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malrenalds · #1 (**permalink**) 08-10-2008, 07:00 PM

Think Progress Fox News Host Refuses To Talk About Russia-Georgia War, Insists On Covering Edwards’ Affair

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Fox News Host Refuses To Talk About Russia-Georgia War, Insists On Covering Edwards’ Affair»

Yesterday, Russia launched a major military offensive against Georgia, which Georgia has called “a state of war.” Nearly two thousand people have died and the conflict risks sparking a wider war. Also yesterday, former senator John Edwards admitted to having an extramarital affair in 2006.
Fox News has decided which story is worthy of more coverage. Today, host Gregg Jarrett interviewed PBS’s Bonnie Erbe. “We have these huge stories going on like the one you’re reporting in Georgia,” Erbe noted when asked about Edwards. Jarrett, however, completely ignored Erbe’s comment on Georgia and continued to talk about Edwards, offering praise for the National Enquirer:

JARRETT: You know, his excuse for lying is absolutely stunning. He claims he denied the affair because the reporting by the National Enquirer was “99 percent wrong.” Well, so far, they’ve been about 100 percent right.

Throughout the segment, Jarrett refused to talk about anything except for Edwards’s affair:

ERBE: The American public have told pollsters, this political season they want substance. Both these candidates have expressed support for allowing Georgia into NATO. … We could have been on the verge of nuclear war. Those are the kinds of the things that the American public wants to see discussed.
JARRETT: Right. You know, but getting back to Edwards, during the Monica Lewinsky affair, Edwards absolutely ripped into Bill Clinton.

Erbe called the Edwards story “water cooler talk,” noting again that Edwards’s affair is “not the stuff the American public wants to hear about in this election cycle.” Again, Jarrett wholly ignored her, responding with more Edwards talk:

JARRETT: Well it’s amazing, he thought could get away with it, and if he had become the Democratic nominee, my goodness.

It is like that guy is not even listening to her. Be sure to catch the vid.

Lumara · #2 (**permalink**) 08-10-2008, 08:52 PM

Faux Noise, he he. Good name!

Michael · #3 (**permalink**) 08-11-2008, 12:07 AM

What news? It is all Bush propaganda!

Space_Coyote · #4 (**permalink**) 08-11-2008, 03:42 AM

Please, CNN played "Black in America" about four thousand times, and MSNBC does countless little public interest pieces on the green movement or "God's warriors". People don't want substance, they want gossip and drama, and God damn if Fox News didn't give it them.

sleuth · #5 (**permalink**) 08-11-2008, 09:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Space_Coyote

Please, CNN played "Black in America" about four thousand times, and MSNBC does countless little public interest pieces on the green movement or "God's warriors". People don't want substance, they want gossip and drama, and God damn if Fox News didn't give it them.

i'm going to have to support you on this one. the documentary, though well meaning, told only a slice of the chocolate experience, and completely omitted talking about black gay america, HIV, and black achievement in tangible terms

diuretic · #6 (**permalink**) 08-12-2008, 05:57 AM

Please, Fox is about revenue, not information. It's one of Murdoch's means to making himself more wealthy. That he insults the average American's intelligence is irrelevant. It's a big market. Among 300 million people there will be sufficient dumbarses who tune in and absorb the ****e that Fox News puts over as "news" and that means advertisers will pay to get in contact with these dumbarses and that means Murdoch will make more money.

He's a dirtbag but he's no idiot. The new P.T. Barnum.

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