Joining forces
You might recall back in October, when Sinclair Broadcasting Group was planning to air the anti-John Kerry film "Stolen Honor." I wrote a long post then with background on Sinclair, including speculation from Jay Rosen, chairman of the journalism department at New York University, that Sinclair might be trying to do something totally different: not a broadcasting company involving itself in politics but a (Republican) political empire that just happens to own a lot of TV stations.
Now, there's a new datum supporting that hypothesis: Clear Channel has picked Fox News Radio as the primary source of news for its news and talk stations.
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So what! Someone else said it best.*
"The hostility and fear of Fox News by the main stream media and whinning liberals in particular is rather remarkable. They are positively deranaged. For at least 50 years the liberals have had a monopoly on the news. Today the liberals still control what Lenin used to call the " Commanding heights " of the culture ( radio, newspapers, universities , foundations, magazines, television ). Then 8 years ago along came a single network that did not reflect the liberal media herd mentality. Egads, momentary apoplexy... a change in the perfect order of things. It was as if somthing totaly unacceptable had happened. Now they arrogantly cry and say that a lone dissenter is an offense to a sort of normal liberal existence "
*Charles Krauthammer, Pulitzer Prize winning Washington Post columnist and Fox News contributor.
Posted on December 7, 2004 3:38 PM
Fred, have you actually read Krauthammer lately? He's doddering. He's actually doddering.
Posted on December 7, 2004 4:30 PM
Doddering huh ? That's it ? Well he doddered that one out of the park. I have finally figured it out. Bush supporters in the media and conservative journalists are either , stoopid, illiterate, troglodytes or otherwise in the wrong profession.
Posted on December 7, 2004 6:55 PM
This has nothing to do with Bush-hating and everything to do with 1) the fact that corporate ownership frequently trumps the liberal leanings of working journalists and 2) irrespective of politics, Krauthammer's pieces have gotten so full of internal contradictions of late that the Post ought to be ashamed to have him on the payroll.
But, as Dennis Miller says, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
Posted on December 7, 2004 9:53 PM
No you are not wrong just ... well,maybe one day you will be an ME and be able to hone your ED Page to to your own drum.
Posted on December 7, 2004 10:16 PM
Nah. It's not much of a soul, but I'd like to keep it. :-)
Posted on December 8, 2004 6:28 AM