Fox News Ignores Tea Party protest of MSM

Media Matters has the whole story on this silly business.

What I want to know is where were the protests of the MSM when they helped the Bush White House lie us into the Iraq war, an illegal war by anyone's definition, a war which in large part led us into the economic nightmare in which we find ourselves.

No president can run two wars off a credit card, never allowing the people to see how much these ill-advised, if not criminal, wars were costing. The Bush administration even had a policy of not allowing the caskets of the fallen to be seen on television, let alone the dollar amount in the cost of the wars.

The only thing that was obvious was the cost to Americas reputation and credibility.

Following criticism of being an "arm" of the GOP, Fox News aired no live coverage of Oct. 17 media "malpractice" tea party

http://mediamatters.org/items/200910190001

Following White House communications director Anita Dunn's recent critique of Fox News serving as an "arm" of the Republican Party, Fox News did not devote any live coverage to what it had previously referred to as the October 17 "tea part[y]" protests by Operation: Can You Hear Us Now?, an organization that planned "to show the MSM [mainstream media] that we as the American Public are absolutely fed up with their journalistic malpractice." By contrast, Fox News devoted significant promotion and live coverage of the April 15 tax day tea party and the September 12 "March on Washington."

On October 17, Fox News aired no live coverage of media protests

Operation: Can You Hear Us Now? organized October 17 protests against "journalistic malpractice." According to the Frequently Asked Questions page of the Operation: Can You Hear Us Now? website, the protests were a "nationwide event meant to show the MSM that we as the American Public are absolutely fed up with their journalistic malpractice."


Fox News did not cover "Tea Parties Marching on Media Outlets" live on October 17. According to a Media Matters for America review of Fox News' programming on October 17, the network did not report live on the media protests that day. While Fox News devoted no on-air coverage to the protests that day, FoxNews.com ran an October 17 article headlined, "Tea Partiers Take Aim at Major Media Outlets." The article stated that the "[t]he 'tea party' movement is back" and reported that "[t]he 'Can You Hear Us Now' rallies are planned for Saturday in front of NBC studios in Burbank, CNN in Atlanta and affiliate stations of NBC, ABC and CBS across the nation."

Fox News had previously promoted October 17 "tea parties" protesting "journalistic malpractice"

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