FoxPAC: Network Again Engaging in Political Advocacy with "9-12 Project"

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Washington, D.C. - Today, on the eighth anniversary of 9-11, one day before Glenn Beck's "9-12 Project" descends on Washington, Media Matters for America calls attention to what has become a familiar, disturbing pattern on the purportedly "fair and balanced" news network.

Fox News now routinely engages in political advocacy against the Obama administration and the Democratic Congress, and Beck's promotion of a September 12 march on Washington is the latest example. Network executives have made little effort to hide Fox News' agenda, with one referring to the network as the "voice of opposition."

"There is little difference between being the 'voice of opposition' and just being the opposition," said Eric Burns, president of Media Matters. "Since the president's election, Fox News has become nothing more than the 24/7 media wing of the Republican Party. No political party in American history has had such an enormous megaphone."

http://mediamatters.org/press/releases/200909110017

[aquart]

1. Where is the FCC? Hanging out with the DOJ and doing nada together?

[Cha]

2. Fucking fauxsn00ze is the propaganda machine

for the party of exteme chickenshits..of course they're going to advertise a coming together of all chickenshits.

The chickens better watch out ..this might lead to the Law Of Unintended Consequences like all of their bullshit stunts.

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3. self proclaimed 'news channel' that actually promotes an ideology..and courts the fringe

biased? you bet...beyond biased...

[Vinnie From Indy]

4. And yet Democratic leadership still seems oblivious or powerless or both

I am in awe of the lack of resolute action by Democratic leadership and Liberal organizations to address the gargantuan right wing hate machine media. Where are the hearings? Where are the strategies to raise the cost of doing business to those companies supporting the FOX Network and Clear Channel etc. with their ad dollars? The need to offer that it is long past time for Rush Limbaugh to get his fat ass kicked off of Armed Forces Radio seems ridiculously obvious.

Make no mistake! The issue of addressing the right wing media machines is as important to this country as healthcare or any other issue you could name.