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I know from experience how difficult it is to tell the truth about Big Media. But News Corp moguls need to answer for Fox News Channel airing doctored photos of two New York Times television beat staffers to make them look like trolls – all because the duo dared to report the news. 
Of course, News Corp squeals like a stuck pig whenever anyone criticizes their people. And Peter Chernin and Rupert Murdoch themselves are thin-skinned. (Again, I know this from experience…) But NYT reporter Jacques Steinberg and TV editor Steve Reddicliffe were just doing their job. And News Corp has plenty of opportunities to take on that reporting in the proper forums. What I don’t understand is the corporate culture at News Corp where the response is always to attack, attack, attack its critics in as underhanded a way as possible. (Again, I know this from experience…) It’s said that the fish stinks from the head. Murdoch may be unredeemable. But Chernin likes to think of himself as a good guy…
Both MediaMatters.com and Editor & Publisher have the details.
Editor-in-Chief Nikki Finke - tip her here.
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Hey Brian, so you think the NYT is full of communists and traitors? Does that excuse what Fox did? Do you think the NYT could get away with putting a doctored photo of Rupert Murdoch on their front page? Do you think they’d even try? Why not? Oh right– they’re a legtimate news source.
Oh I forgot– you’re a knee-jerk conservative and with that comes the moral high ground that only someone who’s convinced of his own pathetic righteousness can stand upon. Isn’t there a cave for you to crawl back into? How does it feel always being wrong?
Actually, someone pointed out to me on my blog that it simply a matter of whatever program they used to resize the jpg that it changed the colors and distorted it. Someone did not know what they were doing. But it’s an easy mistake. A lot of photo editing programs will do this if you change the dimensions like they did (from square to rectangle).
It was probably just an honest mistake.
Brian,
When The New York Times printed article after article written by reporter Judith Miller supporting the Bush administration’s false claims that there were WMD’s in Iraq, they were being commies? Traitors? These weren’t op/ed pieces, these were news pieces.
When conservative Bill Kristol gets to write pro-Bush and anti-Obama op/ed pieces week after week, they’re also being communists? Traitors?
When has Maureen Dowd ever supported Al Queda? To criticize President Bush and his policies is not traitorous or supporting terrorists. Questioning our elected officials about everything they do is actually the job of the press.
It’s July 4th, maybe you should take this patriotic day as an opportunity to re-read our great nation’s Constitution? Especially that part about free speech.
Brian, man, you are too funny. Are you available for weddings and bar mitzvahs?
Thanks Nikki. This election season has been a new low for Fox News, with this being only the latest example.
to brian,
what’s it like being you? must be frightening.
Olbermann does shit like this DAILY. Youtube is filled with retraction videos from that asshat but not once have I heard or read anything on this site blasting that.
Fox & Friends goofing on some asshats is no different. (Since when was Fox & Friends a news show? It’s a coffee time gab fest on par with dreck like The View. Get over yourselves.)
Brian,
It is Al Qaeda. That isn’t the fault of spell check, that is your ignorance.
Fox News isn’t real. It is no more real then Pravda was at the height of the cold war. It epitomizes yellow journalism. Mind you most of our news media have stopped practicing journalism in their quest for ratings and readers and the need to do the bidding of their corporate masters.
That you don’t actually know the name of the organization you despise isn’t surprising.
Wow. Brian, you’re too much! What’s sad is that you truly believe the spittle-flecked tripe that you’re repeating from talk radio and such.
Paul Krugman’s writings on economic policy matters show a stronger-bent towards capitalism than what is currently being practiced in this country. You want to talk about communists/Soviets? How about Dick Cheney’s strong push to creating an infallible and unquestioned executive branch – he’s more Stalin and less George Washington. Fox News itself is little more than a GOP Pravda.
After all the left wing bias and lies from the NYT, MSNBC, et. al. you whine about this? You are in serious need of a “sense of proportion” transplant. Chill out.
Looks like an editorial cartoon to me. What’s the difference?
