Rock Center
From Bill O'Reilly describing how some media pundits "smash" politicians and "pinheads," to Ann Coulter describing why O'Reilly isn't opinionated enough, Rock Center Special Correspondent Ted Koppel investigates the role of the media in the degeneration of politics into an ugly war of words.
The New York Times' David Carr says the partisan news business is so profitable, as much as $1 billion a year for one cable news network, that it's clear why others have followed suit.
Political commentators Ann Coulter and Bill Maher, ideological opposites, debate the issue.
"I think it's the first time a lot of liberals have been able to hear conservatives or know what they think," Coulter said, disagreeing that there has been a coarsening of political dialogue. "I think we just have both sides. ... You just get it from the other side now and Liberals don't like it so you're screaming bloody murder."
"We're not just screaming at each other," Maher said. "One side is screaming facts and truth. One side is screaming their version of truth, which is religious-based nonsense."
Of the industry overall, Carr says, "they're not interested in the fruits of piece. It's bad television. Who'd want to watch that?"











I believe that NBC could have put themselves in this show,
doing that would make it better. And that wouldn’t make them look hypocritical.
In a way (since they covered MSNBC, which is their sister network after all), they pretty much did put themselves in the show. Brian Williams and NBC News can be biased, but anything is better than that trash known as MSNBC.
I think that reporters so stop being "Truth Tellers" (truth tellers are reporters that say their own version of the story) and start focusing on the actual facts of the stories. They also need to have prove of what their saying for example how some of the far right people are trying to sell by saying that president obama is not a man. he is not a communist. he doesn't want to hurt the nation. he wasn't born in kenya.
I feel that nowadays, I can't turn on my television without somehow being persuaded towards one side or the other. It disgusts me how these "news" stations claim they state the facts, but these facts are only a version of the truth. Most people's opinions are most likely based on swayed information, which is unfair. I don't feel that we can truly call ourselves conservative or liberal, unless we really know the 100% truth. And we definitely don't get 100% of the truth. Like a lot of you said, these "news" stations should not be considered "news".
I agree that there is no objective news reporting anymore, and I've decried this fact for years. However, Mr. Koppel should have interviewed Bill Maher, with some of his scathing vitriol and shout-down tactics as examples, because it is NOT just conservatives who are expressing opinionated "news". There is no more objectivity, but highlighting some of the more flamboyant examples doesn't give an accurate picture either. Hence, this entire report is guilty of what it accuses.
Nit wit Mitt Wrongney has been repeating the same lies
saying he cares for the poor while on camera. Off camera he says it is not his
job to care for the poor. When the cynical Wrongney was speaking his lies at
the presidential debate, he said that Obama did not say what the specifics were
for who qualifies for refinancing their home. We all should know including Nit
Wit Mitt what it takes to qualify for a mortgage loan. The agreement is worked
out with the bank that is to refinance the applicant. Wrongney is telling us
that our deficit is increasing because of Obama’s policies. When Obama took office as president, the war
was costing more than $20 billion a month. One aircraft carrier uses one
million gallons of fuel every five months. The auto industry was set to lose
nearly one million jobs. George Bush had a bailout bill on the table as he was
leaving office. Obama used that to save the jobs of the nearly one million auto
workers. They were and are paying it back.
There were so many things that Nit Wit Mitt Wrongney
proposed that Obama has been trying to get the Republican run House of Reps to
pass for nearly three years. In his campaign speeches, he is saying the exact
same things as Obama said when he became president. Wrongney will do anything
because his money is his god. The Republicans said they don’t want to work with
Obama. The Republicans said they want him out of office because he wants to
help everyone in America. The
republicans are mostly self-serving and only want to fill their own pockets
with tax payer dollars by steering the money into their projects and special
interests. Nit Wit Mitt Wrongney said that the president’s policies failed but
the Republicans never allowed anything to get passed by voting NO on every
single measure. Remember that everyone in Washington was voted into their
position there by American voters to do a job. When the Republicans lied about
the socialism that doesn’t exist, they were voted in. Now the Republicans are
causing major gridlock on every measure that is put forth to make it appear
that President Obama is a failure.
