A handwritten note from Ailes to Condi comes to light, a bit late:

 

 

Madam Secretary: Great first month. You handled hearing beautifully.

If I can be of help off the record—just call.

Warm Regards,

Roger

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In response to WhichOnesPink2's comment:

I know you love to play hall monitor, but are you really going on the record by saying the following to things are precisely the same:

- A news source officially endorsing a candidate for Presidency; and

- A news sources' owner secretly offering "help" to a specific party's official?

 

 

The reach of the Republican alternate reality via its billionaire-backed propaganda arms, Fox News and right-wing radio, bothers me a lot.

I realize that these lock-step disinformation mills are protected by some sort of loophole in the 1st Amendment. I just wish there were a way around it.

Principled opposition by a party motivated to find common ground and craft real solutions to real problems is essential to our democracy; but scorched-earth intransigence that relies on the cynical manipulation of millions of Americans with brazen lies is the bitter root of the hostile political atmosphere across much of the USA today.

I suppose there is no way to legislate honor where there is none.  I guess it's one of those tragedies we all have to live with.

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Regardless, your comment is absurd. Newspapers have been endorsing candidates for years. It is part of of the news business.

The executives of those same papers offering favors to to public officials "off the record" is not part of the news business, however, it is apparently part of the FoxNews model and just goes into the bucket of further evidence that Roger Ailes is simply running a GOP media wing with really good production values.

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In response to UserName99's comment:

Bothers you a lot huh?

Messes up your monopoly?

ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN?

How about all the years before cable we were fed nothing but liberal garbage?

The good old days!!!

In response to 12-Angry-Men's comment:

'smoking gun'?  A friendly note?

What have you been smoking...or ingesting?

 

BBC

sent out emails saying I should support Obama for he is a great leader , will lead USA  forward to a progessive nation that will Join EURO  for a one world Group.

In response to BetheKoolaid's comment:

I see I see. He was just offering to give her a back rub.

As opposed to, say, help the administration in the only way he could: Using Fox to peddle lies as news.

The same thing could be said for MSNBC, and George Stephanopolous. Contraception questions appear out of thin air dweeks before Obama's famous birth control edict? I think not.

Coordination, collusion, as Mr. Murdoch has been laid bare in the UK?  Nah.  Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.

Murdoch&Ailes and the EIB network are sales forces.  No more, no less.  Love hearing the #1 salesman, Mr. Limbaugh, boast about the wonderful time he spends at Mr. Ailes's mansion at Groton-on-Hudson.

At least we're past the phase of it being "only entertainment".

But they will be subject to the arc of entertainment.  And they will be further laid bare.  Why?  Because it's there.

Mr. Hearst had his day.  Mr. Murdoch has his.

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In response to ThatWasMe's comment:

Different flavors of the corporate media, Murdoch&Ailes and the EIB network being the bitterest.

In response to ThatWasMe's comment:

Like Dr. Will shuttling between Mr. Reagan's dressing room and the ABC commentary booth during the debates?

In response to WhatDoYouWantNow's comment:

Come on we continually get lectured about the independence of news organizations editorial staff/board and the objective news operation.

In response to Firewind's comment:

Yeah that cost Carter his relection.

In response to Firewind's comment:

You don't watch MSNBC?

They gave Al Sharpton the race baiter his own show.

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In response to WhatDoYouWantNow's comment:

PEW: MSNBC 'more partisan' than FOXNEWS...

In response to ThatWasMe's comment:

There's no doubt that MSNBC is partisan, but nobody who watches MSNBC thinks that all other media has a Republican bias.  Conservatives have themselves thinking that news is only fit to believe if it has Rupert Murdoch's stamp of approval.

 

 

MSNBC’s coverage of Mitt Romney was far more negative than Fox News’ coverage of President Barack Obama during the period of Aug. 27 through Oct. 21, according to a study from Pew Research Center.

During that time, 71 percent of MSNBC's coverage of Romney was negative, compared to 46 percent negative coverage of Obama by Fox. The News Corp. network also beat MSNBC on the positive side. Fox gave Obama 6 percent positive coverage, while MSNBC gave Romney only 3 percent positive coverage.

Overall, the mainstream media evidenced a bias toward Obama, the study shows. Coverage of Obama was 19 percent positive, 30 percent negative, and 51 percent mixed. For Romney, the totals were 15 percent positive, 38 percent negative, and 47 percent mixed.



 http://www.newsmax.com/US/obama-romney-media-coverage/2012/11/02/id/462565#ixzz2B6d3Hw6b