It didn’t hit me until this moment, but they intentionaly doctored the photographs to make the two men look more ethnic. When you go to MediaMatters and watch the clip, Steve Doocy hammers the “Stein” in “Steinberg” as if Steinberg’s Jewish name helps his point. Fox News is really scary. Nazi Scary.
Um, Brian? Can I ask where you live? God, I can only hope it’s not next door to me.
Paul Krugman a capitalist. That is too funny as he wants to triple the taxes on everyone earning more than 25,000 a year, nationalize health care thus making Doctors work for say 25,000 a year which is what you would have to do. How many doctors would stay at work for that. Or you could double the SSI and make that a health inssurance plan too. Double the capital gains tax on income that you make when you sell your house or retire and start using your 401K or just investing in the stock market.
As for as Judith Miller and her reporting so what. Every intelligence network around the world thought Saddam had the weapons. So did his generals who were asking him to release them during the invasion. So who lied. It was Saddam. He wanted everyone to think he had them and guess what, they did. This nonsense that Bush lied is utter liberal crap. He had lousy intelligence because of the liberals in the first place. Frank Church, Jimmy Carter and others destroyed the CIA’s human intelligence capabilities and they have never recovered. So you want to blame someone start there.
The NYT had one conservative on their editorial staff William Safire and he retired. So they occationally deign to put a conservatives column in the paper. Big deal. The coverage by the NYT come right out of the DNC which bleeds into CNN (The Clinton News Network)and MSNBC, CNBC, ABc, NBC, and CBS news. Once the surge started to work no news came from Iraq. Why because if it doesn’t bleed there is no lead.
Treason has a definition. Providing aid and comfort to the enemy in a time of war. My understanding of that includes undermining the Commander in Chief by making derogatory remarks about his intelligence, making him constantly defend his decisions that have no reasonable basis. I’m sure most of the libs here would have found it treasoness if Republicans had daily press conferences during WWII to castigate Roosevelt’s decisions about various/numerous mistakes made then. But they didn’t. Why. Because we were at war.
Al Qaeda, thanks. I guess you don’t despise them. Lets give them lawyers and nice little juice boxes and pat them on the head instead of killing every one of them and their supporters.
Wow. I guess it *is* more subtle than photoshopping turbans on their heads, though. Right?
It doesn’t matter whether the people at the NYT are communists, Sandanistas, Wiccans or Blue Meanies. It’s unacceptable for a so-called news organization to doctor photos like that.
And Hud, whoever told you it’s just a distortion effect didn’t look closely at the pictures. Check out Reddicliffe’s hairline — they actually airbrushed out hair to make him look balding.
It’s juvenile, it’s dishonest, it’s preposterous. Saying that the people who were subjected to it are Commies so it’s okay is no kind of acceptable standard for news. It’s okay to lie about people we don’t like? That’s how we uphold the ideals of the US these days?
kdb
Everyone, please stop attacking Brian!!
As the only true patriot on this bleeding liberal site, he understands that to spread freedom and democracy, one must NEVER question or criticize a sitting wartime President, no matter how much that President lies, deceives or routinely displays a lack of intelligence.
You Commie liberals destroyed the CIA’s ability to get information (aside from torture), which is why we invaded a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 and executed its leader. Bin Laden remains at large b/c the President just can’t think straight with all these pot-smoking Commies at the NYT criticizing him all the time. If they would just shut up, we could literally hear Bin Laden’s footsteps and sneak up behind him and say “Gotcha!”
As for Fox and Friends, it’s clear that Jesus gave them the power to see what Commies look like on the INSIDE. Those hilarious rascals Doocy & Kilmeade were just accurately reporting what they see when they use Christ-o-Vision. It’s not their fault the Commies look like Heebs – just an unfortunate coincidence. (sucks to be right all the time, eh Bri??)
Now, if you’ll excuse us, Brian and I have some hot, hate-filled love-making to do before we put on capes and fly around the country looking for communists, traitors and other domestic enemies.
