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  • In the great 1974 film Godfather II.

  • There’s a scene about halfway through where Hyman Roth and

  • Michael Corleone and all the American gangsters are

  • gathered in a patio in Havana and it’s Hyman Roth’s 67th birthday,

  • and he’s giving a slice of cake to each gangster got -

  • Louis from Chicago you run the Copacabana, Frankie you get

  • the prostitutes, he’s dividing up the island among all the

  • American gangsters and appropriately enough the birthday cake has an outline

  • of Cuba on it, he’s giving them a slice of Cuba. And while

  • Hyman Roth is doing this he says: “Isn’t it great to be in

  • a country with a government that respects private

  • enterprise?” And that’s how media policies have been done

  • in the United States for the past 50 years and it’s

  • increasing in the last 20 years. Extraordinarily powerful

  • lobbyists duke it out behind closed doors for the biggest

  • slice of the cake. The public knows nothing about it, it

  • doesn’t participate.

  • And that’s the problem we face.

  • Media is the nervous system of a democracy. If it’s not

  • functioning well, the democracy can’t functioning. Were

  • heading towards an election where most people are never

  • going to be in a room with Kerry or Bush. What they learn

  • about the candidates is what the media shows them or tells

  • them. Decides not to show, not to tell.

  • People are faced with critical choices about the future of

  • the country when they go into the voting booth.

  • And I go in. And I have been, through the course of a

  • campaign cycle subject to false, distorted, caricaturing,

  • And I may not even know where it’s coming from because

  • often there’s an echo effect off places like cable and like

  • radio and those wrong pieces of information are repeated and

  • repeated, by the time it reaches me, I don’t even know what

  • the source was.

  • This is the environment were living in and it’s really,

  • it’s fundamentally undermining democracy which is based on

  • knowing some good and solid information so I can make an

  • informed choice.

  • When you see the properties Rupert Murdoch owns around the

  • world, the strong, conservative point-of-view that those

  • properties often reflect, it’s different than ABC or CBS or NBC. Sure, they reflect

  • a point-of-view but not nearly as strong or consistently

  • strong from one ideological perspective.

  • Murdoch actually bought the station in 1985.

  • And actually left us alone for at least the first three

  • years of his ownership, partly because we were so successful and prosperous that there

  • was no reason to monkey with us.

  • At WTTG our success insulated us to a certain degree.

  • And it was kind of like being in an office and seeing

  • people come down with the flu around you. We knew the flu

  • eventually might reach us, but we were hoping if we took

  • enough vitamins that we’d never catch the flu.

  • It was clear during those years that Murdoch, who had

  • absolutely adored Ronald Reagan, adored him, had a lot of admiration

  • for the group of Republicans that controlled Congress

  • and certainly on Capitol Hill.

  • We received an order from one of Murdoch’s apparatchiks, if

  • you will, that we should cut away from our newscast

  • and start carrying a fawning tribute to Ronald Reagan that was airing at the Republican

  • Convention. We were stunned because up until that point

  • we were allowed to do legitimate news. And suddenly

  • we were ordered, from the top, to carry propaganda; carry

  • Republican right-wing propaganda.

  • There was a cultural underpinning to what Murdoch wanted.

  • Race issues, AIDS. I constantly remember complaints that

  • there was too much being done on AIDS. He also couldn’t stand the Kennedy’s.

  • Ted Kennedy, who was a long-time opponent of Rupert

  • Murdoch, and, and one celebrated occasion, we were ordered

  • to run a long uncut piece from A Current Affair that was rehashing

  • the whole matter of Chappaquiddick.

  • It had zero news value. We were told, ‘you had to run this

  • thing uncut’. You could not even edit it down and just run

  • a snippet of it. I think they evolved in later years and especially

  • after Roger Ailes took over and, and really got

  • the Fox News Channel up and running into a far more sophisticated

  • kind of operation. What we saw, in my era, was,

  • was really the, the birth of this sort of thing and the roots

  • of what came later.

  • I’d just like to say how delighted I am that weve now

  • reached this moment, when we can firmly announce the

  • starting of a Fox News Channel and a much greater effort on

  • a build up of Fox News in every area.

  • We’d like to be premier journalists. We’d like to restore

  • objectivity where we find it lacking and ah, certainly there could be that interpretation

  • because of my background but I left politics a number of

  • years ago and have running this organization for the last

  • two years. So we just expect to do fine, balanced journalism.

  • I was a Fox employee for 3 years. I worked in the News.

  • On air or behind the camera?

  • I’d rather not answer that. I think I’d rather keep

  • myself anonymous. Youll disguise my voice right?

  • Larry Johnson Former Fox News Contributor I’ve heard directly from folks, both as

  • correspondents and as bookers, who have expressed very grave

  • reservations, almost as if theyre being monitored by

  • a Stalinist system, afraid to be seen talking to the wrong person

  • or having the wrong kind of email exchange.

  • Youre either one of us or one of them, and in leaving Fox

  • News, for example, there were a number of people at the

  • organization, at the head of the organization, tried to

  • ruin my career simply because I was leaving, because I

  • didn’t leave on their terms, because I refused to sign a

  • confidentiality agreement, that was another reason for them

  • Americans Trust only One. The Only Place. American’s Newsroom. Fox

  • News.”

  • It’s very much a, an environment of fear.

  • It was made very clear to us that our activities were being

  • monitored and if someone wasn’t watching it live they were

  • at least recording it and they would review it after the

  • fact to see what we did.

  • We weren't necessarily, as it was told to us, a news

  • gathering organization so much as we were a proponent of a

  • point-of-view.

  • Anonymous 2 Former Fox News Reporter Fox has already been successful in sort of

  • branding me as somebody who can't be trusted. And as a result,

  • I'm already sort of on thin ice regarding my current

  • employer.

  • I’d been warned by people. There were a number of people

  • who pulled me inside and said, “Look, you know, I don’t

  • know, I mean, I know that you want to work and I know that

  • you need a job, but you might want to think twice about

  • taking this job because, really, it is a very conservative

  • news network.”

  • Now that I’ve learned comedy writing at the Fox News

  • Channel I guess I should be doing stand up in the clubs.’

  • I think that if you don’t go along with the mindset of the

  • hierarchy in New York, if you challenge them on their

  • attitudes about things, youre history.

  • I suspect your research has discovered, the memoranda that

  • were written by John Moody and by Roger in terms of setting the tone for

  • the day. The message of the day is a very political device.

  • Date: 5/9/2003 From: Moody Let spend a good deal of time on the battle

  • over judicial nominations, which the President will address

  • this morning. Nominees who both sides admit are qualified

  • are being held up because of their POSSIBLE, not demonstrated

  • views on one issueabortion. This should be a trademark

  • issue for FNC today and in days to come.

  • There was nothing covert about the way the managing editors

  • in New York or Washington operated. They made it perfectly

  • clear what they expected from us.

  • The so-called 9/11 commission has already been meeting.

  • In fact, this is its eighth session. The fact that former Clinton and both former and current

  • Bush administration officials are testifying gives

  • it a certain tension, but this is not, “what did he know

  • and when did he know itstuff. Don’t turn this into Watergate.

  • Every morning there was a detailed list of subjects to talk

  • about and not talk about.

  • Kerry’s speech on the economy at Georgetown is likely to

  • move onto the topic of Iraq. We should take the beginning

  • of Kerry’s speech, see if it contains new information (aside from a promise to create

  • 10 million jobs)and see if other news at that time is

  • more compelling. It is not required to take it start to finish.

  • They were just actually issuing edicts to the reporters to

  • control what they could say and how they could say it.

  • Let’s refer to the US marines we see in the foreground as

  • sharpshootersno snipers, which carries a negative

  • connotation.

  • When Headquarters sent the memo every morning and said, “we

  • want to touch on the following issues, we want to cover the

  • following stories, we want to do them in this particular

  • way”, our job and our objective then was to execute the

  • plan.

  • The pictures from Abu Graib prison are disturbing. Today

  • we have a pictureaired on Al Arabiynof an American

  • hostage being held with a scarf over his eyes, clearly

  • against his will. Who’s outraged on his behalf?

  • The real revolutionary breakthrough of Fox has been its

  • eliminative journalism. That’s the thing to understand.

  • What Fox News Channel has done is it’s stripped out any

  • notion of journalism as weve traditionally understood it

  • from its product. There is no journalism at the Fox News

  • Channel.

  • O’REILLY: Quiet!

  • Cut his mic.

