How can Faux News get by with "organizing a protest" for political purposes and

[glinda]

not get fined????????????????? Talking about the tea-laggards.

[MineralMan]

1. Fined for what? As far as I know there's no law against it.

It violates the principles of journalism, but those have pretty much died in the last 20 years or so anyhow.

[jobycom]

2. Their viewers lack the integrity and often intelligence to be upset.

We are where we were in the late 1800s, when journalism was entertainment and Americans were clueless and naive. We haven't been really touched by a war since Viet Nam, and even that happened elsewhere, so we didn't feel it the way a nation being invaded feels it.

A good destructive war on our home turf and a complete economic meltdown would bring some maturity to this nation. Not that I'd want to see either happen.

[patrick t. cakes]

3. is it me or is this whole tea bagging thing

a way for the media and other elites
to mock their viewers and america in
general. seems to me somewhere
in some boardroom a bunch of guys are
sittng around laughing their asses off
at the people that buy into fox, msnbc...etc,

i think these people sit around and just
laugh and laugh while they stir up shit,
reap astronomical profits and slowly sink
this country.

[libnnc]

4. They are a *cable* "news" organization

so they can be as batshit crazy as they want to be

that's the difference between cable and network