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Posted on 11/17/2004 6:46:48 PM PST by Paul Atreides
The news presidents of ABC, CBS and NBC all agree that the rise of the Fox News Channel poses a threat to their organizations. Appearing on a panel at Stanford University Monday night, CBS News President Andrew Hayward remarked, "Fox has added an important new ingredient to the news system: they mix news and opinion. ... Fox is a blend of news and talk radio on TV. That is a powerful dimension." As reported in the college newspaper Stanford Daily on Tuesday, each of the news chiefs voiced similar concerns. Said ABC News President David Westin: "The problem is when news and opinion are mashed together. ... It is starting to push out the truth telling, which is undermining our core mission. We have to keep the central goal telling the truth as we see it." Each of the executives said that they now must deal with public preconceptions that may clash with the actual facts. NBC News President Neal Shapiro observed that the network had presented military experts who maintained that there wouldn't be enough troops in Iraq to pacify the country following the invasion. "This didn't seem to resonate with the American people." Westin agreed, noting that polls show "that an alarming number of people still believe there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq."
I'll be waiting for the MSM to show its objectivity with a series of interviews with experts discussing the negative effects of the high levels of taxation and regulation in this country.
Unlike CNN & MSNBC? The difference is that FoxNews at least acknowledges the existence of a conservative viewpoint. & yes, Mr. ABC, people like me actually believe that there were WMD in Iraq (& that most of them are now in Syria & Lebanon).
"Fox has added an important new ingredient to the news system: they mix news and opinion."
Do they think we are that stupid or do they really think they keep opinion out of their newscasts?
BOTH! They hate you for questioning them and their opion/journalism.
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Instead of creating news and mixing it with opinion?
They cannot have the rabble thinking for themselves.
Can you believe they would say something like that? Just like the left-accuse their opponents of doing exactly what the left does all the time.
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The MSM has been reduced to 30 second sound bites. They will never be able to offer what Free Republic or other free flowing internet sites offer. They could come close if they would just present unmassaged data, but they won't. They still believe the people just can't handle it. That is their biggest mistake. People do get it and in getting it realize how much they do not need the MSM anymore.
This statement alone is worth the price of admission.
And we don't have to see it. Why watch them at all?
Was that Rather at SeeBS or Halperin at ABC? Or an idiot at NBC's Hateline?
They absolutley see it.
They are in denial, they still think the campaigning is still going.
There were weapons in Iraq.
Saddanm Hussein said so.
They are in Syria now.
Deluded megalomaniacs in the leftist press are losing influence every day.
Like the Soviets, they too are unaware of their impending demise.
Today Fox covered one of the most important scandals of our time, the hearings of the Oil for Food UN scandal where Saddam stole billions and used it to pay terrorists.
CNN, meanwhile, had not one mention of it. But they did cover the nice exhibits in Bill Clinton's library.
When the MSM can't tell the difference between opinion and slanting the news, its no wonder they are on their way out.
And that's the way is is...
He was never even close.
LOL! It was none of them. It was someone I encountered about 25 years ago, but it obviously is something many of those you mentioned probably live by.
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