Discussion: UK Regulator Finds Fox News' Hannity, Carlson Breached Impartiality Standards

2 Likes

Would have been simpler just to find them mendacious and malevolent. Which they are, clearly.

24 Likes

Their viewers will only celebrate this news. It really makes you wonder if anything would make Americans want to work together for the common good ever again. I do believe there will be an eventual backlash, but who knows when.

6 Likes

Why is the UK more hard-hitting on the GOP / FUX transgressions than the vast majority of the US media?

16 Likes

I’ll take a guess: Not as greedy?

9 Likes

Typical British understatement…

In other news – as interesting as depressing – Slate has an interactive up with NYT news alerts from the last 12 months. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/11/the_year_in_push_alerts_how_breaking_news_became_our_lives.html

2 Likes

It would be such karmic justice if the sewage pit Ole Rupe created and called “News” was the very thing that bolloxed his dreams in the UK.

But it won’t happen. Palms have been greased, heads have been turned, eyes have been willfully blinded.

18 Likes

Because the UK still has some standards, at least for journalists. For politicians, not so much.

10 Likes

If UK regulators sign off on 21st Century Fox’s purchase of Sky News they get everything they deserve.

They could not possibly have better warning for what’s in store.

18 Likes

Jeepers, so-called news outlets and pundits cannot even engage in grotesque propaganda anymore! What is the world coming to?

8 Likes

May is flagging badly; she probably feels she needs Murdoch’s assistance to shore up her right flank.

13 Likes

Attaching an appropriate label … “propaganda” … clarifies the situation. Fox News, and Sinclair, are the Tokyo Roses in a particularly smelly bouquet of what passes as “fair and balanced” these days

9 Likes

[quote=“carolson, post:3, topic:64713”]
Their viewers will only celebrate this news. It really makes you wonder if anything would make Americans want to work together for the common good ever again.
[/quote]Hannity, Carlson, Ingraham, other Fox ‘pundits,’ Breitbart, etc. and the so-called president of the US promote the idea that there is no “common good.” It’s “us vs. them” and whatever is good for “them” cannot be done, because it wouldn’t be good for “us.” There is no common good on Bullshit Mountain or in Trump World.

13 Likes

very interesting, however, vastly more depressing…

2 Likes

Because we gots: the 1st Amendment and the SCOTUS we gots.

9 Likes

OT, but wtf…could this woman be a bigger and more toxic liar or what?

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/11/06/new-dem-turmoil-as-donna-brazile-levels-sexism-accusations-against-clintons-top-dog.html

About “power and control”? Yeah…about power and control she thought SHE should have but didn’t. I think it’s becoming clear this represents a giant tantrum from someone who thought she was going to be a top dog and found out she never was…and it pissed her off to no end. And how is this quote not sexual harrassment:

““You know, this does not feel like a negotiation to me. This feels like power and control. Gentlemen, let’s just put our dicks out on the table and see who’s got the bigger one, because I know mine is bigger than all of yours.””

IT IS, but “you go, girl” right? . She gets a free pass because she has a vagina and was accusing everyone on the phone of being a sexist? I mean, setting aside that I think it’s probably a lie and self-fluffing fabrication in the first place, since when was it ok to refer to a guy’s dick in workplace situations? How is it not an attempt to abuse or establish power that can be abused to simultaneously openly and publicly accuse a man in the workplace of being a sexist while referring to and demeaning his junk?

13 Likes

WTF?

Did Bernie or Trump hire her to take down the Democrats right now when we should be in a great position? My god! I can only believe either she’s that publicity crazy or she’s being paid for this.

16 Likes

First it’s Billo’s peen, now Mr. Potato Head and Corporal Bowtie are pissing in the soup. What’s next, Hillary’s e-mails?

MAGA!

2 Likes

and Fox News faced a lawsuit alleging that the network worked with members of the Trump administration to push a conspiracy theory about a murder DNC staffer.

13 Likes

The day before Election Day. Literally the worst day of the year to pull stunts like this.

22 Likes