Not enough is being made of Fox News' cutting away from the event on Friday

[scheming daemons]

Yeah... John Stewart joked about it.

MSNBC commented on it... that night.



And on Sunday, Arianna Huffington asked Roger Ailes about it and his answer was "because we're the most trusted name in news."

Arianna didn't follow up that obvious evasion.



Here's what I think Obama should do at his next press conference:

Call on the Fox News guy.... and before he begins his answer, say,

"Before I answer, can I get an assurance that your network won't cut away before I'm done?"


Embarrass the fuckers. Their clueless audience, because they never read or see any other news coverage, doesn't even realize the Fox News cutaway occurred.

Keep it out there... make it viral what Fox did.


If we can't get a Fairness Doctrine, we have to keep pushing this stuff onto the consciences of the clueless general public.

[Cha]

1. Ariana didn't follow up!? When the obvious comeback

was.. Then what are you afraid of, roger?:silly:

[Clio the Leo]

2. There's an interesting passage in "The Audacity to Win" I was reading today...

.... it talked about how during the campaign, the cable news shows would carry ALL of Palin's speeches but would rarely cover Biden's and when they did, only a part of them.

The Obama campaign threw up a ceremonial protest, but they didn't lose too much sleep over it. They knew that the regular viewers of the cable news shows were partisan types. They either had them or didn't have them. The group they were going for, the coveted swing voter, watched the local and network news shows.

So while CNN and the like were covering Palin's stump speeches, they had the President, Michelle, Biden etc. all over the country, sometimes three cities a day, doing local events in swing states. The plan being that the LOCAL news shows would cover those events and they'd be better able to reach their target audience. Even now you'll notice that the President has done TONES of interviews with the major networks, NONE with the cable shows.

Now, I say all of that to say ... you're not going to hear the President make that big of a deal about it I dont think. Because 1. the Fox audience isn't going to vote for him regardless and 2. the MSNBC audience and most of the CNN audience WILL vote for him regardless.

The people he is MORE interested in courting ..... are watching "Lost" right now. :)

[Cha]

4. I remember reading that on DU..the

corporatemedia tried to promote palin over Biden but they gave her too much rope and she grabbed the petard with her ignorance and her hate rallies.

[burning rain]

8. There's something to be said for that view....

but still, it's surely not good to blithely let Fox off that easily. They could at show important political speeches and events in their entirety once, live if relevant, before spinning them with their propanalysis.

[Turborama]

9. Faux viewers amount to 3,000,000, apparently...

... a small fraction of the voting public, in the great scheme of things.

[Clio the Leo]

10. Hadn't thought about it like that....

.... given that the President won the election by a 10 million vote margin, puts things into perspective, huh?

[Turborama]

12. Absolutely

Even more so when you consider that maybe 1/2 of that 3,000,000 are watching out of morbid curiosity and/or to keep an eye on them so as to able to debunk their lies and disinformation.

:hi:

[JI7]

3. i feel the same about the O'Keefe thugs also

[NanceGreggs]

5. Got this email on Monday ...

... in a chain that is circulated among friends and politics watchers of all ilks:

"Compelling TV at its best.The Fox News
Network pulled the plug early. In case you watch Fox News, here are the
highlights you missed from the most trusted name in bingo calling:

GOP : Talking point, talking point, lie.
The President : Smackdown.
GOP : Talking point, talking point, lie.
The President : Smackdown.
GOP : Talking point, talking point, lie.
The President : Smackdown."

[Pirate Smile]

6. They cut away today too. MSNBC did at the top of the hour (2:00 CT) which pissed me off.

I switch to CNN because they always show the entire thing. It was during the Q & A part. Earlier in the Q & A, I thought Obama was kicking ass so I flipped to Faux and they had already left the townhall. No surprise.

[Turborama]

7. Agreed. We can all help make this Brave New Films vid go viral, too

Click on the YouTube link to help the view count go up: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x430510

[cilla4progress]

11. Absolutely...so transparent

This was historical TV - HISTORICAL! Any thinking person (if they haven't already) should be convinced by now that Fox is pure corporatist propaganda.

Alas, with 39% of surveyed Republicans believing that Obama should be impeached...."thinking" is clearly, not one of their activities.

Hopeless.

OBAMA RULES! (He was so loose. Did ya notice? Compare it to some of his campaign debates. He was in the ZONE!)

[TexasObserver]

13. Fox News was all set to show the president getting carved up, but NOOooooo!

They were desperate to reset the situation when they broke it.

You could imagine someone saying "get someone on screen talking over him!"