I hope and believe that they will do something so stupid that whoever is the head of the news division gets the axe.
I think they have actual journalists conducting the interviews and Palin will do intros and wrap ups. She's too stupid to do anything else. On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@comcast.net>wrote: > > > Well, I'm sure LL didn't know it was for a Palin-hosted show. Who > interviewed him at that time? To wrap it up under Palin--someone whose > beliefs and actions I have to believe he probably finds objectionable--is > problematic at best. The Fox response is typically unprofessional, in > suggesting he doesn't want to inspire other people. > But nothing--nothing--Fox does surprises or disappoints me anymore. When > they cut Obama's meeting with top Republicans a few weeks ago, they had no > excuse. It was news, it was live, and they just cut away, because he was > cleaning the Republicans' clocks. When Fox chairman Roger Ailes was asked > about it on "This Week", he just joked "we cut away because we're 'fair and > balanced'". > The rest of the panel, including good friend Barbara Walters, who was guest > hosting, all laughed. I was incensed. He made a joke of a "news" channel > flagrantly ignoring news because of personal bias. And that's okay? > > Nothing Fox does surprises me anymore... > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mr. Worf" <hellomahog...@gmail.com> > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 2:43:29 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: [scifinoir2] LL Cool J Challenges Fox News on Promotion of Palin > Show > > > > Fox has cut his segment from the show, but I thought that it was an > interesting story. > > LL Cool J Challenges Fox News on Promotion of Palin Show By DAVE > ITZKOFF<http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/author/dave-itzkoff/> > [image: LL Cool J] > [image: Sarah Palin] > > *Update:* Fox News > said<http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/fox-news-will-cut-ll-cool-j-interview-from-palin-show/>it > would cut an interview with LL Cool J from the debut episode of “Real > American Stories.” > > If the lineup and promotion for the inaugural episode of “Real American > Stories,” a new Fox News Channel series to be hosted by Sarah > Palin<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/sarah_palin/index.html>, > caught you by surprise, you’re not the only one. On his Twitter > account<http://twitter.com/llcoolj>on Tuesday night, LL > Cool > J<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/ll_cool_j/index.html>, > who was announced as one of the guests for the show, wrote that Fox was > misrepresenting him. > > “Real American Stories” is scheduled to have its premiere on Fox News > Channel on Thursday night. On its Web site <http://www.foxnews.com/>, Fox > News said the show would profile people who have “given back, given all and > never given up.” Among the guests that Fox News is announcing in an > advertisement for the first > episode<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtBY2__J9t0>are the country musician > Toby Keith; John F. Welch Jr., the former chairman > of General Electric; and LL Cool J, the rapper and star of “NCIS: Los > Angeles.” > > But LL Cool J wrote on Twitter<http://twitter.com/llcoolj/status/11339785126>: > “Fox lifted an old interview I gave in 2008 to someone else & are > misrepresenting to the public in order to promote Sarah Palins Show. WOW.” > He then re-sent the message nearly two dozen times to various followers in a > two-hour span. > > Fox News has responded > here<http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/fox-news-will-cut-ll-cool-j-interview-from-palin-show/>. > Representatives for LL Cool J were not immediately available. > > > -- > Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! > Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ > > > > > -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
