What can be done about faux news?...

[flygal]

How the hell are they allowed press credentials? Why aren't they being discredited? This one is really a thorn in my side.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. At this time?

Nothing. We have to choose our fights carefully right now.

[Quetzal]

4. My thoughts exactly

[Meshuga]

2. MSNBC and CNN aren't any better...

All we can do now is not watch it.

[mutius]

10. Done their job

The media has not told the truth about the Bush administration over the last four years. They make Bush out to be a righteous man. Fact this man has lied to the American people about Iraq, stole the surplus and gave it to the rich. Still giving American jobs to foreign countries, and illegal aliens in Americans. Ties with the Saudis. Killed 100,000 Iraqis on a lie in the name of democracy. I mean it just goes on and on. The media just lets him get away with all these things. This country should be outraged! Yet they put him back in because of the media. After all this man seemed so stupid in the first and second debate its amazing how he became the President of these United States.

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. We need our own media.

And guys, if it's a liberal media, you may not like it, but if it has informercials for sex toys at 2 am in the morning, it's an idea that will quickly bomb. The goal is to have a news channel where mainstream America will come for another point of view on news that affects every one in America.

[woo me with science]

6. absolutely

i get so nervous when i hear talk of shutting the other guy up--that is NOT what we should be about. the solution is to get our message out BETTER.

[JBoris]

13. Is Gore TV going to be a reality?

Many seem to think so, but when I google it I don't see much recent news on it. Anyway I don't really think mainstream America has to watch it think a Dem news channel would just have to counter-balance freeper TV's echo chamber, make it a wash and let people decide the truth.
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[The Backlash Cometh]

18. I wish we could use the internet to start a fund drive for Gore.

You know, looking over the last 48 hours I realize he really did put up one hell of a fight. I'd like to see him get his own media.

[MSgt213]

5. Nothing Free Speech has its draw backs. Even though they spread

misinformation and show their true colors every day what you do is point out to people they are being mislead.

[bogey18]

7. I couldn't help but notice over the last year

that the people I know who go by FOX news either 1)refuse to believe they are being misled 2) don't care that they are being mislead OR 3) find tremendous comfort in being mislead - sort of like a bed time story that you know is a fairy tale but you want to hear it over and over again anyway.

[MSgt213]

8. All news is entertainment now any way. There are no real reporters on TV

they are all on the internet doing blogs and stuff. They are more then likely not pretty enough for prime time which seems to be the main requirement to be a reporter these days. That and being able to conduct unproductive interviews.

[GiovanniC]

11. And The Entertainment is News. See "The Daily Show".

Up is down.

Peace is war.

Backward is forward.

[0007]

15. 'Tis time to part company.

[kcwayne]

9. Either Turn them off or find ways to feed them stories that make them look

stupid to the people who are still watching, so they turn them off.

[radwriter0555]

12. Turn it off.

Don't watch it.

[0007]

14. Don't watch 'em! The whore networks are for entainment only!!

[PaulaFarrell]

16. Pick them off one by one

Not sure it's possible, but couldn't we target some of the most outrageous poeple - like o reilly, whom a lot of people listen to? He should be vulnerable now what with his recent adventures. Boycott advertisers (though it's important not to overuse that mechanism, so that when we do, it has effect) - and why not even pretend we are disgusted evangelicals outraged that this filthy pervert is still on the air? I keep using my sister as an example, but she likes him - I don't think she'd be so impressed if she'd read the details of the lawsuit against him like I did. I'm not good at ideas but it's obvious we can't really go after the entire media as a whole - but after all there are as many of us as there are of them - they punch above their weight so why can't we? We proved it with Sinclair, we can do it again, if we just have a real specific target, and just hammer, hammer. I know it would be hard, but I don't think it's impossible. Play dirty, they do. In fact, in retrospect, I'm kind of wishing someone had followed up on that bush twin abortion rumour - if true, that would have exposed him for the hypocrite he is. I guess we thought we'd win anyway just because we had right on our side. Just doesn't seem to be enough.

[Carolinian]

17. Boycott and discredit.

[Ducks In A Row]

19. Listen to AAR, ignore FOX

we have to concentrate on getting rid of BBV. Remember there will be mid term elections in 2 years

[pstokely]

20. cancelling your cable

until they offer Al La Carte cable packages

[PotatoBoy]

21. What the hell, people? Cancelling cable isn't gonna help

We have to expose Fox. Short & simple.

[Cinletharwi]

22. Financially punish them and their advertisers severely

Vote with your dollars, the only votes they really count