  • Chad, stop, stop, stop, stop. Let me finish. Let me finish.

  • Chad.

  • I want to test if youre an honest individual.

  • I’m sorry cut you off I know were in some

  • controversial stuff here but my religion didn’t teach me

  • that. But thank you very much for being here. It’s not fair. I know it’s a right-wing

  • network and you don’t want to hear this stuff.

  • It’s not about the kids, it’s about you Jamie.

  • I’m doing, I’m doing

  • Thank you Jamie. Thank you. Good night. Thank you Jamie. Good night.

  • Don’t take your cheap little pathetic shot. I am

  • telling you that that’s what it is. Youre taking cheap little

  • pathetic shots. I’m trying to tell you what the truth is.

  • I’m just giving you his record. No youre misrepresenting his record.

  • I’m telling the truth, Sir. That’s the truth

  • about his record. I understand what your position is but it’s

  • not correct. It’s probably why youre on

  • satellite radio? I’d like to hear one single,

  • one singleBecause you can’t get on regular radio.

  • Bill, if you are so concerned about public figures being bad role models for children

  • please stop rudely interrupting your guest and telling

  • them to shut up!

  • Well theshut upline has happened only once in six years, Miss Evans

  • I think that asking a student to stay in the closet in order to go to school

  • I’m asking you to shut up about sex

  • Shut up. Shut up. Father killed at WTC. Jeremy M Glick

  • You want to know what I was doing. Please don’t

  • tell me to shut up. As respect. As respect

  • Why did you have to tell them you were an atheist if you didn’t have any trouble reading,

  • why didn’t you just shut up?

  • What Jimmy Carter should do it privately give Mr. Bush his opinion and shut up publicly.

  • That would be best for the country.

  • And it is our duty as loyal Americans to shut up

  • once the fighting begins.

  • Once the war against Saddam begins we expect every American to support our military and

  • if they can’t do thatto shut up.

  • All he’s got in 6 and a half years, is that I

  • misspoke, that I labeled a Poke Award a Peabody. He writes

  • it in his book, tries to make me out to be a

  • Hey shut up. You had your thirty five minutes. Shut up.

  • Jeff Cohen, Former MSNBC/Fox News Contributor The techniques of odd, odd polling and odd

  • graphics of democrats and weird banners in the lower third

  • of your screen, these are all pretty sophisticated techniques

  • and they work

  • in collaboration

  • with the most genius

  • marketing slogan in history

  • which is fair and balanced.

  • So if youre the graphics department and you can put up a

  • liberal flip flopper as the chyron, hey that’s great, because

  • the next time the graphics department has a discussion with

  • management, management say yeah you guys have been doing a

  • great job.

  • Graphics are always moving in the background. Theyve sort of pioneered the

  • use of the American flag as an icon of your news broadcast.

  • Anonymous 2 Former Fox News Reporter So there’s a lot of stuff that people come

  • up with on their own, which in other news organizations you

  • would never think of coming up with some of the stuff, much less even

  • putting it on the air.

  • But at Fox News theyre sort of a, that youre rewarded for

  • pushing the envelope.

  • The problem comes if you try to push the envelope or, God

  • forbid, should put in some sort of similar sort of style or

  • approach to Republican, then you get yourself in trouble.

  • Probably 1999 I created the Fox News Alert.

  • We were striving to accomplish a sense of urgency. Urgency in the sense that

  • what was about to be delivered after the Fox News Alert was

  • very important. Quote, unquote, shocking news.

  • Specifically Columbine. And all the other important news stories of that time

  • but now, looking back, now that I’m not there

  • I find it interesting that I’ve seen the Fox News Alert

  • used for stories likeBennifer” J-Lo and Ben’s

  • relationship. I mean this, compared to a school shooting,

  • and there’s really no relationship to me and I don’t

  • understand why, based on what we originally created it for,

  • ah, why they would choose to use it for a news story like

  • that. Cause the sound and the visuals is associated, or

  • originally was associated, with things that were much more

  • important.

  • Martha Stewart Leaves Fed CT After Probation Meeting

  • And this is a Fox News Alert. A very busy day for

  • Martha Stewart. Earlier today she met with her parole

  • officer

  • No, they deliberately blur it and, I find it very

  • hard to believe, you know, there’s no separation between

  • Bill O’Reilly the Interviewer and Bill O’Reilly with his

  • Talking Points. I mean, there’s just no separation at all.

  • Jimmy Carter is making yet another mistake and

  • this time, there’s no excuse for it. And that’s the memo.

  • Now for the top story tonight. Another view on this.

  • Jeff Cohen Former MSNBC/Fox News Contributor It’s very hard on Fox News to separate news

  • from commentary because it all blends together. That’s what

  • makes it so ridiculous, that sloganWe report you decide”,

  • because there’s no TV news channel in history that’s ever reported

  • less.

  • For example, a Brit Hume newscast, um, which is presented

  • as a newscast, um, I think you see a lot of attitude and

  • opinion, both from the anchor and the reports.

  • Welcome to Washington. I’m Brit Hume. There was further evidence today that President

  • Bush’s days of absorbing John Kerry’s attacks without counter-attack

  • are over.

  • Fox blurs the line between using commentary all over the

  • place. We are to believe that Brit Hume is the

  • anchor of a news outlet, he doesn’t bring strong politics

  • to it, he just happens to anchor the news cast like Peter

  • Jennings. On Sundays, Brit Hume turns into a rather

  • caustic right-wing pundit.

  • Look, this goes to Murdoch too. He doesn’t believe in

  • objectivity. He doesn’t believe, he has contempt for

  • journalism, I think, I mean, they wanted all news

  • to be a matter of opinion, ‘cause opinion can't be proven

  • false. And I think that’s very dangerous because

  • if people don’t have a set of facts that they can agree on,

  • I think it’s difficult to reach a consensus on, you know,

  • what’s correct public policy. I think it’s very dangerous

  • for elections as well.

  • It wasn’t so much a scripted design that promoted the offthe-

  • cuff ad-libs that you see so often on Fox News Channel,

  • it was sort of a reinforcement.

  • John Kerry is Jane Fonda with a Burberry scarf tied around his neck.

  • Any ad lib that made the Democrats look stupid and made the

  • Republicans look smart would get anattaboy’, also a pat

  • on the back, a wink or a nod.

  • There’s an old pizza expression, youve tried all

  • the rest, now try the best. Some people say, especially on

  • that panel there, those commissioners, that Condoleezza

  • Rice might be the best and we haven’t heard from her

  • publicly yet on this point. Are you saying that the commission’s cheesy?

  • You wouldn’t say that. Theyre crusty on the

  • panel.

  • John Kerry has Kim Jong Il on his side. Barbra Streisand. What could go wrong?

  • North Korea loves John Kerry. Really?

  • There’s no sense of integrity as far as having a

  • line that can't be crossed.

  • Not having that sort of line becomes very tempting for

  • somebody to self-promote by crossing the line, saying

  • something funny that you would never dare say if you were

  • stepping back and looking at it from the sense of a

  • journalism school and is this the right thing for

  • journalism? It would never happen.

  • Other journalists use phrases likesome people sayor

  • officials saywhen theyre trying to insert anonymously

  • information in a story that sort of advances the storyline.

  • Fox does it a different way. ‘Some people sayis Fox’s cue

  • that “I’m pretending to be an anchor, so I can’t say

  • this is my opinion, or this is Roger Ailesopinion but

  • some people say.’” Some people say it would be a pretty good

  • choicebring in the Hispanic vote.

  • Some people say, “nah, he’s posturing”.

  • Some people say, and excuse me I’ll get to you Joe

  • in a minute, but some people say that you may be setting up

  • to be running against Hilary in 2006 in the Senate.

  • Journalistically it’s a very peculiar technique because the

  • idea behind journalism is that youre sourcing who youre

  • referring to. This is just sort of a clever way

  • of inserting political opinion when you know it probably

  • shouldn’t be there.

  • Some people say that this might undermine what the

  • US troops are doing there

  • Some people say John Kerry has some similarities to

  • an earlier Massachusetts’s politician. Some people say in light of what happened

  • to the oil for food program.

  • Some people say, ‘supported by Iran.” Some say, I’ve heard a couple of people

  • saySome sayit’s a sour grapes book.”

  • Some people saySome people say

  • Some people say it’s just too violent. There’s too

  • much blood. Some people say

  • Some people sayWell, some people say

  • Some people say.

  • Ah, some say. Some people say.

