@blankfist I'm saying it's not news, not that the rest of the title is wrong. Even the UN resolution that started this whole thing said we'll be taking "direct action" in support of the rebels. Hell, even if you think the "direct action" part is news, I fail to see how sharing intelligence is more significant "direct action", than bombing tank columns and shooting down fighters was.

Just to reiterate, I think the US shouldn't be in Libya either. So what's your real beef with me?

I like absolute truth in my news - otherwise it's not news, it's fantasy!

If only more people understood that Fox is not "news."

>> ^Lithic:

Oh my god! The double-standard is so staggeringly stupidly sickening I just want to punch them.

>> ^BoneRemake:

>> ^ant:
>> ^BoneRemake:
@ant do you really think its proper to place Faux News under the news channel? this is parody purely, in my opinion.
opinions?

Onion NEWS Network.

ol chap, I think the point went right over your head. Frivolous channeling. There I said it. It is not news, its fiction. Fik^tion Ul stories.


Even news parody?

@BoneRemake, I agree. It's not news, channel removed.

>> ^ant:

>> ^BoneRemake:
@ant do you really think its proper to place Faux News under the news channel? this is parody purely, in my opinion.
opinions?

Onion NEWS Network.


ol chap, I think the point went right over your head. Frivolous channeling. There I said it. It is not news, its fiction. Fik^tion*Ul stories.

That study is from 2005, and FOX has climbed quite a few steps on the crazy-ladder since then, secondly, like I said, it finds "most of the media" has a "leftist bias" thats because FOX has, as I said, moved the standard on the right into crazyville. This makes anyone left of Reagan basically into a "leftist." Secondly this was an American study. From the outside, to the rest of the world, FOX and its fans look like bewildered extremists with little or no idea what goes on outside their own, largely imaginary, world.

Your insinuations that I'm some sort of brainwashed leftist is very strange. I'm not American, I'm Norwegian, and frankly American left or right politics mean very little to me, nor, I think, to the rest of the world. To me what matters is that American politicians are reality-based and care about other countries and their history as well as their own, that they respect international laws and treaties and that they know about real problems like global warming and so on.

Which reminds me,the fact that I mention global warming probably proves to you that I'm a "leftist" but in the rest of the world GW is not a partisan issue: It's just a scientific fact. And that example alone is enough to show how screwed up the American right has become. Not only are they denying undeniable scientific fact, but they've managed to make it a partisan issue. Basically they've managed to get half the country to ignore the available data on the changing climate, as well as a few other things, like evolution.

We don't really have partisan lines like that, sure we have fiscal conservatives and progressives, left and right and so on, but we dont have the same degree of reality denial. (Alas, I fear it might be on its way to some of the populistic parties, inspired by the success in the US) Anyway we have discussions and debates and disagree on important principles and so on. But no side lies and distorts systematically, no side is fundamentally antiscientific, and no side is full of religious nuts.. Oh well, I guess what I'm saying is that theres nothing wrong about being right wing, but theres something seriously wrong with the rightwingers.

>> ^Winstonfield_Pennypacker:

I maintain - based on personal experience and analysis - that FOX News is no more biased than any other media outlet. Your perception that it is 'insane' is more a reflection of your own left-wing bias, than towards any inherently stronger bias in FOX News. As a leftist, your sensitivity to differential opinion is very high. You are on the lookout - so to speak - for right wing bias because it more easily upsets and angers you.
As a result of this hypersensitivity, you have a false perception that there is 'more' bias at FOX. In addition, what bias you do see become more exaggerated and extreme in your mind. However, research has repeatedly proven that FOX News is no more biased 'to the right' than MSNBC, CBS, ABC, NYT, NBC, AP, and many other news outlets are biased to the left.
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/Media-Bias-Is-Real-Finds-UCLA
-6664.aspx
This research was conducted by the UCLA - hardly a right wing bastion - and clearly indicates that FOX is not some sort of outlier in the spectrum of media bias.
So I dismiss as poppycock the false accusation that FOX is somehow crazed, while other outlets are not. Such an opinion is balderdash and nonsense. I've watched all news outlets - and there is no difference between Olbermann, Maddow, Schultz on the left and Hannity, Beck, O'Rielly on the right. These persons are not 'news anchors'. They are opinion based infotainers, and they are all equally guilty of voicing strong opinions that their opponents would call 'extremist' or 'crazy'. However, the accusation that FOX is somehow the sole offender in that regard is pure bologna.

