The Whore News Media.....No Not Fox News

[Drixxx]

Dunno. Not important. We're talking about media companies.

These gave heavily to Dubya's 2000 and 2004 presidential campaigns:

1. Time Warner Inc.
2. Walt Disney Company
3. Viacom Inc.
4. News Corporation
5. CBS Corporation
6. Cox Enterprises
7. NBC Universal
8. Gannett Company, Inc.
9. Clear Channel Communications Inc.
10. Advance Publications, Inc.
11. Tribune Company
12. McGraw-Hill Companies
13. Hearst Corporation
14. Washington Post Company
15. The New York Times Company
16. E.W. Scripps Co.
17. McClatchy Company
18. Thomson Corporation
19. Freedom Communications, Inc.
20. A&E Television Networks

Source: http://www.whoownsthenews.com/

Wish to dispute this?

What's your point? You are the one that seems to think this is important.

 

[Karen Kraft]

These are the progressive, green, wholesome, peace-loving corporations who contributed to Bam-Bam's campaign:

University of California $1,591,395
Goldman Sachs $994,795
Harvard University $854,747
Microsoft Corp $833,617
Google Inc $803,436
Citigroup Inc $701,290
JPMorgan Chase & Co $695,132
Time Warner $590,084
Sidley Austin LLP $588,598
Stanford University $586,557
National Amusements Inc $551,683
UBS AG $543,219
Wilmerhale Llp $542,618
Skadden, Arps et al $530,839
IBM Corp $528,822
Columbia University $528,302
Morgan Stanley $514,881
General Electric $499,130
US Government $494,820
Latham & Watkins $493,835

 

[RoryN]

What's your point? You are the one that seems to think this is important.

Why would Conservative-owned corporations allow their media orgs to be biased to the left?

 

[Drixxx]

Why would Conservative-owned corporations allow their media orgs to be biased to the left?

Who said anything about the left? Do you have a point or just endless quasi-rhetorical mystery questions?

 

[Karen Kraft]

Why would Conservative-owned corporations allow their media orgs to be biased to the left?

They back the side that they figure is going to win (actually, they back both sides, but put more money in the side that is more likely to prevail) so they can get favorable pork when it's out there for the stealing.

 

[Drixxx]

They back the side that they figure is going to win (actually, they back both sides, but put more money in the side that is more likely to prevail) so they can get favorable pork when it's out there for the stealing.

A broken clock is right twice a day. You got one more shot twelve hours from now.

 

[Karen Kraft]

A broken clock is right twice a day. You got one more shot twelve hours from now.

Focus on the argument, not the ad hominem.

 

[Drixxx]

Focus on the argument, not the ad hominem.

You bring it on yourself.

 

[RoryN]

Who said anything about the left?

I did. Your original premise is boring and obvious.

They back the side that they figure is going to win (actually, they back both sides, but put more money in the side that is more likely to prevail) so they can get favorable pork when it's out there for the stealing.

There's some truth to that. But I also think Conservative corps are just fine with a liberal bias in their own media franchises.

What's the downside: a right-winger does something bad, their news reports it, and it goes into a "liberal media bias" bin? I'm sure they're losing a lot of sleep over that. They've got their own scapegoats.

 

[Karen Kraft]

I did. Your original premise is boring and obvious.



There's some truth to that. But I also think Conservative corps are just fine with a liberal bias in their own media franchises.

What's the downside: a right-winger does something bad, their news reports it, and it goes into a "liberal media bias" bin? I'm sure they're losing a lot of sleep over that. They've got their own scapegoats.

As with all things, Ror, the bottom line is the bottom line.

Fox makes bank because it entertains better than the rest and thus commands ever-increasing revenues.

 

[RoryN]

As with all things, Ror, the bottom line is the bottom line.

Right. Politics are driven by the bottom line. And vice versa.

 

[Drixxx]

I did. Your original premise is boring and obvious.



There's some truth to that. But I also think Conservative corps are just fine with a liberal bias in their own media franchises.

What's the downside: a right-winger does something bad, their news reports it, and it goes into a "liberal media bias" bin? I'm sure they're losing a lot of sleep over that. They've got their own scapegoats.

See, this is what I'm talking about. Your a prime example of a victim of the corporate whore news media. They set the paradigm that any criticism of the news media is a left vs. right ideological discussion. I made no such assertion. You just assumed that because that's what the whore news media has programmed you to think. It's about truth vs bullshit, not conservative vs liberal.

 

[Drixxx]

As with all things, Ror, the bottom line is the bottom line.

Fox makes bank because it entertains better than the rest and thus commands ever-increasing revenues.

I told you. You have to wait twelve hours.