  • Some are sayingSome people say

  • There are some people who say something, if not

  • has already happened. Those are his words.

  • Some people say it’s “exploitive”. What do you say

  • to that?

  • I was given a folder, a little binder, that had the names of all the Fox News consultants,

  • you know, the people who were paid to come on

  • the air to give their opinions.

  • Larry Johnson Former Fox News Contributor To be a Fox News contributor means youre

  • under contract and are getting paid a set amount.

  • Joining us from D.C. is Larry Johnson, former CIA

  • Officer and Former Deputy Director to the State Departments

  • Office of Counter Terrorism.

  • My services were in great demand in December of 2001.

  • The contract expired in January of 2003.

  • And the first thing that I noticed was that I recognized

  • all of the conservatives who were in the roster. They were

  • very well known people who had come from, you know, talk

  • radio or from some sort of political background, and so I

  • knew all of those people, and they were very, very strong

  • people.

  • I came in and was always, I was going to call it

  • For example, the edict came down apparently to stop

  • referring to suicide bombings in Israel as suicide

  • bombings, to call them homicide bombings. I thought that

  • was stupid and I continued to call them suicide bombings

  • because every bombing that kills someone is a homicide

  • bombing.

  • But when I looked at the liberal roster, there was only one

  • person’s name who I recognize, which I recognized, and that

  • was Bob Shrum, who is a very well known speechwriter and

  • political consultant in Washington. The other ones,

  • though, were people I had never heard of. My

  • entire background was in politics and political journalism,

  • so I knew pretty much all the players in D.C. and I had

  • never heard of these people.

  • The question came up about the ability of the United States

  • to fight two wars simultaneously. Going into Iraq is going to divert resources

  • and attention that should be focused on.

  • And Sean Hannity, being the right-wing cheerleader that he

  • is, was just, you know, incensed that I was, had the

  • temerity to suggest that we couldn’t.

  • We do have the ability and the resources, were

  • able to walk and chew gum, we can handle the situation in

  • Iraq.

  • And we can still finish the job of protecting against and another attack.

  • What happens is when the resources end up getting

  • diverted and particularly the airlift assets required

  • Facts don’t seem to have any effect upon him.

  • What was unusual is it was after that appearance that, even

  • though I was under contract to Fox for another 8 weeks

  • roughly, They stopped using me.

  • Your government failed you. Those entrusted with

  • protecting you, failed you. And I, failed you.

  • And for that failure, I would ask, once all the facts are

  • out, for your understanding and for your forgiveness.

  • When Richard Clarke emerged it was obvious this was a

  • danger to the Administration because he had worked at the

  • highest echelons of the Bush Administration and it was

  • almost like Fox News was working off the playbook coming

  • out of the White Housethat he had to be torn down that

  • he had to be turned into a Democrat, a Liberal, a Kerryguy.

  • He is bringing this up in the heat of a Presidential campaign.

  • Can you assume, from what he’s saying, that he is now become a political

  • operative? Do you feel that there is a

  • political payback component to Mr. Clarke’s comments?

  • He is, as some have suggested, auditioning for a

  • job in the Kerry Administration. It is a fella who is sucking up to another

  • Administration with the hopes of being rewarded.

  • When he came to me to ask for my support with Tom

  • Ridge. He had been angling for a top job in the

  • Homeland Security department and did not get it.

  • See one of the things that Fox does and conservatives do is

  • they don’t have to win every argument but if they can muddy

  • the argument enough, if they can turn it into a draw, that

  • to them is a victory because it denies the other side a

  • victory.

  • Well Sean I, there is apparently two Dick Clarkes

  • here. Dick Clarke has been on three sides of a twosided

  • issue. He’s totally contradicted himself.

  • His statements are contradictory. But there is a lot of information that contradicts

  • Clarke and some.

  • But aren’t there sufficient contradictions. He has written a book. And he certainly

  • wants to go out there and promote that book. Is he just out to sell a book.

  • This is a fella who is out to sell his book.

  • Did he have a motive behind writing the book and going out on 60 Minutes and criticizing

  • the Bush Administration.

  • Obviously this guy’s hocking a book. Unveiling his book.

  • An appalling act of profiteering. This guy rakes Bush over the coals and gives

  • Clinton a pass. And the book gives Clinton a complete pass.

  • I’m struck by how easily Clarke treats the Bill Clinton era.

  • But there are still some real concerns about where

  • the truth lies in what Richard Clarke was saying.

  • They launched a major smear campaign. And in some ways it

  • worked,

  • I thought, number one, he was extremely melodramatic and he was intoning with great

  • pathos. I mean, I, it seemed, it almost seems like it

  • was a performance.

  • And it was just attack-politics on a TV channel. Usually

  • you leave attack-politics to a political campaign.

  • Carl Rove and Company are quite good at character assassination. You know they are all these

  • people, dozens of people in the White House paid for by you

  • and I. Paid for by our taxes, right, writing talking points,

  • calling up conservative columnists, calling up talk radio

  • hosts, telling them what to say. It’s interesting.

  • All the talk radio people, the right-wing talk radio people

  • all across the country, saying exactly the same thing.

  • Exactly the same words.

  • I noticed that. I was watching a 24 hour news network, and I’m sure it’s just a coincidence,

  • but they were saying, was remarkably similar to what

  • the White House was saying and I couldn’t help but thinking, “how funny

  • that was.”

  • We are bringing diversity of opinion. Ah, we are, there is diversity of opinion

  • on Fox News. You may disagree with that. We have many liberals

  • there, many liberals are invited, we have liberal commentators.

  • AS we have conservative ones.

  • Who are your liberal commentators? Alan Colmes for one.

  • Greta van Susteren. You know. It’s in the eye of the

  • beholder I guess.

  • What theyll try to put on the appearance of being

  • balanced, but really kind of a mismatch. Youll have a

  • Hannity And Colmes Show where Hannity is a really, a good-looking, kind of clean-cut

  • all-American kind of guy and, and his counterpart is a little squirrelly looking,

  • frankly. And you kind of say he’s the liberal? Well,

  • maybe he’s not so smart after all and it, and it, and it sends a subtle message, I think.

  • Youre a good Liberal. Good Liberal. Good Liberal.

  • A lot of the times the liberals that they get to appear on

  • are either, you know, faux-liberals, like, I would use

  • Susan Estrich as an example of that, a person who was

  • brought on, who essentially agrees with the person on the right in a lot

  • of cases. I am your biggest liberal friend. I do take

  • a little heat. People some times say to me,

  • Do you really like Sean Hannity”.

  • What’s not to like? I thought I was Sean’s biggest liberal friend.

  • I love you all. Or they would just bring on people who were

  • very weak, you know, people who were not well-known people.

  • We can learn from history because if we don’t were condemned to repeat it.

  • Youre onto going to get the truth in a facts.

  • Youre going to get one guy, Clarke, accusing Bush saying,

  • Clinton reallygiving him a pass. Then youre going to

  • get the Bush Administration attacking Clarke. Youre not

  • going to get the truth, Mary Ann. You weren’t there. You

  • don’t know. Youre probably right about that.

  • Even the people that are supposedly liberal in those panel discussions

  • they know that to challenge the guests and the other hosts

  • too forcefully, theyll certainly find someone else to

  • stand in your place if that’s the case.

  • Youre spinning now. I’m not right-wing. I

  • believe in global warming.

  • We looked atSpecial Reportsone-on-one interviews, their

  • once a day We studied 25 weeks of the one-on-one guest

  • who appeared on Special Report from late June through mid December of 2003.

  • Republicans appeared 5 times as often as Democrats on one-on-

  • one newsmakers interviews. That means that Republicans

  • made up 83% of the partisan guests while Democrats made up

  • just 17%. In addition the few Democrats that were interviewed for the show tended

  • to be centrists and conservative Democrats often brought on

  • to affirm Bush Administration policies. So what does this

  • all mean. Well if Fox were the bastion of fairness and

  • balance that it claims to be we’d see a lot more balance in

  • this prominent interview segment on the network’s most

  • prestigious show. Instead the numbers indicate that Brit

  • Hume and Special Report choose their guest based on

  • political considerations rather than news judgment.

  • That’s here, on the Fox News Channel. The Network

  • America trusts for Fair and Balanced News.

  • My criticism of Fox News isn’t that it’s a conservative

  • channel. It’s the consumer-fraud offair and balanced’.

  • It’s nothing of the sort.

  • Stories they Cover Stories they Ignore

  • You pitch a story in any given editorial meeting that didn’t meet the criteria that they

  • had explained to you, and you got a thumbs down.

