At Fox TV, war is newsworthy but health care reform is not
December 01, 2009 10:08 am ET by Eric Boehlert
What other message are viewers supposed to take away from the fact that Rupert Murdoch's Fox TV, after refusing to air President Obama's primetime address to Congress in September about health care reform, has decided it will air Obama's primetime address tonight about future U.S. plans for the war in Afghanistan?
This is just amazing. Will Murdoch's Fox TV now decide, based on the topic being addressed, whether it will grant the President of the United States access to its airwaves?
I know, does seem pretty outlandish, doesn't it? Alright it's a lie I just made up!
Thats Blasphemy!
The troop decision is newsworthy because Obama FINALLY made a decision. It is the second decision in his presidency, the first was which dog to get.
Just speculating here.
Ummmmmm, yea, actually. Fox is a private company and has the right to choose what it airs. And, it is doing a heck of a job attracting viewers and making money with the formula it is choosing to use when deciding what to air. Oops......sorry....I mentioned making money like it was a good thing. Sorry about that.
If they choose to pretend to be a media company, then they still have a responsibility to their customers and should provide them with the news, including presidential addresses, rather than withholding it for bogus reasons.
And, it is doing a heck of a job attracting viewers
That Fox attracts lots of idiots is a well-established fact.
and making money with the formula it is choosing to use when deciding what to air.
Ah, it makes a profit, so that makes it legitimate. Nice to see what kind of a journalistic standard you have.
Oops......sorry....I mentioned making money like it was a good thing. Sorry about that.
Find me one quote wherein anyone at MMFA, or any commenter here, or anyone in politics, etc., ever intimated that making money wasn't a good thing. You can't do it, and you are thus a moron for bringing it up and trying to foist such a notion upon us. You're also a bald-faced liar for pretending to be sorry.
If you had any character at all, you really would apologize.
Hey JP, why not try having a clue what you're on about next time?
The address to congress was nothing more than an infomercial. The president was pitching overpriced junk that most of us don't want or need.
The troop increase is newsworthy because the president has made his second real decision since he has been in office. The first was which dog to get.