FOX "news"

**ItsRobsLife** · 28-10-2009, 12:56 AM

NPR along with PBS is owned by the Annenberg Foundation which is run by Leonore Annenberg the widow of the founder Walter Annenberg.

On Wednesday morning, John McCain's campaign released a list of 100 former ambassadors endorsing the GOP presidential nominee.

Second on the list, though her name is misspelled, is Leonore Annenberg, currently the president and chairman of the Annenberg Foundation and widow of ambassador and philanthropist Walter Annenberg. Ms. Annenberg was herself the "chief of protocol" at the State Department under President Reagan.

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Here's a list of Leonore Annenberg's recent political contributions:
ANNENBERG, LEONORE: 5/1/07 $2,300 Specter, Arlen (R)
ANNENBERG, LEONORE: 5/1/07 $2,300 Specter, Arlen (R)
ANNENBERG, LEONORE:10/19/07 $2,300 Dreier, David (R)
ANNENBERG, LEONORE:10/19/07 $2,300 Dreier, David (R)
ANNENBERG, LEONORE:10/18/07 $1,000 Tread... Sandy (R)
ANNENBERG, LEONORE: 5/21/08 $2,300 McCain, John (R)
ANNENBERG, LEONORE: 9/29/08 $2,300 McCain, John (R)

OpenSecrets | Donor Lookup: Find Individual and Soft Money Contributors

**Boon Mee** · 28-10-2009, 01:05 AM

Well, Rob, what you've posted means SFA as that Poll taken had nothing to do with the Annenbergs etc...

**ItsRobsLife** · 28-10-2009, 01:18 AM

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Well, Rob, what you've posted means SFA as that Poll taken had nothing to do with the Annenbergs etc...

Really..?

Even at NPR, the securest bastion of head-up-the-colon elitist liberalism you are likely to find, a free and honest press is winning favor over megalomaniacal authoritarianism. NPR asked its pinky-lifting, latte-sipping readership

The poll is on a NPR website.

NPR has 800+ radio stations nationwide with it's content directed from it's headquarters in Washington.

NPR is owned by the Annenberg Foundation.

Leonore Annenberg, currently the president and chairman of the Annenberg Foundation was herself the "chief of protocol" at the State Department under President Reagan.

Leonore Annenberg is a contributer to Republican party funds.

I've never listened to PNR, but I'd take a fair guess that it leans toward the views of the Republican Party and as such attracts an audience that does too.

I suspect you got linked to this NPR poll from one of your Blogamentalist head up the colon websites, hence the pre-amble.

**Boon Mee** · 28-10-2009, 01:46 AM

Originally Posted by ItsRobsLife

I've never listened to PNR, but I'd take a fair guess that it leans toward the views of the Republican Party and as such attracts an audience that does too.

I suspect you got linked to this NPR poll from one of your Blogamentalist head up the colon websites, hence the pre-amble.

Rob, you're not reading what I'm posting - NPR is a Left-leaning radio organization so the poll is that much more significant - OK?

**ItsRobsLife** · 28-10-2009, 02:05 AM

Boon you may have posted that, but look at some other sources regarding PNR and you'll find that you have been well and truly owned yet again.

Liberal bias?

That NPR harbors a liberal bias is an article of faith among many conservatives. Spanning from the early ’70s, when President Richard Nixon demanded that “all funds for public broadcasting be cut” (9/23/71), through House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s similar threats in the mid-’90s, the notion that NPR leans left still endures.

News of the April launch of Air America , a new liberal talk radio network, revived the old complaint, with several conservative pundits declaring that such a thing already existed. “I have three letters for you, NPR . . . . I mean, there is liberal radio,” remarked conservative pundit Andrew Sullivan on NBC ’s Chris Matthews Show (4/4/04.) A few days earlier (4/1/04), conservative columnist Cal Thomas told Nightline , “The liberals have many outlets,” naming NPR prominently among them.

Nor is this belief confined to the right: CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer (3/31/04) seemed to repeat it as a given while questioning a liberal guest: “What about this notion that the conservatives make a fair point that there already is a liberal radio network out there, namely National Public Radio ?”

