Without explanation, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp that it is planning to :
The stations are generally in the smallest markets among News Corp.'s35-station television group, including stations in Greensboro, N.C.,Memphis, and Birmingham, Ala.
The nine stations are WJW in Cleveland, OH; KDVR in Denver, CO; KTVI inSt. Louis, MO; WDAF in Kansas City, KS; WITI in Milwaukee, WI; KSTU inSalt Lake City, UT; WBRC in Birmingham, AL; WHBQ in Memphis, TN; andWGHP in Greensboro, NC.
News Corp, which has $7.3 billion in , might be cutting costs in order to secure its . This is a very big story because Dow Jones owns the Wall Street Journal. Many worry that Murdoch's reputation at FOX could damage the credibility of the Wall Street Journal -- making it more into a tabloid magazine like the , which Murdoch also owns.
So at the moment, the Bancroft family, which owns Dow Jones, wants to install that would protect the journalistic independence of the Wall Street Journal:
The Bancrofts have said they will continue talks with Rupert Murdoch'smedia giant only if an agreement is reached first on formal safeguardsfor the Journal, Dow Jones's flagship newspaper.
Whether you like the Wall Street Journal or not, most serious news readers agree that it is miles ahead of the New York Post in terms of its objectivity. If Murdoch owns both newspapers, it will be a sad day for the newspaper industry.
House Judiciary Committee Chariman John Conyers is absolutely livid about yesterday's mishap on Fox News. On Monday afternoon, Fox News about William Jefferson, who was recently indicted on corruption charges. But instead of using the name 'William Jefferson', they put in 'John Conyers'.
Conyers, who Fox News has always as far-left, is that he was put in the same boat as Jefferson:
"Fox News has a history of inappropriate on-air mistakes that areneither fair, nor balanced. This type of disrespect for people of colorshould no longer be tolerated. I am personally offended by thenetwork's complete disregard for accuracy in reporting and lacklusteron-air apology," said Rep. Conyers in a statement sent to RAW STORY.
Fox News issued a about the video mishap, but did not mention Conyers in the apology, nor did they explain why the false video made it on the air.
When does it stop? When do people start being honest and stop protecting Bushand making crap up as they go? In the last few days there have been TONS ofDemocrat bashing by us libs because they . But what about when and is blatantly full of crap? FOX to the rescue, and Brit Hume gave us an outstanding displayon Fox News Sunday. Bush is now OK with the , and when Juan Williams calls it like it is "historicalrevisionism", Hume wanted to know "who opposed it"...watchthe video then I'll tell you WHO opposed it.
I guess you want to know who opposed it? Bush did...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 — on Thursday to distance himself from the centralrecommendations of the bipartisan Study Group: pulling back all combat brigades over the next 15 months and directtalks with Iran and Syria.
His administration did...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 — their preliminary review of the bipartisan Study Group’s recommendations has concluded that many of its key proposals areimpractical or unrealistic, and a small group inside the is now racing to come up with alternatives to the panel’sideas.
as did the Conservative media tools!...
Summary:, including Bill Kristol, Rush Limbaugh, and GlennBeck, have attacked both the members of the Iraq Study Group and its report:Kristol has called the report "an evasion" and "not a seriousdocument"; Limbaugh asserted that ISG members are "doing everythingthey can to unite the American people" in "defeat" and"surrender"; while Beck has called the ISG report "OperationWhite Flag."
Bumper Sticker campaign: 'Brit is Fullof Sh*t' or 'Humes is Full of Fumes'.
Even though I believe thatWallace has become a "little" more fair lately (maybe schooled him), Hume and Kristol against Williams isn't even a good start to fairand balanced.
Last night on Hannity & Colmes, Sean Hannity, Newt Gingrich and Oliver North spent three minutes bashing Clinton and Obama for voting against the war funding bill, while giving less than one minute to Alan Colmes in the Fox studio.
