{"id":419492,"date":"2010-03-12T04:30:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T09:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=72414"},"modified":"2010-03-12T04:30:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T09:30:21","slug":"news-is-presented-between-203-and-209-p-m-eastern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/419492","title":{"rendered":"News is presented between 2:03 and 2:09 p.m. Eastern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class='hitEmbed_left'><object width=\"250\" height=\"201\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/nw6LBbeXTww&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/nw6LBbeXTww&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"250\" height=\"201\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>Today, the Washington Post &#8212; apparently because there were no members of the Kagan family available &#8212; has an Op-Ed from Howell Raines castigating journalists for not calling <em>FoxNews<\/em> what it is, a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/03\/11\/AR2010031102523.html\"> right-wing propaganda<\/a> operation 23:54\/7.<\/p>\n<p>This will not set well with alleged media critic <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/201001250017\">Howard Kurtz<\/a> as it will take away from his Tiger Woods\/Eric Massa-related <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/HowardKurtz\">twitter time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p>&#8230;some say a distinction must be made between Fox&#8217;s opinion shows (O&#8217;Reilly, Beck, Hannity) and its news programming.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Well,<em> I say<\/em> this Mr. or Ms. &#8220;Some&#8221; is a real asshole, which must be why Kurtz respects their opinion.<\/p>\n<p>A distinction between the opinion shows as O&#8217;Reilly, Beck, and Hannity and the news programming?<\/p>\n<p>Which is what?<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-72415\" href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/2010\/03\/12\/news-is-presented-between-203-and-209-p-m-eastern\/fandf_9-14\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-72415\" title=\"fandf_9-14\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.firedoglake.com\/1\/files\/2010\/03\/fandf_9-14-150x86.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"86\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Fox &amp; Friends<\/em>, where every morning is three hours of agenda setting on right-wing talking points?  Where it is a legitimate for interviewees to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/fox-news-theater-a-current-gop-hero-in-pimp-costume\/\">appear as pimps<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/201003010037\">faked<\/a> news stories (no correction for that yet, right?).<\/p>\n<p>Or perhaps it&#8217;s just the rest of the &#8220;fair&#8221; and &#8220;balanced&#8221; &#8220;news&#8221; programming, like<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/watch\/wed-march-3-2010\/anchor-management\"> Megyn Kelly&#8217;s<\/a> finding a broad swath of the public constituted by four white people at a retirement community?<\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=72414&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_72414\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><br style='clear:none' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Washington Post &#8212; apparently because there were no members of the Kagan family available &#8212; has an Op-Ed from Howell Raines castigating journalists for not calling FoxNews what it is, a right-wing propaganda operation 23:54\/7. 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