Black Caucus head: Government ‘held hostage’ by Fox and other media

[kpete]

Black Caucus head: Government ‘held hostage’ by Fox and other media
By Michael O'Brien - 07/22/10 10:34 AM ET

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Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the caucus, said she was concerned that outlets like Fox were creating a culture of “misinformation” that has led to controversies like the one following Shirley Sherrod.

Lee said on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal”:

****When you look at how, not only Fox, but other media outlets — but we focus naturally, because we know how this has evolved with Fox — how many including, sometimes, our government is held hostage, mind you, by the fact that Fox and other media may run wild with snippets and misinformation and create a media frenzy based on half-truths, no-truths.

Sherrod, the director of rural development in Georgia for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), had been fired from that job after video came to light suggesting that she’d purposefully denied assistance to a white farmer. But the full video showed that Sherrod, who is black, was telling a story about overcoming racial prejudice.

more:
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/110309-black-caucus-head-government-held-hostage-by-fox-and-other-media

[blm]

1. Bush and Rove had corpmedia carrying their water daily. And they still do, apparently.

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[Jackpine Radical]

2. Oh, of course.

To expect otherwise would be like expecting a scorpion not to sting.

The painful part is seeing our Administration jumping & cavorting grotesquely to their tune.

[msongs]

3. I have hope that someday change will come and our leaders will start fighting back lol nt