  • When you have this Executive Vice President and those

  • around him, who are consistently saying, “no were not

  • gonna do that story, no this story’s bad, this story’s

  • good”, and it becomes very clear to all the Bureau Chiefs,

  • to everybody involved who have been there over a period of

  • years, there are certain kinds of stories, it’s not even

  • worth bringing up, there are other kinds of stories that

  • you know management’s gonna love.

  • Fox News Channel’s stated practice was to embarrass,

  • humiliate, challenge, or disrupt whatever Jesse Jackson did. We were told

  • on many occasions that he was one of our targets.

  • Anything we could do or say

  • that would embarrass him,

  • discredit him, we were encouraged to find the information

  • and we were encouraged to report the information.

  • I did a piece on immigration, and I thought it was poignant

  • to tell the stories of these people and all of the things that they had to go

  • through to get citizenship and how we take for granted how

  • really blessed we are, to be born with it. And the line that

  • I used in describing their efforts was, “folks seeking

  • citizenship earned, not born”, suggesting that hey they

  • really want citizenship because theyve gotta go through

  • all these motions. Well, the Managing Editor was very

  • angry, says, “what have these people earned? They haven’t

  • earned a thing. Theyre just here for a free ride,

  • theyre just here trying to take advantage of all of our,

  • freebies and, and”, I mean, it was just a, he just laid

  • waste to the idea that these people were hardworking.

  • It was very specifically said, we need to be fair to the

  • Bush Administration or to the Republicans than anybody else

  • in the media would be. But that was always there was

  • always understood a sort of a code forlay off”.

  • I have firsthand knowledge of a reporter who was,

  • basically, yelled and screamed at by Executives because

  • because that reporter was asking tough questions of James

  • Baker at a news conference. It was a news conference that

  • was being carried live, and James Baker was saying, “we want to count every vote

  • and the reporter was peppering with questions like, “well,

  • wait a second, if you want to count every vote, why not go

  • back and find the votes that were not counted because of

  • problems with the chad?” The reporters in New York thought

  • that this was a little too confrontational the style, never

  • mind that when Warren Christopher got up there for Gore,

  • the questions were equally tough, there were no

  • complaints about the questioning of Christopher, but

  • because the questions of James Baker were so tough

  • that reporter was pulled off the story and said, “we can't

  • trust you anymore, you didn’t handle this story very

  • well, go back to Washington.”

  • Ronald Reagan’s birthday was for Fox News Channel viewers,

  • something akin to a holy day. This was Ronald Reagan’s

  • birthday. So my assignment was to go to the Reagan

  • Presidential Library in Simi Valley California, and to do

  • live shots before dawn until dark. There weren’t very

  • many people at the Presidential Library

  • There wasn’t a celebration in any organized way going on.

  • You know there was a class of fourth graders who came to the library

  • that day to take the tour and they were lined up and they sang

  • happy birthday.

  • But that was pretty much the extent of the celebration.

  • They saw my first three or four live shots and Mr. Moody

  • called in to say

  • What is he doing out there?” Apparently my live shots weren’t celebratory

  • enough.

  • And I was frankly at a bit of a loss as to what to say, or

  • do to make it seem like there was a big celebration.

  • Since dawn theyve been streaming in from all over

  • the country and even parts of Canada and Mexico, admirers

  • So I got in trouble for that one. I got in big trouble for

  • that one, in fact I was suspended.

  • What you will see, of course, is intensive discussion about

  • what we callthe wedge issues”. Youll hear, you know,

  • Affirmative Action. Youll hear Abortion. Youll hear

  • certainly Gay Rights, God in, in Separation of Church and

  • State issues will be on television every single day.

  • I think this gay marriage thing is going to be an enormous

  • presidential issue. But there again, we have to be fair and balanced. We can’t run with

  • that.

  • The stampede of same sex couples to the altar has

  • accelerated.

  • President Bush says he’s ‘deeply troubled by the hundreds

  • of

  • 2000 same-sex couples

  • 2300 and counting that’s the number

  • Same sex couples hoping to get married

  • Same sex couples wanting to

  • Same sex marriage.

  • Their job, which is what the right wing Republicans want to

  • do, is to divide America up, ignore the important economic

  • health care and environmental issues and they do that

  • extremely successfully.

  • They did start it up on gay marriage but I think that they

  • got sort of blindsided. They all of a sudden couldn’t show the usual footage they used

  • to show, because they used to love to show the footage, of

  • course, the parades and the black leather and, you know,

  • the drag queens. Then they had, you know, very kind

  • of normal looking, dumpy, middle age couples getting

  • married and smooching on the steps of City Hall. So I,

  • I’ve noticed a certain kind of zest going out of the gay

  • marriage thing. But that, the opposite, of where theyve

  • picked up the slack, is on anything to do with religion,

  • anything to do with the 10 Commandments, anything to do with

  • God.

  • Why is Jesus so popular right now? Well I think it depends on

  • who you talk to. I think a lot of people would say that

  • one of the reason that he’s very popular is that Mel

  • Gibson’s movie has come out. George W Bush, because of all this, he wants

  • to see it, and I’m sure theyll set up a special

  • screening at the White House.

  • Oh sure. He is a devout Christian. Apparently he prays daily.

  • Did they think it’s about just a movie,

  • just entertainment, or do they think that there’s

  • something bigger at work?

  • Well I think they think there is something bigger at work. September

  • 11th threatened

  • people and people looked to Jesus for comfort. But number

  • 2, a line was drawn around the world between two kinds of

  • religions. Two kinds of societies.

  • Freedom is not this country’s gift to the world. Freedom is the Almighty’s gift

  • to every man and woman in this world.

  • Boy, couldn’t you see the elite media tremble over that one.

  • The President knows evoking the Deity will anger the

  • secular mediahe doesn’t care. Talking points applauded.

  • Theyre gonna push God very, very hard, particularly going

  • up into Bush’s re-election.

  • All of us, working together, can change American, on

  • soul at a time.

  • The Christian fundamentalist movement believes inwere

  • right, youre wrong, no matter what.” And I saw a lot of that at

  • Fox, “were right, youre wrong, no matter what.”

  • The O’Reilly factor is probably the perfect example of

  • everything that’s wrong with Fox news channel. They have stories that

  • are selected primarily to upset liberals and Democrats and

  • prop up Republican Party. You have a hostility towards

  • guests that disagree with the host and you have a host who

  • in service of his conservative politics will distort facts,

  • will misrepresent things, and will in some cases, just

  • fabricate.

  • In a personal story segment tonight we were surprised to

  • find out that an American who lost his father in the World

  • Trade Center attack had signed an anti-war advertisement that accused the US

  • itself of terrorism.

  • Jeremy Glick is the son of a Port Authority worker who died

  • in 9/11 and he had signed an anti-war petition and O’Reilly

  • had to have him on.

  • And they were so persistent about getting me on the

  • O’Reilly show, because they found out I was on the advisory

  • board and signed a statement that was against the war and

  • that I was directly impacted by 9/11. The

  • success that I had on the O’Reilly show had to do with

  • just practice and preparation. I taped the shows, and what

  • I did I took a stopwatch that I used for running sprints in

  • high school and I would see when he has a hostile guest

  • and I would time how long it takes for him to cut them off.

  • I was surprised and the reason I was surprised is

  • that this ad equate the United States with the terrorist.

  • I said “I’m shocked that youre surprised.” And basically

  • just made the only point that I wanted to make.

  • Our current President now inherited a legacy from

  • his father, and inherited a political legacy that’s

  • responsible for training, militarily, economically and

  • situating geo-politically the parties involved in the

  • alleged assassination and murder of my father and countless

  • of thousand of others. So I don’t see why you think it’s

  • surprising for you to think that I would come back and want

  • to support ..

  • It is surprising and I’ll tell you why it’s surprising. You are mouthing a far-left position

  • that is a…

  • It was extremely intimidating sitting down in the studio because he’s really tall.

  • He lords over you.

  • You see. I’m sure your beliefs are sincere but

  • what upsets me is I don’t think your father would be

  • approving of this. Well my father thought that Bush’s presidency

  • was illegitimate.

  • Maybe he did but I don’t think he’d be equating

  • this country as a terrorist nation. Well I wasn’t saying it was necessarily

  • like that. Yes you were. You signed and it absolutely

  • said that.

  • Jeremy was pretty cool during it uh, and he was giving

  • his political views which were very to the left of

  • O’Reilly’s.

