http://clipmarks.com/clipper/jasonbondshow/comments/sort/latest-comments/http://rss.clipmarks.com/clipper/jasonbondshow/comments/sort/latest-comments/15Clip, tag and save information that's important to you. Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!en-ushttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/C83DB663-2D8D-4122-94BD-889F03C9EDFF/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/thinkingblue/">thinkingblue</a><br><b>clipper's remarks:</b> The Fox News or better yet Fox Noise (as Keith Olbermann calls it) is and always has been a joke to me. I use to watch it during the early lead up days to Bush's illegal war against Iraq. Until one day they attempted to demonize Saddam Hussein one step further than they already had with their constant pummeling of HE KILLED HIS OWN PEOPLE <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1779.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1779.htm</a> SADDAM HUSSEIN HAD WMD'S POINTED AT AMERICA and of course, when no weapons were found they bludgeoned their viewers with IT WAS AMERICA'S JOB TO LIBERATE IRAQIS FROM A BRUTAL RULER. But that day when I tuned in (for the last time) and saw a pathetic little dog staggering against a wall and the voiceover said SADDAM HUSSEIN CONDUCTED POISON GAS TESTS ON DOGS... I spoke the word I use frequently when I'm in a state of extreme perplexity... HUH? Let's see now, who was this bit of propaganda directed at? Oh, I know it was for those who don't become alarmed at human beings becoming collateral damage <br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/54228/" title="http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/54228/">www.alternet.org</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">Fair and Balanced, My Ass! The Bizarre Reality of Fox News</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV>Watching Fox News can be as funny as it is frustrating. But the new book <I>Fair and Balanced, My Ass!</I> shows we dismiss them at our peril. </DIV></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">But again, by objective measures, <I>Fox</I> does a demonstrably poor job of presenting the cold, hard facts in a spin-free fashion. </div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">24 percent of the stories on MSNBC's <I>Hardball With Chris Matthews</I> contained the host's opinion, compared with 97 percent on <I>The O'Reilly Factor</I>. The report also analyzed coverage of the war in Iraq, finding that 73 percent of <I>Fox</I>'s Iraq war stories contained opinion, compared with 2 percent for CNN and 29 percent for MSNBC. <I>Fox</I> was also around twice as likely as its competitors to run positive stories about the war and far more likely to run positive stories than negative ones. </div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><I>Fox</I> not only doesn't admit it, it famously cloaks themselves in a tawdry veil of objectivity, endlessly shouting their "Fair and Balanced"</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">until their viewers are finally programmed</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/thinkingblue/512/3E7D93D4-1789-4CC3-8925-EDAC80AED060.jpg" alt="061907story" /><br /></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/media/" rel="tag">media</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/fox+news/" rel="tag">fox news</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/political/" rel="tag">political</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/politics/" rel="tag">politics</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/thinking/" rel="tag">thinking</a></div>http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/54228/Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:36:51 GMT