Why won't corpmedia demand Hannity be fired over edited videos the way it demanded Rather be fired?

[blm]

Inquiring minds want to know....and want to know how many of you will push this meme the next few days?

[sufrommich]

1. It would be helpful if we knew how they pushed to have

Rather fired. Frankly, I don't remember how they did it.

[blm]

7. There were plenty of inside stories about newsers stabbing Rather in the back and

it certainly started to appear like a dumpfest when even Katie Couric was caught dumping on him.

[Sal Minella]

11. Somebody saying the documents were not genuine

was enough to impugn his integrity, which in that era, automatically meant being fired.

Hard as that may be to believe today.

For Fox, it's SOP, but for any journalist or organization with any shred of integrity, doctoring documents was simply inexcusable, and was punished.

The final conclusion was that Rather had counterfeit copies of documents that had actually existed, but the truth didn't survive the battering it took.

IMO.

[MrScorpio]

2. Because, IOKIRWADI

(It's OK if Right Wing Assholes Do It)

[Catshrink]

3. Correct

As usual, MrScorpio.

:hi:

[blm]

4. yes, I'm very familiar with that truth....however...let's make this a new day where we CAN'T be

ignored...especially since these m-effers have finally gotten a brushback.

[gratuitous]

5. Because Dan Rather was right and Sean Hannity was wrong

Sheesh, ya gotta ask?

[opihimoimoi]

6. FOX is stuck in a Nuts Vice.....nuts squeezed with 4756 lbs psi pressure

FOX is flummoxed ......

will attempt spin as usual

But they have lost much in creds and respect...

These guys have been exposed in ways never seen before....they have shown a TREND...a very bad one...

Olberman killed them today

[depakid]

8. Because there are no accountability mechanisms in place thanks to media deregulation

and hence, a culture where lies aren't decried but rewarded, and ethics dismissed and shunned.

[blm]

20. there really are no ethics in newsmedia anymore....FOX and CNN get away with pushing Fascist agenda

down this nation's throat every day.

[bleever]

9. And Hannity compounded it today, saying that the "exculpatory" part

of the story was that she decided to send him to a white lawyer.

He omitted the entire latter part of how Sherrod helped them, personally, to save their farm.

[Atticus]

12. That Teabagger worm is still disgusting even thought you've changed the motto. nt.

[blm]

13. make him toast

.

[FrenchieCat]

10. We have to do it.......

[myrna minx]

14. K&R n/t

[Fuzz]

15. He should have been fired over the Abner Louima story and the way

he handled that YEARS ago.

[blm]

16. How many manipulated videos will Hannity be allowed to promote before rest of media even complains?

.

[EFerrari]

17. Jesse Jackson brings up someone name Lonny Guaneer (sp)?

I don't even remember that one.

[blm]

18. Lani Guenier....Clinton nominated her for Att Gen and dumped her like hot potato at the first

pushback from the GOP machine.

[EFerrari]

21. Thank you!

:hi:

[malaise]

19. Remember this is not Fox's fault

it never is :sarcasm:

[EFerrari]

22. Because all sides of this dysfunction need the system to continue

exactly as it is, just like in an alcoholic family.

[cbdo2007]

23. Because he is a talk show host, not a news reporter.

Rather had credibility as a news reporter.

Hannity doesn't have news credibility because he is a talk show host and entertainer.

[blm]

25. A host using a NEWS NETWORK to promote manipulated videos as a news story.

.

[cbdo2007]

27. I'm not backing up Hannity....but there is a fine line, which is the root of the Fox News problem.

Their idiot viewers don't understand the difference between their entertainment shows and the actual news. They think Hannity, Beck, Limbaugh are actual news reporters when they're not - they're talk show hosts.

I agree with you, but the fact is that FoxNews has these "opinion" times (isn't there an official sounding name for it) where they have these discussion shows and they really are not news reporters reporting the news.

[Stinky The Clown]

24. Do you really need to ask why?

In any society or group there are some who are protected, no matter what they do. That's what happens with totalitarian regimes. It is what happens inside bubbles. It is what goes on in focused goal driven companies. If you say all the right things and do as your masters wish, you're protected. Your motives might be as ideologue or useful idiot, but that's a secondary matter. The message is what matters, Hannity delivers the message the powers that be in that particular society want out there. So he is protected.

This is not unusual. I bet you participate in other such societies where the most outrageous speech by some is tolerated, rewarded, and celebrated, even as less outrageous speech, but in opposition, is punished in sometimes very harsh ways.

[blm]

28. No....I post the question in case others read it and further spread the sentiment contained.

heh...but, you knew that....of course. ; )

[BootinUp]

26. it was complaints from conservatives and whackos directly to CBS

that convinced CBS to fire Rather. It was also a report about the President before an election, different level of pressure from the partisans I assure you.

Best we can hope for is more mainstream media making fun of Fox for being the joke they are.

But don't let my opinion sway you from your goal.