President Obama doesn’t speak to America as if he is
speaking to ignorant and uninformed citizens. Wrongney is talking to America as
if they are completely uninformed and ignorant about what the republicans have
been doing to stop any kind of progress in Washington. Wrongney has put forth
his plan and it contains some of the plans that Obama has already tried to get
Washington to put through. Some things Wrongney said he wants to do is
something that are already in place at this time. Wrongney still thinks everyone
is completely stupid. That is how Wrongney wants to treat Americans. His plan
is to allow the individual states handle the billions of government dollars. This
will open the door to self-serving and greedy politicians to do what they want
with the money. The people waiting for help from the state government will die
on the hospital steps while they are waiting. The sick will die in waiting
rooms and at home because of the greed and misappropriation of funds. It is
happening right now in Florida and Mississippi. Billions are in the hands of
politicians that have personal agendas while those who need it are waiting to
get help. The governor of Florida was
cited for $10 billion dollars in Medicare fraud while he ran some of the
hospitals in Florida. The Republicans and TEA partyers are going to destroy
America as if a Terrorist group has taken over. The republicans are doing the
work of terrorists right now in Washington by stopping every plan that Obama
has on the table. People need help right now but Wrongney says that he has a
plan for the distant future. Obama has a plan right now in front of the
Republicans. When the Healthcare reform bill was being discussed by the
republicans and democrats in the same room, the republicans had the bill in
front of them on the table. The republicans were saying; “We can’t read this
bill” or “We don’t know what is in this bill.” It was right on the table in
front of each person on the Democrats side and the Republican side. The Republicans
were saying; “We want to be included in this process.” They were sitting in the
same room while the process was happening. Yet they were creating video bites
to be used later to fool feeble-minded and unaware American citizens. The democrats gave their input without any
nonsense. The republicans were just saying; “I am not going to read this bill. “ They just want to get the money into their
own pockets. Now Wrongney has been saying that he has a bill that will be a
better one. When they say that they haven’t read the first one, how will they
know that Wrongney’s bill is better?
Feeble minded Americans were told that they were angry by
Fox and CNN. They didn’t know what they were angry about until they were told
why.
The fake polls began to pop up after one month of Obama
being in the office of president. The feeble minded people were told to go into
the streets and say they were angry. The media used steering tactics and fake
polls. They were and are spending and making millions of dollars on the feeble
minded that were duped by the media. The satanic Fox network had the biggest
influence on the feeble minded. I saw how it transpired and was not fooled. Fox
was stirring up the masses to rebel and riot in the streets. They paraded into
Washington DC with pictures of Obama hanging, swastikas and confederate flags
waving. Foxaholics began to buy guns because they were told to fight against
fake socialism in America. They were told that the FEDS were going to take
their guns. CNN joined the band wagon
and reaped millions of dollars. Mr. Murdoch’s media machine has been paying and
getting paid to spread UNLIMITED, MALICIOUS AND UNRESTRAINED LIES ABOUT THE
PRESIDENT.
This created a windfall of billions for the people at Fox
and CNN. People at Fox sold their souls for money and began to lie effortlessly
and very professionally. Some of the Foxaholics were buying guns by the box
loads and hiding them. Guns sales are
still soaring because of these steering tactics. Right now the word on feeble minded
street level is that there is going to be a civil war before the election. They
are preparing for this by digging bunkers and stocking up on thousands of
rounds of ammunition. Fox will be right in the middle orchestrating this civil
war. How much more satanic can it get than that? There are other nations that
want America destroyed. Fox and CNN are helping their cause.
Maybe Nit Wit Mitt Wrongney needs to go in a plane to
39,000 feet and roll the window down.
The Republicans want to privatize prisons and hospitals
to keep government money and to place rates however they want.
The votes from 26 states are sent to Tampa, Florida to be
counted. This is where the Republicans headquarters are located. The company
that owns the voting machines is owned by Spain and has its financial offices
in the Cayman Islands where Wrongney keeps his business affairs finances.
I agree with Koppel about the partisan media, although I do like the Fox News Channel (I am a guilty conservative after all). I also believe that anything is better than MSNBC. Here are three other news sources I turn to (that are better than that trash).
1. The Wall Street Journal
2. CNBC
3. NBC Nightly News (only if Brian Williams is anchoring that show)
There actually are clips from the first broadcast day of MSNBC up on YouTube. That network actually began with a lot of promise (Brian Williams, who I like, even had his own show on there once), but then it turned south very quickly once Chris Matthews came out of the closet as a progressive and the a-hole known as Keith Olbermann came to the network. This website (which began as msnbc.com) actually managed to be a lot better at covering the news than its TV network.
'Bill o'reilly' is not a journalist. He is a megalomaniac masquerading as a serious newsman. He spews falsehoods and blatant lies daily. 'Ann coulter, "bass hog" 'limbaugh', etc., are outrageous hate mongering shills of the financial corporate elite, "Faux news" is merely a right wing propaganda machine that claims to be "fair and balance". Only a benighted, credulous, easy manipulated, unsophisticated "rube" would believe this preposterous claim. Rupert Murdoch, the 'Koch' brothers and other obscenely rich avaricious .01%ers finance and cleverly design their divisive message that is harmful to this country and borders on treason.
It appears to me that you were brainwashed by Keith Olbermann back when he had that Countdown show still on the air. The truth about O'Reilly is he began as a journalist at CBS in the 70's, and later moved over to ABC in the 80's (he also hosted "Inside Edition", a tabloid news program at the same time he was on ABC). When he moved over to Fox News during its launch in 1996, he went from a journalist to a political commentator. Keith Olbermann however started in sports and was never a newsman. When he did Countdown on MSNBC, he was a hater of anything that wasn't his view, and masqueraded himself as a news anchor while calling anyone who disagreed with him a racist, a bigot, or anything he could think of that is prejudiced towards anyone who wasn't a progressive or a democrat.