New Haven Register: Sorry for comparing Fox News to KKK

[Grassy Knoll]

Source: salon.com

The New Haven Register has apologized for an editorial it ran on Monday in which it argued that figures like Ann Coulter, country singer Ted Nugent and outlets like Fox News share the bigoted ideologies of the KKK.

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We did not intend to compare Fox News specifically to the KKK and we should have done a better job clarifying that when we said that the “same basic message that the KKK has promoted for 148 years is embraced by the likes of Ted Nugent, Fox News, Ann Coulter, a burgeoning array of fringe ‘conservative’ media.” It was a poor choice of words that created an unfortunate comparison between Fox News and the KKK. We’re sorry for that.


Read more: http://www.salon.com/2013/08/01/new_haven_register_sorry_for_comparing_fox_news_to_kkk/

[jtuck004]

1. Are they apologizing to the KKK? n/t

[AtheistCrusader]

2. LOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

Nicely played

[Garion_55]

3. are they apologizing to fox or to the kkk?

which one got insulted?

[Alamuti Lotus]

4. well, the KKK was very offended--it was the right move to apologize

[bluesbassman]

5. Since when is Turd Nugget a "country singer"?

I hate seeing a genre maligned.

[heaven05]

6. but

but, but??? They are like the KKK. Hanitick, annie c, o'really?, beckerhead, tednugent could start their own faux news chapter of kkk.

[deurbano]

7. "This comparison should have been more specific to Nugent’s and Coulter’s views and statements

about people of color, immigrants and gay people, and to be clear, was relating that to the ideology of the KKK, not its abhorrent history of violence.

We stand by our criticism and call for Fox News to challenge and condemn the hatred and racism advocated by guests such as Ted Nugent and Ann Coulter instead of continuing to give them a platform."

[wryter2000]

8. Never mind

stupid

[Skittles]

9. the New Haven Register is very much correct

[KamaAina]

10. First thing the Register's gotten right since Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin

(actually I have heard that his landlady really invented it, but they wouldn't grant a patent to a woman!)

and they have to go and apologize for it.

[Grassy Knoll]

11. Billo Clown threw a fit last night....

and demanded- DEMANDED- an apology or he was gonna do very bad things.

[KamaAina]

12. That would explain it

New Haven boasts a branch of NYC's Mamoun's Falafel. Guess the Register didn't want to risk anything happening to it. Or in it.

[muntrv]

13. Loofah boy had a shit fit?

[BlueManFan]

14. Hey Bill-O the Falafel Fuck

You're just like the KKK. Ted is vintage KKK. Ann is just a shrill harpy. Faux news can fuck off!

[alp227]

15. Newspapers gotta do what's necessary to survive in this age,

so this was an unfortunate but necessary business decision.

[Grassy Knoll]

16. Hey Clown Fuck, This Was an OPINION piece......

and it differed from yours, Boo Hoo what a tragedy!!!!!

[PD Turk]

17. They should apologize

To the KKK for comparing them to faux news.

[CTyankee]

18. The Register has had a vicious streak of racism running through it and is now trying to make some

amends. There used to be a "Sound off" section where readers could anonymously comment on the issue du jour and the racial stuff would get nauseating. Ditto anti Obama stuff. I would get pretty mad and post as "Jane from New Haven." Now Sound Off is no longer in the paper. A lot of right wing loons from East Haven, known as "Staven" by the locals would post their racist sh*t there. The Register lost all relevancy to me except for a few of their city political beat, which was somewhat decent and gave us local political stuff.

I read it but also the NH Independent (much better) and the NYT, daily.

[Sunlei]

19. kkk?, fox are more unfocused, big-net, paid bigots like the nazis

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

22. +1

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

20. Apologize for what?

Grow a pair!

[DFW]

21. They did get one important detail correct

They put "conservative" in quotation marks. It's about time it was noted on print that Fox and Fiends are no more conservative than cockroaches are mammals. Right wing reactionaries, absolutely, but there is nothing at all conservative about these radicals.