  • And he said, “I don’t really care what you think

  • politically.” I said, “Obviously you do care because A,

  • you brought me on your show and B, I’ve told him that he

  • uses 9/11 and sympathy with the 9/11 families and the lives

  • lost to rationalize his narrow right-wing agenda.

  • You evoke sympathy with the 9/11 families so

  • That’s a bunch of crap. I’ve done more for the

  • 9/11 families, by their own admission, I’ve done more for

  • them than you will ever hope to do. So you keep your mouth

  • shut when you say that I’m exploiting themYou don’t represent me.

  • And I’d never represent you, you know why? Because you have a warped view of this world

  • and this country.

  • Let me give you I don’t want to debate this with you.

  • Let me give you an example of parallel experience. September 14th.

  • Here’s a record. You didn’t support the action

  • against Afghanistan to remove the Taliban. You were

  • against it. Why would I want to brutalize and further

  • punish the people in Afghanistan?

  • Who killed your father. Who killed your father. The people in Afghanistan didn’t kill my

  • father. Sure they did. The people were trained there.

  • The people? What about the Afghans? I’m more angry about it than you are.

  • And what about George Bush? What about George Bush? He had nothing to

  • do with it.

  • The Director, Senior, as Director of the CIA. He had nothing to do with it.

  • So the person who trained 100,000 Muhad Jadine I hope your Mom isn’t watching this. I hope

  • your mother is not watching this.

  • It was unfair for O’Reilly to evoke both my mom and my father in the interview, especially

  • when I wasn’t. My mom is a grieving widow prematurely

  • for a violent, horrific turn in their lives. My

  • dad was only 55. They were working people, working class, middle

  • class. They were not retiring for a while and their

  • life is basically destroyed. Their life together is

  • destroyed and destroyed in circumstances that I wouldn’t

  • wish on my worst enemy, including Bill O’Reilly.

  • Because you. That’s it, I’m not going to say any

  • more. In respect for your fatherSeptember 14th. Do you want to know what I

  • was doing?

  • Shut up. Shut up. Please don’t tell me to shut up.

  • In respect for your father who was a port authority worker. A fine American who got

  • killed unnecessarily by barbarians.

  • By radical extremist who were trained by this government.

  • Respect for him. Not the people of America, the people, the

  • ruling class. The small minority.

  • Cut his mic. I’m not going to dress you down any

  • more. Out of respect for your father.

  • Are we done? Were done.

  • You see him gesturing to security guards and then came the

  • after film performance.

  • After they were off the air, [ he said to the kid something to the affect,

  • Get out of my studio before I f**king tear you to pieces!”

  • So Jeremy, and I’ve talked to him since, went, actually

  • went to the green room to get a cup of coffee.

  • And the executive producer and the assistant encouraged me

  • to leave the building because they were quoteconcerned

  • that if O’Reilly ran into me in the hallway that he would

  • end up in jail”.

  • The next day

  • This is our house here. If somebody comes to

  • your house and begins spitting on the floor, you’d remove

  • them. Glick was out of control and spewing hatred for this

  • program and his country using vile propaganda.

  • The next day I just turned on and watched the follow up and

  • saw my views totally distorted. Next thing I know was

  • saying Bush planned 9/11.

  • Glick was saying without a shred of evidence that

  • President Bush and Bush the Elder were directly responsible

  • for 9/11. Now that kind of stuff is not only loony, it’s

  • defamation.

  • That paints me as a fringe conspiracy nut.

  • This kid said nothing, nothing about President Bush and his father, Bush

  • the elder, orchestrating the attack on their own country.

  • So O’Reilly is just lying here.

  • He came on this program and accused President Bush of knowing about 9/11 and murdering his

  • own father.

  • Glick said, “Can I sue him?” And so I called the lawyer

  • who was in my case of, “Fox versus Dutton and Franken”, and

  • he says, “Well, the kid has to prove that O’Reilly knew he

  • was lying, and O’Reilly is so crazy, he lies so

  • pathologically, that’s it’s harder to prove that O’Reilly

  • knew he was lying.” So oddly enough, if someone has a

  • record of crazily lying it is harder to sue them

  • for defamation.

  • Your plane is hijacked by terrorists.”

  • Youre caught in a dirty bomb attack

  • An anthrax vaccine for 25 million

  • youre face-to-face with a suicide bomber

  • : Don’t be inhaling. Don’t be ingesting.

  • Don’t be sucking particles into your body that could get the

  • radiation inside.

  • First your advice is Stay inside. Don’t drink or

  • eat anything

  • Many of the themes that are emoted on the Fox News Channel

  • have to do with generating fear. Whether that’s fear of

  • immigration, a fear of racial difference.

  • When you pander to fear, it’s a great motivator and

  • organizer. Youve got to keep people alarmed.

  • They really love this sense of fear and danger even when

  • it’s not there. And so when something is actually

  • dangerous, some things are, they go completely overboard

  • and all sense of perspective is lost. So that anthrax

  • which, I guess, affected four or five people, adversely, no question about

  • it, is far more dangerous that, you know, the poisoning of our air.

  • The way we deal with them is the way President Bush is dealing with them

  • You cordon the area, you search for them and you shoot

  • them.

  • Larry Johnson Former Fox News Contributor The motivator is fear and then the pay-off

  • is, you know, “were going to go out and kill the bad

  • guys.” And, you know, it’s a very simple black and white

  • world that they, ah, paint and portray.

  • Terrorism has become the all-purpose fear weapon because now everything

  • is converted into terrorism. And, of course,

  • if you have a constant sense of unease then youre gonna look to the Government

  • to protect you. Youre gonna look to strong government.

  • Weve removed from power enemies of this country. We

  • have made America more secure.

  • There are these enemies out there and it’s an ill-defined

  • enemy, but as long as were fighting them and killing them

  • and he’s looking presidential, then nothing else, again, is discussed.

  • What was interesting is in the climate of the Bush

  • Administration that much of that fear, the emotion was

  • purposefully misdirected by the right-wing, ah, into, ah,

  • the war in Iraq.

  • The type of coverage Fox offers and all of them offer but

  • Fox is probably the most pristine version is completely

  • consistent with Bush’s, um, with the strategy of the Bush

  • Administration. A, to, ah, prevent discussion of things

  • that are not going well, like, for instance, the economy or

  • the Medicare Bill.

  • There’s not doubt the war against Iraq, a country that did

  • not attack us, could only proceed based on fear.

  • Tonight It’s a special 2 hour block.

  • War is my last choice

  • But the risk of doing nothing is even a worse option as far as I’m concerned.

  • The President’s War on Terror. When will his military

  • plans get put into action.

  • No Spin on Iraq. Depend onThe Factorfor the trust

  • about the impending war with Iraq. We hope you depend on us for the truth, because

  • were going to report the situation in Iraq without an

  • agenda or any ideological prejudice.

  • That you gotta take what comes. Not that we hate

  • you Martin Sheen, but that we may not want to watch your

  • television Program anymore, because were identifying you with being

  • against what we believe in.

  • Once the war begins, I’ll consider those who actively

  • work against our military once war is underway to be enemies

  • of the state. Americans, and indeed our allies who actively

  • work against our military once the war is under way will be

  • considered enemies of the state by me.

  • But first, are the Americans, who went over the

  • Baghdad to act as human shields, well, are they more than

  • just protesters, are they traitors?

  • Harry Belafonte, he’s at it again, he saysthe Bush Administration is possessed of

  • evil.” Has theCalypso Kinggone bonkers?

  • You have a right to say what you want, but we have a right not to buy your records.

  • Anyone who hurts this country at a time like this will be spotlighted.

  • Just fair warning to you Barbra Streisand and

  • others who see the world as you do. We don’t want to

  • demonize anyone but anyone who hurts this country in a time

  • like this, well, let’s just say you will be spotlighted.

  • Certainly television, and perhaps to an extent, my station, was intimidated by the administration

  • and its foot soldiers at Fox News. And it did in fact,

  • put a climate of fear and self-censorship, in my

  • view, in terms of, of, of the kind of broadcast work we did.

  • Bob McChesney Founder of Free Press/Author of

  • The Problem of the MediaFirst rule of being a great propaganda system

  • and why our system is vastly superior to anything in the

  • old Soviet Union, is not that people think theyre

  • being subject to propaganda. If people don’t think that,

  • they aren’t looking for that, theyre much easier to

  • propagandize. And that’s the genius of our media system; a

  • system of ideology, of control compared to an authoritarian

  • system.

