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Do you think the press is failing to objectively cover the situation in Ferguson, Mis

Do you think the press is failing to objectively cover the situation in Ferguson, Mis


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Re: Do you think the press is failing to objectively cover the situation in Ferguson,

I am shocked that the ultra liberal Disney Dude said yes..........He is on my ignore list (the only one there) so I can't see any of his posts......Maybe he is getting more Conservative.:lamo
 
Re: Do you think the press is failing to objectively cover the situation in Ferguson,

Your thoughts please.

I think the press is antagonizing the crowd.
 
Re: Do you think the press is failing to objectively cover the situation in Ferguson,

I think the press is antagonizing the crowd.

I think they are inciting the crowd.
 
Re: Do you think the press is failing to objectively cover the situation in Ferguson,

I am shocked that the ultra liberal Disney Dude said yes..........He is on my ignore list (the only one there) so I can't see any of his posts......Maybe he is getting more Conservative.:lamo

This is not about me my left wing friend.

It isn't about Disneydude nor your antipathy for him either, but you wasted no ****ing time bringing it up.
 
Re: Do you think the press is failing to objectively cover the situation in Ferguson,

How do you feel about the objective reporters being arrested ?
Your thoughts please.
 
Re: Do you think the press is failing to objectively cover the situation in Ferguson,

I thought it was awesome. And so did they.


How do you feel about the objective reporters being arrested ?
 
Re: Do you think the press is failing to objectively cover the situation in Ferguson,

Are you saying that the reporters thought it was awesome that they got arrested?
I thought it was awesome. And so did they.
Or about the cops lying that they didn't keep any reporters overnight?
Frightening to see some like you who think this is funny as long as yer side is winning .
 
Re: Do you think the press is failing to objectively cover the situation in Ferguson,

Yes, the media ate it up. They practically stumbled over each other to portray themselves as victims of police aggression and paint themselves as courageous heroes. I bet they ran TOWARD the tear gas and made sure their cameraman were following.


Are you saying that the reporters thought it was awesome that they got arrested?

Or about the cops lying that they didn't keep any reporters overnight?

Yes, you should be frightened.


Frightening to see some like you who think this is funny as long as yer side is winning .
 
Re: Do you think the press is failing to objectively cover the situation in Ferguson,

Your thoughts please.

I do. I have been a pretty loyal CNN viewer for a long time. I have gotten so tired of their one sided coverage and obvious anti-police position regarding Ferguson, Missouri that I started watching MSNBC and FNC to see which was the most holistic in coverage. I used to watch MSNBC in the morning and CNN most of rest of the day when I watched the news. I rarely, if ever, watched Fox. My view after watching both MSNBC and FNC pretty equally for the last two days???? Fox has covered both sides almost equally and MSNBC is out to get the cop hung from the nearest tree. So... I have, for the first time, started watching Fox. I still turn to CNN for international news, but for domestic news, Fox is the only one that in my opinion covers it objectively... so far. I may throw them under the bus and stop watching cable news all together if they go all far right on me.

Now, for clarity, I am talking about the news shows, not the talking head pundits on FNC.
 
Re: Do you think the press is failing to objectively cover the situation in Ferguson,

How could they not objectively report on this as most of them were smack dab in the middle of it and they were reporting on what you could see with your own eyes. A stupid partisan thread.
 
Re: Do you think the press is failing to objectively cover the situation in Ferguson,

I think the major press is probably failing to objectively cover almost everything it reports on.
 
Re: Do you think the press is failing to objectively cover the situation in Ferguson,

We're now in a partisan news media era. It actually is kind of Fox's fault. Before Fox, liberal media had a monopoly on information. With Fox, people can see the bias in the msm. This resulted in a ratings war and the current environment we now have. Fox is the ratings king in cable news and the other outlets are fighting a war with them forcing them to be more partisan. It's Fox vs not-fox and CNN, MsNBC and the networks bend over backwards to be not Fox.
 
Re: Do you think the press is failing to objectively cover the situation in Ferguson,

This is not about me my left wing friend.

If you are going to ask other people for their thoughts it is only fair game you answer your OWN question as well. Don't like being asked, tough ****. Nice dodge though but that is what you are good at.
 
