I would say that if Conservatives want to be held to a higher standard, they should force Fox News to report with enough accuracy that foreign countries like Canada can allow them to broadcast there. Canada has recently stated that, because of their laws that require accuracy in reporting (a law the United States had until 1987 when Ronald Reagan had it retracted), they are unable to allow Fox to broadcast there.

Well, let’s see if we can get that particular law back on the books. What’s wrong with accuracy requirements? If that’s too complicated, then they should be blocked, and I mean be blocked by the good old USA as well!

Question is: who gets to determines what is accurate?

In Canada, it’s the government — now that sticks in my craw …

Let me get this straight, he repeated what he alledgedly heard from two republicans in order to support an opinion that he did not hold? That doesn’t sound accurate to me. That sounds like left wing spin.

Let me get this straight, the Republicans…..”an ambassador — so, a very highly placed Republican — another person, who was one of the top donors to the Republican party.”, both voted for Obama because they knew about Tea Party which had not formed in November 2008?

I have to disagree with you on your analysis. He says the “Republican(s)” voted for Obama because of the “Tea Party people.”

Not possible. The Tea Party movement didn’t begin until well after Obama took office. The “Republican(s)” would have voted against McCain, a moderate Republican who they would surely have been symapthetic with.

Outside of Palin, there was little in the way of conservative voice in that campaign, but Schiller claims the ambassador said, “…they think the current Republican party is not really the Republican Party. It’s been hijacked by this group…” Yet, Schiller never mentions Palin, and there was no Tea Party at the time, i.e. no “group” tht could have “hijacked” the McCain campaign.

Furthermore, Schiller refers specifically to the Tea Party in his description, and the Tea Party could not possilbly–not possibly–have been part of the conversation to which Schiller refers. No, when Schiller speaks, he’s giving his own evaluation.

The apparatus of U.S. government is too big, too bloated, too corrupt. At this point there are 2 (two) and only two (2) worthwhile things remaining of our government institutions in Washington, D.C. 1. The Declaration of Independence. 2. The Constitution of The United States of America. The common sense solution to all these problems with corruption and incompetence in U.S. government organizations is to shut ‘em ALL down, send everybody home and start from scratch. Use the principles laid out in the Declaration and The Constitution. Problem solved.

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Ge, Accuracy In Media is not very acurate, is it?

It’s my understanding that Fox HAS been on Canadian television, non-stop for years. So I guess
the government thinks they ARE accurate.

So, I thought the whole point of this is to show how ideologically bigoted NPR execs are, and as a result how their professional culture and ideological climate precludes any sort of non-baised news programming. Like it or not Schiller did ascribe the “racist racist people” tag to republicans he did not personally know, thus giving a clear image of his idological bigotry. You can argue all you want about editing for effect, but the essence is FAR more accurate than CBS news with its “fake but accurate” National Guard memos.

The new info doesn’t change the meaning at all. NPR must be defunded.

You do realize the irony of quoting Glenn Beck to help yourself don’t you? People know what Schiller said because the unedited video was released. He knows what he said, that’s why he resigned from two jobs. Quit spinning for your masters and think for yourself. Too quote EnVogue “Free your mind and the rest will follow”.

The problem with this desperate, flailing, and ineffective spin is this:

In anticipation of just such a claim of “selective editing,” the entire video was released, right from the start.

NPR knew of this, had time to mount up a defense, yet saw the truth and themselves called Schiller’s statements “appalling.”

But keep up your pitiful squealing. Defeat is yours. How does it taste?

By the way, why were they accepting money from people they thought were in the Muslim Brotherhood, anyway? An organization which is a self-avowed enemy of the United States?

And why were they trying to conceal it from the public and the government?

And how many times have they gotten away with this in the past?

Defund. Audit. Investigate. Incarcerate.

I would like all news be required to be accurate before it can be posted. Neither side gets it right. It is not only fox that has put spin on news and opinions.

I have worked in Canada off and on for about six months – one hotel of three that I have stayed in shows Fox News – it advertises it as part of the hotel features . . . and I like that feature However, on the channel selection listing – the Fox News Channel shows up as a Religious Broadcasting Channel – Fox News is what actually plays, but the title to those who just skim the channels shows up only as a religious broadcast. Interesting, right?

CNN, MSNBC, Headline News – all have their channels and broadcast without any confusion on the remote display . . . .

I live in Canada, and Fox has never been banned. Sun-TV, a Canadian version of Fox, was threatened with a block with this ‘accuracy’ law, but it failed.Obviously, anyone who watches the MSM in Canada knows that this law against lying in the press is never enforced.