As I was looking through the blogs to see what was out there to add in a 'BlueBlogs' post (what other blogs are posting), I came across 'Whatthe war is doing to our soldiers' at . The story is from Captain Jeff Leonard's , titled 'Just staring at the wall really'.Capt. Leorand is an Army counselor in Iraq, and with a team of 6 they "helpsoldiers deal with the trauma of combat."
Maj. Johns and I had been at the patrol base to the west for several days. Wetook up residence on two adjacent cots in the far corner of a plywood structurewhich, by size comparisons, was much like the other Army tents it was builtamong. There were no walls to divide the space within the structure. Cots linedthe long side walls with space for a walkway in the middle. There were about 20cots in all and transient soldiers came and went, mostly as they left for, orreturned from, their leaves home. During the daytime, the structure would shakeand breathe in the hot winds and the thin lines of light where plywood panelsmet on the walls, and at the meeting of the walls and the ceiling, would swelland widen broadening bright luminous fissures in the dark space. Small graylizards would crawl though these cracks and take refuge from the heat on theplywood ceiling between the beams.
Soldiers getting ready to go on leave would talk about things they planned todo at home with tones of relief and elation. Soldiers returning to their unitswould move about anxiously and hope for delays in their returns back to theline. When details of their returns were received, and when all hope of delayhad been exhausted, their muscles visibly tightened and their movements becamejolted, almost angry, and they began to speak of their hopelessness, the friendsthey had seen killed. They began to question and criticize the war, late intothe night on their cots in the darkness. In the morning, they would be gone,their empty cots a reminder of them, and of where they would be by now. Oftenwhen we spoke to them, we wondered secretly if they would become one more ofthose we had talked with who might later appear on a memorial flier before us,an inverted rifle and bayonet, a Kevlar, a pair of boots, and dog tags, a typedmessage naming who they left behind back home.
The major and I took up shop in a metal storage trailer during the daytime.It had no windows but had been fitted with lights and an air conditioner.Command, knowing he and I were coming, had detained or sent in several soldiersthey wanted us to see. The recent decision to extend all of the soldiers hadmade our job harder and those who lived day to day had begun to digest andabsorb the mental impact of 90 more days they would need to survive.
"No, sir, I don't really sleep. Well, maybe an hour or two, then I getup. I don't want to dream," the soldier said to us. His name was Staff Sgt.Johnson. He was a good soldier, and you could tell when you spoke to him. He wasa man of honor. He was ashamed to be speaking with us, but his leaders hadinsisted. He had served three combat tours as a squad leader in a line unit. Hisbody and his hands shook during pauses in his speaking and he stared at us, andsometimes past us, with a wide-eyed look of hyper alertness. He had justreturned from leave and two guys in his squad were killed days before hisreturn. ...
It's a quick read so hurry back then continue on...I'llwait....
Will Staff Sgt. Johnson be considered an "anti-war lefty thatsympathizes with al-Qaeda" by the conservative war mongers if he can't ordoesn't want to go back after three tours in Iraq? Melanie Morgan's display ofthis behavior was disgusting enough to get her banned from 'TheNews Hour with Jim Lehrer' (with video). Sean Hannity had the balls also with video.
Melanie Morgan was referring to , which is jammed packed with war vets and heroes. Hannity andMorgan are part of that group where if you don't support the war, you are somesort of "terrorist sympathizer" (or close to it). I'd love to see themtossed into one of these infantry squads and see how long it takes before adiaper change is necessary. Fuc* Hannity and Morgan, and anyone that thinksspeaking out against "A" war is anti patriotic.
Usually Fox News does a more thorough job of screening their guests sothe conservatives always wins the argument. But today on Your Worldwith Neil Cavuto, Fox conservative guest Leslee Unruh tried to pin MaryAlice of NARAL into a corner about a new form of contraception the that allows a female to stop her menstrual cycle in order to prevent unwanted pregnancies.
By the end of the debate, it was clear who had the upper hand. Frustrated, Unruh constantly interrupted by muttering phrases like"lies, lies, lies, lies"; and "I want more babies, more baby, we lovebabies."
