government over to Kofi baby..

[Chieftain]

[bvw]

Solid busness move. The daggers are out for Fox and this is the best Scotty could do for a deflector shield.

[Smartass]

KERRY WILL BE EXPOSED.
Things aren't going very well for "Hanoi John."

Check out this link:
KEERY EXPOSED

[laurenmarlowe]

"Why do the TV and Cable Newsrooms
hide Hanoi Kerry's past?"

Ratings share and advertising dollars.

[Happy2BMe]

Methinks the Kerry "swift" boat just hit a submerged boulder - BIG TIME!

[weegee]

Media Schadenfreude and Media Shenanigans PING

News Corp. owns Fox News Channel.

[wrathof59]

I agree, and I'm very comfortable living with it.

[MeekOneGOP]

LOL!

[MeekOneGOP]

[wrathof59]

This guy was also converted to conservatism during the age of Aquarius, and we are still fighting the effects of the "flower children". I was also in my twenties.

The most surprising thing in my life was watching the Great Society tear up the institutions of this country with so little resistence.

Socialism was ushered in during the 60s and became an "entitlement" in the Nation's psyche. Individualism and families are still suffering, IMHO.