Re: Do you think the press is failing to objectively cover the situation in Ferguson,

I do. I have been a pretty loyal CNN viewer for a long time. I have gotten so tired of their one sided coverage and obvious anti-police position regarding Ferguson, Missouri that I started watching MSNBC and FNC to see which was the most holistic in coverage. I used to watch MSNBC in the morning and CNN most of rest of the day when I watched the news. I rarely, if ever, watched Fox. My view after watching both MSNBC and FNC pretty equally for the last two days???? Fox has covered both sides almost equally and MSNBC is out to get the cop hung from the nearest tree. So... I have, for the first time, started watching Fox. I still turn to CNN for international news, but for domestic news, Fox is the only one that in my opinion covers it objectively... so far. I may throw them under the bus and stop watching cable news all together if they go all far right on me.

Now, for clarity, I am talking about the news shows, not the talking head pundits on FNC.

CNN is obsessed with this story, and the big, bad, evil, racist cops who run around the country.

Fox has been multi-dimensional about the story, bringing in both sides, and also reporting on the hideous behavior of the looters.

MSNBC has been a little in the middle, mostly tipping to the "bad cop" angle but with less obsession than CNN.

At least you can turn on Fox or MSNBC and get news that doesn't involve this story.
 
Re: Do you think the press is failing to objectively cover the situation in Ferguson,

when i was a young man, my first love was journalism

there were certain rules you learned early on....

hell i started learning them as a beat reporter for the high school newspaper

1. you cover the news, you dont "make the news"
2. you reports facts, not conjecture or opinion
3. YOU are not the story....the story is the story
4. Always get support for your facts (a second source to corroborate)

what ever happened to those basic golden rules?

what we see nowadays is not what i call news....it is more entertainment

and the reporters think they are part of the story
 
Re: Do you think the press is failing to objectively cover the situation in Ferguson,

Love'em or hate'em, I really think that Bill has multiple salient and worthwhile points about all of this.

The Fox News host blasted NBC News in particular because he said it "pays Al Sharpton to deliver garbage." Sharpton has made several appearances in the Missouri city since an unarmed black teenager was fatally shot by a white police officer there on Aug. 9.
"Al Sharpton has the nerve to insult the American police community, men and women risking their lives to protect us," an incensed O'Reilly said. "This charlatan has the gall to do that and NBC News is paying him? My god, why is this acceptable?"
He then went after MSNBC contributor Michelle Bernard for saying there is a "war on black boys."
"The truth is that 91 percent of black homicide victims are killed by other blacks. Ninety-one percent,'" O'Reilly said. "Yet that woman tried to mislead folks by accusing American law enforcement of shooting down young black men in the streets. It's beyond belief."
He also complained again that the public has already judged the case against Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson, who was named as the cop who shot 18-year-old Michael Brown. O'Reilly said those "race hustlers" are pursuing "lynch-mob justice" and offered that Wilson should be put away in jail for life if a jury convicts him of murder.
O'Reilly Cuts Off His Vacation To Rage Against Media Coverage Of Ferguson (VIDEO)


(Hope this video link works)
[video]http://video.foxnews.com/v/embed.js?id=3741094028001&w=466&h=263[/video]
 
Re: Do you think the press is failing to objectively cover the situation in Ferguson,

Your thoughts please.
Yes absolutely, somebody on nbc said that Brown was shot in the back and that was proven false in the autopsy. They jeopardized a case to slander the police. meanwhile the culture whores are going nuts because they want justice. Well shut the **** up and let the justice system work for Christ's sake. Lynch mobs aren't justice. The police officer that shot brown is innocent until PROVEN guilty. Don't these idiots realize it could be their neck in the noose?

I voted yes because you didn't include an option for HELL yes!
 
Re: Do you think the press is failing to objectively cover the situation in Ferguson,

when i was a young man, my first love was journalism

there were certain rules you learned early on....

hell i started learning them as a beat reporter for the high school newspaper

1. you cover the news, you dont "make the news"
2. you reports facts, not conjecture or opinion
3. YOU are not the story....the story is the story
4. Always get support for your facts (a second source to corroborate)

what ever happened to those basic golden rules?

what we see nowadays is not what i call news....it is more entertainment

and the reporters think they are part of the story
Those rules fell out of favor when the pseudoevent became more lucrative.
 
Re: Do you think the press is failing to objectively cover the situation in Ferguson,

Absolutely, I was eating breakfast at a hotel and they had CNN on, just looking at the intro I could tell they were biased as **** towards the protestors.

The police being portrayed as big bad guys with the innocent little protestors huddled around some flowers (and strangely CNN omits the part of the photos with the liquor bottles everywhere and the other photos showing nothing but rioting).

Objective viewing is an alien concept to the press nowadays.
 
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