  • Look were making good progress in Iraq. Sometimes

  • it’s hard to tell it when you listen to the filter.

  • Tremendous progress in Iraq. The kids are back at school, 10% more than when Saddam

  • Hussein was there. There’s 100% more fresh water.

  • It’s a fresh start for Iraqi athletes. So far 2500 schools have been renovated.

  • Are Iraquis better off than they were a year ago?

  • Yes they are definitely better off. And these brave athletes look forward to making

  • Olympic gold.

  • There are so many positive developments.

  • Fox has made a decision to present the Iraq war as a

  • success and as an ongoing success. Fox Report Iraqis get a welcome diversion

  • at the race track

  • The Baghdad equestrian club is open for business. And yes, you can play these ponies.

  • It’s the Iraq you don’t hear about. Falling unemployment.

  • Rising wages. Interest rates down, foreign investment up.

  • Life for 95% of the Iraqis

  • is already immeasurably better than

  • it was under the decades of Saddam’s rule, there’s no question

  • about that. And that’s what’s the least reported story

  • over there. You go to the markets, theyre thriving. Big

  • fat fish coming out of the Tigris and Euphrates River.

  • Young men in Baghdad blowing off steam with their cars. The guys gathered to

  • put their wheels through the paces about once a week,

  • something they say they were not allowed to do under the

  • The Senior Producer told the two or three writers for

  • her news hour, she told us, ‘now just keep in mind, it’s all good.

  • This is such a fair and balanced issue.

  • Don’t write about the number of dead or troops being under

  • fire or under attack. Not that somebody might have died,

  • you know, keep it positive. Weve got to emphasize

  • all the good that were doing.’

  • She, at that point, made a reference to rebuilding schools, bringing

  • democracy to Iraq, and then she said, ‘See.

  • Big progress. Yoo hoo for us.’ Things were actually, at that point, going

  • quite

  • badly.

  • Many more American soldiers were dying each day and

  • God knows how many Iraqis.

  • 277 US soldiers have now died in Iraq which means

  • that statistically speaking US soldiers have less of a

  • chance of dying from all causes in Iraq than citizens have

  • of being murdered in California which is roughly the same

  • geographical size.

  • The PIPA survey is interesting because youre looking at questions of, of basic

  • true-false kind of factual nature.

  • Did we find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq?”

  • These are very simple questions with very simple answers and what the survey

  • found was that the more likely you were to watch Fox New

  • Channel the more likely you were

  • to have completely incorrect assumptions about these

  • things.

  • All the research shows a very high correlation in the case of Fox News with people

  • watching it with having a very confused notion of the

  • world on one hand, especially with Foreign policy and the

  • Middle East and also being strongly supportive of the

  • Government and power.

  • And this is an extraordinarily disturbing trend for the

  • media I mean for any self-respecting journalist.

  • If youre told, the more people consume your media, the less

  • theyll know about the subject and the more theyll support

  • government policy, then that’s, that’s exactly the

  • worst thing any journalist would ever want to hear, or should

  • want to hear.

  • In terms of Fox overall I, I think we have got to appreciate,

  • and when we look at them is to understand that this

  • is an adjunct of the Republican Party.

  • What Fox specializes in, is punditry. Basically getting

  • marching orders from the Republican National Committee or

  • some political operative and then having people pontificate

  • about it, have guests come on to talk about it, have pseudo

  • experts come on and discuss it.

  • Their main allegiance is, I’m talking about the people at

  • the top, is to the Republican Party.

  • Murdoch is, absolutely to his core, a partisan, and ah, he

  • makes no secret about that.

  • George W Bush sat for an interview in Austin with

  • Fox News Channel’s Carl Cameron, who joins us now with

  • highlights. Hello Carl. Hi Brent

  • It was well known in the summer of 2000 that Fox’s lead political correspondent covering

  • the Bush Campaign, that his wife was campaigning for Bush.

  • Tell me when youre ready guys. And things are good. Your family?

  • Very well. My wife has been hanging out with your

  • sister.

  • Yeah good. My county

  • Dorothy has been all over the state campaigning and Pauline’s been constantly with her.

  • Um Yeah Doro’s a good person.

  • Oh, she’s been terrific. I mean, to hear Pauline

  • tell it. When she first started campaigning for you she

  • was a little bit nervous. She getting her stride.

  • Now she’s up there. She doesn’t need notes. She’s going to crowds and she’s got the

  • whole riff down.

  • She’s a good soul. She’s having fun too.

  • She’s a really good soul.

  • And in any other news organization, in fact, in CNN that

  • very summer there was a producer whose husband was a lawyer

  • for the Gore team. And this was a producer who wouldve

  • naturally covered Gore, who was immediately told youre not

  • to have anything to do with campaign coverage, either

  • covering Bush or covering Gore because of the possible

  • conflict of interest, or the perception of a conflict of

  • interest. At Fox, they didn’t care. The fact that the,

  • you know, the senior political reporter, his wife, is

  • actually campaigning for the Bush Campaign at a time when

  • this guy is covering them, that didn’t even register. It

  • never wouldve occurred.

  • Ok you guys ready. That’s great.

  • See, it’s the little things that get disclosed. I like that.

  • Thanks for joining us sir. Yes, sir, thanks Carl, it’s good to see

  • you again.

  • That’s their lack of having some sort of basic journalistic

  • integrity that is just missing from that organization.

  • First person who made the call to say that George W. Bush

  • had been elected President of the United States was the

  • person who was in charge of Fox Newselection analysis

  • division, the people who crunch the exit polling numbers.

  • That person was a gentleman named John Ellis and he is

  • George W. Bush’s first cousin.

  • At around 2 in the morning, on election night, the, a new

  • set of data had come in and it was complex data from

  • precincts all over Florida. The proper answer in analyzing that data unquestioningly was:

  • you couldn’t’ tell, it was too close to call, there was

  • simply no clear winner. Instead, John Ellis called it as a

  • clear win for George Bush. Fox News then interrupted its

  • ongoing election coverage and announced that George

  • Bush had been elected President of the United States.

  • Fox news now projects George W. Bush as the winner in Florida and

  • thus it appears the winner of the Presidency of the United

  • States. Now what’s significant about that is not

  • the intervention of the President’s cousin to declare his

  • relative the new President of the United States it was the

  • fact that within minutes, ABC, NBC and CBS also fell right

  • in line calling Bush as the winner.

  • George Bush is the President Elect of the United

  • States

  • Bush wins ABC News is now going to project that Florida

  • goes to Mr. Bush.

  • There’s no way that they could have crunched the data in

  • that time to come to that conclusion. In fact quite the opposite. They should have

  • come to the conclusion with the Associated Press came

  • to which was that you couldn’t make the call.

  • When Fox made the call, that Bush had won, and the other networks followed on, that created

  • the perception that Bush was the winner, when

  • in fact he wasn’t. But that perception was

  • what really held for the next 37 days and I would suggest

  • to you that that call on election night had more to do with making George Bush president

  • than any recount or ballot design issue.

  • We gave our audience bad information. Our lengthy,

  • critical self-examination shows that we let our viewers

  • down. I apologize for making those bad projections that

  • night. It will not happen again.

  • In the old Soviet Union you’d hearing about the party-line

  • shifting 180 degrees. Watching Fox News at the end of

  • Clinton, where it was all attack mode where they were just

  • vicious watchdogs, and then Bush takes power and theyre

  • like little lap dogs. It was like night and day and it’s a party-line

  • shift. The President has the direction and the

  • vision to take us into the future boldly and

  • with, with courage and optimism.

  • He is an extraordinarily straight forward leader.

  • He says what he is going to do and he does it.

  • The President stands for steady leadership during a time of enormous change.

  • But the President is on Air Force One and the

  • plane has now touched down in New Mexico.

  • This is as strong a pro-national security conservative President as I have ever seen.

  • This is a guy who says what he means and means what he says.

  • But the President is a gentleman. He set a different tone for his campaign.

  • Super Tuesday lived up to its word. And this was a super

  • night for our candidate John Kerry and a super night for

  • the Democratic Party. He’s a super nominee.

  • I believe, I believe, that in 2004 one united Democratic Party we can, and we will win this

  • election.

  • What would you say would be Senator Kerry’s one

  • or two major weak points that could be exploited?

  • The Presidential hopeful, John Kerry has missed every one of the 22 role call votes in the

  • Senate this year but hasn’t missed a paycheck.

