paul krugman tells it like it is----faux news

Well, for one thing, Fox News seems to have decided that it no longer needs to maintain even the pretense of being nonpartisan.

Nobody who was paying attention has ever doubted that Fox is, in reality, a part of the Republican political machine; but the network — with its Orwellian slogan, “fair and balanced” — has always denied the obvious. Officially, it still does. But by hiring those G.O.P. candidates, while at the same time making million-dollar contributions to the Republican Governors Association and the rabidly anti-Obama United States Chamber of Commerce, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, which owns Fox, is signaling that it no longer feels the need to make any effort to keep up appearances.

Something else has changed, too: increasingly, Fox News has gone from merely supporting Republican candidates to anointing them. Christine O’Donnell, the upset winner of the G.O.P. Senate primary in Delaware, is often described as the Tea Party candidate, but given the publicity the network gave her, she could equally well be described as the Fox News candidate. Anyway, there’s not much difference: the Tea Party movement owes much of its rise to enthusiastic Fox coverage.

As the Republican political analyst David Frum put it, “Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox” — literally, in the case of all those non-Mitt-Romney presidential hopefuls. It was days later, by the way, that Mr. Frum was fired by the American Enterprise Institute. Conservatives criticize Fox at their peril.

So the Ministry of Propaganda has, in effect, seized control of the Politburo. What are the implications?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/04/opinion/04krugman.html?hp=&pagewanted=print

Heartland-something

if you look at the coverage found in prior election cycles--it is easy to read between the lines.

How can the shit not hit the fan at some point in the not so distant future?

Will Fox foment an uprising?

It's up to columnists like Krugman, commentators like Olbermann and Maddow and entertainers like Stewart and Colbert. Everyone else cowers in fear from the truth about Fox "News."

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no accounting

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Sickening.

because of the internet. If the traditional business plan of the media is to succeed they need a controlled, limited internet. Murdoch's newspapers are advertisers and money, Sky (Fox for the UK) is not gaining share as rapidly as needed despite sweetheart deals with British Telecom. I have a suspicion that Fox and other Murdoch entities are projected to start loosing money in the next couple of years.

"The Family Guy" just teabagged Limbaugh, having him fight off a gang of thugs and turn in to an eagle flying off into the star spangled sunset at the end.

Without a doubt that was the worst "Family Guy" episode, that I've ever seen.

Thanks for the thread, spanone.

this goes on across the nation...24/7

they are actually more powerful than any political party imho

built specifically to brainwash the people; to act against their own best interests.

The can spew disinformation 24/7 both overtly and by more subliminal means, that's a powerful weapon and it's being used non-stop against the American People.