Good day to you all and Happy Fourth of July!
Hey Brian, “fascism” and “totalitarianism” have definitions too. And Roosevelt didn’t manufacture his war. Or lie about it.
I love the tolerance of the left…the ONE outpost on TV that doesn’t present a slanted view on everything, should be burned to the ground.
I doubt 99.99% of the people out there even care about this.
Amen Brian, well said.
Manny is right Olbermann does this kind of crap daily and no one blasts him. But because Fox news does it they are evil and bad…
*eyeroll*
Wow, so what I get from reading the Fox fan’s comments is that they don’t care if the news channel they watch is twisting and distorting the truth. As long as you like the sound of what they’re telling you, you don’t mind living in a lie? What a sad bunch of sheeple.
Um Brian, could you please cite proof for your outlandish claims about Paul Krugman? Of course you can’t — because they’re all lies.
If you knew anything about Mr. Krugman, you’d know that he worked for the Reagan White House. Jeez, I guess Reagan was a Communist too.
Brian, why do you feel compelled to lie? Clearly it’s because the facts don’t support your argument.
Brian’s belief that disagreeing with the government is “treason” is one he shares with folks such as Stalin, Mao, and Castro – you know “communists.” In America we consider it democracy and the “free market of ideas.” And, contrary to his assertions, isolationist Republican’s did criticize F.D.R. and Abraham Lincoln, during a crisis far greater than any America has since faced, was brutally attacked by anti-war Northern newspapers. Brian should do some research – young Bush has had it easy.
Perhaps Brian, like Rupert Murdoch, would be happier in a totalitarian country. He should consider joining the Taliban.
I wonder if “providing aid and comfort to the enemy” includes such things as invading Iraq with too few troops and no plan for the aftermath — even though it was well known that the country might disintegrate because the issue had been extensively researched during Desert Storm and was the reason why we didn’t march to Baghdad in ’91?
Or ensuring that Iranian-backed political parties dominate Iraq’s government?
Or revealing the identity of a clandestine CIA operative for petty political reasons?
Or firing the inspectors who are to trying to ensure that the U.S. taxpayer’s money for rebuilding Iraq is actually used to rebuild Iraq?
Or failing to provide troops with body armor?
The individual who most undermined our current Commander-in-Chief is the current Commander-in-Chief. Perhaps he should prosecute himself for treason.
Let me ask you all, that are attacking Brain and Fox News. If a Left Winged Liberal news paper or CNN did this, would you all be acting like this? No you wouldn’t in fact you would all be laughing at it.
So get off your high horse and shut up!
Wow!
Brian not only doesn’t know anything about the Constitution, specifically the Bill Of Rights, but also knows nothing about history, especially the way the Republicans attacked FDR. This ludicrous quote from one of his moronic rants: “Treason has a definition. Providing aid and comfort to the enemy in a time of war. My understanding of that includes undermining the Commander in Chief by making derogatory remarks about his intelligence, making him constantly defend his decisions that have no reasonable basis. I’m sure most of the libs here would have found it treasoness if Republicans had daily press conferences during WWII to castigate Roosevelt’s decisions about various/numerous mistakes made then. But they didn’t. Why. Because we were at war.” is an excellent example of his stupidity!
1. The 1st Amendment is our guarantee of freedom of speech & attacking the president’s intelligence, or in the case of Bush, his lack of same is not treason.
2. The Republicans consistently attacked FDR. Many referred to him as Franklin Delano Rosenfeld! Yes, they were so enlightened, then as now!
3. It’s spelled treasonous, you uneducated troll!
“X does this all the time!”
Give us a link. Please. Seriously. That’s one of the great things about the internet. You can PROVE your point with examples.
If X does this all the time … show us. And — ugly or unflattering photos are NOT the same. Give us the link to the doctored photos intentionally making the opponent look like a troll.
Please. Give us links to all these examples that happen “daily” so we can be enlightened.