THE MEDIA ISSUE: VOLUME 120, ISSUE 149
UNDER SIEGE
FOX NEWS RACE BAITS, CORPORATE MEDIA SPECTATES
by Malik Isasis
Like a bored monkey in a zoo, the Republicans and their right wing cabal Fox News can’t help flinging their poo at people of color through the bars of their paranoid white supremacist ideological cage. As the mid term-elections near, Fox News has ramped up its race baiting on all fronts: African-Americans, Mexicans, and Mexican Americans, Arabs and Muslim Americans in its mission to create a race war, scaring uninformed white voters who are susceptible to such lizard-brain emotions. Meanwhile, mainstream media stands by and reports on the fallout as if Fox News racial carpet-bombing is legitimate, holding the victims more accountable than the miscreants at Fox who plant and hype stories of killing white babies.
For its malfeasants in journalism and basic indecency, Fox News was gifted a front row seat in the White House Briefing Room by The White House Correspondents Association, further legitimizing Fox’s style of propaganda and infotainment. On its choice, The White House Briefing Room, stated, "It was a very difficult decision" In the contention for the seat was NPR and Bloomberg News. This is nothing new, earlier this year, ABC News’ meat puppet, er, reporter, Jack Tapper, defended Fox News’ when the Obama Administration declared Fox News a non-journalist organization. Here is a transcript of that exchange between White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, and meat puppet, er, reporter, Jack Tapper:
Tapper: It's escaped none of our notice that the White House has decided in the last few weeks to declare one of our sister organizations "not a news organization" and to tell the rest of us not to treat them like a news organization. Can you explain why it's appropriate for the White House to decide that a news organization is not one –
Crosstalk)
Gibbs: Jake, we render, we render an opinion based on some of their coverage and the fairness that, the fairness of that coverage.
Tapper: But that's a pretty sweeping declaration that they are "not a news organization." How are they any different from, say -
Gibbs: ABC -
Tapper: ABC. MSNBC. Univision. I mean how are they any different?
Gibbs: You and I should watch sometime around 9 o'clock tonight. Or 5 o'clock this afternoon.
Tapper: I'm not talking about their opinion programming or issues you have with certain reports. I'm talking about saying thousands of individuals who work for a media organization, do not work for a "news organization" -- why is that appropriate for the White House to say?
Gibbs: That's our opinion.
"Hundreds of journalists come to work each day at FOX News all deeply committed to their craft," Fox News' Senior Vice President of News, Michael Clemente, said in response to Gibbs' comments. "It's disappointing that the White House would be so dismissive of their fine work and continue their vengeful war against a news organization."
In the small world of Washington, D.C. reporting, journalists, and political hitmen and women fraternize and become enmeshed in the small, but powerful sphere of influence and what becomes clear is that they prefer to defend political connects above anything, including real advocacy for a functioning government. Jack Tapper is a perfect example of the corruption of American journalism.
THE NARRATIVE
Colored folks are on the attack, according to Fox News. Here is a sample of the right wing paranoia to scare white people:
AFRICAN AMERICANS:
MEXICANS AND MEXICAN AMERICANS:
ARAB AND MUSLIM AMERICANS
Fox News is contemptuous toward Arabs, and Muslims, Mexican, and African American people and propagates it hate for these groups daily. In addition, when they throw shit against the wall to see what sticks, mainstream media covers it with a sense of disconnectedness, an intellectual dissonance, which undermines our democracy. I don’t know, maybe it’s part of the plan, to incite such cynicism, and hate that nobody votes, and when nobody votes we get the democracy we deserve.
Eight years of Republican governance has caused the economic meltdown under George W. Bush, but the Republicans have blamed their malfeasance on Obama, and the Democratic Party, and the corporate media has colluded in scripting a Lazarus rise of the Republicans to save the country from their 12 years of governance that collapsed the economy in the first place.
Republicans really don’t have to do much governing. In fact, corporate media rarely engages them on substance--like, what will they do differntly than Bush? No, Republicans have to do is to keep throwing shit at passerbyers, and the corporate media will put them back in power, and presto, the wealthy will get more tax cuts, more policies that maintain their wealth, power and privilege.