Despite the commonness of such claims, little evidence has ever been presented for a left bias at NPR , and FAIR’s latest study gives it no support. Looking at partisan sources—including government officials, party officials, campaign workers and consultants—Republicans outnumbered Democrats by more than 3 to 2 (61 percent to 38 percent). A majority of Republican sources when the GOP controls the White House and Congress may not be surprising, but Republicans held a similar though slightly smaller edge (57 percent to 42 percent) in 1993, when Clinton was president and Democrats controlled both houses of Congress. And a lively race for the Democratic presidential nomination was beginning to heat up at the time of the 2003 study.

Partisans from outside the two major parties were almost nowhere to be seen, with the exception of four Libertarian Party representatives who appeared in a single story (Morning Edition , 6/26/03).

Republicans not only had a substantial partisan edge, individual Republicans were NPR ’s most popular sources overall, taking the top seven spots in frequency of appearance. George Bush led all sources for the month with 36 appearances, followed by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld (8) and Sen. Pat Roberts (6). Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, Secretary of State Colin Powell, White House press secretary Ari Fleischer and Iraq proconsul Paul Bremer all tied with five appearances each.

Senators Edward Kennedy, Jay Rockefeller and Max Baucus were the most frequently heard Democrats, each appearing four times. No nongovernmental source appeared more than three times. With the exception of Secretary of State Powell, all of the top 10 most frequently appearing sources were white male government officials.

How Public Is Public Radio?

**ItsRobsLife** · 28-10-2009, 02:07 AM

Read it and weep, Blogmeister.

**ItsRobsLife** · 28-10-2009, 02:10 AM

Come to the dark side Boon... we've got the truth.
Plus you won't have to get owned all the time.

**Boon Mee** · 28-10-2009, 04:28 AM

I don't think so Rob - this is the truth.. check it out

What do tea parties, Glenn Beck, Fox News, and the US Chamber of Commerce have in common? All are demonized opponents of the Obama administration, and more popular then ever.

“If you strike me down, I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.”

This seems to be the case, not only for Jedi Knights, but also opponents of the Obama administration (or at least those on their enemies list.)

**Jet Gorgon** · 28-10-2009, 04:32 AM

Originally Posted by Humbert

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

CNN Drops to Last Place Among Cable News Networks

Heh...& guess who is #1, eh?

CNN Drops to Last Place Among Cable News Networks - Media Decoder Blog - NYTimes.com

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the american public.

Yep, no wonder they elected Obama.

**chitown** · 28-10-2009, 07:58 AM

Originally Posted by ItsRobsLife

Leonore Annenberg is a contributer to Republican party funds.

Hmmmmmm.

Don't stutter when reading - D,D,D,D,D,D,D,D, Dems....

Seems many journalists are contributors to......yes, that's right!!! The Dems!!!

List of journalists taking sides - Politics- msnbc.com
The list: Journalists who wrote political checks

And their explanations, from ‘Yikes!’ to ‘They’re all in somebody’s pocket’

The following 143 journalists made campaign contributions from 2004 through the first quarter of 2007, according to Federal Election Commission records studied by MSNBC.com.Key:
(D) contributed to Democrats or liberal causes.
(R) to Republicans and conservative causes.
Click on "details" next to each name to see the amounts and what the journalists have to say.
Television:
(D) ABC News, Mary Fulginiti, "Primetime" correspondent. Click for details.
(D) ABC affiliate in Boston, WCVB, Sangita Chandra, producer. Click for details.
(D) ABC affiliate in Wichita, KAKE, Susan Peters, anchor. Click for details.
(D) CBS News, Serena Altschul, correspondent for "CBS Sunday Morning." Click for details.
(D) CBS News, Edward H. Forgotson Jr., producer, "CBS Sunday Morning." Click for details.
(D) CBS affiliate in Boston, WBZ, Liz Walker, newsmagazine host. Click for details.
(D) CBS affiliate in Los Angeles, KCBS, Claudia Bill, news writer. Click for details.
(D) CBS affiliate in Memphis, WREG, Markova Reed, anchors the morning and noon news. Click for details.
(D) CNN, Guy Raz, Jerusalem correspondent, now defense correspondent for National Public Radio. Click for details.
(R) CW affiliate in Chicago, WGN, Jay Congdon, news producer. Click for details.
(R) CW affiliate in Los Angeles, KTLA, Diana Chi, news writer. Click for details.
(R) Fox News Channel, Ann Stewart Banker, producer for Bill O'Reilly's "The O'Reilly Factor." Click for details.
(D) Fox News Channel, Codie Brooks, researcher for Brit Hume's "Special Report." Click for details.
(D) Fox affiliate in Omaha, KPTM, Calvert Collins, reporter. Click for details.
(D) Fox affiliate in Minneapolis, KMSP, Alix Kendall, morning anchor. Click for details.
(D) Fox affiliate in Washington, D.C., WTTG, Laura Evans, anchor. Click for details.
How they got on the list
Donors to federal candidates, PACs and parties
MSNBC.com checked the Federal Election Commission records from January 2004 through the first quarter of 2007 and attempted to contact each journalist. If a person donated during that period, earlier donations are also listed here.
MSNBC.com limited its search to:
— Federal candidates, PACs and parties, not state or local campaigns.
— The period January 2004 through the first quarter of this year.
— Donors in news jobs, not corporate executives or publishers, who are allowed by nearly every news organization to donate.

