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AX10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 08:07 PM
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What we have on TV right now are three cable "news" channels bashing...
Clinton and the Democratic party. It's sickening! Where the HELL are the wealthy liberals to build our echo chamber? :wtf:?
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NRaleighLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 08:09 PM
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1. Who is this scum on Scarborough? Going to vomit on my computer....
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Webster Green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 08:11 PM
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4. No shit!.....what a lying little dickhead!....(n/t)
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OwnedByFerrets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 08:10 PM
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2. Only ONE voice on tv and thats KO.
Its very sad but at least KO is the match of all the rest put together.
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driver8 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 08:10 PM
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3. Where is their fucking self respect???
My God...it is obvious that shrubby and company are complete idiots and yet the media continues to kiss their asses.

How in the hell do they sleep at night? How can they call themselves journalists?

Sickening...
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 09:25 PM
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9. A journalist once explained that expecting news channels to be in the
news business was like expecting candy stores to be in the nutrition business.

The purpose of a TV channel is to make money by selling advertising to sponsors. The sponsors want to see which demographic the channel/program pulls in. That is ALL they care about.

That's why Fox has run the Simpson's for years and did run Michael Moore's program at one time.

Occasionally a top brass type will pull a program he considers ideologically offensive (recent examples: Phil Donohue off MSNBC, Jim Hightower off ABC radio; older example: the Lou Grant series in the 1970s, the Smothers Brothers in the 1960s), but by and large, the truth or quality of their programming is the last thing on a broadcasting executive's mind, such as it is.
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IndianaGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 08:11 PM
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5. They are afraid!
The truth is that Bush was asleep at the wheel for 8 months, worrying more about going to war in Iraq than he was about the threat from OBL.
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 08:11 PM
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6. Not everyone is bashing on Scarborough. O'Donnell and Sklar
are defending him. That r/w mouthpiece is just that; Bob Kohn, wrote "Journalistic Fraud". Actually, never heard of him!
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madfloridian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 08:26 PM
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7. They have been doing that to Democrats for years.
Or have you forgotten 03 and 04? They were the worst of times...they humiliated our Democrats on air worse than ever in this country.

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Eric J in MN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 08:32 PM
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8. Since no billionaires have yet given us our...
Edited on Mon Sep-25-06 08:32 PM by Eric J in MN
...own cable news network, an attempt is being made with donations from ordinary people and foundations to launch a news network from progressives in September 2007.

The network would be called "Independent World Television" and the main show would be called "The Real News."


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