Media Bias Matters
In psychological theory, projection is when a person denies his or her own characteristics and then ascribes them to other people. Liberals do this all the time.
Media Matters for America has made a habit of leaking Fox News editor, Bill Sammon’s emails that supposedly “expose” the bias that drives the network. They apparently find no irony in the fact that their entire existence is predicated on a bias against Fox News.
Let me take a step back before I introduce the emails. Anyone who regularly listens to Rush Limbaugh is familiar with his media montages wherein numerous reporters and commentators from various networks and formats are spliced together, collectively saying precisely the same thing over and over. This is why the mainstream media is oftentimes referred to as an echo chamber. The montages, while humorous and entertaining, deftly illustrate the point that the vast majority of the media is not only scripted, but is running off the same script.
Guess what Media Matters accuses Fox News of? Below are a few of the leaked emails. You tell me whether Sammon is scripting his network, or is simply performing the duties of an editor.
This is how Sammon tells his staff how to report the news. Evil!
From: Sammon, Bill
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 9:23 AM
To: 169 -SPECIAL REPORT; 069 -Politics; 036 -FOX.WHU; 030 -Root (FoxNews.Com); 050 -Senior Producers; 051 -Producers
Cc: Clemente, Michael; Stack, John; Wallace, Jay
Subject: FYI: My cursory check of Obama's 6,000-word speech to the Muslim world did not turn up the words "terror," "terrorist" or "terrorism"
This is the header of an email which goes on to slander Obama by quoting from his autobiography. How completely low!
From: Sammon, Bill
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 1:02 PM
To: 069 -Politics; 169 -SPECIAL REPORT; 030 -Root (FoxNews.Com)
Subject: fyi: Obama's references to socialism, liberalism, Marxism and Marxists in his autobiography, "Dreams from My Father." Plus a couple of his many self-described "racial obsessions"...
This one is pretty self-explanatory. Can you believe this guy calls himself a journalist!?
From: Sammon, Bill
To: 169 -SPECIAL REPORT; 036 -FOX.WHU; 054 -FNSunday; 030 -Root (FoxNews.Com); 050 -Senior Producers; 051 -Producers; 069 -Politics; 005 -Washington
Cc: Clemente, Michael; Stack, John; Wallace, Jay; Smith, Sean
Sent: Tue Dec 08 12:49:51 2009
Subject: Given the controversy over the veracity of climate change data...
...we should refrain from asserting that the planet has warmed (or cooled) in any given period without IMMEDIATELY pointing out that such theories are based upon data that critics have called into question. It is not our place as journalists to assert such notions as facts, especially as this debate intensifies.
And yet another example of Sammon besmirching the name journalist:
From: Sammon, Bill
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 8:23 AM
To: 054 -FNSunday; 169 -SPECIAL REPORT; 069 -Politics; 030 -Root (FoxNews.Com); 036 -FOX.WHU; 050 -Senior Producers; 051 -Producers
Subject: friendly reminder: let's not slip back into calling it the "public option"
1) Please use the term "government-run health insurance" or, when brevity is a concern, "government option," whenever possible.
2) When it is necessary to use the term "public option" (which is, after all, firmly ensconced in the nation's lexicon), use the qualifier "so-called," as in "the so-called public option."
3) Here's another way to phrase it: "The public option, which is the government-run plan."
4) When newsmakers and sources use the term "public option" in our stories, there's not a lot we can do about it, since quotes are of course sacrosanct.
You can join the fun by searching Media Matters for all the leaked emails.
Media Matters for America has made a habit of leaking Fox News editor, Bill Sammon’s emails that supposedly “expose” the bias that drives the network. They apparently find no irony in the fact that their entire existence is predicated on a bias against Fox News.
Let me take a step back before I introduce the emails. Anyone who regularly listens to Rush Limbaugh is familiar with his media montages wherein numerous reporters and commentators from various networks and formats are spliced together, collectively saying precisely the same thing over and over. This is why the mainstream media is oftentimes referred to as an echo chamber. The montages, while humorous and entertaining, deftly illustrate the point that the vast majority of the media is not only scripted, but is running off the same script.
Guess what Media Matters accuses Fox News of? Below are a few of the leaked emails. You tell me whether Sammon is scripting his network, or is simply performing the duties of an editor.
This is how Sammon tells his staff how to report the news. Evil!
From: Sammon, Bill
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 9:23 AM
To: 169 -SPECIAL REPORT; 069 -Politics; 036 -FOX.WHU; 030 -Root (FoxNews.Com); 050 -Senior Producers; 051 -Producers
Cc: Clemente, Michael; Stack, John; Wallace, Jay
Subject: FYI: My cursory check of Obama's 6,000-word speech to the Muslim world did not turn up the words "terror," "terrorist" or "terrorism"
This is the header of an email which goes on to slander Obama by quoting from his autobiography. How completely low!
From: Sammon, Bill
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 1:02 PM
To: 069 -Politics; 169 -SPECIAL REPORT; 030 -Root (FoxNews.Com)
Subject: fyi: Obama's references to socialism, liberalism, Marxism and Marxists in his autobiography, "Dreams from My Father." Plus a couple of his many self-described "racial obsessions"...
This one is pretty self-explanatory. Can you believe this guy calls himself a journalist!?
From: Sammon, Bill
To: 169 -SPECIAL REPORT; 036 -FOX.WHU; 054 -FNSunday; 030 -Root (FoxNews.Com); 050 -Senior Producers; 051 -Producers; 069 -Politics; 005 -Washington
Cc: Clemente, Michael; Stack, John; Wallace, Jay; Smith, Sean
Sent: Tue Dec 08 12:49:51 2009
Subject: Given the controversy over the veracity of climate change data...
...we should refrain from asserting that the planet has warmed (or cooled) in any given period without IMMEDIATELY pointing out that such theories are based upon data that critics have called into question. It is not our place as journalists to assert such notions as facts, especially as this debate intensifies.
And yet another example of Sammon besmirching the name journalist:
From: Sammon, Bill
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 8:23 AM
To: 054 -FNSunday; 169 -SPECIAL REPORT; 069 -Politics; 030 -Root (FoxNews.Com); 036 -FOX.WHU; 050 -Senior Producers; 051 -Producers
Subject: friendly reminder: let's not slip back into calling it the "public option"
1) Please use the term "government-run health insurance" or, when brevity is a concern, "government option," whenever possible.
2) When it is necessary to use the term "public option" (which is, after all, firmly ensconced in the nation's lexicon), use the qualifier "so-called," as in "the so-called public option."
3) Here's another way to phrase it: "The public option, which is the government-run plan."
4) When newsmakers and sources use the term "public option" in our stories, there's not a lot we can do about it, since quotes are of course sacrosanct.
You can join the fun by searching Media Matters for all the leaked emails.
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