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Post by packerconvert on Oct 25, 2009 17:58:58 GMT -5
I doubt you had notice if you tune into ABC, NBC, CBS; or your favorite, MSNBC, but the President tried to exclude Fox from interviewing the "Pay Tsar." Thankfully, those who do not reside in the Administration do love the Constitution. Nice to see some values haven't gone to the dogs. Gibbs came out today and blamed the SNAFU on a low ranking admnistration member.  Go figure. |
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Post by TW on Oct 25, 2009 18:19:46 GMT -5
I'd refuse interview with Fox myself, unless it was football related.  Since the last time I was interviewed it was Fox, and it was football related, I guess my skirts are clean. ;D |
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Post by packerconvert on Oct 25, 2009 21:29:09 GMT -5
I'd refuse interview with Fox myself, unless it was football related. Since the last time I was interviewed it was Fox, and it was football related, I guess my skirts are clean. ;D Check your med dosages. The above made no sense. |
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Post by TMWight on Oct 25, 2009 21:43:49 GMT -5
It doesn't have to make sense, the important thing is it made sense to him.
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Post by TW on Oct 26, 2009 6:36:43 GMT -5
I stated that I wouldn't want to be interviewed by Fox if I was a member of the Obama administration. The reason is simple enough. They'd paraphrase the entire interview into a cut-down version that would not resemble what was really stated.
I also referred to the fact that the last time I was interviewed on TV, it was Fox television, and it was related to football.
I thought what I said was quite clear. ;D
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Post by packerconvert on Oct 26, 2009 15:16:14 GMT -5
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Fox btw has the most diverse watchers. Its pretty much, 33 percent Conservatives, 33 percent Dems and 33 percent independents, take or give a few points.
Its my understanding that MSNBC has 70 percent Democrat viewership. Talk about tilted.
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Post by TW on Oct 26, 2009 16:22:10 GMT -5
There's a reason a lot of liberals and independents watch Fox news. We like comedy!  |
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Post by packerconvert on Oct 26, 2009 17:36:51 GMT -5
There's a reason a lot of liberals and independents watch Fox news. We like comedy! That would explain MSNBC's dismal rating. They aren't factual or funny. |
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Post by TW on Oct 26, 2009 17:55:34 GMT -5
True. And your point is...  ? I actually prefer a mix of several news sources, and like to pick up on the views as seen through eyes outside the US. I like Reuters international, and like to catch BBC Canada, and UK, as well as read the English versions of several foreign news services, and El Mundo, Lavanguardia, and El Pais which are Spanish without translation. If I have difficulty understanding a segment, I pop it into Babel Fish and figure it out. One should expand their views shnickelfritz!  |
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Post by packerconvert on Oct 26, 2009 17:58:59 GMT -5
From time to time, I do watch Al-Jazeera and CNN to feed my anti-American sentiments.
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Post by TW on Oct 26, 2009 18:16:07 GMT -5
Good for you!
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Post by bignutz on Oct 27, 2009 4:09:10 GMT -5
I stated that I wouldn't want to be interviewed by Fox if I was a member of the Obama administration. The reason is simple enough. They'd paraphrase the entire interview into a cut-down version that would not resemble what was really stated. You mean kind of like, the way CBS,NBC,ABC,CNN,MSNBC treated, Regan, Bush1 and Bush 2? |
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Post by TW on Oct 27, 2009 7:44:31 GMT -5
Yes. Exactly like they did to Bush at times.
The media is part of the new political battleground.
What I find interesting is how the right has fallen so far behind in the major medias. Why is it that so much of the media is branded left?
Maybe it's because the right has moved so far to the right that they've left moderates on both side of the line linked closer to the left.
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Post by gopackgo2000 on Oct 27, 2009 10:30:24 GMT -5
Yes. Exactly like they did to Bush at times. The media is part of the new political battleground. What I find interesting is how the right has fallen so far behind in the major medias. Why is it that so much of the media is branded left? Maybe it's because the right has moved so far to the right that they've left moderates on both side of the line linked closer to the left. Okay I have heard this before, but I don't get it. Those of us that have been Consevatives our whole life feel that the Republican party has shifted so far left it may not be able to be salvaged. Yet I hear what you said very often from people outisde the party... What have you seen that makes you feel this way? I am really curious about this! |
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Post by TW on Oct 27, 2009 10:51:42 GMT -5
In recent history the Republican Party has moved considerably. We can go back as far as Reagan to see the changes.
When Reagan was President, even Republicans felt he was extreme right wing, far beyond party norm.
Today, when you see references to the Reagan years, Republicans refer to him as a "moderate conservative."
That's the perfect indicator as to how far right the party has moved.
In moving that far to the right, one of the key elements left behind was the majority of the news media, which had found a common ground to the left of Reagan, but still moderately objective in their purpose. They did not favor liberals.
It was that drastic move that put the media in a position of being called "left wing." The line between liberal and conservative had moved way too far to the right, and the media did not move with it, because they were being objective.
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Go figure.
