Partisanship in News
December 10, 2005
Fox Brings GOP "Retreat & Defeat" Web Ad To TV
Friday morning (December 9, 2005), the news wires carried a story about a new web ad unveiled yesterday by the Republican National Committee titled, "Retreat and Defeat." The ad claims to "expose" the Democrat's "cut and run strategy" to end the Iraq war.
Friday afternoon on Your World w/Neil Cavuto, after an attention-grabbing FOX NEWS ALERT, Ken Mehlman, Chair of the GOP, opened the show. Fox aired part of the GOP's "web ad" and gave Mehlman a forum to promote the ad and to distort some of what Howard Dean, Barbara Boxer, and John Kerry have said over the past week.
Continue reading >>December 03, 2005
Cavuto Clueless on Cause and Effect
Cause and effect is something Neil Cavuto just doesn't understand. If two things happen at the same time, Cavuto is convinced one is related to the other, especially if one is an uptick in George Bush's approval rating and the other is an uptick in the stock market.
Continue reading >>December 01, 2005
PNAC Founder Frank Gaffney Advocated Taking Out Al Jazeera in 2003
Frank Gaffney returned to FOX News and the O'Reilly Factor on November 29, 2005 to plug his new book, "War Footing: Ten Steps America Must Take to Prevail in the War for the Free World" outlining a his plan for dealing with World War III, which he claims were are fighting right now.
Continue reading >>FOX News' Propaganda About The Propaganda
During a news break in the middle of last night's Hannity & Colmes, Uma Pemmaraju and Steve Centanni reported on the recent revelation that the U.S. military is paying Iraqi newspapers to run pro-American stories disguised as news. They're a perfect example of propaganda but Pemmaraju described them as "positive articles about progress" in Iraq while Centanni called them "favorable articles."
Continue reading >>November 30, 2005
US Military plants propaganda in Iraq - FOX News Contributor Bill Cowan advisor
The LA Times reported today that
"As part of an information offensive in Iraq, the U.S. military is secretly paying Iraqi newspapers to publish stories written by American troops in an effort to burnish the image of the U.S. mission in Iraq." [...] "Many of the articles are presented in the Iraqi press as unbiased news accounts written and reported by independent journalists. The stories trumpet the work of U.S. and Iraqi troops, denounce insurgents and tout U.S.-led efforts to rebuild the country.Continue reading >>Though the articles are basically factual, they present only one side of events and omit information that might reflect poorly on the U.S. or Iraqi governments, officials said."