  • He talks about trying to protect the taxpayers every single day and here he is fleecing the

  • taxpayers out of $150,000 a year

  • So do you think he should step down, Dominic, when

  • he’s running for President?

  • The controversy and his Vietnam war medals has

  • just gotten worse. He said he never suggested he threw them away but

  • videotape does not lie. Ribbons or medals? Which did John Kerry throw

  • away after he returned from Vietnam? This may become

  • an issue for him today. His perceived disrespect

  • for the military could be more damaging to the candidate than questions

  • about his actions in uniform.

  • Many are angry over Kerry’s post-war protest.

  • The bigger issue here: is Kerry’s involvement in a

  • group that’s inherent inherently violent.

  • Presumptive Democratic nominee was scaring old

  • people, as usual, with the predictable Democratic line

  • He said, “President Bush will cut off their entitlement checks. It isn’t

  • true but the lie has worked well for Democrats in the past.

  • Assuming that the unthinkable happens, and that

  • Senator Kerry becomes President

  • Youre watching Fox News. Real journalism. Fair & Balanced.

  • James Wolcott Former Staff Writer for the New

  • Yorker/Cultural Critic for Vanity Fair They will give you the, almost the full Bush

  • stump speech no matter where it is and no matter how many

  • times theyve shown it.

  • Theyll cut live to these campaign rallies

  • as if there was gonna be real news

  • in them, as if Bush was gonna say anything, you know, earth shattering.

  • And your, ah, ability to make good decisions like,

  • marrying your wife Carolyn.

  • Fox portrays his every action as a heroic move.

  • As, you know, something dramatic and significant.

  • I imagine it’s pretty hard for the Fox producers. Some

  • days George Bush doesn’t do anything interesting and yet,

  • theyve got to find something that makes him heroic that

  • day.

  • Most people just started waking up and saying, “oh you mean

  • we don’t have the Fairness Doctrine anymore?” I can't tell

  • you how many times, when I was a political candidate

  • running for office, I would have somebody come up to me on

  • the street and say, “now I saw your opponent on TV the

  • other day. Aren't they supposed to give you equal time?”

  • And I didn’t even know for years that we lost that in the

  • Reagan Era, that for years we haven't had the ability to

  • expect both sides to be adequately covered.

  • Clearly on the Republican side what we do know is that for

  • years they have coordinated what they call theirMessage

  • of the Day”. So youll hear on the floor of the House,

  • youll hear on Rush Limbaugh, youll hear on Fox and Rupert

  • Murdoch’s Network, “The Issue Of The Day”, which they will

  • pound away at, which then creates The Echo Chamber, which

  • resonates through America.

  • Here’s what he said, “I actually did vote for the 87

  • billion before I voted against it.”

  • Senator Kerry recently said, quote, “I actually did

  • vote for the 87 billion dollar before I voted against it.”

  • End Quote Kerry, starting to feel the heat for his flipflop

  • voting record, is in West Virginia.

  • Is President Bush doing a good job of defining Kerry as a ‘flip-flopper’…

  • And youre saying he flip-flopped on the issue of this.

  • And he does seem to agonize and flip-flop over and

  • over and over again.

  • He’s flip-flopped on all these issuesBeneath Kerry’s flip-flopping

  • He’s an opportunistic flip-flopper Youre talking flip-flops

  • A new brand of summer footwear: John Kerry flipflops.

  • They say that he flip-flops a lot.

  • And he’s flip-flopped now on every major issue.

  • Would those be the flip-flops. ‘Cause he’s flip-flopped on everything

  • else.

  • Is Senator Kerry guilty of flip-flopping on the

  • issues? He flip-flops like crazy.

  • First of all flip-flopYouve seen him flip-flop on a whole variety

  • of issues.

  • An opportunistic flip-flopper who doesn’t have any

  • principles. Is that a little harsh?

  • I think um, it shows one thing. The weakness of

  • John Kerry.

  • Youre watching Fox News. Real journalism. Fair & Balanced.

  • Just 263 days until you get to cast your vote and

  • decide George W Bush deserves a second term.

  • John Kerry may wish he’d taken off his microphone before trashing the GOP.

  • his coarse description of his opponents has cast a lurid

  • glow over the campaign.

  • Presidential hopefully, John Kerry, got caught on

  • tape in some candid remarks that he didn’t want everybody

  • to hear. But we did.

  • John Kerry has been lashing out at President Bush and by extension Republicans for a long

  • time. Nothing new there.

  • You see a picture of George Bush and you expect to see,

  • hear organ music that would come out of a church, swelling,

  • the backlit head, the Madonna look

  • and John Kerry flashes and you hear the devil’s voice, “This is the devil. He

  • is evil.”

  • Is it true the reports that were seeing? Did John Kerry on the slopes cursed out a

  • Secret Service Agent? Is that true?

  • I think Kerry needed this vacation. He was showing some fatigue.

  • Only 217 days and counting until Bush is reelected. Theyre saying John Kerry looks French.

  • John Kerry looks French. John Kerry, the man who would be America’s

  • first French president.

  • When youre at war, there are the two models. You have the Churchill, Reagan, Thatcher,

  • Tony Blair, George Bush model. Or you have the

  • McGovern, Jimmy Carter, French, John Kerry model.

  • Are the Republicans effectively going to be able to make John Kerry French?

  • Good afternoon every body or as John Kerry would say,

  • Bonjour”.

  • French are thinkers. And that doesn’t go into the code of

  • the American presidency. I mean, you know the French

  • are the thinker, Le Pont Rodin. I mean, they think,

  • they think, they think and they never do anything with

  • their thinking. I believe that Mr. Kerry has to get away of

  • this image if he wants to win.

  • Right now, he is not in the American archetype. Why? He’s on vacation.

  • If the archetype is to take action and you are taking

  • vacation, I mean you are definitely not, you don’t fit the code. You areof-code

  • Mr. Rapaille? Yes.

  • Thank you very much. You are hereby invited back.

  • Every week there’s so many ways you can play the economic

  • story. At Fox news it’s only the upbeat. They select

  • statistics that prove the economy’s moving up and thank God

  • for President Bush for doing it.

  • The economy of course shaping up to be one of the

  • hot button issues in this Presidential Campaign.

  • Polls show the economy shaping up to be a major issue of the Presidential Campaign.

  • Theyre all amazed at the strength of the economy

  • and how it’s picking up day by day.

  • I think the economy is growing and ah, I think it’s

  • going to get stronger.

  • The economy is very, very strong right now, it

  • continues to get stronger.

  • The latest reading on the Nation’s Gross Domestic Product confirming it rose at a healthy

  • 4.1%

  • Sales of existing homes up 2% last month.

  • The economy is behaving like it’s on steroids at

  • the moment.

  • The fact is that the economy is improving.

  • The economy will roar in ’04. Roar in ’04. That sounds like a Bush slogan.

  • 204 days until George W. Bush is re-elected.

  • Were creating jobs. Good, high-paying jobs for the

  • American citizens.

  • The President goes to Charlotte to talk about job training.

  • Buoyed by the 300K job figure last week, he can boast his

  • policies are working.

  • Job grew last months at the fastest rate in four

  • years.

  • I would say the news this morning, 308 thousand new

  • jobs were created last month, theyre drinking the Malox

  • right out of the gallon bucket at the Kerry campaign.

  • What this Kerry plan will do is punish successful companies and that’s bad.

  • If you want to destroy jobs in this countryyou

  • raise taxes.

  • John Kerry’s plan to bring millions of jobs back to

  • America well some one here says, “watch out. Kerry’s plan

  • will end up killing more jobs instead.”

  • I said previously that the market was neutral on John Kerry, I think that was utterly wrong,

  • I think the market is down on John Kerry.

  • When the market goes down one of the things you often hear

  • is the market is worried about a Kerry victory.

  • Then out comes a poll showing Kerry with a 4

  • or 5 point lead, down goes the market big time.

  • And how they know that the market went down because

  • everybody had Kerry on their mind, as opposed to everyone

  • was worried about interest rates, or everyone looked at the earnings figures and

  • thought they weren't as good as projected. But they love

  • to pretend that theyre Carnac The Magnificent and

  • they can read the mind of the market.

  • Terror threats, gas prices sky high, but Forbes says, “the economy is still strong and getting

  • stronger every day.”

  • There you have it. 196 Days till we reelected George W.

  • Wait, the election’s over? LAUGHS

  • Thanks for letting me know. Were almost there.

  • I think Fox News, of all our subsidiaries, had

  • the best increase in profits.

