Slate’s Weisberg: Fox News 'Un-American'; Blames FNC for Left-Wing 'Populist and Ideological Takes' on MSNBC, CNN
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... Can you say "bitter"? That's the vibe Slate.com Editor-in-Chief Jacob Weisberg put off in an Oct. 17 column, which will appear in the Oct. 26 issue of Newsweek, about Fox News headlined "The O'Garbage Factor." ...

Thirteen Years In The Penguin Box
d r i f t g l a s s — There is virtually no problem in American politics that does not trace its origins to the fact that the frontal lobes of the Land of the Free have spent the last 13 years being bludgeoned by Rupert Murdoch's Fox New. Snipped from Newsweek: The O’Garbage Factor Fox News isn't just bad. It's un-American. by Jacob Weisberg ... Any news organization that took its responsibilities seriously would take pains to cover presidential criticism fairly. It would regard doing ...

Jacob Weisberg Loses It
Dean's World — ... His tirade against Fox News would some have some semblance of coherence if it at least made a pretense toward intellectual honesty. ...

Look in the mirror
doubleplusundead — Look in the mirror Where to even fucking start about un-American, well, anything? What's most distinctive about the American press is not its freedom but its century-old tradition of independence—that it serves the public interest rather than those of parties, persuasions, or pressure groups. Media independence is a 20th-century innovation that has never fully taken root in many other countries that do have a free press. The Australian-British-continental model of politicized media that Murdoch has applied at Fox is un-American, so much so that he has little choice but ...

It’s Fox’s Fault
Six Meat Buffet — From a Newsweek article, The O’Garbage Factor, Fox News Isn’t Just Bad. It’s Un-American. That Rupert Murdoch may tilt the news rightward more for commercial than ideological reasons is beside the point. What matters is the way that Fox’s model has invaded the bloodstream of the American media. By showing that ideologically distorted news can drive ratings, Ailes has provoked his rivals at CNN and MSNBC to develop a variety of populist and ideological takes on the news. In this way, Fox hasn’t just corrupted its own ...

Sunday open thread
Michelle Malkin — Busy with family. Throwing out a couple discussion topics: * What good is an “opposition” party that wants to elect its own worst opponents? Related: Where is Sarah Palin? * Rush shreds the RAAAAAAACIST card. Related: First newspaper retracts fake RAAAACIST Rush quotes. * Out: Dissent is patriotic! In: Fox News Channel’s dissenting anchors are unpatriotic ! * ACORN whistleblower Anita MonCrief : “The more I spoke about Obama and the Democrats part in the ACORN scandal, the more I drifted away from the ACORN 8. I never thought that ...

BY ATTACKING FOX, AXELROD ATTACKS FREE PRESS AND FREE SPEECH
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS — ... Fox News isn't just bad. It's un-American. — From the magazine issue dated Oct 26, 2009 — Last week, when White House Communications Director Anita Dunn charged the Fox News Channel with right-wing bias, Fox responded the way it always does. It denied the accusation with a straight face … ...

Dog Bites Man: Obama's War on Dissent
The Jawa Report — ... Jacob Weisberg calls Fox News "bad" and "un-American" in a Newsweek article entitled "The O'Garbage Factor." Clue for clueless Weisberg: the O'Reilly Factor is an opinion show. It's sort of like the front page of the New York Times. Or like a Newsweek "journalist" named "Weisberg" serving as a soldier in the Obama administration's War on Dissent. By ...

Mirror Time
Jules Crittenden — « Afghanistan Syndrome Mirror Time Good fun with Newsweek re Obama flack re Fox : “Fox News isn’t just bad. It’s unAmerican.” From the people who devoted  this week’s cover  to helping Joe Biden get the clown shoes and the red nose off. Topics: media Posted by Jules Crittenden at 12:22 pm on Sunday, October 18, 2009 Leave a Reply Trackback URL You must be logged in to post a comment. zoloft long distance running G Postmessage Propecia Smiley Post accutane timeline symptoms of zoloft working! Lipitor ...

Temet Nosce
Neptunus Lex — ... Writing in Newsweek, Jacob Weisberg – author of “The Bush Tragedy” – lambastes Fox News for having an unapologetic world view at variance with his own: ...

Is Fox News “Un-American”?
Firedoglake — Jacob Weisberg thinks so. What’s most distinctive about the American press is not its freedom but its century-old tradition of independence—that it serves the public interest rather than those of parties, persuasions, or pressure groups. Media ...

The New Yellow Kids
The Mahablog — ... Fast forward to today. Jacob Weisberg writes that Fox News is un-American. By this he seems to mean that Fox’s grotesque partisanship is outside the tradition of American journalism, and that it is bad for America. Regarding the tradition of American journalism — um, there are a lot of traditions. I think in the 20th century journalism really did create some professional standards and more or less upheld them, although that’s all out the window now. But Fox has done a great job of reviving the 19th century standard of yellow journalism for which William ...

