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So the DOJ collaborated with Media Matters to write positive spin stories/blogs on their behalf...

Posted by Stephen (aka Sceire) Sep 19 '12, 14:46

I'm shocked that CNN, MSNBC, etc don't seem to be covering this story at all...

:)

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ummm, that's pretty much what Media Matters does anyway :) -- nm - znufrii Sep 19, 14:59
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- *laughing* - Dr.Vermin Sep 19, 14:59 5
  - the only quoted emails I can find are pretty benign. -- nm - mafic Sep 19, 15:07
  - Honestly you're going to use that article as a basis for fact? That spin is just to the level of absurdity. - pmb Sep 19, 15:06 3
    - I particularly like that the government's stampeding all over poor rush limbaugh's first amendment rights. -- nm - mafic Sep 19, 15:36 2
      - Yeah, the state should be able to suppress private citizens, as long as they're jerks. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Sep 19, 15:39 1
        
        Exactly where is this state suppression that you and this article are raising? - pmb Sep 19, 15:52
- DOJ official(s) in direct email communications with Media Matters writers on what stories to write and how to spin attacks on DOJ critics. -- nm - Stephen Sep 19, 14:57 1
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I love when people make CNN out to be the opposite of Fox. - ty97 Sep 19, 14:51 19
- I really wish there was a better 24 hour news network than *any* of the ones we have. - Kim Pine Sep 19, 15:16 2
  - The problem comes back to there not really being 24 hours worth of news a day. -- nm - Reagen Sep 19, 15:17 1
    - True. -- nm - Kim Pine Sep 19, 15:19
- geez, some folks at the Y think of CNN as the Communist Nationalist Network and thank jesus that Fox has the balls to stand up to their radical agenda -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 19, 14:57 1
  - this is my dad. -- nm - loosilu Sep 19, 14:59
- You're right, MSNBC is more Fox's liberal leaning counterpoint than is CNN, but they're still left leaning. - Stephen Sep 19, 14:53 5
  - I guess the CNN opinion depends on what side you are looking from. - ty97 Sep 19, 14:59
  - Honestly I've always viewed CNN the other way. Wolf Blitzer and Nancy Grace are hardly left leaning. - pmb Sep 19, 14:59 2
    - Isn't she on HLN? -- nm - MDH Sep 19, 15:01 1
      - Not sure, but HLN is part of CNN. -- nm - pmb Sep 19, 15:03
  - Remove "leaning" - Stephen Sep 19, 14:55
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  - on the opinion shows they do, when they do straight news (like Chris Jansing) they're pretty good. -- nm - Remlik Sep 19, 15:19
  - There's been inaccurate spin in the editing process of clips, but I do not think it is the equivalent of Fox News in terms of spreading outright lies. -- nm - pmb Sep 19, 15:00
  - this is my question too, I've seen some of the more egregious things fox has done, I haven't for msnbc. not that this means they're not out there. -- nm - mafic Sep 19, 14:58 1
    - msnbc tends to head off a lot of those kinds of complaints by insidious usage of things like facts, public records...stupid stuff like that. -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 19, 15:00
  - I haven't looked into it in that detail, I just quit MSNBC (when I had cable) because it was an echo chamber, not news. -- nm - ty97 Sep 19, 14:55
  - no, not at all, sure they cherry pick, but they are not a george goebles/William Randolph Herst propaganda machine like Murdocks Fox -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 19, 14:55
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