Since it is pretty clear that Fox is the de facto media organ for the Tea Party

[WCGreen]

or what ever the hell they call themselves, why would anyone in MSNBC or CNN even cover these staged events?

Think about it. They are promoting the promotional gimmicks of their competition. It would he like a Ford Dealer telling people about the Dodge Caravan round up going on near by hanging signs for a Chevy dealership under your Ford Logo.

They think they are chasing after the crowd that is loyal to fox. I have news for you, these people are never going to leave the comfy ideological confines of the Fox alternate universe no matter how hard the other news organizations try to pry eyeballs away from Beck et all.

There is no sane reason to continue covering this crap disguised as a political force.

If you were a convert to the Tea Baggers, why would you even want to get news from anywhere but the mother ship. Converts are always zealous in their loyalty.

I just don't get it.

[FrenchieCat]

1. Media colussion.........

In order to protect the news business, can't make Fox news look suspect,
because when one takes a closer look at all of 'em, I'd say they all lie
about a whole lot quite a bit. Remember the coverage on the WMDs?
Did you think that was an accident?

[depakid]

2. Maybe someone with the administration's ear ought to write them

and ask why they adamantly refuse to divest and re-regulate the corporate media....

[WCGreen]

3. The coverage they gave to all of that was just taking the path of

least resistance.

Everything they have done since about 1998 has been to exert as little effort as possible and still look credible.

That is why they haven't been able to expand their pool of viewers.

When you combine them all together, we are talking of about 12 million viewers on an average day. That's probably around 1.5 or 2.0% of the total potential audience available. Not exactly the best game plan.

[MajorChode]

4. Perhaps not so much anymore

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/15/fox-news-pulls-sean-hanni_n_539719.html

It will be interesting to see what happens to the teabagger propagandists when Faux isn't giving them so much free promotion.

[The_Commonist]

5. Why would a star on one network's show...

...appear on a talk show on another network?
(I just finished watching Tracey Morgan on the Daily Show. A General Electric property, on a Viacom show.)

Why would one network accept advertising for a movie made by a division of another network?
(there was an ad for a FOX Searchlight film)

These things happen all the time, and it's because it's all one big club.
A half a dozen huge conglomerates own all these media outfits, and they're all part of the rich people's propaganda club. FOX just plays the Idiot Uncle of the media family, and provides fodder for a few of the others. Like... would Keith Olbermann have any content without FOX News?

These companies are NOT competitors!
Please disavow yourself of that quaint notion...