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opelmanta1900 Offline
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the end of cnn? it's like they want to be tmz...
TMCTLT Offline
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opelmanta1900 wrote:
the end of cnn? it's like they want to be tmz...



I do hope they go by the wayside, SNL and others exist if we just want FAKE NEWS with a slant.
They ARE TMZ.....nothing but fake sensationalized reporting. ( notice I did NOT use the word news )

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Julian Assange‏ @Real_Assange 2h2 hours ago

A multi-billion dollar TV network blackmailing a private citizen into not making funny videos about it is not journalism, CNN. #CNNBlackmail
teedubbya Offline
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#fakeoutrage
TMCTLT Offline
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# FAKENEWSORGANIZATION
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so you have problems with wikileaks exposing illegal activity, you're certain trump and russia colluded despite there not being even a single shred of evidence, but CNN threatens to dox a 15 year old because he did something they didn't like and you just can't quite muster up rage for that, huh? there's America for you...
opelmanta1900 Offline
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someone at 8ch doxed everyone at cnn... names, addresses, phone numbers, spouses numbers... #cnnblackmail has been trending on twitter for over 12 hours... even far left news sources are calling what cnn did despicable...
DrafterX Offline
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doxed...??? Think
victor809 Offline
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I agree. They should have just published the kids identity... letting him stay anonymous just because he promised to be a good boy from here forward makes it look like they are holding something over him.
opelmanta1900 Offline
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^that actually makes sense... if they just doxed him out the gate this controversy would be 1/10 of what it is... #cnnblackmail is such a catchy hashtag...
opelmanta1900 Offline
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DrafterX wrote:
doxed...??? Think

dox
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verbinformal
past tense: doxed; past participle: doxed
search for and publish private or identifying information about (a particular individual) on the Internet, typically with malicious intent.
"hackers and online vigilantes routinely dox both public and private figures"
ZRX1200 Offline
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Joel, if the kid was a black democrat maybe Victor and teedubya would say something different. But everyone has a role here, and they're just doing their jobs....n stuff
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DrafterX wrote:
doxed...??? Think

Someone doxed me at a party.........I really don't remember a thing Anxious
MACS Offline
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So the kid made a gif of Trump body slamming CNN? Then Trump tweeted it?

Was there a crime? I see memes and gifs all the time... what did the kid do wrong? And why would he feel "threatened" if CNN told the world who he is? Why would CNN even care who he is?
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ZRX1200 wrote:
Joel, if the kid was a black democrat maybe Victor and teedubya would say something different. But everyone has a role here, and they're just doing their jobs....n stuff



opelmanta1900 wrote:
so you have problems with wikileaks exposing illegal activity, you're certain trump and russia colluded despite there not being even a single shred of evidence, but CNN threatens to dox a 15 year old because he did something they didn't like and you just can't quite muster up rage for that, huh? there's America for you...



While I appreciate yall making up things you say I think, and arguing with that, don't confuse that with reality.

I didn't know it was a kid, didn't know their color, didn't know their party etc... complete nonsense

I do have problems with wikileaks only because it is illegal activity (I also take issue with illegal aliens simply because the law has been broken... I may disagree with a lot of the disinformation surrounding the subject but the illegal part is good enough for me). Trump now finds wiki bad when he praised it prior, but I have always taken issue with it. I'm for following proper whistleblower channels, and have actually followed them on a thing or two. You can't take the law in to your own hands. That's how aliens justify their actions. Its not ok for individuals to follow their own laws when they disagree with the real ones. Let me rephrase that... its ok but there are and must be consequences. We can not be lawless.

I have never been certain or even thought trump colluded with russia. Not sure where you got that but it is incorrect. I do take issue with any other country hacking us and using the info no matter who it helps or hurts. It is not legal. I sort of believe in the laws.

So there is that... LOL

I too think they should have just reported it. My guess is the family begged them not to rather than blackmail. But who knows.

