Is it unprecedented for a cable news channel to sponsor a political rally?

[KurtNYC]

Beck is a FNC employee. They are partners in his career and he fits into their political agenda (obviously). They are using him much more dynamically than NBC uses Pat Buchanon (who hopelessly runs for President every 4 years). Buchanon is a foil that is used to make the right of center pundits seem further to the left since Buchanon is an extremist.

I can't think of another entity which claims to be journalistic sponsoring a political rally. AP, CNN, Knight Ridder, etc. Even after 9/11 I dont think that MSM news entities actually sponsored rallies. This really should open the closet on Murdoch and the Saudis once and for all.

Also, if some of the people at this rally deface or destroy the Lincoln Memorial, stab cab drivers or pee on the nearest Mosque, is FNC/Beck liable?

[KharmaTrain]

1. It's A Corporation...First And Foremost...

Faux owns a bunch of channels that, along with other Newscorp holdings have made Murdoch and his Saudi backers very wealthy and allows him to subsidize his noise channel...just a division of a large media conglomerate. For all these cable networks, it's a business venture...either to push a political agenda (in faux's case) as well as generating ratings that lead to making money. If Murdoch knew that non-stop nose blowing would make money, he'd have a channel showing it. It's all about bucks and influence. The same applies to MSNBC...and its parents General Electric and Universal...whose news dpeartment also serves as a conduit to the legislative. The late Timmeh was notorious for boasting he was a company man first and foremost and when GE was making billions on defense contracts thanks to the GOOP, they got kid glove treatment (especially under Jack Welch). It's all about the bottom line...these are large corporations who want to make as much money as they can and pay as little in taxes and benefits and it reflects in their "news".

Advocacy in broadcasting isn't new...just turn on your religious radio and teevee stations...they've been doing it for decades. In many ways, it's a secret network where some of the worse smears and lies about this administration are spread that then are picked up on hate radio and onto the corporate media.

Our corporate media has no allegiance to anyone but itself...and if that means furthering a political agenda, so be it. Don't like it? Watch DVDs.

[RKP5637]

3. Exactly! It's about nothing but P&L and how to increase profits. Beck has

tapped the ignorance factor of this country as an actor, and Fox is gathering up all the cash they can. And the mindless will flock to see Beck, somehow thinking he is some type of saint, their best friend, their redeemer. ...i say as an actor, but I also think Beck has a few misfiring cylinders in his head.

[Hubert Flottz]

2. No, they did it in Nazi Germany years ago!

It worked for Adolf!

[RKP5637]

4. Frankly, this is all starting to remind me of the Hitler speeches I saw as a kid. n/t

[Bitwit1234]

5. Do you think Roger Ailes is trying to set himself up as a dictator

and is pushing and allowing stuff like this on Fox. It seems to me that if he wasn't' trying to over take something he wouldn't promote this 24/7 infomercial of republican hate and violence. And the urging by the commentators to take out the Democrats and the President of this country. It is a shame that someone with money doesn't have the guts to get all the things that they have done preaching violence and promoting slander and sue them. Then they could take over Fox and go after Murdoch. If the US and the UK people got together I am sure they could smash Murdoch and Ailes like the worms they are.

[HopeHoops]

6. It still is. FOX isn't a "NEWS" channel.