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Sean Hannity: “You think I’m bad for America?”
Ted Koppel: “Yeah.”
Oh, my. That was sweet, sweet, sweet!! Proud of Ted Koppel today.
Hannity looked truly shocked. I guess he usually talks to people who adore him.
Having a slant is fine. We’re all humans anyway, so we always view (and recount) everything through the lens of our own perspective and biases; having a slant is in fact inevitable, and doesn’t automatically discredit something–it’s on the consumer of media to read/watch/listen critically. In fact, I wish everyone would be more open and honest about that, because it’d make it easier to know what we need to be wary of.
And getting stuff wrong from time to time is fine, too. We’re all humans anyway, so we’ll always make the occasional mistake; as long as you acknowledge and correct it when it’s pointed out to you.
The problem with FOX News isn’t that they have a slant, or that they’re honestly mistaken from time to time. The problem with FOX News is that they lie. They make shit up. That’s not having a slant or making a mistake–that’s being dishonest.
LOL, he did! Made me want to slap that smarmy little pucker off his lips. Like I need an excuse.
Foxnews sent out a “News Alert” stating that “POTUS spending weekend working at the White House”, which is problematic both because it wasn’t true, as he spent most of the weekend golfing (as usual), and even if it had been true is not exactly newsworthy.
Maybe they thought it was news because Trump working as he claimed that he was going to be during the campaign would be news indeed.
I bet many conservatives (even from the right wing news) are getting tired to carry water for the lazy in chief.
Ted Koppel has something to say to Sean HANNITY.
Well, the problem IMO is they have an agenda. Every story they run is supposed to make the viewer come to some conclusion – that welfare is too high, that the economy was doing badly under Obama, that BLM is a terrorist organization that has no legitimate greivances, etc.
And most of the time they don’t need to lie to do this.
What they do is only run stories that support their agenda and ignore others. If they’re forced to run a story that on face value runs contrary to their agenda, then they will spend the majority of the time trying to imprint a particular interpretation on the viewer. And they never update a story where the update would diminish whatever point they were trying to make.
I’m sure some will retort “But all news does that!” but I would argue that the above three sentences are not true for most legitimate news agencies.
e.g. CNN would absolutely run a story about Obama taking too many costly trips at the taxpayers’ expense, if he was taking significantly more trips than presidents typically do. What does Fox have to say about Trump going to Flordia every weekend? Either nothing, or some rant about how Dems are much worse for some reason.
So every now and then I watch a little Fox News in the name of opposition research. It can be enlightening, sometimes they forget that a liberal might be watching and they’ll actually come straight out and say the stuff they usually dog-whistle around. That’s how I learned that there was never an intention to replace ObamaCare, which is why they didn’t have a plan ready.
So I watched Jeanne Pirro give her impassioned defense of Trump last night , basically ripping Paul Ryan a new one for not delivering either the votes or a decent bill. Then today I saw part of a Trump progress report town hall meeting that had a bunch of ordinary people raving about how awesome Trump was and what a great job he was doing. They were also doing a lot of reporting on crimes committed by immigrants.
Then something about the tone, the vocabulary, the cadence, the phrasing used in the pieces struck me. FOX is now broadcasting to an audience of one. The know Trump is watching, and they make sure he only hears what he wants to hear. They gear absolutely everything to him. It’s funny and frightening at the same time.
I don’t know what you’re so upset about. Somebody has to run the country, and I (slightly) prefer Rupert Murdoch to Steve Bannon.
This thread could have ended if someone had simply replied “Hannity” in post #2.
This Hannity tweet from 2013 is also making the rounds:
The man is positively psychic.
O’Reilly out!
So long Bill. You will not be missed.
I wonder if Sean Spicer is calling Bill saying “Don’t quote me on this, but I have it on TOP authority that there will be a very public-facing opening here at the White House. Get your resume in order so I can get it to the President, OK? Please?”
White House Communications Director would be perfect for O’Reilly.
All major news in the USA pushes an agenda whether you can sense it or not.
Some news networks ignore important topics unpurpose, others play gotcha for political points. Therein lies the most obvious bias. The less subtle bias is the video played or edited.
Lately, the left has jumped the shark with fake news headlines, and flimsy reporting that has no sources, uses words like allegedly, according to sources with are never names, and speculation.
Remember a few month back Putin and Trump had a bromance going…according to the press. I guess not.
An independent news source with integrity is badly needed in the USA, until then British BBC tells the news the way it is happening in the USA with the least amount of bias.