Howell Raines Lets Fly His Hatred for Fox News

TimesWatch.org ^ | 6/22/06 | Clay Waters

[NJRighty]

The always modest, always charming Howell Raines, executive editor of the New York Times, has a new autobiography out, “The One that Got Away,” a sequel to his 1993 memoir “Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis.”

Dipping into his latest book on his love of fly fishing, we find Raines still rising to the conservative-bashing bait.

On page 189, he lets fly with thoughts about liberal bugbear Fox News: “Fox, by its mere existence, undercuts the argument that the public is starved for ‘fair’ news, and not just because Fox shills for the Republican Party and panders to the latest of America’s periodic religious manias. The key to understanding Fox News is to grasp the anomalous fact that its consumers know its ‘news’ is made up. It matters not when critics point this out to Foxite consumers because they’ve understood it from the outset. That’s why they’re there. Its chief fictioneer, Roger Ailes, had been making up news in plain sight for a half century.”

[Lee'sGhost]

Jeez, start a news channel that actually gives both sides of the news and the libs have a hissy fit. Better put some ice on that, Howell.

[Diddle E. Squat]

I believe this is termed "Projecting".

[nralife]

"Fox shills for the Republican Party and panders to the latest of America’s periodic religious manias. The key to understanding Fox News is to grasp the anomalous fact that its consumers know its ‘news’ is made up."



OH SO TYPICAL.... accusing the opposition of what they themselves are doing! Typical Liberal tactic.

[Bob]

"All the news that's fit to Spin".

No, it's "All the news that fits our views"

[NJ Freeper]

ping

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Its chief fictioneer, Roger Ailes, had been making up news in plain sight for a half century.

No mention of Dan Rather.

[aculeus]

We wanted to read New York mag’s article today on Howell Raines, his new book, and his post-Times life. Really we did. But then we got to the full-page portrait that opens the feature and, man, we just couldn’t get any further. Are we appalled? Are we intrigued? Is it the jowls? Is it the nose? Is it the dark, penetrating eyes? We have no idea. But we haven’t been able to look away.

Clearly, he hates all of us.

http://www.gawker.com/news/howell-raines/howell-raines-stares-into-the-depths-of-our-soul-and-yours-too-170723.php

[roses of sharon]

LOL, the NYT bathhouse boys are having a sissy fit, love, love, love it!

[Vision]

“Fox, by its mere existence, undercuts the argument that the public is starved for ‘fair’ news, and not just because Fox shills for the Republican Party and panders to the latest of America’s periodic religious manias. The key to understanding Fox News is to grasp the anomalous fact that its consumers know its ‘news’ is made up. It matters not when critics point this out to Foxite consumers because they’ve understood it from the outset. That’s why they’re there. Its chief fictioneer, Roger Ailes, had been making up news in plain sight for a half century.”

I love it when liberals go psychotic. They end up projecting their inner most secrets without a clue they're doing it.

[CougarGA7]

That's pretty funny comming from the King of Yellow Journalism.

[Sam Cree]

Has anybody read his autobiographical book on his life as a fisherman, I wonder? I forgot the title (no loss), but I started it some years ago, unaware that the guy was a lefty. I got to a part where Raines related how, as a young boy, he had been left home because he was too young when his older brother and dad had gone on a fishing trip. In a childish tantrum over being left behind, he had then broken his brother's prized fishing rod in half. Not too unusual, I suppose, but Raines then went on to say that even as he wrote, as a middle aged adult, he still wasn't sorry for having broken the rod. I think that defines the guy's character pretty well. Anyhow, I'd had enough whining and fake eloquence by then, so I gave up on the tiresome tome.

I will say that if well to do "liberals" take up fishing, the fly rod is snooty enough to appeal to them.

[Sunshine Sister]

My thoughts exactly!

[oyez]

In the mind of Howell Raines competition is an unnecessary pain in the ass. Under his dreamed new age, Fox News won't be allowed to exist.

[SE Mom]

Howell Raines, ppppfffttt...

[Tzimisce]

....isn't fly fishing uncivil to the fish? Don't our flippered friends have rights?

(/sarcasm)

[TChris]

Perhaps a more html-literate Freeper could post the chart for all to see. It's a doozy!

You mean, like this?

[preacher]

The Liberals have 95% of the print media & 95% of the Radio/TV media. What they don't want is any voice anywhere for Conservatives

[txoilman]

Another liberal that has been educated beyond his intelligence!

[NJRighty]

All Fox does is give a chance for some articulate conservative spokespeople to comment and be heard. It just gives the conservative point of view along with the liberal point of view.

To the far left, that is what makes Fox such shills for Republicans!