Posted on 10/10/2007 6:18:01 AM PDT by kristinn
FR has been banned for being against Rudy.
FR has been banned for being against O’Reilly.
LIS WIEHL (co-host): They're not..."
Of course, "some website out of California", is Free Republic and O'Reilly does know us.
Fox has systematically cut most of it’s good anchors.
The morning shows are absolutely God awful tripe.
In fact I have just about quit watching Fox except for an occasional O’Really and a Hannity.
I do watch Brit but that is about it for my used to be 24/7 Fox watching.
There programs stink is about the nicest thing I can say.
You have to remember Murdock needed a fast entry into the news business and we conservatives provided it to him.
Now the payback for several years of loyalty by conservatives is to push them aside in hope of picking up that vast audience over at PMSNBC and CNN.
I believe that fox is playing both sides of the street against the middle.
If Hillary is elected their hoping that the Clinton Machine will not frog march them to the FCC woodshed.
Who ever is making the decisions at Fox will soon realize that politically correct morning show will not cut it for real news junkies like most conservatives.
Come on Fox grow some cajoles and quick.
Loosers.
I doubt its about Fox.
Suspect its more about not wanting to give any specific credit or credibility to a web site, that beat them at what is supposed to be there job.
Since Murdope and that drunken leprechaun hang on every word written here then let me say to them, “Eat my shorts!”
The contoversey could bring new eyes to the original story....I never heard of the Frost family until just now.
If you have no interest in sports, you have no idea how big sports is in NYC. New York teams are national news; if they win, it's because they're somehow supposed to; if they lose, the focus is on the pitchfork-wielding fans who can't take it no more. As ESPN's ombuds(wo)man put it:
I'm interested in knowing what sports stories didn't deserve the attention, and on what "dark day in Iraq" they happened.
Whether the Yankees are in first place or last, whether you love them or hate them, you are going to get a large daily diet of New York baseball [on ESPN]. Yankee haters, depending on their location, call it bias, East Coast or plain old......a viewer from Wichita, Kan., wrote to ask: "Now that the Yankees are a last-place team, can ESPN start covering them like they cover all the other last place teams?" The answer, of course, was no.
The sports story in question involved the major league debut of some Japanese player for the Mets -- a guy who so mediocre he wasn't even on the team a year later.
The "dark day" in Iraq was around April 4, 2004 -- when something like 13 U.S. military personnel were killed in Iraq (this may still be the single highest casualty count for any given day of the Iraq War).
For a newspaper like the NY Post that had long been a cheerleader for the war in Iraq and a frequent critic of those media outlets whose coverage of the war was inherently biased, their coverage of this event was a f#cking disgrace.
There is still no accident report, which should be public record, the ‘black ice’ excuse isn’t verifiable either, the Democrat Majority Press fails to fact check.
"Tabloid" refers to the format/layout of the paper.
From Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
< a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tabloid">tab·loid
–noun
1. a newspaper whose pages, usually five columns wide, are about one-half the size of a standard-sized newspaper page.
But the fact that lower-quality newspapers are typically printed in this format has led to a derivation, provided as the next definition...
2. a newspaper this size concentrating on sensational and lurid news, usually heavily illustrated.
Note the definition of broadsheet:
broad·sheet [brawd-sheet]
–noun
1. Chiefly British. a newspaper printed on large paper, usually a respectable newspaper rather than a tabloid.
The NY Post meets both definitions.
While the edit does seem odd, it is also a reasonable change editorially, because the original text is weaseling. By saying FR and across the Internet, MM is implying it was not just here--so why say FR? If it was FR that was important, then why add the Internet part...or why not write it to show that the rest of the Internet came later. To an editor, the way it is written, FR does seem extraneous, since it's part of the Internet.
If this is the only edit in the column, though, then it seems pretty deliberate. Anyone know?
So the solution is folks, we need to work overtime to bump up the hits of the phrase “freerepublic.com” so more people find us.
I know that I most certainly DON'T like to watch Fox News anymore! They are so blatantly pro-Rudy and I could not believe the way Bore O'Reilly went after FR, completely unjustified.
I think we need to point this out to Rush - he's pretty good at connecting the dots. I've heard him speak favorably of FR.
Photo credit: FReeper dinasour.
Please FReepmail me if you would like to be added to, or removed from, the Michelle Malkin ping list...
BUMP
Murdoch runs a business. If the Dems win in November and lock out FNC, that certainly won’t please his shareholders.
If need be, I will get with Michelle and find out what happened.
I know it will be a real pain but I will do it “for the team”.
I may have to buy a bottle or two of red wine and maybe some dinner, etc...
I will get to the botton of this story!
No need to thank me. Your positive vibes are enough payment.
Honest Conservative, you are closest to the real reason:
They don’t want people coming here to read what we’re saying about the REAL problem with SCHIP in MD and many other states, which is that there is no asset test! No asset test! It’s like a free-for-all!
Malkin is very aware of this, but she’s just one person and if someone doesn’t like what she says they’ll ignore it. We are a bigger faster cat!
Notice that these stories continue to focus on the puny $45K annual income - which is not ‘fact’ since the Frosts refused to release their 2006 return.
I am not buying that they support 8 people on $45K a year including a $160K comm’l property and a $260K home. There is something very fishy. Could it be that a family of 8 claiming only $45K income a year does not have to file income taxes? If so, then by what means did Dept. of Human Services verify income to certify the SCHIP?
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