Question for FOX news

Smellyman2

haha..

the ONLY candidate consitantly getting his name dragged through the mud is Obama. McCain and Clinton were the ones stroked.

Pacomc79

Generally the only news I can watch now is PBS. Mcneil/Lerher news hour and even that gets dry with the taupe sets.

I can't stand the drug commercials on the major networks and that's virtually all you get in national news. CNN and Fox are on at the gym but most of that is worthless fluff and they don't really tell you anything it's just opinion and garbage time wasting.

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AMY GOODMAN: Bill O’Reilly called you guys the craziest of the crazy last night?


JOSH SILVER: He did. Last night on Fox, Bill O’Reilly said that Dan Rather was proving his liberal colors by coming out here and being with the craziest of the crazies, when one of the guests on the show said, “Well, actually, Bill, it’s a conference about media consolidation and the internet.” And he said, “Oh, no. They’re crazy.” So it just shows that, you know, he is a mouthpiece for Rupert Murdoch. He’s a mouthpiece for the largest media corporations. And that kind of omnipotent power that these large networks have, taking control of that and taking that power back from them is what this conference is about.


AMY GOODMAN: And in terms of the corporations that are controlling a lot of—not the overall discussion, because media activists are doing a good job of inserting themselves into it, but the legislation, the writing of the legislation, how do you stop the corporations from writing the laws?


JOSH SILVER: Well, that’s what this is all about. I mean, it’s about getting the public a place at the table when those laws are being made. For the last eighty years, unfortunately, every time a major decision has been made about media in this country, it’s only been the corporations at the table. It’s only been in the last few years that the public has asserted itself at that table. And the only way we’re going to win is if we have millions of people continue to get involved, to raise their voices and to demand better media, because if we don’t, we’re going to lose, and the corporations will seize control of the internet and the future of the media for generations.

JOSH SILVER: Well, the conference is an amazing coming together of people from across the country who are really concerned about what’s happening with the media. I mean, we’ve got this problem where we see celebrity fluff, instead of hard news on the news programs on commercial media, sound bite election coverage. It’s all about the horserace analysis. There’s propaganda that we see in these pundits on the air, fake news releases posing as news, the Pentagon spending millions to get seventy-five military analysts who are getting briefed by the Pentagon that you reported on. And people have had it, and they’ve started to realize more and more that there are ways that we can actually fix the system, not just stopping media consolidation, but actually taking control of the future of the internet, which is increasingly going to be delivered through a high-speed internet connection.


A lot of people don’t realize that all of television, radio, phone service, movies are all going to be delivered by high-speed internet. So we have a moment right now in this country where the policies that are going to determine the future of virtually all media are being decided in Washington, and that’s going to be a big topic here this weekend.

An interesting look at our media and how it works and will work in our future. Take a listen here....Robert McChesney and Josh Silver of Free Press on the National Conference for Media Reform.

Peace

DriftingByTheStorm

Commy wrote:

As far as the individuals are concerned...there really only seems to be 1 candidate that actually gives a shit, and that's Nader.

We know you meant to say "Ron Paul".

I'll cut you some slack for mis-"speaking".



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Off to Bilderberg for the day.
TTFN.