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Originally posted by nfotiu+Sep 30 2004, 03:34 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (nfotiu @ Sep 30 2004, 03:34 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-transplant99@Sep 30 2004, 03:22 PM
The FCC did kibosh his attempted purchase of DirecTV a couple years ago, as they felt it gave far too much power to one corporation for news distributon. The same FCC that is government controlled....and according to you, in bed with the Bush Administration and the Republican party.
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Ummm... Murdoch owns Directv now.
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Honest mistake on Tranny's part. That one was up in the air for a while.
My point Tranny, is the Fox News likes to pass themselves off as being "fair and balanced". The opposite has been well documented (some say proven). The links to the government have been documented (some say proven). The reporting practices have been documented (definitely proven to be questionable). All of these things do not add up to being fair and balanced, especially when they promote the talking point of the day across the entire media empire.
Oh, and it is also illegal. I'm not sure if you're aware, but there is fair play legislation that requires the networks to have equal representation in their content. I'm shocked no one has taken them up on this yet, but I think something may be in the works down the road. Fox has a habit of bringing on well versed Republicans that are powerful speakers, yet they don't do the same for the Democrats. When they do bring them on, they are ambushed, like Hannity did to Jackson (looked really good on Jackson BTW). Fox just doesn't have the practices nor the ethics to be considered a serious media source. They are entrtainment passing off talking points as news. That is wrong.