  • What makes Murdoch particularly dangerous is that he’s

  • foremost a politician and he will use his immense media

  • power to shape the content and especially the news that

  • furthers his interest and those of his allies, including

  • the conservative Republican community. After all, Fox News

  • is nothing more than a 24/7 political ad for the GOP.

  • Jeff Cohen Former MSNBC/Fox News Contributor At MSNBC I worked as a Senior Producer on

  • the Donahue, Phil Donahue Prime Time Show. From the beginning

  • they were saying to us we have to be balanced. Giving them

  • instructions not to be too confrontational. Don’t be too

  • partisan. Don’t be too angry.

  • Now by the end, of out ten year balance wasn’t

  • enough. And this is theFox Effect”. They mandated that any time we

  • had, if we had two left-wing guests, we had to have three

  • right-wing guests. If we had to had one anti-war guest,

  • we had to have two pro-war guests. And that’s how

  • we ended the show. So, were trying to outfox Fox. You cannot

  • outfox Fox. But MSNBC and the others have tried. CNBC

  • has tried to outfox Fox. Since the corporate structures,

  • corporate ownership of the other channels did not allow

  • anyone to counter-program against Fox, you know, in

  • television the inclination is imitation.

  • I think the standard right now is Fox. And I want to be as

  • interesting and as edgy as you guys are.

  • It’s influencing its competitors. Ah, that’s why, you

  • know, MSNBC hired Joe Scarborough. That’s why CNN in

  • recent weeks has taken to reporting pretty much anything

  • the Bush White House tells it to report.

  • There is a sense now

  • there is money in the flag.

  • And Fox knows that and its competitors know that Fox is

  • onto something.

  • Today news business is geared towards entertainment. It’s

  • geared toward, in some cases, propaganda. It’s geared

  • toward, ultimately, the bottom line of the big corporations

  • that owns the station that owns the news operation.

  • It’s called the news business for a reason. Ah, it is news

  • but it’s a business.

  • They don’t like to spend money doing serious stories. They

  • like to do cheap, easy stories that will get a gutreaction.

  • I think the thing that distresses me more than anything

  • else is that, a lot of the news content is not coming

  • straight out of the newsrooms, particularly in television,

  • um, but out of the promotion department.

  • It’s expensive to spend time exploring the issues. It’s

  • cheap. And everything now is a question of money.

  • If you go to the National Association of Black Journalists,

  • or you go to National Association of Hispanic Journalists,

  • you talk to Asian-American journalists who are on-air, you

  • talk to Native-American journalists; youre seeing a

  • diminution in the number of journalists that are locally based

  • because in order to save money and in order to get

  • economy of scale and scope, a lot of the broadcasters are

  • shrinking their employee pool and theyre shrinking in the

  • news section, sectors of their stations. So, a lot of the

  • young, vibrant people who are getting experience as on-air

  • talent in small towns, are seeing those opportunities increasingly diminish.

  • When you let a small number of companies have this much

  • concentrated power, they will always abuse it, it’s simply

  • unacceptable in a free society. And if you don’t change

  • the system we can be having this conversation for the next

  • 50 years and be talking about Rupert Murdoch the third.

  • Just as health care and the economy and the environment are

  • political issues that people are familiar with, corporate

  • control over the media is also a major political issue.

  • When you have one network that is so powerful and so intent

  • upon warping the dialogue, it limits that discourse. It

  • actually influences it to be a narrower discourse and

  • that’s what I think citizens should be up in arms about.

  • We can’t accept this anymore. If we do accept it, were

  • handing onto our children, and our grandchildren a less

  • Democracy than we inherited. And that’s the one thing we

  • don’t have a right to do.

  • It’s ironic that it’s been, what, 30 years since Paddy

  • Chayevsky wrote Network but I really believe that those

  • prophetic words that were spoken by Peter Finch when he

  • finally got out of the chair and said: “It’s time. Go to

  • the window, shake your fist and say I’m mad as hell. I’m

  • not going to take it anymore.” I think those are resonant

  • words today. I think people are genuinely upset.

  • Get off your rear end and become an activist. And if you

  • see things that are biased, complain to the outlet and say

  • you won’t be watching anymore.

  • Content has to change. Power has to shift. And I think

  • the only way we can shift power is the only way weve ever

  • been able to shift power; directly confronting those who

  • hold it and taking it back.

  • Policies have been made behind closed doors by very

  • powerful special interest without any public involvement or

  • participation. And what weve learned in the last few

  • years is when the public gets aware of this and they start

  • organizing, we can change these policies and we can make a

  • system that actually responds to the needs of the people of

  • this country.

  • Exec. Dir. Of Center for Digital Democracy America’s digital destiny is hanging in

  • the balance now. With the right activism, public outcry, we

  • can shape a media environment so that in every community

  • there are channels that will serve the public interest.

  • If you are a citizen, at home right now, when you turn on

  • Talk Radio all you hear is one right-wing nut, or another

  • right-wing nut, why don’t you go to the radio station and

  • say, “I’m sick and tired of this. There are progressive

  • voices out there. We want a balance.”

  • If a Fox TV station in your town is broadcasting reports

  • that you know to be inaccurate, that you know to be warping

  • the news. You, as citizens, have power.

  • Groups like Code Pink and other have actually demonstrated outside

  • television stations and have made noise about it.

  • We need to basically play the Paul Revere role. You know

  • kind of,ride out into the night, alerting people that, ah,

  • there’s something bad going on here and something needs to

  • be done about it.

  • Here’s what I’d love to have happen. Family from Nebraska

  • goes to Washington for their family vacation. Were going

  • to visit the Air and Space Museum. Were going to visit

  • the Mall. Were going to visit the Vietnam Memorial. And

  • were going to visit the FCC to see a Commissioner or two

  • to tell them about what we care about. When that happens,

  • we might start to see a little more attention. But, you

  • know, it aint gonna happen if you don’t try.

  • We can actually win here. The whole strength of the

  • system’s based on people being apathetic and not thinking

  • they can do anything about it. As soon as we rise up it

  • collapses like a house of cards. That’s the extraordinary

  • development of the last few years.

  • It’s not an issue of the right or left. It is a populist

  • issue about people finally saying it’s their democracy and

  • they aren’t going to let five companies control the

  • airwaves for corporate convenience at the expense of public

  • necessity.

  • I come from a community in the State of Maine that’s mostly

  • fishing towns, small coastal communities and for many years

  • we were served by one radio station that everybody listened

  • to

  • I mean, it was local radio. Every time I debated an

  • opponent when I was running for office, everybody would

  • tune it in their cars or their home radio and they would

  • hear what we were feeling differently about and when Clear Channel

  • bought it, that was the end. You couldn’t even count on

  • somebody looking out the window and telling you if it was a

  • good day or a bad day or if the fog was coming in.

  • But what was really interesting to me was that people got

  • angry, there was a local group that organized and attempted

  • to get low-power FM radio license.

  • They had a hard battle, Clear Channel opposed them, and

  • they actually won and now there’s a little radio station

  • operated out of a garage in that town, all volunteers,

  • anybody can play the music that they want, but at 5 o’clock

  • every day, they tune into the dialogue of what’s going on

  • in that community.

  • What weve been doing over the last decade is to create

  • alternative infrastructure so we now have an online audience of 10,00

  • unique visitors per day to our home page, plus the over the

  • air audience of our new low power FM radio station, and

  • very soon were going to have public access TV

  • in this community. So weve got three legs of a stool here

  • of an alternative media infrastructure that gives us a means of communicating among

  • ourselves and not just relying on the occasional Letter

  • to the Editor in a corporate newspaper or

  • almost no coverage in the broadcast media because theyre all owned by clear channel

  • and Sinclair and Fox.

  • And when the News Media Council started, one of our first

  • projects was to recruit unorganized youth of color, teenagers. And

  • have them study the Fox Affiliate station in the Bay Area.

  • When we did the study we were able to do an editorial

  • meeting. It was the first time, in probably ten or fifteen

  • years, that a constituency group locally had actually

  • ever came and demanded anything from them. They just

  • get to do whatever they want, nobody cares, nobody understands

  • that they can demand anything. So it was a pretty

  • momentous moment for us you know to both demand something and get

  • it from a Fox Affiliate. But also to be one of

  • the first, you know, folks to come forward and that, that’s

  • something that I think is a trend that were trying to

  • start now. Marginalized people

  • don’t have any concept that they can go to an editor in

  • groups and demand something.

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