Not on the list are more than 20 who bought tickets to the "Vote for Change" concerts put on by Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam and others in 2004 to raise money to defeat President Bush. Unless those donors made other contributions, they get the benefit of the doubt that their intention was solely to hear the music. An MSNBC.com producer for TodayShow.com is in that group and in the interest of transparency is included on the list."

(R) MSNBC, Joe Scarborough, host of "Morning Joe" and "Scarborough Country." Click for details.
(D) MTV News, Gideon Yago, "Choose or Lose" presidential correspondent. Click for details.
(D) NBC News, Victoria Corderi, "Dateline" correspondent. Click for details.
(R) PBS affiliate in New York, Thirteen/WNET, Rafael Roman, host, "New York Voices." Click for details.
(D) Independent station KTVK, Phoenix, Steve Bodinet, reporter.Click for details.
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Online:
(D) MSNBC.com, Rachel Schwanewede, senior editor, TodayShow.com. Click for details.
(D) MSNBC.com, Joel Widzer, travel columnist. Click for details.
(D) Salon.com, Gary Kamiya, writer at large and former executive editor. Click for details.
(D) Salon.com, Katharine Mieszkowski, reporter.Click for details.
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Magazines:
(D) The Atlantic Monthly, Martha Spaulding, assistant managing editor. Click for details.
(D) Business Week, Prudence Crowther, chief copy editor. Click for details.
(D) The Economist, Andreas Kluth, technology correspondent. Click for details.
(D) The Economist, Joanne Ramos, financial writer. Click for details.
(R) Forbes, Jean A. Briggs, assistant managing editor. Click for details.
(R) Forbes, Robert Lenzner, national editor. Click for details.
(D) Forbes, Tatiana Serafin, senior reporter. Click for details.
(D) Inc., Jane Berentson, editor. Click for details.
(D) The New Yorker, David Denby, film critic. Click for details.
(D) The New Yorker, Henry Finder, editorial director and books editor. Click for details.
(D) The New Yorker, Tad Friend, Hollywood reporter. Click for details.
(D) The New Yorker, Ann Goldstein, head of copy department. Click for details.
(D) The New Yorker, Hendrik Hertzberg, senior editor. Click for details.
(D) The New Yorker, John Lahr, theater critic. Click for details.
(D) The New Yorker, Janet Malcolm, writer. Click for details.
(D) The New Yorker, George Packer, war correspondent. Click for details.
(D) The New Yorker, Mark Singer, profile writer. Click for details.
(D) The New Yorker, Judith Thurman, writer. Click for details.
(D) Newsweek, Temma Ehrenfeld, associate editor. Click for details.
(D & R) Newsweek, Jane Bryant Quinn, personal finance columnist. Click for details.
(D) Newsweek, Anne Underwood, correspondent on health and medical stories. Click for details.
(D) Rolling Stone, Jason Fine, deputy managing editor.Click for details.
(D) Rolling Stone, David Swanson, assistant editor.Click for details.
(D) Rolling Stone, Jann Wenner, editor and publisher. Click for details.
(D) Time, Jim Frederick, senior editor.Click for details.
(D) U.S. News & World Report, Michael Freeman, researcher. Click for details.
(D) U.S. News & World Report, Amanda Spake, senior writer. Click for details.
(D) Vanity Fair, Elise O'Shaughnessy, contributing editor. Click for details.
(D) Vanity Fair, Michael Shnayerson, contributing editor. Click for details.

