Re: Who Owns the News

2003-03-05 Thread Peter Gutmann
Eric Cordian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We've pretty much gotten to the point where the only places real news can be found in America these days is on Indymedia and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. A sad situation for a country with an alleged free press. There was an article in some UK paper

Who Owns the News

2003-03-02 Thread Eric Cordian
Adam Back writes: Look at this shit on fox news, look how they bias the question and mis-represent the issue. FOX recently fired two reporters after they refused to change the facts of a news story. Fox said to them, We paid $13 billion for these stations, and we'll tell you what the news is.

Re: Who Owns the News

2003-03-02 Thread Tyler Durden
: James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Who Owns the News Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 19:41:33 -0800 -- On 1 Mar 2003 at 11:25, Eric Cordian wrote: FOX recently fired two reporters after they refused to change the facts of a news story. Fox said to them, We paid $13

Re: Who Owns the News

2003-03-02 Thread Bill Stewart
At 07:41 PM 03/01/2003 -0800, James A. Donald wrote: MSNBC just fired Phil Donahue after a marketing report outlined a nightmare scenario in which MSNBC was perceived as giving a forum to anti-war sentiment while all other networks were engaged in patriotic flag-waving. You are making all this

Re: Who Owns the News

2003-03-02 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 2 Mar 2003 at 1:00, Bill Stewart wrote: Most of the national talk shows on radio are either conservatives or ranting right wingers or sports shows (which don't count.) The ranters get some mileage out of insulting people for a while, trying to keep finding new people to hate and

Re: Who Owns the News

2003-03-02 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 1 Mar 2003 at 11:25, Eric Cordian wrote: FOX recently fired two reporters after they refused to change the facts of a news story. Fox said to them, We paid $13 billion for these stations, and we'll tell you what the news is. In a unanimous decision, the 2nd District Court of