I'm just not immediately outraged because when more info comes out often the immediately outraged end up red faced.... or they just deny or ignore the facts ....

or make up other peoples positions and argue with that rather than the reality.
teedubbya Offline
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MACS wrote:
So the kid made a gif of Trump body slamming CNN? Then Trump tweeted it?

Was there a crime? I see memes and gifs all the time... what did the kid do wrong? And why would he feel "threatened" if CNN told the world who he is? Why would CNN even care who he is?



I don't think anyone is saying there is a crime. The kid just doesn't want people to know his controversial posts are his... not someone to really rally behind
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As trumps tweets are official presidential statements anything he tweets is "news" and the news looked into who he is retweeting. He was retweeting an internet troll who posts a bunch of racist crap.

The news tried to identify who the person tweeting racist crap on the internet was (not itself news but made news by trumps retweeting of them). It isn't a crime, so the kid could just say "sure publish who I am I'm proud of being a racist". But apparently the kid got a little afraid of people in the real world hearing what he says online. So he cut some sort of deal with cnn.
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teedubbya wrote:
I don't think anyone is saying there is a crime. The kid just doesn't want people to know his controversial posts are his... not someone to really rally behind

If the kid is only 15 yo, maybe it's the parents who don't want their lives turned inside out, and they will do everything in their power to keep their privacy from being destroyed
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According to a few sources it's an adult not an adolescent.

CNN:

CNN is not publishing "HanA**holeSolo's" name because he is a private citizen who has issued an extensive statement of apology, showed his remorse by saying he has taken down all his offending posts, and because he said he is not going to repeat this ugly behavior on social media again. In addition, he said his statement could serve as an example to others not to do the same.

CNN reserves the right to publish his identity should any of that change.




so yeah, read that and think what you will. Their response was a joke, just like their network. And again, I didn't vote for #MAGA
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RMAN4443 wrote:
If the kid is only 15 yo, maybe it's the parents who don't want their lives turned inside out, and they will do everything in their power to keep their privacy destroyed



ok
ZRX1200 Offline
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Part of his apology:

"The meme was created purely as satire, it was not meant to be a call to violence against CNN or any other news affiliation," he wrote. "I had no idea anyone would take it and put sound to it and then have it put up on the President's Twitter feed. It was a prank, nothing more. What the President's feed showed was not the original post that was posted here, but loaded up somewhere else and sound added to it then sent out on Twitter. I thought it was the original post that was made and that is why I took credit for it. I have the highest respect for the journalist community and they put their lives on the line every day with the jobs that they do in reporting the news."



LMMFPWAO
TMCTLT Offline
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MACS wrote:
So the kid made a gif of Trump body slamming CNN? Then Trump tweeted it?

Was there a crime? I see memes and gifs all the time... what did the kid do wrong? And why would he feel "threatened" if CNN told the world who he is? Why would CNN even care who he is?



I thinks they're just concerned about the backlash of the " Unhinged Left "
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ZRX1200 wrote:
According to a few sources it's an adult not an adolescent.

CNN:

CNN is not publishing "HanA**holeSolo's" name because he is a private citizen who has issued an extensive statement of apology, showed his remorse by saying he has taken down all his offending posts, and because he said he is not going to repeat this ugly behavior on social media again. In addition, he said his statement could serve as an example to others not to do the same.

CNN reserves the right to publish his identity should any of that change.




so yeah, read that and think what you will. Their response was a joke, just like their network. And again, I didn't vote for #MAGA



I had read that and am not sure what to think of it. It sounds like the kid/adult/elderly wgaf? person doesn't want anyone to know who they are have that attached to their thoughts. CNN should have just reported it for the optics if nothing else.

It will come out.

But who really cares and the zeal to go after the press is sort of weird.

All that aside

my daughter is an intern for a congressman. when she interviewed they had a folder of all her social media posts, pictures, etc. One person interviewing posted on their Facebook how stoked they were about the interview and used colorful language. They lost the interview.

It's a brave new world.