I maintain - based on personal experience and analysis - that FOX News is no more biased than any other media outlet. Your perception that it is 'insane' is more a reflection of your own left-wing bias, than towards any inherently stronger bias in FOX News. As a leftist, your sensitivity to differential opinion is very high. You are on the lookout - so to speak - for right wing bias because it more easily upsets and angers you.

As a result of this hypersensitivity, you have a false perception that there is 'more' bias at FOX. In addition, what bias you do see become more exaggerated and extreme in your mind. However, research has repeatedly proven that FOX News is no more biased 'to the right' than MSNBC, CBS, ABC, NYT, NBC, AP, and many other news outlets are biased to the left.

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/Media-Bias-Is-Real-Finds-UCLA-6664.aspx

This research was conducted by the UCLA - hardly a right wing bastion - and clearly indicates that FOX is not some sort of outlier in the spectrum of media bias.

So I dismiss as poppycock the false accusation that FOX is somehow crazed, while other outlets are not. Such an opinion is balderdash and nonsense. I've watched all news outlets - and there is no difference between Olbermann, Maddow, Schultz on the left and Hannity, Beck, O'Rielly on the right. These persons are not 'news anchors'. They are opinion based infotainers, and they are all equally guilty of voicing strong opinions that their opponents would call 'extremist' or 'crazy'. However, the accusation that FOX is somehow the sole offender in that regard is pure bologna.

The "news" part of this clip is the ticker, everything else is editorializing. You can agree with the message or not, but it is not news reporting.

There is plenty of denying the "alleged positive aspects" of what wikileaks is doing. There has been almost nothing that is either new or surprising that comes from the leaks. They are released in a disorganized mishmash which makes them completely incomprehensible. This isn't the pentagon papers. Julian Assange is trying to call himself a journalist for proving war is ugly. That's not news. It's treason. It's demagoguery. It's an ego trip. It's not news.

In fact, the Das Spiegel interview highlights the tyrannical control he's taken of the organization. HE has made it an organization about Julian Assange, not the press. So long as he does that, he can accept full blame for the questions he receives. I don't mind transparency of information. I think Blog Del Narco, for example, does a good job of giving a transparent view of the Mexican drug wars. I just think wikileaks doesn't do a good job largely because of Julian Assange, and his insistence on a particular model. I completely agree with Daniel Schmidt. He should step down in order to deflect these questions, and allow someone else to discuss the meat of their work.

>> ^mxxcon:

would like to see the full video if this incident not news snippets


Just let it keep playing, the full video is next in the playlist. There's no audio. But while they're trying to get his hands behind his back he spins around and grabs one of the cops by the collar right before the punching starts. He's clearly resisting arrest, but the arrest it's self seems totally unwarranted. And the amount of force used is disproportionate. Still, not as black and white as that news story would make it seem.

would like to see the full video if this incident not news snippets

I love how Fox has to put "COMMENTARY" on the screen so that the average Fox viewer will know it's an opinion and not news.

How is this news? Do we get updated on news programs when a congressman goes to the bathroom? When he eats his lunch? Whether is car keys are in his left or right pockets? Of course not, its not news-worthy, because it happens all the time. Likewise, whether the Republicans will filibuster or not, isn't news-worthy. They will automatically filibuster, regardless of the subject or person being voted on.

Now, if they came forward, and didn't filibuster, and actually had some good things to say of the person or bill, THAT, would be news-worthy. If they came up with bills that actually help all Americans, and not just the upper 3%, THAT, would be news-worthy.

Until November rolls around, Republicans are automatically oppositing ANYTHING the Democrats propose or vote on, without question or hestiation.

>> ^choggie:

This kind of non-news here, as well as the link in the description (another absolute non-issue, poorly written), and its being reported again here, is the type of diversion created by paying attention to it at all.


I just thought this was funny. Not news to me, more like comedy.