Fox News, of which WCBM-Baltimore (where I am a talk-show host) is a proud affiliate, was in the headlines of the Washington Post as follows:
“Fox News: Unfair, unbalanced, unchecked”
Under this defamatory headline was the following lead, all in large type:
“One question has tugged at my professional conscience throughout the year-long congressional debate over health-care reform, and it has nothing to do with the public option, portability or malpractice. It is this: Why haven’t America’s old-school news organizations blown the whistle on Roger Ailes, chief of Fox News, for using the network to conduct a propaganda campaign against the Obama administration – a campaign without precedent in modern political history?
“Through the clever use of the Fox News Channel and its cadre of raucous commentators, Ailes has overturned standards of fairness and objectivity that have guided American print and broadcast journalists since World War II. Yet, many members of my profession seem to stand by in silence as Ailes tears up the rule book that served this country well as we covered the major stories of the past three generations, from the civil-rights revolution to Watergate to the Wall Street scandals. This is not a liberal-versus-conservative issue. It is a matter of Fox turning reality on its head with, among other tactics, its endless repetition of its uber-lie: ‘The American people do not want health-care reform.’”
And, ladies and gentleman, who is the author of this incredible attack on Fox News?
The Washington Post identifies him only as follows:
“Howell Raines is a former executive editor of the New York Times and the author of ‘The One That Got Away: A Memoir.’”
Nearly seven years ago, the New York Times reported on June 5, 2003:
“Howell Raines and Gerald M. Boyd, the top-ranking editors of the New York Times, resigned yesterday morning, five weeks after the resignation of a reporter set off a chain of events that exposed fissures in the management and morale of the newsroom.
Read More: By Les Kinsolving, WorldNetDaily
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This is why the Washington Post is going out of business !!
I am surprised that Ruppert Murdoch hasn't had a few words with the editorial staff at the Washington Compost. He is losing money with that enterprise and the reason is obvious. If the newspapers wanted to become profitable they should follow the Fox News Channel model, objectivity in news and keeping the opinions clearly stated. Unfortunately, ever since Woodward and Bernstein brought the Nixon administration down, it seems that the mainstream media thinks that they should make and break presidents and national policy. If the media, printed and electronic would work objectively, who, where, what, when and how, and keep their opinions on the editorial page, they might increase circulation. If they want to continue to be best used for house breaking a new puppy, they will continue in their present vein.
The COMMIES are coming out loud and strong in the PRAVDA media of obamanation.
Bravo Les Kinsolving for exposing Howell Raines as a hypocrite. The American press is the mouth of the extreme left. The press of the past is gone and the current press is on the way out because of its bias. People want the truth, not bias.
GET RID OF HOWELL RAINES. HE IS AS RADICAL AS OBAMMIE AND ALL HIS COMMUNIST CHARACTERS . I GUESS HE COULDN'T DO ANYTHING BUT CORRUPTION AND IS LIKE OBAMMIE-BLAME SOME ONE ELSE. YOUR ACTIONS WILL NOT CHANGE MY VIEW ON FOX NEWS-THE ONLY STATION I WATCH AND WILL WATCH NO MATTER HOW ROTTEN YOU ALL PAINT THEM. THIS JUST SHOWS WHY YOU DON'T HAVE A JOB AND WHY THE RATINGS ARE DOWN ON ALL OTHER STATIONS.
"GO FOX" KEEP UP YOUR GOOD WORK AND IGNORE THESE COMMUNIST AND THEIR SNAKE TONGUES!!!!!!!
Well the true colors are bleeding through. The liberal rags and liberal bought reporters are going to be at it hard and heavy since they know they will be going down with the corrupt politicians they glorified. They think to change truths with thier usual brand of lies and deceptions. I don't think it will work. The Dems will be going down at election time!
Marxists and fellow travelers always attack the truth. They cannot stand the truth.
Kinsolving just has to be living on Jupiter or he is deaf and blind.
"Unfair, unbalanced, unchecked"???
Yo, dude, have you ever, ever heard NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, and tons of other "news agencies"?
And as for your "professional conscience", you just made up another classic oxymoron.
"Many members of my profession seem to stand by in silence…"?????
Geez, this deranged individual need to come out of his hole and listen rather than regurgitating what he tiny brain tells him what might be going on?
I am proud to admit that from awakening in the morning, until I force myself to turn off the set after Greta, all sets in my house…we have 3 sets, are tuned to FOX news. At least they present both sides of a story. Glenn Beck gives us the history that is often not taught these days. He shows us how the Lefties are leading us down the primrose path, and we are really heading for a serious fall losing our rights and freedoms. Bill O'Reilly is a bit more cautious,weighing his words before launching an attack that could lead to deception. But when someone commits a violation against the Constitution, he's ready to blast him or her.He has often noted that he is not a Rep. or Dem, he is an Independent. Greta does a great job asking questions that the MSM wouldn't dare. And she doesn't give up until she gets an answer, or the person admits that he will not answer.
First, I am a journalism grad though don't currently work in the field. Who would have guessed these kinds of lies would ever make it to the pages of a "major" newspaper, say 38 years ago; the same paper that brought Nixon down?
The Los Angeles Times is at least as bad. The only way I could "fight back" was cancel my subscription, and I did two days ago.
One has to have faith that the truth will triumph. Another way of saying this is that the marketplace–both economic and of ideas will be the ultimate arbiter.
WE must STOP all of these people that say false things because some people, who are working and don't have a chance to watch Fox, still get their news from all of the other media. We have just been given a plate full of crap with the Health Care Bill and THEY WILL NOW GO AFTER FOX, INTERNET AND TEA PARTY PEOPLE… IT IS THE CHICAGO WAY AND SORSENS WAY… WE HAVE A PUPPET FOR PRESIDENT AND ARE NOW BEING RUN BY THE MUSLIMS AND COMMUNIST…GOD HELP US ASAP
Howell Raines cant stand the truth. He ;looks at the world and politics as something that only people of his high moral standind can judge and report on. FOX NEWS more accurately presents the news than any newspaper connected to the misinformation of the NEW YORK TIMES and the Washingto Stump!
[[[ Why haven’t America’s old-school news organizations blown the whistle on Roger Ailes, chief of Fox News, for using the network to conduct a propaganda campaign against the Obama administration ]]]
You might know something of this nature would be printed… but those other news people… CNN, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, ABC… Huff Post.. et al… need to REPORT things when they are BAD about obama instead of ignoring it. Who are they to talk…?