But no I'm not outraged and dont think it's blackmail. Then again I don't see collusion either.
RMAN4443 Offline
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for #21 or the parents don't want the world to know what their kid is posting on line or to have their kids life destroyed no further education, job opportunities, etc.
teedubbya Offline
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ZRX1200 wrote:
Part of his apology:

"The meme was created purely as satire, it was not meant to be a call to violence against CNN or any other news affiliation," he wrote. "I had no idea anyone would take it and put sound to it and then have it put up on the President's Twitter feed. It was a prank, nothing more. What the President's feed showed was not the original post that was posted here, but loaded up somewhere else and sound added to it then sent out on Twitter. I thought it was the original post that was made and that is why I took credit for it. I have the highest respect for the journalist community and they put their lives on the line every day with the jobs that they do in reporting the news."



LMMFPWAO



I laughed at this too. Someone hired and lawyer and listened to them.
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I'd argue that the statement "reserves the right to publish his identity should any of this change" amounts to blackmail. It's essentially saying "if you don't do this, then this bad thing will happen". But I also think Trump saying "I hope this Russia thing can go away" amounts to trying to influence an investigation. It's important to be consistent.

They should have just reported his name. A news agency shouldn't be in the business of having information and not reporting it for the benefit of society.
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are non disclosure agreements blackmail?

if you disclose this than this will happen


or how about cease and desist arrangements.... we wont do anything this time but if you do it again......

blackmail is not legal
gummy jones Offline
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why does cnn care
the meme sucks
sounds like bullying
victor809 Offline
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TW... that's true. But those sort of agreements are usually to protect the property of a business and don't involve information which seems like the sort of thing a news agency would normally disclose.

I guess the thing which keeps it from being blackmail would be the lack of personal gain. But then that just makes it feel like they are blackmailing someone to make the persob behave properly... a public gain. It's unseemly.

So not blackmail... but outside what i expect from news?
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They should have contacted a lawyer before making an insanely stupid comment attempting to come from a position of strength.
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Have you ever seen a "news" agency release a statement like that?
teedubbya Offline
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nope. stupid for sure.
victor809 Offline
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Never seen a "president" release presidential statements like that either.
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We've never been in a situation where internet trolls are personally newsworthy without having done anything illegal, because we've never had a president who promoted internet trolls before...

I think CNN was dumb... but to be fair they are in uncharted waters here.
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i do hope that all this opens up the flood gates of internet trolls creating cnn memes
opelmanta1900 Offline
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gummy jones wrote:
i do hope that all this opens up the flood gates of internet trolls creating cnn memes

that's been happening for about 15 hours or so now over on twitter... some pretty good ones...

not as good as 8ch doxing everyone on cnn's payroll, but still good...
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victor809 wrote:
Never seen a "president" release presidential statements like that either.



If you like your Doctor.....

Right Wing News direct quotes FROM Obummer:

From the Horse’s Mouth

“If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” — Barack Obama

“The private sector is doing fine.” — Barack Obama

“I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.” — Barack Obama

“I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.” — Barack Obama

“I mean, if you think about — if you think about it, UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right? No, they are. It’s the Post Office that’s always having problems.” — Barack Obama makes the case for socialized medicine in a rather odd fashion

“You got into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” — Barack Obama

“I am not in favor of concealed weapons. I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations.” — Barack Obama

“I believe in keeping guns out of our inner cities, and that our leaders must say so in the face of the gun manufacturer’s lobby.” — Barack Obama

“…I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.” — Barack Obama

Rick Warren: “…Now, let’s deal with abortion; 40 million abortions since Roe v. Wade. As a pastor, I have to deal with this all of the time, all of the pain and all of the conflicts. I know this is a very complex issue. Forty million abortions, at what point does a baby get human rights, in your view?”

Barack Obama: “Well, you know, I think that whether you’re looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity, you know, is above my pay grade.”