The News Corporation, the media empire controlled by Mr. Murdoch, said Thursday that it lost $6.4 billion in its second quarter as profit fell sharply at its television and movie units. The company also took a large write-down of $8.4 billion, about $3 billion of which reflected a decline in the value of the company’s newspaper unit, which includes Dow Jones, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal. Many media analysts believed that News Corp. overpaid when it bought Dow Jones just over a year ago for about $5 billion, and the write-down indicates that it lost significant value.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/06/business/media/06news.htm

 

[RoryN]

See, this is what I'm talking about. Your a prime example of a victim of the corporate whore news media. They set the paradigm that any criticism of the news media is a left vs. right ideological discussion.

You're just typing shit that you think sounds clever. Know how I can tell? Because, while you use words like "ideological", you also don't have the 3rd-grade sense to use the proper form of "your" in a sentence (in your quote, above). And that mistake wasn't a typo.

All blather, no substance.

 

[Karen Kraft]

I told you. You have to wait twelve hours.

The News Corporation, the media empire controlled by Mr. Murdoch, said Thursday that it lost $6.4 billion in its second quarter as profit fell sharply at its television and movie units. The company also took a large write-down of $8.4 billion, about $3 billion of which reflected a decline in the value of the company’s newspaper unit, which includes Dow Jones, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal. Many media analysts believed that News Corp. overpaid when it bought Dow Jones just over a year ago for about $5 billion, and the write-down indicates that it lost significant value.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/06/business/media/06news.htm

We are not talking about News Corp.; we are talking about Fox News. Let's not change the game here and consider NBC's losses can be measured by GE's write-downs. Apples and oranges. Fox News is making bank. The fact that Murdoch has a soft spot in his heart for print media is not the issue here.

 

[Drixxx]

You're just typing shit that you think sounds clever. Know how I can tell? Because, while you use words like "ideological", you also don't have the 3rd-grade sense to use the proper form of "your" in a sentence (in your quote, above). And that mistake wasn't a typo.

All blather, no substance.

That was a typo. Nice try as a distraction though. Now care to discuss your devotion to the pavlovian responses you exhibit when confronted with the bullshit news corporations serve up as journalism?

 

[Drixxx]

We are not talking about News Corp.; we are talking about Fox News. Let's not change the game here and consider NBC's losses can be measured by GE's write-downs. Apples and oranges. Fox News is making bank. The fact that Murdoch has a soft spot in his heart for print media is not the issue here.

It's not twelve hours yet. Learn to count.

NEW YORK | Glenn Beck returned to the Fox News Channel on Monday after a vacation with fewer companies willing to advertise on his show than when he left, part of the fallout from calling President Obama a racist.

A total of 33 Fox advertisers, including Wal-Mart Stores Inc., CVS Caremark, Clorox and Sprint, directed that their commercials not air on Mr. Beck's show, according to the companies and ColorofChange.org, a group that promotes political action among blacks and launched a campaign to get advertisers to abandon him. That's more than a dozen than were identified a week ago.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/aug/25/glenn-beck-loses-advertisers/

 

[Karen Kraft]

That was a typo. Nice try as a distraction though. Now care to discuss your devotion to the pavlovian responses you exhibit when confronted with the bullshit news corporations serve up as journalism?

Always the personal attack.

You posting drunk again or what?

 

[RoryN]

(Drixxx gets caught making a grammatical error most 3rd graders don't make. Ring ring ring.)

That was a typo.

Atta boy.

 

[Drixxx]

Atta boy.

Still avoiding the central point that you assumed I was making some liberal vs conservative argument when in fact that was just something you've been pre-programmed to think from the very news media you're trying to defend?

 

[Drixxx]

Always the personal attack.

You posting drunk again or what?

What's up with the hyper sensitivity? I am one of the tamest people around here. I call a couple people a poopyhead and you get all bent out of shape? Butch up.

 

[slapsht25]

What's wrong with sucking cock?

you can suck mine anytime

 

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[Colonel Hogan]

When is the last time you saw an in depth report on a major news network on the shoddy news gathering and reporting techniques on Fox? Why is it when the Whitehouse calls out Fox on their lying bullshit the other networks rush to Fox's defense? I'll tell you why. They're a bunch preening, over paid, blow dried, cock sucking whores. That's why!

Hey, dumbass! If you were making reference to the place where the President lives, it's called The White House.

"Whitehouse" sounds like the diner you and the other cabbies working the graveyard shift meet for coffee and doughnuts.

 

[TurdFergeson]

Wow. This is enlightening.

Corporations contribute to both political parties.

And the media are whores.

I am SHOCKED!