UNRUH: Big pharma, here we go again. Attack on children, on families and women.
ALICE: What we're saying is let's reduce unintended pregnancy, let'sreduce teen pregnancy, let's reduce the abortion rate in this country.
CAVUTO: Okay.
UNRUH: I want more babies, more baby, we love babies.
This was definitely the most amusing debate ontelevision all week:
I thought about adding this to our newly added daily post 'WorthyMentions from the Liberal Blogosphere', (the name can possibly change in thefuture, and if there are any suggestions for a new title, please feel free tosend them in to The Blue State). Idecided it was worthy of a post of its own.
On Friday's ' The O'Reilly Factor' (5/11/07), Bill was fed up and said"?" As Iwatched this, I knew the would be all over it, so I waited for their post.
Bill O'Reilly was on a tear on the Factor last night 5/11/07 because an8-page article by retired General McCaffrey that says there are some positivesigns in Iraq is not on the front page of the New York Times or the BostonGlobe. I don't know how to break it to him, but it's not on either. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the article is over sixweeks old, and in that time have lost their lives in Iraq.
First O'Reilly summarized the eight pages for us, and it was strikingly likeall the talking points we hear on FOX on a daily basis: our cause is just; theconsequence of failure will be severe; we now need a last powerful effort toprovide the politcal support, economic resources, and military strength it needsto succeed. In faint yellow-on-pink print in the graphic you can make out thedate: March 26th, 2007.
O'Reilly never sided with McCaffrey whenhe was critical of the war, but now is in love with him and his '8 pages'. Billalso says "if things are getting better, don't derail the train"...whydidn't we hear him say the opposite while the war was not getting better? (whichwas the entire time)
Retired Col. David Hunt was their to support O'reilly'srant, however Hunt doesn't give Bill everything he wanted to hear. When O'Reillydiscusses the war with retired Generals and Colonels or other experts, he will go at them if theydo not agree with him, however he always agrees with his "Body Language Expert". When a guest does agree with him, he'll cut them off and move on to another issue or statement to gain as many agreements he can secure for future "back up".
Bill O'Reilly has gotto be one of, if not news show hosts there ever was. Read therest of The News Hounds Post ...
(a rare pasttime over there) that several parents are pushing for the President of Virginia Tech to be fired due to the negligence and poor handling of the tragedy yesterday.
“My God, if someone shoots somebody there shouldbe an immediate lockdown of the campus,†said John Shourds. “Theytotally blew it. The president blew it, campus police blew it.â€
I can't say I disagree. The warning disseminated to students was a , more than two hours after the first incident and ten minutes after the second had already started. My sends me about 80 junk mails a day (most universities sell their student email lists to advertisers), so many student don't even check their student accounts. Those who do have to fish through scams and spams; once they actually find the email, are we to expect them to react quickly when the email is squished between Lunch Specials and Student Club sign-ups?
. Not sure if there were , and if there were, they aren't pursuing anyone for the first shooting. Tons of speculation in the press conference.
I know this kind of thing isn't supposed to happen, but parents should hold the university accountable for parts of the disaster that could have been minimized or avoided altogether.
FOX really has no shame, (which isn't a secret), and they certainly aren'tFair & Balanced. during the week of 4/2-4/6 Hannity & Colmes spoke aboutthe Democrat's controversies, but as usual ignored the ones about theRepublicans, and THERE were Plenty of them.
With all the recent Bill O'Reilly videos showing how nuttier he is becomingmaking their rounds, I thought I would post this classic from and . You can see in the video how unsure he is about what he is saying, which is indicative of lying.
There are so many sites and videos that show and prove that O'Reilly makesthings up as he goes, then naturally he denies them. One of the better antiO'Reilly sites is ,and if you were to type into the address bar "",that would take you TO O'Reilly's page. Now there's a guy with foresight.....heknows people think he sucks. If you want to get involved in any discussion onBill's page (or do just about anything), you can, but you must first fork oversome $money and become a "Premium member"
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