“…I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on earth. This was the moment — this was the time — when we came together to remake this great nation so that it may always reflect our very best selves and our highest ideals.” — Barack Obama

“But I don’t want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess. I don’t mind cleaning up after them, but don’t do a lot of talking.” — Barack Obama

“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen.” — Barack Obama

“It’s very rare that I come to an event where I’m like the fifth- or sixth-most interesting person.” — Barack Obama

“The issue here is not gonna be a list of accomplishments. As you said yourself, Steve, you know, I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president – with the possible exceptions of Johnson, F.D.R., and Lincoln.” — Barack Obama

“I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.” — Barack Obama

“No, no. I have been practicing…I bowled a 129. It’s like — it was like Special Olympics, or something.” — Barack Obama

“I won.” — Barack Obama to Republicans in Congress who were trying to discuss the stimulus plan with him

“Whether we like it or not, we remain a dominant military superpower….” — Barack Obama

“And if that child should ever get the chance to travel the world and someone should ask her where is she from, we believe that she should always be able to hold her head high with pride in her voice when she answers, ‘I am an American.’ That is the course we seek. That is the change we are calling for.” — Barack Obama

“You know, the truth is that right after 9/11, I had a (flag) pin. Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we’re talking about the Iraq war, that became a substitute for, I think, true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security, I decided I won’t wear that pin on my chest…” — Barack Obama

“I had learned not to care. I blew a few smoke rings, remembering those years. Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though. …” — Barack Obama

“Junkie. Pothead. That’s where I’d been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man. Except the highs hadn’t been about that, me trying to prove what a down brother I was. Not by then, anyway. I got high for just the opposite effect, something that could push questions of who I was out of my mind, something that could flatten out the landscape of my heart, blur the edges of my memory. I had discovered that it didn’t make any difference whether you smoked reefer in the white classmate’s sparkling new van, or in the dorm room of some brother you’d met down at the gym, or on the beach with a couple of Hawaiian kids who had dropped out of school and now spent most of their time looking for an excuse to brawl. …You might just be bored, or alone. Everybody was welcome into the club of disaffection.” — Barack Obama

“…I inhaled frequently. That was the point.” — Barack Obama

“On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in the audience here today — our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.” — Barack Obama

“Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.” — Barack Obama

As Sen. Hillary Clinton was preparing to campaign here today, Sen. Barack Obama was meeting with voters at a diner and apparently pretty hungry.

“Why can’t I just eat my waffle?” he said, when asked a foreign policy question by a reporter at the Glider Diner. — Barack Obama

“When I meet with world leaders, what’s striking — whether it’s in Europe or here in Asia…” — Barack Obama, mistakenly referring to Hawaii as Asia while holding a press conference outside Honolulu, Nov. 16, 2011

“In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died — an entire town destroyed.” — Barack Obama, on a Kansas tornado that killed 12 people

“Making products we sell around the world, stamped with three proud words, ‘Made in the USA!'” — Barack Obama

“I don’t believe it is possible to transcend race in this country. Race is a factor in this society. The legacy of Jim Crow and slavery has not gone away. It is not an accident that African-Americans experience high crime rates, are poor, and have less wealth. It is a direct result of our racial history.” — Barack Obama

“Let’s not play games. I was suggesting – you’re absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith.” — Barack Obama

“To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets. At night, in the dorms, we discussed neocolonialism, Franz Fanon, Eurocentrism, and patriarchy. When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway carpet or set our stereos so loud that the walls began to shake, we were resisting bourgeois society’s stifling conventions. We weren’t indifferent or careless or insecure. We were alienated.