Jacob Weisberg: See no liberal bias, hear no liberal bias
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... The creator of Slate’s Bushisms, the author of a book called “The Bush Tragedy,” and a lifelong liberal writer is calling Fox News “unAmerican” for having—wait for it—a conservative bias. He is also accusing Fox of forcing MSNBC and CNN to swing to the left instead of maintaining their world-renowned objectivity in news reporting. (Yes indeed, that was sarcasm.) (Via ...

Jacob Weisberg: See no liberal bias, hear no liberal bias
Yourish.com — ... The creator of Slate’s Bushisms, the author of a book called “The Bush Tragedy,” and a lifelong liberal writer is calling Fox News “unAmerican” for having—wait for it—a conservative bias. He is also accusing Fox of forcing MSNBC and CNN to swing to the left instead of maintaining their world-renowned objectivity in news reporting. (Yes indeed, that was sarcasm.) (Via ...

Jacob Weisberg Loses It
Classical Values — Jacob Weisberg Loses It His tirade against Fox News would some have some semblance of coherence if it at least made a pretense toward intellectual honesty. What's most distinctive about the American press is not its freedom but its century-old tradition of independence--that it serves the public interest rather than those of parties, persuasions, or pressure groups. What's most distinctive about the American press is the extent to which they've become the cheering section for left-liberalism. This is not merely right-wing paranoia (or in my pro-choice ...

"FOX is un-American"
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — An excellent essay from Jacob Weisberg in Newsweek. His central tenet is that Rupert Murdoch imported a European model of biased, party-based journalism into the US via his creation, FOX News. FOX News is a foreign construction that flies in the face of a century of American media independence. It is per se un-American: ...

I may just keep Newsweek after all
Brilliant at Breakfast — ... Recently, the suits at Newsweek realized that reporting on week-old news was anachronistic in these days when you can get updated news online on a 24 x 7 basis, and so it has been retooled into a magazine of commentary or analysis. The skimpy advertising, dominated by ads for faux "masterpiece" jewelry and those Amish heaters, leaves doubt as to whether the new concept can make Newsweek survive, but with columns like this one from Jacob Weisberg about how Fox News flies in the face of what American journalism is supposed to be, I sure hope it does: ...

Jindal And Landrieu Call For Ouster Of Racist Judge-- Does Vitter Have A Diaper Stuffed In His Mouth?
DownWithTyranny! — ... a racist having "piles and piles" of black friends who use his bathroom-- refused to sign the marriage certificate for 30 year old Beth Humphrey, who is white, and 32 year old Terence McKay, who is black, based on a claim that children of black-white interracial marriages aren't accepted by either black or white society. He must have neglected to read the newspapers since the last presidential election-- wither that or he spends his days watching the anti-American broadcasts from Fox News or listening to Hate Talk radio. In any case, the law on this matter was settled by the ...

Newsweek Mag: FOX News is Un-American
Gateway Pundit — The White House must be so proud. Following their lead, the state-run media is now boldly bashing FOX News, too. The former news magazine known as Newsweek is now calling FOX News “un-American.” Oh brother. When will this media dinosaur die off? Is there anyone who still reads this liberal mag?

Did Jacob Weisberg Ever Call MSNBC “Un-American”?
GayPatriot — What is it with normally sensible, highly educated liberal pundits? Why do they get so hot and bothered about FoxNews? Michelle Malkin calls it Fox News Derangement Syndrome.  It’s one thing to criticize their coverage and their surfeit of “platinum pundettes,” but to call them “un-American” as does the once*-sensible Jacob Weisberg, now that really takes the cake. Perhaps, he should actually watch their evening coverage.  I’ll grant that Glenn Beck (at least the few times I’ve watched him) is quite ...

THE COLLECTIVIST UNDEAD
Dr. Sanity — You know, it is truly unseemly and utterly bizarre to hear media zombies like Jacob Weisberg rant against Fox News. This lunacy from a "journalist" who happens to be ...

Morning Links
The Agitator — Obama formalizes policy calling the feds off of medical marijuana dispensaries. We’ll see how the policy works in practice, but Obama deserves some credit, here. Jacob Weisberg jingos up, calls Fox News “un-American.” “Calling America’s bluff on Internet gambling.” Seems to me that whatever you think of its politics, this group is trying to prevent violence, not instigate it. Oops. Ayn Rand inspires . . . the fashion world? ...

Obama & Company New Brilliant Strategy? Freeze Fox News Out
Flopping Aces — ... And when they find out they can’t control the media….they send out the hounds, like liberal writer and author of such books as The Bush Tragedy, Jacob Weisberg, here in which he describes how “unAmerican” Fox news is: ...

