Comments on: Fox News really is a spin-free zone right now http://trueslant.com/level/2009/09/09/fox-news-really-is-a-spin-free-zone-right-now-health-care-reform-obama-speech/ [Please go to 'Settings' to change your Tagline] Wed, 21 Sep 2011 06:50:57 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: andygeiger http://trueslant.com/level/2009/09/09/fox-news-really-is-a-spin-free-zone-right-now-health-care-reform-obama-speech/comment-page-1/#comment-435 andygeiger Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:52:22 +0000 http://trueslant.com/level/?p=2268#comment-435 The way i see it... two wrongs don't make a right... but three rights make a left. The way i see it… two wrongs don’t make a right… but three rights make a left.

]]> By: Michael Roston http://trueslant.com/level/2009/09/09/fox-news-really-is-a-spin-free-zone-right-now-health-care-reform-obama-speech/comment-page-1/#comment-434 Michael Roston Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:45:40 +0000 http://trueslant.com/level/?p=2268#comment-434 I think you missed my point. Fox TV didn't broadcast the speech, or the rebuttal, a fact of which I'm critical. Fox News showed both. But while the other networks were all spin all the time, flappy lips saying nothing, Fox News spent the hour before the speech mostly reporting the news of the day, not focused on health care reform. From 8 PM onward, Fox News was all health care all the time. I just liked that the hour beforehand, their cable news network didn't engage in the usual spin-filled histrionics that were found on all of the other networks, sound and fury signifying nothing, etc. I think you missed my point. Fox TV didn’t broadcast the speech, or the rebuttal, a fact of which I’m critical. Fox News showed both. But while the other networks were all spin all the time, flappy lips saying nothing, Fox News spent the hour before the speech mostly reporting the news of the day, not focused on health care reform. From 8 PM onward, Fox News was all health care all the time. I just liked that the hour beforehand, their cable news network didn’t engage in the usual spin-filled histrionics that were found on all of the other networks, sound and fury signifying nothing, etc.

]]> By: btrday http://trueslant.com/level/2009/09/09/fox-news-really-is-a-spin-free-zone-right-now-health-care-reform-obama-speech/comment-page-1/#comment-433 btrday Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:09:38 +0000 http://trueslant.com/level/?p=2268#comment-433 I'd have to completely disagree. Where the President of the United States chooses to address a joint session of congress on an issue that has helped to define the legacy of past Presidents - where fox news is so obviously partisan on the issue - shows to me a lack of journalistic integrity that, although expected, is insulting. That they would choose to air "so you think you can dance" and "king of the hill" instead of a presidential address and then offer commentary that, let's be honest, one cannot even expect to be objective, looks a little like the network was afraid of President's charisma affecting it's viewership. It makes it much easier to "slant" the speech, when your viewership hasn't actually seen it in it's entirety. I'm not saying MSNBC isn't slanted in the other direction, but at least they trust in the intelligence of their viewership enough to air the speech in it's entirety. I hope that Fox opts out of airing the rebuttal tonight the same way they opted out of showing the speech. I’d have to completely disagree. Where the President of the United States chooses to address a joint session of congress on an issue that has helped to define the legacy of past Presidents – where fox news is so obviously partisan on the issue – shows to me a lack of journalistic integrity that, although expected, is insulting. That they would choose to air “so you think you can dance” and “king of the hill” instead of a presidential address and then offer commentary that, let’s be honest, one cannot even expect to be objective, looks a little like the network was afraid of President’s charisma affecting it’s viewership. It makes it much easier to “slant” the speech, when your viewership hasn’t actually seen it in it’s entirety. I’m not saying MSNBC isn’t slanted in the other direction, but at least they trust in the intelligence of their viewership enough to air the speech in it’s entirety.

I hope that Fox opts out of airing the rebuttal tonight the same way they opted out of showing the speech.

]]> By: Michael Roston - Newsbroke – Open thread: President Obama’s health care reform speech - True/Slant http://trueslant.com/level/2009/09/09/fox-news-really-is-a-spin-free-zone-right-now-health-care-reform-obama-speech/comment-page-1/#comment-416 Michael Roston - Newsbroke – Open thread: President Obama’s health care reform speech - True/Slant Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:11:46 +0000 http://trueslant.com/level/?p=2268#comment-416 [...] must be making the suits at Fox TV feel happy right now – instead of waiting for the president’s Cabinet to sashay its way [...] [...] must be making the suits at Fox TV feel happy right now – instead of waiting for the president’s Cabinet to sashay its way [...]

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