But this strategy alone couldn’t provide the distance I wanted, from Joyce or my past. After all, there were thousands of so-called campus radicals, most of them white and tenured and happily tolerant. No, it remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.” — Barack Obama

“It was usually an effective tactic, another one of those tricks I had learned: (White) People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves. They were more than satisfied, they were relieved — such a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn’t seem angry all the time.” — Barack Obama

“That’s just how white folks will do you. It wasn’t merely the cruelty involved; I was learning that black people could be mean and then some. It was a particular brand of arrogance, an obtuseness in otherwise sane people that brought forth our bitter laughter. It was as if whites didn’t know that they were being cruel in the first place. Or at least thought you deserving of their scorn.” — Barack Obama

“It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks’ greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere…That’s the world! On which hope sits!” — Barack Obama quotes Rev. Wright

“Nobody really thinks that Bush or McCain have a real answer for the challenges we face, so what they’re going to try to do is make you scared of me. You know, he’s not patriotic enough. He’s got a funny name. You know, he doesn’t look like all those other presidents on those dollar bills, you know. He’s risky.” — Barack Obama

“I can no more disown (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother – a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.” — Barack Obama

“The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn’t. But she is a typical white person…” — Barack Obama

“If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, ‘We’re gonna punish our enemies and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us,’ if they don’t see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election, then I think it’s gonna be harder and that’s why I think it’s so important that people focus on voting on November 2.” — Barack Obama

“My main message is to the parents of Trayvon Martin. You know, if I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.” — Barack Obama

“The Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home. . . . What I think we know – separate and apart from this incident – is that there is a long history in their country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately, and that’s just a fact.” – President Obama on Gates’ arrest.



http://rightwingnews.com/quotes/the-worst-of-barack-obama-in-quotes-87-quotes/
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I rather listen to Russell Brand on YouTube ramble on about whatever than flip the dial to CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS or Fox. It's all craptastic.
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None of which is the equvalent to a president retweeting an internet troll.
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victor809 wrote:
None of which is the equvalent to a president retweeting an internet troll.

which, incidentally, is not the equivelant of a major news organization obtaining private information about a private citizen and then threatening to dox that private citizen because he made a joke at their expense... one is ridiculously stupid, the other is horrifically dangerous...
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Perhaps all these fake news sites that are butthurt...along with fanboi's of them...are really pissed because this guy says what he wants without having a "conference"...a massive waste of time staged by people that are only looking for "GOTCHA!" comments and have been left by the wayside with no audience.

Think
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opelmanta1900 wrote:
which, incidentally, is not the equivelant of a major news organization obtaining private information about a private citizen and then threatening to dox that private citizen because he made a joke at their expense... one is ridiculously stupid, the other is horrifically dangerous...



yea they should have just reported it as straight news and trump should stfu and be president.
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No audience? Hahahaha
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And on that aspect... who cares about audience?

Anyone that cries fake news and then tries to use audience size as an insult does not understand what news is supposed to be.
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Fox News is Fair & Balanced... Mellow
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DrafterX wrote:
Fox News is Fair & Balanced... Mellow


That's what they say...
teedubbya Offline
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And it's accurate. They are not saying (actually they dropped this tag line) their news is fair and balanced. They are saying they are skewed right to balance out the other outlets. In that regard they are correct.
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teedubbya wrote:
And it's accurate. They are not saying (actually they dropped this tag line) their news is fair and balanced. They are saying they are skewed right to balance out the other outlets. In that regard they are correct.


Not quite. If you combine ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC... heck just 3 of those 5... they dwarf FOX in terms of viewers. Fox is #1 only because the rest have to share viewers. Conservatives have one channel - FOX.
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1 - the dudes a middle aged man. The 15 year old crap is "fake news" from Donald Trump Jr.

2 - news should not require skewing right or left. There is information. If one needs to present "the other side" then they are not providing information they are providing an opinion. If a channel is providing too much opinion (and all of them have been providing a bit much recently) the solution is NOT to provide an opposite opinion. The solution is to provide information.
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victor809 wrote:
1 - the dudes a middle aged man. The 15 year old crap is "fake news" from Donald Trump Jr.

2 - news should not require skewing right or left. There is information. If one needs to present "the other side" then they are not providing information they are providing an opinion. If a channel is providing too much opinion (and all of them have been providing a bit much recently) the solution is NOT to provide an opposite opinion. The solution is to provide FACTUAL nformation.



Not " made up Sh*t " meant ONLY to boost ratings.....
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