You remember what happened to Rather at the end of his career, right?
I’d pay good money to watch that.
Yep.
But that was one instance in a loooong career.
How many FOX newscasters have been ended for getting something wrong?
Bit of a difference in my view.
Me too…and I’ve never done a Pay-per-View thing in my life. This I’d do.
That’s not the point, although it was a bigger deal than misleading footage or a reversed graphic. The point is that if Grandma relied on him… he was perfect either. With the Memo story, he was convinced he was right and he led himself into trusting a bad source. I suspect Bush flaked on a few of his weekend assignments. Maybe more than a few. The facts didn’t support the story and Rather trusted his own opinion over the evidence at his disposal. Most bias looks like that, not the usually heavy-handed tactics Fox News likes to employ.
That you think it is the role of the government to determine what people should believe or not terrifies me. That you cannot see the possibility of abuse in this is staggering.
Fox News itself is available on almost every Canadian cable system.
And for that matter, Canada itself is changing its policy from a broadcaster “shall not broadcast any false or misleading news” to a broadcaster shall not broadcast “any news that the licensee knows is false or misleading and that endangers or is likely to endanger the lives, health or safety of the public.”, which is pretty much the current US standard.
Regards,
Shodan
And that is the bottom line.