Re: Who Owns the News

2003-03-05 Thread Peter Gutmann
Eric Cordian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >We've pretty much gotten to the point where the only places real news can be >found in America these days is on Indymedia and The Daily Show with Jon >Stewart. A sad situation for a country with an alleged "free press." There was an article in some UK pa

Re: Who Owns the News

2003-03-02 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 1 Mar 2003 at 11:25, Eric Cordian wrote: > FOX recently fired two reporters after they refused to change > the facts of a news story. Fox said to them, "We paid $13 > billion for these stations, and we'll tell you what the news > is." > > In a unanimous decision, the 2nd District Cour

Re: Who Owns the News

2003-03-02 Thread Eric Cordian
James A. Donald wrote: > You are making all this crap up. Each of the stories I cited was reported by multiple news outlets. The Donahue story alone had 12 hits on Google News. One would hardly make up a story about a court of appeals decision. > Liberals cannot succeed in talk shows because

Re: Who Owns the News

2003-03-02 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: > > You are making all this crap up. Eric Cordian > Each of the stories I cited was reported by multiple news > outlets. Multiple pinko liars. > The Donahue story alone had 12 hits on Google News. Donahue's abysmal ratings disprove the story that Donahue was fired for

Re: Who Owns the News

2003-03-02 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 2 Mar 2003 at 1:00, Bill Stewart wrote: > Most of the national talk shows on radio are either > conservatives or ranting right wingers or sports shows (which > don't count.) The ranters get some mileage out of insulting > people for a while, trying to keep finding new people to hate >

Re: Who Owns the News

2003-03-02 Thread Bill Stewart
At 07:41 PM 03/01/2003 -0800, James A. Donald wrote: > MSNBC just fired Phil Donahue after a marketing report > outlined a "nightmare scenario" in which MSNBC was perceived > as giving a forum to anti-war sentiment while all other > networks were engaged in patriotic flag-waving. You are making all

Re: Who Owns the News

2003-03-02 Thread Tyler Durden
wn. -TD From: "James A. Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Who Owns the News Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 19:41:33 -0800 -- On 1 Mar 2003 at 11:25, Eric Cordian wrote: > FOX recently fired two reporters after they refused to change > the fac

Who Owns the News

2003-03-02 Thread Eric Cordian
Adam Back writes: > Look at this shit on fox news, look how they bias the question and > mis-represent the issue. FOX recently fired two reporters after they refused to change the facts of a news story. Fox said to them, "We paid $13 billion for these stations, and we'll tell you what the news i