Right Wing Media bias brainwashes public on Martin Case

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So dude, what's up?

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Yet you can have respect for the community...

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Yet you can have respect for the community...

Done

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Which strange right-winger will attempt to dodge the issue next?

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Yet you can have respect for the community...

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Is Glenn Beck a Community member now? Kind of a sign that the right wing media has gone a little crazy on this case? No? i mean, we're talking about a guy who was fired from Fox news, which we can accept as being right-wing, right? And he was fired for being too extreme. By Fox.

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Is Glenn Beck a Community member now? Kind of a sign that the right wing media has gone a little crazy on this case? No? i mean, we're talking about a guy who was fired from Fox news, which we can accept as being right-wing, right? And he was fired for being too extreme. By Fox.

Source?

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Is Glenn Beck a Community member now? Kind of a sign that the right wing media has gone a little crazy on this case? No? i mean, we're talking about a guy who was fired from Fox news, which we can accept as being right-wing, right? And he was fired for being too extreme. By Fox.

Source?

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You really bought into him? Tell me you didn't buy his book. You're not actually paying him now are you?

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i mean, we're talking about a guy who was fired from Fox news, which we can accept as being right-wing, right? And he was fired for being too extreme. By Fox.

LOL, he wasn't fired. Not in the sense of a Keith Olberman from Current. I can understand why you think Beck was fired from FOX though, you rely on pretty much only left wing biased media for your information.

Here is an unbiased look at Glenn Beck and FOX parting ways-

Spoiler

Here is the real reason Glenn Beck and FOX news are parting ways

After weeks of rumors, and stories, and very public jockeying, the news arrived today arguably somewhat sooner than expected -- Beck's contract with Fox doesn't end until the end of the year.

The phrasing of the announcement, an exercise in PR speak if there ever was one, suggests the decision was arrived at somewhat sooner than expected, and that the ramped up rhetoric in the last few weeks was in anticipation this might happen.

Here's what the announcement doesn't answer: When will Glenn Beck get off the air.

Here's what else it doesn't answer: Whose decision it was to jump.



On the surface, the tone of the announcement strikes as entirely friendly. There are many mentions made of Beck's strong ratings -- and make no mistake, they remain strong, stunningly so for a 5PM show. And Beck and Ailes are both quoted saying nice things about each other.

Also revealed is the news that Beck's company Mercury Radio and Fox will work together to produce a "variety of television projects for air on the FOX News Channel as well as content for other platforms including FOX News’ digital properties."

This suggests, at least superficially, that Fox is aware of the influence Beck wields and is not eager to burn bridges.

As noted by the NYT a few weeks ago Beck has been introducing original programming on his Insider Website, so an extension of this onto FOX also makes sense for Beck.

Whether or not it happens may be another question.

One person who has worked with Ailes before told us that when Ailes says " I look forward to continuing to work with him" what he really means is "don't let the door hit you on the way out."

They also relayed to us the rumor (entirely unconfirmed) that it was Wendi Murdoch who was most uncomfortable with Beck and pressured husband Rupert to make a move.

But what is really going on? You don't leave a platform like Fox, nor lose a ratings powerhouse like Beck willy nilly.


There are no shortage of people leaping in to take credit and point the finger squarely at Beck.

Media Matters, who devotes the majority of their extensive anti-Fox coverage to all things Beck, immediately released a statement from founder saying that "The Only Surprise Is That It Took Fox News Months To Reach This Decision."

The Jewish Funds for Justice, the group that ran the ad in the Wall St. Journal signed by all rabbis that was then denounced by the Anti-Defamation League, thinks Beck got fired because "he has been rejected by Jews." In a word, no.

Beck and Fox are parting ways because Beck had too much power and Fox couldn't control him.

It's not exactly a secret that Beck was unhappy with many aspects of Fox's tightly controlled (and not always friendly) media machine and was eager to be free of it.

As I've noted numerous times, Beck employs his own PR firm outside of Fox's famous PR team. It is they, not Fox (who, in my experience, have rarely to never reached out on behalf of Beck, particularly after he began announcing things like his 100 Year Plan and really started gaining steam) who deal with Beck's many public relations.

Fox likes to wield absolute control over their stars. Glenn Beck, whose office is outside the Fox building, and whose many media holdings put him on track to become some sort of media mogul in his own right, has increasingly been outside of their control.

It's perhaps not a coincidence that Fox News' website has been noticeably stepping up its game ever since Beck's site The Blaze launched last year.

People are very focused on Beck's loss of advertisers and the crazier statements he's made (the one that pops up with most frequency is the time he called Obama a racist, even though that happened way back in July of 2009) as the impetus for this parting. And surely they were contributing factors.

But tune into Fox and Friends in the morning and you will quickly hear plenty of people say incredibly offensive things on Fox every single day -- the difference is that should Fox want to rein them in they are generally able to do so. Less so with Beck.

So to say this was a mutual decision is likely far more accurate.

For Beck it's almost a lateral move -- this is no Keith Olbermann we are talking about, Beck has an entire media empire waiting for him and will likely become his own case study in what a new media world might look like once stars become less dependent on traditional cable platforms.

For Fox it means they no longer have to answer for someone who doesn't like to answer to them.

What remains uncertain is when that move will take place. By all accounts the details of Beck's "transition" have yet to be hammered out and no one is quite certain when Beck will depart. Will he still be on in a week? Good question. One thing is for certain, Fox will not see ratings like that for a long time to come.


