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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 04/17/2009 : 23:35:08 [Permalink]
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Colbert on the Tea Parties. | It was really unexpected how these spontaneous grassroots political events that Sean Hannity is hosting in Atlanta, Greta Van Susteren is hosting in hosting in D.C., and Neil Cavuto is hosting in Sacramento just sprang up without promotion from the media. |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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 Posted - 04/18/2009 : 10:50:03 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
I think Kil is harkening back to the days of the "Fairness Doctrine," which was never a part of the First Amendment, for sure.
News organizations are free to support, promote and even lobby for whatever politicians they choose. How much they do so should obviously be taken into account when assessing how "unbiased" they are, but there's nothing illegal or unconstitutional about it.
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Not unconstitutional perhaps. But it does demonstrate a complete lack of journalistic ethics. Even if it's legal, it ain't kosher.
Glen Beck is ethically free to take part in any demonstration he wants to. But a news organization ostensibly set up to report and comment on the news, purposely creating and promoting a news event, even if it is protected speech, stands as a clear rejection of the implied ethical standards that most news agencies adhere to, which is to report and comment on the news.
While Fox has never been a shinning beacon of ethical standards, their promotion of the tea bagging event stepped over a line that even they had not crossed before. Not openly anyway.
By their own action, they have voided any claim they have to being a news organization, bias or not. And my hope is that their "reporters" will be denied press passes and everything else that comes along with being a "legitimate" news organization.
The only good I see coming from what they have done is that they have finally offered up tangible proof that they lack any ethical standards at all. And outside of the mentally challenged paranoid whack-jobs, who are at the core of their audience, to anyone with a brain, Fox has given up any pretense to being "the news". |
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FOX fakes big Teabagger crowd
