Et Tu, Fox News Channel?
According to this piece, the outrageously false and misleading NARAL ad first discussed on this site here is set to appear on not only on CNN -- but on the Fox News Channel, as well. (HT to commenter Colonel Steve in post immediately below).
Given that the University of Pennsylvania's nonpartisan Annenberg Center Fact Check.org has stated flatly that "The ad is false," it's amazing that any reputable news organization would make the decision to air it.
Once again, note that at the beginning of the oral argument in the case with which NARAL takes issue, even according to The LA Times, "Roberts appeared before the court, opening his remarks by saying that he was not defending the acts of the protesters." So how, exactly, does that square with calling John Roberts a judge "whose ideology leads him to excuse violence against other Americans"?
If Fox News and CNN goes on to run these ads, they will tarnish their reputations and erode their credibility. How does any news organization implicitly assert it's telling its viewers the truth, and then run an ad that is demonstrably false in a variety of ways?
They need to return NARAL's sleazy and fictitious ad with a polite "No, thank you." After all, they're in the news business, not the "sanitation industry" -- and that's the only appropriate place for such garbage.
Given that the University of Pennsylvania's nonpartisan Annenberg Center Fact Check.org has stated flatly that "The ad is false," it's amazing that any reputable news organization would make the decision to air it.
Once again, note that at the beginning of the oral argument in the case with which NARAL takes issue, even according to The LA Times, "Roberts appeared before the court, opening his remarks by saying that he was not defending the acts of the protesters." So how, exactly, does that square with calling John Roberts a judge "whose ideology leads him to excuse violence against other Americans"?
If Fox News and CNN goes on to run these ads, they will tarnish their reputations and erode their credibility. How does any news organization implicitly assert it's telling its viewers the truth, and then run an ad that is demonstrably false in a variety of ways?
They need to return NARAL's sleazy and fictitious ad with a polite "No, thank you." After all, they're in the news business, not the "sanitation industry" -- and that's the only appropriate place for such garbage.
posted by LadybugUSA at 9:17 PM
1 Comments:
Slow down Carol. WaPo runs a story by a staff writer stating that CNN and Fox News will run the NARAL garbage ad attacking Judge Roberts. Col. Steve of Conservative Musings picks it up but questions or at least shows some misgivings about the accuracy of Fox News agreeing to run the ad, and then you run with it correctly pointing out that if whoever runs with the ad blows there credibility. This does not compute!!!
Fox News running the NARAL ad is closely akin to lemmings running off the edge of a cliff. Can you immagine the reaction at Fox News internally as Brit Hume, John Gibson, Sean Hannity, Tony Snow et. al. get wind of this?
Roger Ailes is not suicidal.
Let us not do Howard Dean's and Air America's work for them.
I need a little more evidence before I am going to by this story
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