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(Found via drudge ReTORT) David Zurawik of the Baltimore Sun writes:
The cable channel that flies under the banner of NBC News is now all but a bona fide organ of state propaganda, an information channel that speaks in the same dominant voice as the folks running the government -- and tries to mask what it is up to.
Citing as example:
Remember, he says, the cuts put into place were so odious it was thought no rational legislator, no rational government official, would allow it to happen.
As Mitchell starts to pivot to another issue with a new question, Axelrod interrupts her with, One more thing, Andrea. There is a belief among some Republicans in Congress that maybe this sequesters all right. Maybe this is another way of shrinking government in a dramatic way. Thats a dangerous idea, but its not uncommon in some quarters on Capitol Hill.
quinnox
(20,600 posts)I agree they seem to be the Fox news of the left. When I used to watch cable news on a regular basis, CNN was my go to channel. I don't watch cable news much anymore though.
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)The truth?
LiberalFighter
(50,950 posts)For me it MSNBC, NPR, or CSPAN. I change CBS nightly when that pos Pelley is on.
And CNN slams Michelle Obama at the Oscars?
rurallib
(62,426 posts)Cha
(297,323 posts)Narraback
(648 posts)"Zurawik is a frequent guest on the CNNs public affairs talk show Reliable Sources",[3] He has also appeared on Fox News shows such as The OReilly Factor and On the Record with Greta Van Susteren.
KharmaTrain
(31,706 posts)...besides Joey, they have Mikie Steele...former RNC Chairman and Steve Schmidt...Grump McQueeg's campaign manager as paid contributors. Faux has Kucinich and ???? (have no clue I don't watch newsporn).
I used to see this dude when I used to watch Chicken Noodle Nuze. He'd be on with Whorie Kurtz and constantly bash Keith Olbermann. Guess he wasn't good enough to work at one of Rupert's bird cage liners...yet he keeps trying...
BootinUp
(47,165 posts)Indeed!
think
(11,641 posts)http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/23/stewart-fox-prince-alwaleed_n_692234.html
http://foxnewslies.net/
http://foxnewsboycott.com/resources/fox-can-lie-lawsuit/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/20/the-ten-most-egregious-fo_n_327140.html
And this video on Fox News lying with statistics is worth watching so you truly understand what data manipulation is and how Fox News viewers are being duped:
highplainsdem
(49,005 posts)Anyone who's called Fox News "one of the leading journalistic institutions in the country" and praised Sean Hannity as "charismatic" is obviously too biased to ever be considered at all credible as a TV critic.
BainsBane
(53,035 posts)Fox LIES. Political slant is one thing, lying another.
Marr
(20,317 posts)So I fail to see how Gibbs and Axelrod could make MSNBC "worse".
Vattel
(9,289 posts)They are all God awful. Is Fox worse? Porbably and that is saying a lot.
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)Beaverhausen
(24,470 posts)Last edited Tue Feb 26, 2013, 12:47 AM - Edit history (1)
If Fox has the equivalent, I'd like to know about it.
Stinky The Clown
(67,808 posts)They have honestly left leaning hosts, but they also only allow them to go only so far. They don't tell them what to say. They *do* tell them what *not* to say.
I have said a lot about this over the years and don't have enough energy to say much more right now.
fujiyama
(15,185 posts)Really for as far crazy left leaning as people claim they are, the major hosts aren't all that wild eyed - are Ed and Racheal really that extreme? I don't think even Al Sharpton for all his controversy of the past is that far out there...
I haven't watched the channel in a while since I haven't owned a TV in sometime, but Rachael always sounded intelligent, rational, and pretty reasonavle. Ed was a bit grating for me, but I heard nothing that out of the mainstream from him.
As for Axelrod and Gibbs being on the channel, so what? Rove is a contributor on Fox as well as many others from the Bush administration. MSNBC is not funded by the government. It's a private entity. If he doesn't like it, he can change the fucking channel.