Fox News exec takes issue with Hillary Clinton’s criticism of US media

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Raw Story

Fox News exec takes issue with Hillary Clinton’s criticism of US media
By Sahil Kapur
Saturday, March 5th, 2011 -- 1:43 pm

A Fox News executive said he was surprised and "curious" at Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's recent praise for Al-Jazeera and criticism of US media.

"We've got leadership issues there, the safety of people, the safety of our own people," said Michael Clemente, a senior vice president of Fox, according to The Associated Press. "Some big issues. All of a sudden there are headlines about Al-Jazeera versus the news in this country? It's just surprising. Curious more than surprising."

Clinton on Wednesday called Al-Jazeera -- which has vigorously covered the pro-democracy movement in the Middle East -- "real news" and fretted that American media was relying too much on "talking heads" rather than informing people.

"Like it or hate it, it is really effective," Clinton told a group of lawmakers. "In fact, viewership of Al-Jazeera is going up in the United States because it is real news."



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[Cleita]

1. Oooo...sensitive!

:rofl:

[tosh]

2. ...

:rofl:

[tanyev]

3. Don't worry, Mr. Clemente. You're not a news station, so she wasn't even talking to you.

[Kingofalldems]

4. He's a concern troll.

[lunatica]

5. Yup. You definitely have issues Mr. Clemente

Now why don't you trot out your Mean Girl Palin so you can attack Hillary through her?

[CBHagman]

6. Context is everything.

If you look at the hearing in which Hillary Clinton made those remarks, you'll see she was talking about getting through to listeners/viewers in other parts of the world, not trashing American media per se. She said that during the Cold War the U.S. did quite a good job (I assume she meant Radio Free Europe broadcasts, etc.) but that after the Berlin Wall came down, there was no feeling we had to continue.

She specifically cited a skewed view of the U.S. via popular culture, and I'd say that's fair enough. Here's a quote from her testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week:

...our private media, particularly cultural programming, often works at counterpurposes to what we truly are as Americans and what our values are. I remember having an Afghan general tell me that the only thing he thought about Americans is that all the men wrestled and the women walked around in bikinis, because the only TV he ever saw was Baywatch and World Wide Wrestling. So we are in an information war, and we are losing that war.

I remember years back a friend of mine -- a young man, a jazz aficionado and movie buff, certainly no prude, and definitely not a right-winger -- said some of the content in American popular culture offended him and he could certainly understand why it would alienate people around the world.

[AndyTiedye]

9. The Tee Vee IS NOT The Popular Culture

Tee Vee shows what TPTB want us to be.
Some try to be the people they see on the Tee Vee.
Some don't even watch it.

The best of the popular culture never makes it onto the Tee Vee.

[cognoscere]

12. Really? Dammit, here I thought she was calling out the propagandists,

the gossips, and the well-paid whores who want us to think they are providing news.

[spanone]

7. me thinks ye doth protest too much

[eleny]

8. Ooh-ooh, I bet I know what Hillary was thinking...

[Jokinomx]

10. "the safety of people, the safety of our own people"

This is the most telling of the dirtbag's quote.

I interpret this to mean that he feels the American people can't handle the truth. There would be violent action should the news not be filtered and manipulated.

My humble opinion

:toast: to Hillary for calling it out.

[Andy823]

11. I have an idea.

Send Bill O., Hannity, Beck and some if those "blondes", over to say Libby, and let them do some "real" reporting, real news stuff, not the BS they do everyday at Fox! If he wants to be treated like a "real" news group, let his reporters prove they can do "real" news reporting!

[toddwv]

13. Fox News adheres to the highest standards

of misinformation, disinformation, bias and outright lying.

HOW DARE SHE!

[Ohio Joe]

14. Sorry FOX but lies are not news... they are lies....

Stop lying and start reporting news and we will refer to you as a news agency. Until then you are simply liars.