Many people on the hard right are leading a jihad to try getting people to “stop victimizing Fox News and attack CNN.”

Newsflash for those people… no one was happy with CNN, either. But as much as CNN phucked up, they have a legacy on this story past “We hope it’s a Muslim, so we can get a pass on calling for an Inquisition!”

Fox News will always be the top name in pissing people off. Nothing will rob them of that when they’re coming in third.

@al in la: You robbed me of my line!

I think the FBI and other authorities had to lay down the riot act to the journalists, too many of whom were spewing out speculation in hope of getting the scoop. They had become a danger to themselves and – what’s worse – to the public.

Nothing else can explain CNN’s complete turnaround from four days of frantic rumor-mongering to refreshingly responsable journalism during the man hunt.

I’m actually unhappy, though, because that tells me they have the capacity but not the will to be credible journalists.

@ Visitor 55: I keep forgetting — reading comprehension, like basic math, is not the wingnut’s strong suit . . .

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Earth to Stick Stones:

But as many of the retweeters pointed out, there’s no way to “instantly withdraw” thousands of papers in print.

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When you dealing with the likes of Ruthless Rupy and his boy James, you have to think twice about their credibility. Never forget the hacking scandal in the U.K.

S&S, Did the FBI tell them this is him?

Rupert SEZ
I bribe politicians, police and hack phones and so far the Pope hasn’t slapped my wrist. What’s the problem?

@david: While anybody capable of a modicum of critical thinking cannot but realise that Fox is a total, unmitigated joke, people who watch CNN may be under the illusion that this is the same channel that existed during the first Iraq war.

It ain’t.

Although I have to admit that their reporting during the manhunt in Boston was very good. I guess the FBI read them the riot act after they’d jumped the gun earlier.

My point: when they want to, they can be very very good. I doubt that the same can be said of FoxNews.

As often as I criticize Fox “news” for their intentional misinformation, such as identifying republicans caught in sex scandals as democrats, publishing charts of unemployment rates of past presidents while leaving out Ronald Reagan’s (which was higher than Obama’s), substituting photos while claiming they are from something they are not, manufacturing controversies where none exist, using the split screen to associate demonstrations and falling stock markets with democrats, editing video, or not even to bother showing video (such as Obama’s address to Congress about health care), it should be noted that CNN has taken a lot of much deserved heat this past week as well.

A few month’s ago, Rupert Murdoch gave a compliment to CNN president Jeff Zucker by saying that CNN has ‘sharpened up in the last couple of months’. Given the fact that CNN recently ran a chyron that read: ‘War On Religion’, Wolf Blitzer’s obsessive use of words “Ground Zero Mosque” and “Fiscal Cliff” , then got rid of Soledad O’Brien and then added on a new evening show with Erin Burnett, who seems to have an unhealthy fascination with Ted Nugent by having him on her show not once, but twice, one could see how Murdoch would approve of such things, as they are taken right out of Roger Ailes’ playbook of shoddy journalism.

There was a study done recently published by Psychology Today that shows that conservatives relied more on a part of the brain that is thought to be associated with the body’s fear-based fight-or-flight system, while liberals use the part of the brain that is associated with self-awareness. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/caveman-politics/201302/why-politics-makes-your-head-hurt
This would explain conservatives preference to watching Fox (besides the obvious reason of being told what they WANT to hear), but it may also explain how CNN is going to go about ways of increasing their audience share: by scaring people….

Cable news in this country is disgraceful. The 24 hour news cycle needs to be filled with something other than endless ads for Viagra and Vagisil. And most of it is shit…..

He doesn’t care about ethics, intergrity or the truth.

It’s all about making money and getting the ratings for higher advertising revenue. It’s only the bottom line. If it help sell more newspapers that day, then that’s want matters to him. Is any one really surprised by this?

I would ask how stupid Murdoch thinks we are… but his record of defending his outlets racism and ethics scandals not only answers that…

But it also answers the question of which people really are that stupid, when they left evidence that they’ll believe anything he says. (Hint: It rhymes is Donny Jollar, BewsNusters, and Nox Fation.)

If only Wrinkled Rupert’s father had practiced withdrawal that fateful night 80 years ago, we would not be listening to this ridiculous excuse.

Why did he bother?