CNN's Howard Kurtz: Fox Statement About Misreporting Health Care Ruling "Sounds Orwellian To Me. They Got It Wrong"
July 01, 2012 12:56 pm ET
From the July 1 edition of CNN's Reliable Sources:
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It's not possible to wait because someone else might report first? What a sorry group-think mindset.
Read the bloody thing through to the end, where judges write their determination. Every first-bloody-year law student knows that judges invariably go through all the stuff they're not relying on and why before they get to the actual determination.
STUPID!!!
That's the highest financial value that the so-called "news divisions" of these several global media companies that dominate our television media have, the value of public relations and commercial advertising and even lobbying.
And public relations and lobbying, effectively a political lobbying of the American people, that's what we see in truth, every time we see and read a Media Matters' citation of those broadcasters, true?
Aren't they the broadcasters always doing that, isn't that News Corp's Fox News Channel true mission, to politically lobby the American people, and (whenever there's a difference) to serve as public relations for one or another industry or commercial interest?
True, they don't employ reporters, they employ mouthpieces and spokespersons and lobbyists.
To this day, when the animals look into the farm house to see the pigs interacting with the humans and they couldn't tell which were the humans and which were the pigs, I am struck by how similar the pigs in Animal Farm are to the modern neo-conservative movement.
What most people fail to realize is Orwell was a staunch socialist. He was very critical of his own side. When I read Animal Farm and 1984 and his orther works, the main thread I find is he opposed tyrants and ideologues.
Beck use to rant about Saul Alinsky, but Beck used all of Alinsky's tactics. The right are always critical of the idea of big brother, but then they enact legislation that would make the Ministry of Truth envious. If you dress up tyranny or totalitarian ideas with terms like freedom and liberty it is still tyranny.
His job depends on his maintenance of that delusion.
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They must perceive some benefit to having a phony "News" outlet in the mix.
Or Rupert has dirt on all the Network CEOs.
FAUX is so outrageously right-wing, the rest of them can lie their behinds off in favor of the plutocracy and still appear "mainstream" or even "lefty" by comparison.
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It could be that they're all in the same business, they're all privately-owned and operated (and there may be more common or cross ownership among them than we know), they're all bad, it's just that some are worse than others... and that News Corp's Fox News Channel, in addition to being worse than the others, is also more bold about it, they're even brazen, true?
Which of the television or cable broadcasters even once questioned (especially after the fact) the false or falsified intelligence that impelled the Bush administration's invasion and occupation of Iraq?
Which of those broadcasters even once mentioned US National Security as being absent from any rationale for that invasion and occupation (the defense of the American people being the only true justification for such military actions), which of them ever spoke about Iraq in terms of US National Security?
And on this current topic, which of the television broadcasters ever once talks about the US's world's highest health care costs (by far) and how that is the crux and origin of our "health care crisis" (think about it, pure and simple and exclusively, costs are our problem in this issue), who among the broadcasters ever talks about that?
The answer to all these questions and myriad others like them, is NONE, none of the broadcasters cover anything remotely important or even truthfully, regarding US national policy.
And in the current example, it's nothing but "Obamacare" and "death panels" and sarah palin and non-existent tax increases and political horse-race talk, the broadcasters in question never NEVER talk about our world's highest health care costs by far...
And this, despite the fact that the problem and the attempted solution is right there in the title of the bill that they the broadcasters prattle on so worthlessly and emptily about, America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009...
Affordable.
That's the problem, this is the problem, and not only Fox but ABC and NBC and CBS and CNN too, they talk about the truth of the problem, about as much as they talked about the false or falsified Bush administration intelligence that cost us trillions of dollars and thousands of lives, and how none of that blood or treasury was in the name of US National Security or in defense of even a single American.
They're all bad is what I mean to say.
This is actually the better link to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which again has it right there in the title, Affordable, which addresses the actual national policy problem, a real and serious problem that every single television broadcaster manages somehow to strangely ignore.
A problem better explained here, than anywhere and at any time on television.
That being said I think that this really damages CNN way more than Fox because they have an actual reputation to uphold while fox doesn't really pride itself on being accurate.
Which is sad. Anyone who admits to watching CNN to "get informed" should be laughed out of the room. How can people know that WWE isn't real but still be confused by this?
Is there any more self-loathing scum than a beltway media critic? Your whole profession is burning down around you, and it's your job to see the finer nuances of that, yet you're forbidden from seeing it at all.