Fox-White House Media War is Killing News

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Hey buddy he teaches Journalism 101, I think you should come to class! Hopefully I'll see you soon!

student of NY 10:10AM April 01, 2010

Blah, blah, blah, whine, whine, Mr. Rudel. Looks like no one is listening.

Stu Marks - Art Director of IL 8:16PM January 29, 2010

Here's another Lefty writer who thinks that Americans are stupid and will swallow all of his swill.
Mr. Rudel needs to go back to journalism 101 and look up the word noun Journalist. The contrast between his failed beliefs as exposed by his own words, and actual reality are worlds apart: enough room between them through which to drive another bus load of those with a willing suspension of disbelief.

Stu Marks of IL 8:07PM January 29, 2010

I never read so much crap in 5 paragraphs as this guy's article. Anthony Rudel is one of those liberal elitists who thinks the average Joe American has no judgment and no sense. Someone who has to be guided in his reading and saved from talk radio, and conservative news sources.
In addition to watching Fox News I watch MSNBC, CNN and NBC and and read National Review and the New Republic. They all have a point of view, but I find the conservative sources to be more sensible, fair and balanced than any of the others.
The liberals just can't get over it that they are no longer the only received wisdom in this country -- which they were for 40 some years. Now there are alternate voices and they don't like it at all. We'll get by just fine without J-school college grads infecting the news media with their liberal bias, and just fine without the liberal press and with our unfettered free press including talk radio, and the Internet.

Jack Gregory of SC 10:27AM November 08, 2009

I will bet you King George thought that he was doing the right thing in America right up until the first shot was fired. I will also wager to say that Nevell Chamberlain didn't think he was an appeaser to the Nazi's until the bombs fell on England. What is frightening to listen to is the debate on whether we should limit the free speech or exchange of opinion of anyone. It is as though some in this great nation of ours think they have the "right" to legislate away freedoms and liberties that are inalienable to every citizen. How many have ever read George Washington's farewell speech to public service published in Philadelphia's American Daily Advertiser? It ought to be required reading to the fools of Party politics. I specifically mean the fools of both major parties here in America. Democrats more so than Republicans.

Jeffrey of WI 6:11AM November 06, 2009

The mainstream media and their total disregard for honesty and integrity got us in this mess. Did you people not see the coverage of the last election!! Stephonopolous crying, Mathews and his tingly sensations,. Charlie Gibson disgraceful interview with Palin and of course lets not forget Katie Courics school girl crush on Obama. If this isn't enough maybe you remember Dan Rather and the false document he showed on national news 5 days before the bush/kerry election. Fox news is a direct result of this corruption and it certainly is not the cause of it. Liberals just can't handle the fact that they no longer control the media and now they cry foul. Keep crying you corrupt losers because nobody and i mean nobody is listening!!

jacob of MN 3:35PM November 03, 2009

As a journalism student I have come to realize the sad truth that this article brings much needed light to. The point is that there is a difference between hard news (FACT) and opinion. Sadly many people only get their news from opinion causing the public to be not only misinformed but happy in their complacency.

anna of OH 11:29AM November 03, 2009

Does the assertion of "corrupt and bias journalism" come with any examples, or are the rest of us just supposed to believe you?
I was a reader of the WS Journal until the free market's overleverage and lack of common sense came crashing down on the world economy. It was then painfully obvious that economic growth and rising tax revenue were due, not to wise deregulation (as the WSJ asserted for a decade or so), but to excess leverage.
Lesson learned: if all your information comes from one source, it is unlikely your philosophy or worldview can be "fair and bslanced"...

Steve Austin of TX 12:24AM November 02, 2009

Politically Correct, progressive, eco-socialist propaganda and Fox News.
Hard hitting reporting with a common sense perspective has been spun by the left into a "hard right, angry white male" viewpoint. It is obvious that the lens through which the left sees the world is becoming "progressively" distorted.
A final thought, the angriest, most distorted white male I've ever seen is Keith Olbermann - Guy's rotten to his very core.

R.L. Schaefer of CA 10:47AM November 01, 2009

I love Fox News. I feel like I know the people on Fox & Friends - Steve, Bryan and Gretchen. They seem to be genuine people who report the current events. I enjoy listening to them each morning. All you TV junkies know what I am talking about. My dad is in Georgia and he watches CNN. I live in Tennessee and watch Fox. I respect and think it is his right to watch and listen to what he chooses. On the other hand, he respects me and when I visit him, he will ask if I want to watch Fox. Our relationship is much more than politics and TV viewing. I applaud the networks for standing up for Fox in the White House fiasco. If the White House can exclude Fox, they can do it to the other networks just as well.

Sharon Doudt of TN 10:21PM October 31, 2009