Those pesky internal Fox News memos

[KurtNYC]

They just keep popping up. Like right now for instance...

http://www.wonkette.com/archives/fox-news-memos-the-whole-batch-017613.php

John Moody says put on the kid gloves for domestic terrorist Eric Rudolph:

We should NOT assume that anyone who supported or helped Eric Rudolph is a racist. No one's in favor of murder or bombing of public places. But feelings in North Carolina may just be more complicated than the NY Times can conceive. Two style notes: Rudolph is charged with bombing an abortion clinic, not a "health clinic."

Then Moody tells Faux staff how to feel about Americans serving in Iraq:

Err on the side of doing too much Iraq rather than not enough. Do not fall into the easy trap of mourning the loss of US lives and asking out loud why are we there?

[Bouncy Ball]

1. Those memos are disgusting.

How can anyone work for FUX and call themselves a journalist?

They have ZERO integrity.

The rest of the memo:

"Oh and be sure to NEVER show photos from Iraq unless there are dancing children and smiling soldiers. Which means....there won't be any photos of Iraq."

[CottonBear]

2. "Do not fall into the easy trap of mourning the loss of US lives..."

WTF? Sick bastards. Who are they supporting? It's certainly NOT our troops.

[Jo March]

3. Okay, could I possibly despise fox more than I do already?

"Do not fall into the easy trap of mourning the loss of US lives and asking out loud why are we there? "

Why, yes. Yes, I can.

[bunkerbuster1]

14. Being a feeling human being is a "trap?"

oh well whatever nevermind.

[Bouncy Ball]

4. I looked at Wonkette's site to read some other FUX internal

memos (directives as to how they should "present" their "news") and found this darkly amusing:

"bush's G-8 trip is actually less important than his fledgling efforts to knock together the Israeli and Palestinian PMs' heads. Let's keep in mind that the G-8 contains the most obstreperous dissidents against the war on terror. Bush has a long memory and new friends in Poland the rest of Eastern Europe. FYI: the city where he's landing is pronounced KRAK-ov, not KRAK-cow. Let's see how this goes."

Hey! Moody doesn't capitalize bush either! bush has new friends in Poland? Well we know THIS is an old memo! And how funny is it that he had to tell them how to say the name of the city?

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

18. and fox is pronounced like

crack-ho.

[Mojambo]

5. I'm going to write a book about Moody

The title?

"American Goebbels"

[Just Me]

6. This is so,...well,....not surprising,...not at all.

I believe it's called "moral equivocation" e.g. intentionally being ambiguous in order to deceive.

[Bouncy Ball]

7. Oh geez, this is horrible:

"Into Fallujah: It's called Operation Vigilant Resolve and it began Monday morning (NY time) with the US and Iraqi military surrounding Fallujah. We will cover this hour by hour today, explaining repeatedly why it is happening. It won't be long before some people start to decry the use of "excessive force." We won't be among that group. . . More than 600 US military dead, attacks on the UN headquarters last year, assassination of Irai officials who work with the coalition, the deaths of Spanish troops last fall, the outrage in Fallujah: whatever happens, it is richly deserved."

That was ACTUALLY in a memo to FUX newscasters, anchors, producers et al. Oh my God.

Anyone who doesn't think FUX is right wing propaganda at its worst is, well....FUXED.

[Bouncy Ball]

8. And another

From: John Moody
Date: 6/2/2003

Heads of state don't leave G-8 meetings early unless they have good reasons. President Bush has two: he has to get to Egypt, and he doesn't like the French. Let's explain to viewers that despite the tepid handshake, Bush and Chirac are far from reconciled, as are the US and Germany. The early departure from Evian should take the sparkle out of the bottled water spa.


Too bad they didn't include the very first memo he sent out:

Why don't we sway public opinion so that people think bush is good and everyone else is bad by twisting the news up and presenting our slant on EVERYTHING? Call it "fair and balanced" just to throw people off. The slack-jaws in Dumbfuckistan will eat it up.

[Bouncy Ball]

9. What does Moody have against civil rights?

"For everyone's information, the hotel where our Baghdad bureau is housed was hit by some kind of explosive device overnight. ALL FOX PERSONNEL ARE OK. The incident is a reminder of the danger our colleagues in Baghdad face, day in and day out. Please offer a prayer of thanks for their safety to whatever God you revere (and let the ACLU stick it where the sun don't shine)."

[RaleighNCDUer]

16. He thinks ACLU is anti-religion, and objects to praying.

ACLU would only object if Fox was a branch of the government, and was ordering its employees to pray.

Oh.

Well, shit.

[KurtNYC]

10. Why does he keep warning about empathy?

They never show any.

Let's not get lost in breast-beating about the sadness of the loss of life.

Is this Moody guy a vampire or something?

[Radical Activist]

11. You mean Fox State Television has an agenda it pushes on its reporters?!

gasp! What is the world coming to?

[Bluebear]

12. "Style notes" eh? Doesn't sound very journalistic to me

You mean they order their staff to use a certain "style" with regards to certain stories, not just reporting facts, fair and balanced?

[KurtNYC]

19. Right -- maybe Falafel will call his show the "No-Style zone"

since in their lexicon it is the same as spin.

[Corgigal]

13. easy trap of mourning the loss of US lives

Never thought of it as a "trap". I always thought it was a human quality. My bad.

[d_b]

15. .......wow

[jswordy]

17. (SMILE) The KEWL thing about these memoes is that...

...some decent folks INSIDE Faux keep leaking them!

That is really KEWL...and ballsy, too!

[Bluzmann57]

20. On the subject of Rudolph

He should be treated like any other suspected terrorist. If he did bomb those women's health clinics (I, unlike some, will presume innocence), then he is no better than McVeigh and Nichols, who were terrorists. I do think that the Feds got the right man in Rudolph, and I do think those who helped him are not only racist, but just as liable as he may be. He is charged with a federal crime and is subject to the death penalty. But if he is convicted and gets death, one can bet that fox "news" will try to make a martyr out of him. And that is just wrong. Domestic terrorists are terrorists and are no better than Arabs or the IRA or any other group that wants to take human life for some alleged idealogical and/or religious principles. So fox "news" apologists, if you are out there reading this, be fair. Treat Rudolph like the probable piece of crap he is and those who knowingly aided him the same.
edited so that the spelling cops don't nail me.

[txaslftist]

21. hay-soos! Could they get any less ethical as journalists???

I'd like to come out of journalism school and go straight to work as a Reichwing shill and not be objective about anything, please.

Is that ok with you, MR. Murdoch?

[IHeart1993]

22. I wonder what he wrote for the

whole "Christmas Under Seige" :nuke: theme that we had to go through this holiday season.