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14/10/2008 23:42:21
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
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>>>>>I am not going to reply to the change of subject to Obama. Especially not a link to Fox News.
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>>>>It is interesting. You postured countless number of times how every media source should be taken into account, but, when confronted with the only major one that does not fit to your political belief, you just brush it out.
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>>>Treating Fox as if it were a news source is pure propaganda.
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>>Without Fox News, US media would be, in terms of press freedom, somewhere between Zimbabwe and Zanzibar.
>>Please, be advised, that I don't care what kind of opinion you may have on this topic.
>
>But you do. Or else, why respond.
>
>As to freedom from press: Akre case. Fox news has won a major victory, it now has a legal right to publish whatever it is paid to lie, because freedom of speech protects them from any obligation to tell the truth. It is now legally the best news channel money can buy... money first, news later.
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>Not that the others are much better... maybe dropping all pretenses and going blatantly the way of presscenary, or presstitute or whatever they prefer to be called, is more honest than maintaining the pretense of free press.

I disagree with you about lies. Granted that Fox News has more conservative slant on the news, it is essential when outlets like CNN on NBC news anchor people perform Lewinsky on Obama {g}.
"The creative process is nothing but a series of crises." Isaac Bashevis Singer
"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all." Oscar Wilde
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." W.Somerset Maugham
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