Howard Dean: Fox News Is A ‘Well-Funded, Right-Wing Propaganda Organization’

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Howard Dean: Fox News Is A ‘Well-Funded, Right-Wing Propaganda Organization’
http://www.mediaite.com/online/howard-dean-fox-news-is-not-news-it-is-a-well-funded-right-wing-propaganda-organization/

Former Democratic candidate for President Howard Dean unleashed some harsh comments about the Tea Party, Republicans and Fox News, in a recent speech at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania. Warning that “the right wing desire to run things differently is threatening to the country,” Dean (the self-described “professional media hater”) proves here to be willing to hold nothing back.

Dean, the media critic, offered this assessment of the different cable news channels:

“There’s a difference between Fox and MSNBC. They’re both bias. . . . Bias is not the problem, it’s something that makes us mad, but it’s not the problem. It’s when you become a propaganda outlet. What Fox News says is often not true, and they know it’s not true and they say it anyway. It is not a news organization, it is a very expensive, incredibly well-funded, right-wing propaganda organization.”

By comparison, Dean says “the facts on MSNBC true” and cites the “death panels” as an example of a lie Fox repeated during the healthcare debate. Although he doesn’t hold Sarah Palin responsible for saying “death panels,” since politicians can say whatever they want, he is unwilling to forgive Fox for repeating it. As for the Tea Party, he alleges they are “going off the deep end” because its members are angry they are all over 55, white and shrinking in size. With such a passionate speech, some might not have been surprised if Dean ended it with his infamous “Dean Scream,” yet he admits the coverage of that incident contributes to some of his anger towards the media.

Watch the clip of Dean’s speech below:
http://www.mediaite.com/online/howard-dean-fox-news-is-not-news-it-is-a-well-funded-right-wing-propaganda-organization/

YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9gAcPeOFic&feature=player_embedded#at=67

[SpiralHawk]

1. "D'oh." - Honorable & Discerning Americans Citizens

[Lisa D]

2. Go Dean!

Fox News belongs in the dustbin of history.

[aaaaaa5a]

3. RIght on the money.

The problem with FOX news is that so many people watch it and think they are getting actual news. That's propaganda at its best.

[bvar22]

4. DEAN!!!!

One of the very small handful of "Democrats" who is willing to Tell it Like it is!

Thank YOU, Dr. Dean.




If you are not FOR this NEW WAR,
then you are with The Communists AlQaeda Saddam Qaddafi!!!

[WillyT]

5. K & R !!!

:kick:

[The Wizard]

6. Fox is the preferred news source

for bigots, punks, suckers and jerkoffs.

[L. Coyote]

9. Fox is preferred to news!

If people wanted the news, they would go elsewhere.

[howmad1]

24. And most "Independant" voters.

[Stuart G]

7. It is not "news" It is right wing talk...........nt

[deacon]

8. Absolutely. n/t

[Shagbark Hickory]

10. Gee whiz. What does that make msnBS then? And Cnn? They must get paid

a fortune not to have any news.

[fascisthunter]

11. I Think FOX has its days numbered

the more the truth comes out the harder it will be for them to sell themselves as anything but Right Wing propaganda

[BobbyBoring]

12. Straight from the "no Shit Sherlock" department

n/t

[Iggo]

13. ...and bacon is delicious. (n/t)

[ChoppinBroccoli]

14. That's The Cover Story In This Month's Edition Of "Duh" Magazine

[russspeakeasy]

15. Please Mr. Dean give us another chance.

[certainot]

16. dean is right but in the main, but fox is a decoy - radio is their best weapon

fox is just visual icing on the talk radio lie turd pie

american democracy will be forever fucked as long as the left ignores the radio and keeps giving it a free speech free ride.

it is the radio that makes fox possible and makes candidates like dean "unacceptable"

[Armstead]

20. And you can thank President Clinton for that

The 1996 Telecommunications Deform Act basically took away ownership limits so that companies like Clear Channel and CBS?Viacom could go from owning a handful of radio stations to thousands of stations, and pump them full of RW programming.

While that is not the only reason talk radio is so right wing -- but removing diversity of ownership -- especially local or regional ownership -- sealed the deal against all but the right-wing corporate crapola.

[certainot]

21. reagan killed the Fairness Doctrine in 1986 - not clinton- that was the key

and that is when the monopoly started - the old FD, whatever the problems with it, would have made coordinating 1000 radio stations with single message RW radio impossible. monopolizing for commercial purposes is one thing that propaganda machine would not have been possible with a fairness doctrine in place.

clinton fucked up yes, but losing the FD is the real problem

[Lydia Leftcoast]

17. I knew that 20 years ago

:shrug:

[Horse with no Name]

18. Yet our DEMOCRATIC President gave them an exclusive platform

....

[Kingofalldems]

19. Keep this kicked

[Orsino]

22. MSNBC has its own problems with truth.

The difference between it and Fox is one of degree, not of kind.

Fox is just the network that lies pretty much all the time.

[Johnny2X2X]

23. On the money

That's what I have been saying in my online debates for a while. MSNBC has gone more to the left and I will admit is biased now, however MSNBC still doesn't make up the News to fit their bias like FOX does. There are too many instances to list here of where FOX has been caught red handed lying.

[Diclotican]

25. cal04

cal04

I have been telling that since I saw FOx news right after 11 sept 2001.. A propaganda outlet for the extreme right... And have many times been "Grilled" for it, by the same persons, who was in love with Mr Bush' "either are you with us or against us"...

Diclotican