Posted on 05/02/2008 8:23:17 AM PDT by Rufus2007
Want to see how the mainstream media views Fox News? Look no further than Newsweek's Howard Fineman and the way he thinks the Bush administration uses the network.
Fineman, who is Newsweek magazine's senior Washington correspondent and a regular on MSNBC, told an audience at the Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C. on May 1 that if you want to know what the Bush administration has in store for Iran, keep your eye on Fox News.
"Now about Iran," Fineman said. "I think there's no doubt they're [the Bush administration] looking to see what can be done there and I would recommend Fox News to you. I can' believe I'm saying this, but if you want to know what's being thrown out there, what balloons are being floated - that's the place to look, okay. That's why you've got to scan all the media."
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Fineman, another loser on MSNBC.
The way Fineman takes himself so seriously is cute, yet sad.
Fineman is in a small fraternity of especially annoying columnists.
something tells me Fineman was the nerdiest kid in town
If he is a 'correspondent' should he keep his OPINIONS to himself? /s
“That’s why you’ve got to scan all the media” Fineman says.
We get Newsweak for free in my home (unused frequent flyer miles), and all I can say is that I wouldn’t pay a nickel to “scan” anything Fineman has to say about anything, ever. Smarmy, elitist, know it all, Howard...
As long as the ratmedia doesn’t understand why we watch Fox, we are gaining on them. These dumb bastards are still fooling themselves. I say “Let’em!”
All of the criticism of Fineman be what it may, in fairness the story ends on a positive note.
In the last graf, Fineman admits there HAD been an MSM consensus in the pre-Vietnam era, but “Then it began to fall apart and then the rise of conservative voices and conservative media, now epitomized by Fox. And I think all of that is to the good. I think the more it falls apart, the better.”
Seems to me that Fineman is agreeing that diversity of opinion is a GOOD thing. Can’t quarrel w/that.
Those who read Newsweek...Fill their minds with shit.
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