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Topic started on 26-1-2005 @ 05:12 AM by DrHoracid



"Ted Turner called FOX an arm of the Bush administration and compared FOXNEWS's popularity to Hitler's popular election to run Germany before WWII.

Turner made the controversial comments in Las Vegas before a standing-room-only crowd at the National Association for Television Programming Executives's opening session.

His no-nonsense, humorous approach during the one-hour Q&A generated frequent loud applause and laughter, BROADCASTING & CABLE reports.

While FOX may be the largest news network [and has overtaken Turner's CNN], it's not the best, Turner said.

He followed up by pointing out that Adolf Hitler got the most votes when he was elected to run Germany prior to WWII. He said the network is the propaganda tool for the Bush Administration. "

{snip}

"A FOXNEWS spokesperson responded: "Ted is understandably bitter having lost his ratings, his network and now his mind -- we wish him well."

www.drudgereport.com...

The fact that Foxnews isn't a propaganda arm for the liberal left agenda, an agenda to control the masses, enrages the insanity within these people. Ted gave a 100 Billion to the UN and the UN still stole food from the mouths of children in Iraq with Oil for Food.

The insane left doesn’t "get it". Fox is more popular because it isn't left leaning and decidedly Bias. Much of America is waking up to the lies and propaganda of the major "OLD" media. I hope the "OLD" media "icons" such as ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN all die a very slow painful death. I hope they all starve to death (as corporations) from lack of viewers and lack of advertisers.....

Mod edit: No all-caps titles, please, per this thread
www.abovetopsecret.com...


[edit on 26-1-2005 by DrHoracid]

[edit on 26-1-2005 by Spectre]


reply posted on 26-1-2005 @ 05:25 AM by Souljah
FOX tv?
reminds me of this guy, you all know form history,
if you didnt skip history class...



leading propaganda machine, designed to brainwash.

why is fox news so popular? because it has STRONG support from the current u.s. goverment, since they are both sucking each others private parts. and ofcourse they intend to have monopol over the information and media coverege.

one people,
one state,
one tv station,
one REICH!

HEIL!


reply posted on 26-1-2005 @ 05:51 AM by thirddensity
Originally posted by DrHoracid

"Ted Turner called FOX an arm of the Bush administration and compared FOXNEWS's popularity to Hitler's popular election to run Germany before WWII.




Your threads headline is complete disinformation. Let's break down the first line.

Ted Turner called FOX an arm of the Bush administration and compared FOXNEWS's popularity to Hitler's popular election to run Germany before WWII.

Any history book will tell you that due to Hitlers propoganda machine, Hitler was insanley popular in Germany before the war. Everyone loved him.

Therefore, Ted Turner is exactly right. FOX news is a republican propoganda machine, and Bush is a popular president. Therefore, the similarities are indeed present. What's there to dispute?

Just to be fair and balanced, please note that I am a card carrying member of the Republican National Committee.

This article is nothing more than a play on words to demonize Ted Turner. It insinuates that the headline is correct when it never even compares FOX News to Hitler. Being compared to a popular election is a lot different that being compared to the subject of an election that went on in the future to become one of the most ruthless dictators ever.



reply posted on 26-1-2005 @ 12:06 PM by RANT
The sensationalism of Turner's comments does not make their implications less true.

If his point is that the media is complicit if not downright owned by big business and the Bush Administration, he's right.

It is a propaganda tool for the government. Most corporate media is, FOX just happens to not even try to hide it.

Anyone denying this or defending the Bush/Media synergy would be on thin ice today considering the post election revelations.

From today:
Bush Denounces Paying Commetators

Second "bust" of a fake journalist on the take in a month. Of course, when caught Bush denounces what he does but it's nothing new.

The Bush administration hired a London PR firm the year before the Iraq Invasion to plant stories about Saddam being corrupt to garner war support. You don't think Fox was doing the same thing? Old news.

It's all old news. Turner is not only right, he's not saying anything he hasn't been saying for years and we all already know.

Corporate Media Sucks.

He's a total outsider now and free to speak his mind even going on record criticizing CNN. How can you possibly do a story on healthcare but accept pharmco ads? How?

You can't. Once you accept money from the Defense Dept, HUD, the Education Secretary, an Oil Company, an Insurance Company, a Drug Company, an Outsourcer...ANY multinational corporation...you are a shill for the Republican Party.

PERIOD.

[edit on 26-1-2005 by RANT]


reply posted on 26-1-2005 @ 12:49 PM by Flange Gasket
Anyone who knows anything about Rupert Murdoch knows that he is an extreme right wing conservative.

James Fallows of the Atlantic Monthly points out that most of Murdoch's actions "are consistent with the use of political influence for corporate advantage." In other words, he uses his publications to advance a political agenda that will make him money.

The Economist reported that in 1986 Murdoch "helped smash the British print unions by transferring the production of his newspapers to a non-union plant at Wapping in East London.

Just after the Iraq invasion, the New York Times reported, "The war has illuminated anew the exceptional power in the hands of Murdoch, 72, the chairman of News Corp"...

Murdoch has acknowledged his major rationale for supporting the Iraq invasion: oil. While both American and British politicians strenuously deny the significance of oil in the war, the Guardian of London notes, "Murdoch wasn't so reticent. He believes that deposing the Iraqi leader would lead to cheaper oil." Murdoch said before the war, "The greatest thing to come out of this for the world economy...would be $20 a barrel for oil. That's bigger than any tax cut in any country"...

Slate reports, Murdoch "put George W. Bush cousin John Ellis in charge of [Fox's] Election Night vote-counting operation: Ellis made Fox the first network to declare Bush the victor" even as the New Yorker reported that Ellis spent the evening discussing the election with George W. and Jeb Bush

Murdoch is a hard as nails aussie money making machine, and his news media and publications always reflect his business interests and neo-conservative outlook.

www.americanprogress.org...


reply posted on 26-1-2005 @ 02:54 PM by centurion1211
Originally posted by Souljah
FOX tv?
reminds me of this guy, you all know form history,
if you didnt skip history class...



leading propaganda machine, designed to brainwash.

why is fox news so popular? because it has STRONG support from the current u.s. goverment, since they are both sucking each others private parts.


Hey kookoo. This is the person you should ask to quit posting

Regarding Fox, please remember that no one is forcing more people to watch their network over the others, people are choosing to watch Fox.

And has Ted Turner gone bye-bye? Seems like he can't get away from the Hitler thing whenever he disagrees with someone or something. Drudge is reporting how he has had to apologize in the recent past for doing hte same thing before.

[edit on 1/26/2005 by centurion1211]
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