Fox News "journalist" attacks the Washington Post

[GirlinContempt]

http://timlonghurst.com/Note-Pad/Washington-Posts-editorial-independence-a-scandal-.html

Fox News reporter Steven Milloy has lashed out at the Post for failing to blur the lines between advertising and editorial. He sums up how he thinks news works in this excerpt from a recent story on FoxNews.com:

"Although the Washington Post was happy to take $100,000 or so from to run the ad, the newspaper apparently wasn’t too happy about the message. Several days after the ad ran, the Post published a lengthy story on front-page of its Business section knocking the Center for Consumer Freedom as the tool of the restaurant industry.

...What’s really scandalous, though, is how the Post kept the Center’s money while simultaneously disparaging it."
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http://timlonghurst.com/Note-Pad/Washington-Posts-editorial-independence-a-scandal-.html


Read the fox article
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,155639,00.html

[kaygore]

1. Let them eat their own

And, while we are at it, how do you think Fox explains being merely the propaganda arm of the Bush administration?

[GirlinContempt]

5. It should be

scandal enough that Fox as endorsed a position wherein you don't go against what your advertisers say. People all over should be going... "Huh? You think that pleasing Pepsi is more important that reporting on the truth of the news?" and then shutting off their T.V.'s and adding Foxnews.com to their parental control lists.

[trotsky]

2. "Scandalous"!?!?

No, dear FAUX idiot, what's scandalous is that FAUX and other media outlets are perfectly content to take advertising and other money from various companies, and then BE SILENT about their nefarious activities.

Wait a minute, isn't FAUX supposed to be the one that's "fair and balanced"?!?

[GirlinContempt]

8. Well, they're fair and balanced

to their advertisers and investors. Jeeze man, thats like, .5% of the population, what more do you want?!

Oh for-profit-mongering, you never fail to horrify me.

[prodigal_green]

3. Wow!

So they are admitting that corporations and sponsors influence their "fair and balanced" editorial content?

[GirlinContempt]

16. Well, they're certainly

demanding it of other media outlets :shrug:

[SeveneightyWhoa]

4. What’s really scandalous, though, is how the Post kept the Center’s money

That's "scandalous"?

How so?!

One would think NOT keeping the advertising and news departments separate would be a scandal, not the separation of them.

Is this Fox News clown suggesting that the Post should tailor its news reporting according to who contributes how much in advertising dollars? Wow, and you thought Fox was bad before..

[GirlinContempt]

9. They're openly suggesting that

and NO ONE seems to care.

[mahina]

13. This Just In: "Ignorance and Arrogance Loudly and Publicly Proclaimed!"

"We have not the slightest understanding of basic journalistic ethics", the spokesman said.
"No, I didn't take that class in college. Yes, I am serious. No, there is no distinction between advertising and editorial content in our company."

"What's so damn funny? Why are you all snickering and laughing out loud? Hey come back here with that microphone God Damn it!"

[GirlinContempt]

24. ....

:rofl:

[tsuki]

6. With their ratings falling, I doubt anything they say will be

noted. Here's a toast to that day.

:toast:

[GirlinContempt]

17. Heres hoping

or, if people listen to them, that it's noted as it SHOULD be, with a hearty :wtf:

[spindoctor]

7. Amazing. They actually "think" this way?

Can't bite the hand that feeds you. Not a bad word about your sponsors.

Did John Kerry not run ads on FOX before the elections?

[GirlinContempt]

10. I'm sure Pepsi

did before the O'Reilly Pepsi boycott. It's hypocritical of them to say it, but just wrong that it be an ideal, even one that isn't adhered to, at all.

[kaygore]

11. Good point

I laughed out loud. hahahahahah!

[11 Bravo]

12. I just sent him the following:

Mr. Milloy,
Please confine your verbiage to the realm of pretend science, and leave journalism to those who understand it. The Washington Post did nothing wrong or unethical, your uninformed bleating to the contrary. The Center for Consumer Freedon purchased some ads. Those ads ran in the paper. The CCF did NOT purchase the editorial page. At the Washington Post, unlike at FauxNews or other outlets with which you are likely familiar, editorial opinions aren't for sale.
Sincerely,

[GirlinContempt]

15. v. nice

[JAbuchan08]

18. "Editorial opinions aren't for sale"

that's should be editorial opinions shouldn't be for sale.

[Pithy Cherub]

14. Did he not get the Media Whore Handbook during

New Hire Orientation? Was he absent when the memo on daily whoring rules was distributed? Has he not held his "teammmates" to the same standards to see who can whore the best? WP has game and he doesn't like it...

[GirlinContempt]

22. I'm mailing it out

as we speak. ;)

[im10ashus]

19. This is akin to Paris Hilton attacking Cate Blanchett's acting.

LOL!

[GirlinContempt]

21. lolz

[Stirk]

20. Oh my god. That's just unbelievable.

Talk about a dangerous combination of arrogance and stupidity. Milloy knows that US media is nothing but big money propaganda, and assumes everyone should *support* that.

How very Fox News.

[GirlinContempt]

23. Believe it

I'm sure that mores coming :crazy: :silly: