Yeah, but I view just about all televised journalism as being this, anyway. Everybody's got a slant. Some are better about presenting all the salient facts than others.

Frankly, if I'm interested in something and I want news on it, I start online with WaPo or NYT dishing me the survey-course version, and then I start Googling. I get to blogs and specialty journals from there, that cover what's being discussed. I get video on authors giving Q&As on books covering the recent issues.

Sure, Fox News is to actual news reporting what a Jack Chick tract is to an annotated King James Bible. But that doesn't make almost anybody else's coverage better, except by comparison to Fox's incredibly low bar.

Sure, you could argue that everyone has a little subjective slant, but Fox is a consciously designed, HQ-run, full fledged, domestic propaganda machine. If there is a little subjective peanut butter in everybody's objective chocolate bar, Fox is a full Double Reese's - and easy on the chocolate - oh, and the PB is poisoned. Thank God that people with a megaphone are finally speaking out clearly against these bastards.

Fox news continues to maintain the highest ratings. I, for, the life of me couldn't understand this until I realized that the majority of open-minded Americans have several viewing choices during prime time...The knuckle draggers just have Fox. Note that the numbers of viewers change very little from week to week. This also applies to the books authored by the hate mongers. Initial sales are magnified by bulk buying initiated by right wing organizations that have been known to give the new releases to donors as the book hits the Time's best seller list. A month later, there on the 75%-off tables at Walden Books.

Remember the movie "Outfoxed"?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6737097743434902428#

People get all worked up over Faux being some kind of new, sinister phenomenon. I "recall" that this "might have happened" before in this country's history. Hmm, "yellow journalism," anyone? We survived. The truth outs.

Major kudos for the White House pointing it out instead of the usual Democratic strategy of being afraid of our own shadow.

And now, expect a lot of righteous indignation from the Faux noise machine in reaction.

Aside from demonstrating mastery of the obvious, I can't imagine what "The White House" stands to gain from engaging in a petty battle with Fucks News.

And let's not use Fucks News as an excuse to pretend that CNN is not a "wing" of the Wall Street oligarchy.

Happy to see the White House do this. I just did a post on the possibility that the GOP does as much for Fox as Fox does for the GOP.

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/rootman/2009/10/republican-party-is-just-a-win.php

....love me the sound of bitch slap politics in the morning....

Someone find out what General Dunn eats for breakfast and get a case of it to all D members of Congress (and their talking head surrogates).

Sheeeeesh. IAFT!

You go, girl!

Confrontation with Fox is the best strategy.

What, one media outlet doesn't tow the party line and the poor little White House gets bent out of shape? Waaaah.

They aren't used to "journalists" who don't have obama-gasms after each press conference. Please go take a look at some of the election night coverage from any of the MSM and find me some of this fabled "objective journalism." Or, Google "Washington Post macaca" for more objective fun. Or, explain how over 80% of Washington reporters vote Democrat. (What respectable reporter would even ANSWER such a poll?)

They tell me journalism was once an honourable profession. I haven't seen it in my lifetime. Now all we have is a bunch of guys slanting one way and a few guys slanting the other. The truth is usually somewhere in between.

And what's the research arm of Fox? Matt Drudge.

All of the media is made up of huge multi-national corporations. They cannot possibly be liberal because the corporate agenda is to always lower taxes and never add regulations. Democrate are the only ones willing to do those things. Our media actually works in the reverse way it's supposed to. Instead of protecting the average person, the media protects corporations. Our media undermines our democracy right in front of our faces. Corporate propaganda also reaches progressive webstes like Daily Kos with Markos advertising PBS's propaganda "Obama's War." The Nobel was so irksome to corporate America because they have been setting President Obama up for the squeeze with Afghanistan for months. They had many progressive media personalities like Maddow,Moyers, Moore(and many others) use the old Republican "weak" meme when rferring to Democrats. This was something they were prepared to use after pressuring Obama to exit Afghanistan early. If pandering to corporations makes politicians weak, than Republicans must be near comatose.Olbermann tried to bring down Obama's numbers for months by pressuring him to use his precious energy and political capital on going after Bush on torture. I still don't know how any conviction wouldn't get appealed to the Supreme Court where Bush's buddies would help him get away with it.

Let's not pretend CNN is a real news network, either. The shit I've seen on there is one step above "Liberals: Why Do They Hate America?" but it still boils down to "Pretty White Girl Missing: the Nancy Grace Update."

Go to any airport in Red State America. Odds are you will see Fox News 24/7 on the overhead screens. Tell me the local Republican establishments aren't pushing Fox indoctrination.

Take off your thinking caps children, we will be watching Fox News in class today.
-- comment inspired by Sister Mary Elephant

Fox will be all over Anita Dunn's comments. Will the White House distance themselves? Fox News turns a good profit. Should we get upset with a corporation in service of capitalism? Their consumers seem happy.

After all, Fox News only leads the sheep to the astroturf for evenings of lazy grazing. The fact that the sheep are convinced that they are actually eating grass with roots, and that thier hunger is satisfied, is indicitive of thier pet-like domestication. The sheep provide the Wool, the lanolin, the cheesy milk and the meat. The muttonheads sustain the Foxes.

Jon M Stout, finally a voice from the brainwashed. I have been waiting to hear from a faux addict. I was beginning to wonder if there really were any faux fans. You need to post more often and we can all visualize your ignorance rather than imagine it.