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Is Glenn Beck a Community member now? Kind of a sign that the right wing media has gone a little crazy on this case? No? i mean, we're talking about a guy who was fired from Fox news, which we can accept as being right-wing, right? And he was fired for being too extreme. By Fox.

Source?

You really bought into him? Tell me you didn't buy his book. You're not actually paying him now are you?

Dodge?

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Sad response, but, ok, dodging what? Patches might be able to help, but I kind of doubt it.

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A man is known by the company he keeps. One day before Florida courts charged George Zimmerman with the murder of Trayvon Martin, armed neo-Nazis in shiny black boots were patrolling the streets. “We want to be sure that white residents of the area feel safe,” one of them told The Independent’s Guy Adams. But their conflation of protection and victimisation is nothing new in Sanford, Florida. For the last few weeks their online counterparts have been uncomfortably close to the conservative media in a campaign to smear the dead teenager before his killer was even charged.

Zimmerman is in the hands of the law, now, and his guilt or innocence remains to be proven. But his case has been political dynamite (on Tuesday came the bizarre twist that George Zimmerman was confiding in conservative talk radio host Sean Hannity even while his lawyers were desperate to contact him). Campaigns for an arrest had gone on for some time, but once the President got involved, things got partisan. After Barack Obama told Martin’s parents “if I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon”, blogs and websites surrounding key conservative figures like Glenn Beck and Dick Cheney began calling for the country to ‘wait for the facts’ and respect ‘due process’, rallying on Twitter around the #teamdueprocess hashtag. They did this by implying that Martin was a criminal.

On March 19, Beck’s website, The Blaze, speculated without much evidence that Martin could have been suspended from school for drug possession, “sexual harassment”, or “arson”. The Miami Herald spent four paragraphs listing ‘suspicious’ facts about Martin’s bags (like “women’s jewellery” and a “burglary tool”) and on the same day, The Daily Caller, co-founded by Dick Cheney, published a compilation of tweets reportedly culled from Martin’s deleted Twitter account, by an ‘undisclosed source’. The Conservative Review immediately branded the teen “a criminal thug on his way to a life in prison”.

The campaign of character assassination didn’t stop with the right wing media. On March 25, a Twitter news site run by another Fox News contributor, Michelle Malkin, posted a picture of an entirely different Trayvon Martin which had appeared one day before on the neo-nazi website Stormfront.

On March 29, a white supremacist hacker called ‘Klanklannon’ took up the work of Cheney’s Caller and leaked private messages he claimed belonged to Martin. The hacker invited people to log into Martin’s gmail account and see for themselves, having helpfully changed the password to ‘n*ggern*ggern*gger’.

Meanwhile, the conservative National Review had the nerve to fire contributing editor John Derbyshire on April 8 for looking beyond the controversy to the wider issues at stake. “Avoid concentrations of blacks not all known to you personally,” he wrote in an article for Taki’s Magazine, responding to Trayvon-inspired race debates by describing ‘the talk’ he gives to his kids. “Do not attend events likely to draw a lot of blacks,” he went on (each point was backed up by a link to a crime or scandal which happened to involve an African-American). Avoid amusement parks if they are “swamped with blacks,” he warned; “Do not settle in a district or municipality run by black politicians.”

In the Fox-News-o-sphere’s focus on Trayvon and its implication that Zimmerman needed “protecting” from a dangerous thug is the germ of the idea that brought Nazis to Sanford. Anything in Martin’s life that was remotely ‘suspect’ (or, often, youthful) became evidence that he was a threat – better evidence, apparently, than prosecutors could ever provide.

‘Protection’ has served as a worse excuse before. In his terrifying expose of post-Katrina killings in New Orleans, AC Thompson shows how a white militia group described as “the ultimate neighbourhood watch” attacked black citizens with impunity. 32-year-old Donnell Herrington was shot in the neck by vigilantes – he claimed there was no warning – in affluent Algiers Point, which one militiaman gleefully described as “like pheasant season in South Dakota”. “I’m not a prejudiced individual,” said another, “but you just know the outlaws who are up to no good. You can see it in their eyes.”

Then, as the New Statesman notes, there was Camp Grayhound, a “facsimile of Guantanamo Bay” built in two days by prison labour where the militias brought ‘arrested’ citizens to be thrown in outdoor cages and repeatedly pepper-sprayed. One was Syrian-American Abdulrahman Zeitoun, the subject of a non-fiction book by Dave Eggers, who spent three days there for no particular reason (“you guys are al-Qa’ida,” he was told; “We’re taking our city back”). According to the Statesman, police had claimed that babies were being raped in the refugee camps and that officers should “shoot looters”. Last year the entire New Orleans Police Department was placed under judicial supervision as a threat to the public.

For the Katrina militias, as for the Sanford neo-Nazis, protecting white America meant threatening blacks; for the conservative blogosphere, protecting George Zimmerman means dirtying the name of a dead youth. This uneasy parity in logic reveals the racist undertones of a campaign to thugify Trayvon which writers have shared with white supremacists. Zimmerman will be tried by the courts, now, and not by the media – which is all the protesters ever wanted. But in the meantime, the American far right must take a serious look at the company it keeps.

Concerning, yes?

Bump, just so this doesn't become a Scotty and Patches clown show.