Howard Kurtz said Fox News is "entitled" to be a Bush "cheerleader" and "misinform our society"

[antiimperialist]

Summary: On Glenn Beck, Howard Kurtz said that Keith Olbermann has described Fox News as a channel that "poses as a news organization and puts out dangerous misinformation is a cheerleader for the Bush administration, that it is misinforming our society." Kurtz added: "But you know what? They're entitled to do that."

Thu, Sep 13, 2007 2:55pm ET
http://mediamatters.org/items/200709130004

[AX10]

1. K & R!

I saw that and posted it as part of another thread regarding Fox Nuts Channel.

:thumbsup:

:dem:

:kick:

[aquart]

2. No, I believe they're not. Public airwaves and all.

[antiimperialist]

4. But he's a media critic. Don't you think he should have criticized misinformation?

He didn't criticize Fox at all in Glen Beck's show. What do you have to say about that?

[antiimperialist]

3. And this is who the Washington Post calls a "media critic"

More like media lapdog.
How pathetic.

[rusty quoin]

5. Didn't Fox win a law suit allowing them to misinform?

[recoveringdittohed]

6. Yes they did!

Link to article regarding the suit follows. A local Fox Network station sued for and won the right to lie & misinform.

http://www.projectcensored.org/publications/2005/11.html

[Flying Dream Blues]

8. Thanks for posting this. Just when I thought nothing would surprise me... nt

[3waygeek]

7. I smell a Worst Person in the World nom

for Howie. Hope KO knows about this.

[Cha]

9. What was that farce of a show kurtz

had on crap not news? The sham with cokie, and the rest of the addled?

Whatever..didn't they set themselves up as monitors of the veracity of news only they got it just backasswards?

I always knew kurtz was a corporatemediawhore and he doesn't give a shit who knows it.