Democratic National Convention '08

scaeagles · 08-25-2008, 06:14 AM

I agree that this Fox piece was ridiculous. However, don't pretend that Fox is the only news organization that tries to stir things up. While I don't need to go into tons of examples, the first one that popped into my head was when Connie Chung of CBS was interviewing Newt Gingich's quite elderly mom, telling her this was completely off the record and asking her what Newt thought of Hillary Clinton. Yeah, that wasn't meant to try to stir up anything.

Was the Fox story stupid and designed to to do exactly what you said, GD? Absolutely. Is this common throughout the "news" media? Absolutely.

To be clear, I am NOT justifying it by saying others do it. Only pointing out that this far more pervasive than Fox News alone.

08-25-2008, 06:14 AM	#6
scaeagles I LIKE! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 7,819	I agree that this Fox piece was ridiculous. However, don't pretend that Fox is the only news organization that tries to stir things up. While I don't need to go into tons of examples, the first one that popped into my head was when Connie Chung of CBS was interviewing Newt Gingich's quite elderly mom, telling her this was completely off the record and asking her what Newt thought of Hillary Clinton. Yeah, that wasn't meant to try to stir up anything. Was the Fox story stupid and designed to to do exactly what you said, GD? Absolutely. Is this common throughout the "news" media? Absolutely. To be clear, I am NOT justifying it by saying others do it. Only pointing out that this far more pervasive than Fox News alone.
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