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PASADENA, Calif. (AP) The chiefs of CNN and Fox News Channel are throwing shots at each other, each suggesting the other's network is essentially out of the news business.
Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes struck first, saying in an interview published this week that it was interesting for CNN "to throw in the towel and announce they're out of the news business." It was a reference to CNN President Jeff Zucker's efforts to expand CNN's offerings beyond breaking news.
"We happen to be in the business, as opposed to some other fair and balanced network," Zucker responded at a news conference on Friday.
He suggested that Ailes' remarks, published in the Hollywood Reporter, were silly and an attempt to deflect attention from "The Loudest Voice in the Room," a book on Ailes and Fox by New York magazine writer Gabriel Sherman that is being published this month.
Zucker said he hadn't read the book, but that from what he heard it confirmed that "the Republican Party is being run out of News Corp. headquarters masquerading as a cable news channel."
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phasma ex machina
(2,328 posts)Complete with a has been actor ad-libbing to a chair.
A cheap circus side show.
madinmaryland
(64,931 posts)news business.
Propaganda business - yes. News business - ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NO!
What a fucking douchebag!
elzenmahn
(904 posts)...Ailes came out of the Nixon Administration, where he had his grand plan of creating a GOP-only TV network, GOPTV.
He got his chance when he teamed up with Rupert Murdoch - GOPTV is now Fox News.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)Both news outlet are just horrid.
elzenmahn
(904 posts)...and I can only imagine what foreign visitors must think when they view these outlets and compare them against the CBC, BBC, or other foreign outlet. Some of them are propaganda machines, as well - but are they as insulting to the intelligence?
I don't even bother watching American mainstream TV anymore. No more CNN, ABC, NBC, C-BS, Fox, or MSN-BS. I get my news in other ways and other outlets and bring my salt shaker with me. With the American Alphabet Soup broadcasters, forget the shaker - I need a backpack full of cow salt licks.
WinstonSmith4740
(3,055 posts)"We happen to be in the business, as opposed to some other fair and balanced network,"
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)elzenmahn
(904 posts)He can start with Robert Greenwald's work, "Outfoxed".
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)DFW
(54,302 posts)When one considers how often Fox Noise has "reported" a story they knew to be false, either before "reporting"it or not correcting it after knowing it was false, and how often the erroneous story was then cited by Republican members of Congress in their talking points, one could be forgiven for concluding that the dialog for Republican members of Congress is written at the Fox "News" studios, and given to congressional Republicans to parrot once Ailes has approved it.
ProgressSaves
(123 posts)Rstrstx
(1,399 posts)I always though he was the official Minister of Propaganda for the Republican Party, now I'm confused
jmowreader
(50,533 posts)The news business right now has two principal players: Rachel Maddow and Jon Stewart.
countmyvote4real
(4,023 posts)I haven't gone there in years. Pot calling Kelly black.
FatBuddy
(376 posts)whining fatigue is setting in.
people need to get out there and put their asses on the line to actually, um, i dunno, DO SOMETHING.
but i can't though. I have bills to pay and stuff.
hey young people, you get to inherit this shitpile, get off your asses and let your generation stand for something other than selfies and navel gazing.
signed,
grumpy old man
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)it seems pilotless, rambling, compartmentalized and sickly.