The rest of us will get an Oligarchy.
UNDER SIEGE
FOX NEWS RACE BAITS, CORPORATE MEDIA SPECTATES
by Malik Isasis
Like a bored monkey in a zoo, the Republicans and their right wing cabal Fox News can’t help flinging their poo at people of color through the bars of their paranoid white supremacist ideological cage. As the mid term-elections near, Fox News has ramped up its race baiting on all fronts: African-Americans, Mexicans, and Mexican Americans, Arabs and Muslim Americans in its mission to create a race war, scaring uninformed white voters who are susceptible to such lizard-brain emotions. Meanwhile, mainstream media stands by and reports on the fallout as if Fox News racial carpet-bombing is legitimate, holding the victims more accountable than the miscreants at Fox who plant and hype stories of killing white babies.
For its malfeasants in journalism and basic indecency, Fox News was gifted a front row seat in the White House Briefing Room by The White House Correspondents Association, further legitimizing Fox’s style of propaganda and infotainment. On its choice, The White House Briefing Room, stated, "It was a very difficult decision" In the contention for the seat was NPR and Bloomberg News. This is nothing new, earlier this year, ABC News’ meat puppet, er, reporter, Jack Tapper, defended Fox News’ when the Obama Administration declared Fox News a non-journalist organization. Here is a transcript of that exchange between White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, and meat puppet, er, reporter, Jack Tapper:
Tapper: It's escaped none of our notice that the White House has decided in the last few weeks to declare one of our sister organizations "not a news organization" and to tell the rest of us not to treat them like a news organization. Can you explain why it's appropriate for the White House to decide that a news organization is not one –
Crosstalk)
Gibbs: Jake, we render, we render an opinion based on some of their coverage and the fairness that, the fairness of that coverage.
Tapper: But that's a pretty sweeping declaration that they are "not a news organization." How are they any different from, say -
Gibbs: ABC -
Tapper: ABC. MSNBC. Univision. I mean how are they any different?
Gibbs: You and I should watch sometime around 9 o'clock tonight. Or 5 o'clock this afternoon.
Tapper: I'm not talking about their opinion programming or issues you have with certain reports. I'm talking about saying thousands of individuals who work for a media organization, do not work for a "news organization" -- why is that appropriate for the White House to say?
Gibbs: That's our opinion.
"Hundreds of journalists come to work each day at FOX News all deeply committed to their craft," Fox News' Senior Vice President of News, Michael Clemente, said in response to Gibbs' comments. "It's disappointing that the White House would be so dismissive of their fine work and continue their vengeful war against a news organization."
In the small world of Washington, D.C. reporting, journalists, and political hitmen and women fraternize and become enmeshed in the small, but powerful sphere of influence and what becomes clear is that they prefer to defend political connects above anything, including real advocacy for a functioning government. Jack Tapper is a perfect example of the corruption of American journalism.
THE NARRATIVE
Colored folks are on the attack, according to Fox News. Here is a sample of the right wing paranoia to scare white people:
AFRICAN AMERICANS:
MEXICANS AND MEXICAN AMERICANS:
ARAB AND MUSLIM AMERICANS
Fox News is contemptuous toward Arabs, and Muslims, Mexican, and African American people and propagates it hate for these groups daily. In addition, when they throw shit against the wall to see what sticks, mainstream media covers it with a sense of disconnectedness, an intellectual dissonance, which undermines our democracy. I don’t know, maybe it’s part of the plan, to incite such cynicism, and hate that nobody votes, and when nobody votes we get the democracy we deserve.
Eight years of Republican governance has caused the economic meltdown under George W. Bush, but the Republicans have blamed their malfeasance on Obama, and the Democratic Party, and the corporate media has colluded in scripting a Lazarus rise of the Republicans to save the country from their 12 years of governance that collapsed the economy in the first place.
Republicans really don’t have to do much governing. In fact, corporate media rarely engages them on substance--like, what will they do differntly than Bush? No, Republicans have to do is to keep throwing shit at passerbyers, and the corporate media will put them back in power, and presto, the wealthy will get more tax cuts, more policies that maintain their wealth, power and privilege.
The rest of us will get an Oligarchy.
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