**Bexar County Stud** · 28-10-2009, 08:56 AM

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

Really? Linkies? Fox reported on the tea parties, it did not create them.

Fuck you for the red, and right back at ya asshole:

**raycarey** · 28-10-2009, 09:14 AM

rob

all you need to know about the "results" of that online poll....

FREEP this Poll: In White House Vs. Fox News War Of Words, Who Gets Your Vote?

the readers/posters on a blog/website called "free republic" are without a doubt the most delusional of the right wing lunatic fringe. they see it as their mission to skew the results of smaller online polls.

they calling it 'freeping' a poll.....and once they have distorted the results of a poll in a way suits that psychotic agenda, they say, "see, the majority of people think the way i do".

take a look at some of the comments:

That was easy!!!

FReeped it. I enjoy doing anything that might tick NPR off.

Freeped
I can almost hear the wailing and gnashing of teeth over at NPR...tis a sweet, soothing balm to mine ears.

)

Freeped and Fox is way in front but it may need watching.

if it wasn't so pathetic, it would be funny.

and it's just another example of how certain posters on this forum continue to post disingenous information.

**Butterfly** · 28-10-2009, 09:22 AM

Freepers are really the worse of the scums, deserved to be hacked

**Jet Gorgon** · 28-10-2009, 01:15 PM

Originally Posted by Bexar County Stud

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

Really? Linkies? Fox reported on the tea parties, it did not create them.

Fuck you for the red, and right back at ya asshole:

How classy. A thin-skinned little mummy's boy, huh?
Of course you can find tea party events that Fox opinion show hosts supported by speaking at the rallies. Nothing new about stars supporting their causes.

**slackula** · 28-10-2009, 01:31 PM

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

Of course you can find tea party events that Fox opinion show hosts supported by speaking at the rallies. Nothing new about stars supporting their causes.

It is not about show hosts speaking at events, it is about a FOX producer apparently whipping the crowd up for the cameras thereby getting too close to making news rather than just reporting it.

**Jet Gorgon** · 28-10-2009, 01:34 PM

^ I've seen it done at leftie rallies, too. Nothing new. Not as bad as Obama staff handing out white lab coats to "doctors" at the WH so they could get a great photo op. And were they all "doctors"?

**Boon Mee** · 28-10-2009, 01:35 PM

Originally Posted by Butterfly

Freepers are really the worse of the scums, deserved to be hacked

Like Nick Berg?

RA would be all over that!

**Boon Mee** · 28-10-2009, 01:49 PM

**Norton** · 28-10-2009, 02:34 PM

As far as I'm concerned all the US news media outlets suffer from sensationalism sprinkled with way to much op ed crap. Fox and MSNBC being the worst offenders. The only way to avoid the noise is to use non US news sources to get some semblance of unbiased news.

**raycarey** · 28-10-2009, 02:37 PM

Originally Posted by slackula

It is not about show hosts speaking at events, it is about a FOX producer apparently whipping the crowd up for the cameras thereby getting too close to making news rather than just reporting it.

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

I've seen it done at leftie rallies, too.

bullshit.

**raycarey** · 28-10-2009, 02:41 PM

Originally Posted by Norton

The only way to avoid the noise is to use non US news sources to get some semblance of unbiased news.

have you watched news hour with jim lehrer on PBS?

you can download free on the PBS website or via itunes.

**Jet Gorgon** · 28-10-2009, 05:06 PM

Originally Posted by Norton

The only way to avoid the noise is to use non US news sources to get some semblance of unbiased news.

555555 What, the BBC? Al Jazeera, maybe.

**slackula** · 28-10-2009, 06:51 PM

^ Jet, do you seriously think that the BBC exhibits more bias in reporting than FOX?

**raycarey** · 28-10-2009, 06:54 PM

Originally Posted by slackula

Jet, do you seriously think

stop right there and ask yourself whether or not that which follows (or whatever may follow) is a fair question.

**Boon Mee** · 29-10-2009, 12:25 AM

OH THAT WASCALLY WABBIT FOX !

Be vewy vewy quiet...Obama is hunting wascally wiseguys at Fox...and, it is turning out pretty much like all the previous encounters between Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny

Stolen from here

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