Digest for October 16th through October 19th
The Republic of T. — Here are some of the people writing about some of the stuff I wish I had time to write about, for October 16th through October 19th: Krugman: The Banks Are Not Alright – Why Obama Has to do What Letterman Did: Refuse to Pay Hush Money – Conservative America: A World Apart – Why Fox News Is Un-American – Alter: The Democrats Don’t Need to Move Right – Op-Ed Columnist: Impatiently Waiting – There Are Still No Racists In ...

Damnable Fox -- By: Jonah Goldberg
The Corner on National Review Online — Jacob Weisberg is vexed and righteous in his hatred of Fox News. It's a "propaganda" machine pretending to be a news outlet. Blah blah blah. You know the argument. What's new is that he thinks liberal journalists shouldn't appear on the network either. That'll show 'em! ...

"Fox News made me do it!"
Classical Values — ... ," Dave Price has a lot of fun demolishing some of Weisberg's more ridiculous assertions in Newsweek. Clearly, poor Weisberg has lost it. Assuming, of course, he ever had it. What I find myself unable to ignore is another incredible Weisberg assertion. Did you know that CNN's bias is the fault of Fox News? Neither did I, but Weisberg explains : That Rupert Murdoch may tilt the news rightward more for commercial than ideological reasons is beside the point. What matters is the way that Fox's model has invaded the bloodstream of the American media. By showing that ...

Fox Hunting
Opinionator — ... ratings are increasing, the conservative base itself is contracting and the liberal base expanding. Or some such thesis. But I don’t think the president is so calculating or clear-headed on this subject. Rather, he’s fulminating. He talks about Fox the same way the Clintons talked about the right-wing conspiracy. He feels similarly pissed-off and helpless in the face of it. If few others get the attacks on Fox, Jacob Weisberg does. In his Newsweek column this week, he writes that “ Fox News isn’t just bad . It’s un-American.” Rather than in any way maturing, Fox has in recent ...

I Learned It From Watching You, America-Hating Rupert!
Hit & Run — ... In a column for the new, even more boring Newsweek, Slate editor Jacob Weisberg claims that Fox News "stands to become the first network to actively try to kill its viewers" by spreading lies about vaccines ( ...

FOX News Viewer Fatigue Sets In
Hoffmania! — ... Newsweek says they're Un-American. While that's literally true, Jacob Weisberg has gone after them in this week's issue. Rather than in any way maturing, Fox has in recent months become more boisterous and demagogic. Fox sponsored as much as it covered the anti-Obama "tea parties" this summer. Its "fact checking" about the president's health-care proposal is provided by Karl Rove. And weepy Glenn Beck has begun to exhibit a Strangelovean concern about government invading our bloodstream by vaccinating people for swine flu. With this misinformation ...

Greta Van Susteren Fights Back Against Claims About Fox News (VIDEO)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — Greta Van Susteren took to both her blog and her program Monday to fight back against claims made against Fox News. Van Susteren wrote a long response on GretaWire to Jacob Weisberg's Newsweek article calling Fox News un-American. Now, un-American?" she wrote. "First it was that Fox is not a news organization...and now? now Fox is un-american? Really, un-american??? (Tomorrow I fear I will be asked to register as a sex offender...what in the world happened last week while I was traveling in North Korea? What unglued everyone?)" Van Susteren ...

Hens guarding the Foxhouse
Balloon Juice — Steve Benen on the rest of the media’s (minus Jacob Weisberg) bizarre defense of Fox News: But let’s put all of that aside and focus on a point too many observers don’t appreciate: the line between Fox News’ personality-driven primetime hosts and Fox News’ “reporting” doesn’t exist. This isn’t a network that does legitimate journalism during the day, and then let’s GOP clowns run wild at night—this is a network that acts as the arm of a political party and a cog in ...

The White House’s Curious War Against Fox News (Guest Voice)
The Moderate Voice — ... Some intellectually dishonest enablers in the media have acted as cheerleaders for the administration’s new war on Fox News. Jacob Weisberg at Newsweek makes the ridiculous assertion that Fox News is un-American, and even laughably claims that the bias of other networks is due to Fox News. Meryl Yourish ...

uggabugga — A joke: This is what a website affiliated with an "unbiased news" organization looks like: One of the best lines in Jacob Weisberg's essay on Fox was this: There is no need to get bogged down in this phony debate [about whether or not Fox is biased and deceives], which itself constitutes an abuse of the fair-mindedness of the rest of the media. ...

Joe Klein Accuses Fox News Of Sedition
Say Anything — ... seditious lies to its demographic sliver of an audience—the Administration should probably be stoic: the wingnuts will always be with us. The best antidote to their garbage is elegant, intelligent governance. Klein’s use of the word “sedition” here isn’t insignificant.  And when you couple it with things like Democrat politicians calling Fox News the “enemy of America” and other media types declaring Fox News “un-American”, you come to a chilling reality. ...