The_Elucidator
03-14-2007, 08:49 AM
Prepping the '08 Media Battlefield
by Jed Babbin (More by this author (http://www.humanevents.com/search.php?author_name=Jed+Babbin))
Posted: 03/14/2007
Party activists and primary voters will choose the 2008 presidential candidates, but the party that dominates the news media will have an enormous advantage in forming public opinion and thus producing votes in the general election. Unsurprisingly, only the Democrats are fighting this battle. Their campaign to shape the media battlefield for 2008 -- and Republicans’ failure to do the same -- may cost Republicans the White House.
The hard-core Michael Moore types who control the Democratic Party have been at war with Fox News since it debuted. They argue that Fox is what it isn’t, an apologist for the Bush administration. In truth, Fox is usually what it says it is: fair and balanced. But the Dems don’t want news, they want spin that supports their political agenda. They can’t stand the fact that the advent of Fox broke liberals’ near-monopoly on the national news stage.
The libs hadn’t gained much traction in their war against Fox until Bill Clinton unleashed his rhetorical poison gas attack on Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace last year. Clinton’s expertise in victimology allowed him to go on the attack against Wallace and Fox while making viewers (and more importantly, columnists and pundits of the left) believe Clinton had been set up and attacked unfairly. Clinton succeeded in bringing the moonbat war against Fox into the Democrats’ mainstream. Last week the war on Fox escalated when liberals hyperventilated against Fox’s involvement in a planned August presidential candidates’ debate in Nevada. When the Michael Moore types screeched, the Nevada Democratic Party cancelled Fox’s involvement in the debate and is now, according to the March 10 Las Vegas Review-Journal, seeking a more “appropriate” television partner.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=19797
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The coverage of Torricelli illustrates perfectly why the libs are at war against Fox. If you look back on the Fox News website, you’ll find about fifty stories reporting the Torricelli investigation going back to the spring of 2001. Compare that to the New York Times coverage of Torricelli and you’ll find almost nothing on “Torch” in the Times until Fox blew the whistle. (According to one source familiar with the inner workings of the Times, one well-known reporter threatened to resign in protest of his editors burying the Torricelli story.)
This is a good read and the guy hits the nail on the head!
by Jed Babbin (More by this author (http://www.humanevents.com/search.php?author_name=Jed+Babbin))
Posted: 03/14/2007
Party activists and primary voters will choose the 2008 presidential candidates, but the party that dominates the news media will have an enormous advantage in forming public opinion and thus producing votes in the general election. Unsurprisingly, only the Democrats are fighting this battle. Their campaign to shape the media battlefield for 2008 -- and Republicans’ failure to do the same -- may cost Republicans the White House.
The hard-core Michael Moore types who control the Democratic Party have been at war with Fox News since it debuted. They argue that Fox is what it isn’t, an apologist for the Bush administration. In truth, Fox is usually what it says it is: fair and balanced. But the Dems don’t want news, they want spin that supports their political agenda. They can’t stand the fact that the advent of Fox broke liberals’ near-monopoly on the national news stage.
The libs hadn’t gained much traction in their war against Fox until Bill Clinton unleashed his rhetorical poison gas attack on Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace last year. Clinton’s expertise in victimology allowed him to go on the attack against Wallace and Fox while making viewers (and more importantly, columnists and pundits of the left) believe Clinton had been set up and attacked unfairly. Clinton succeeded in bringing the moonbat war against Fox into the Democrats’ mainstream. Last week the war on Fox escalated when liberals hyperventilated against Fox’s involvement in a planned August presidential candidates’ debate in Nevada. When the Michael Moore types screeched, the Nevada Democratic Party cancelled Fox’s involvement in the debate and is now, according to the March 10 Las Vegas Review-Journal, seeking a more “appropriate” television partner.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=19797
--snip--
The coverage of Torricelli illustrates perfectly why the libs are at war against Fox. If you look back on the Fox News website, you’ll find about fifty stories reporting the Torricelli investigation going back to the spring of 2001. Compare that to the New York Times coverage of Torricelli and you’ll find almost nothing on “Torch” in the Times until Fox blew the whistle. (According to one source familiar with the inner workings of the Times, one well-known reporter threatened to resign in protest of his editors burying the Torricelli story.)
This is a good read and the guy hits the nail on the head!