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Will the Rest of the Media Let Fox Start Another War?

Posted Aug 23rd 2007 10:25AM by Cenk Uygur
Filed under: Middle East, Young Turks, Rupert Murdoch, Fox News

Fox News Channel aggressively pushed for the Iraq War. And they got it. Now, they are doing the same exact thing with the Iran War. See video below for indisputable evidence. The question is, will they get what they're looking for again? Will we have another war started by Fox News Channel?



Of course, Fox can't do it alone. But lucky for them, they don't have to. Joe Lieberman, well-placed neo-cons in think tanks throughout DC (like Michael O'Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack), Republicans in Congress and Dick Cheney are all working together to make this sick neo-con fantasy into a reality.

The question now is whether the rest of the media will be suckers enough to go along. You can see clear as day in the video above that Fox is following the same exact playbook they used to start a war with Iraq. But what helped tremendously that time was that the rest of the media bought it and actively helped them to promote it. So far, I haven't seen very much skepticism on the claims about Iran when I turn on TV, just like before the Iraq War.

After all of the hand wringing by the media about how they got it wrong in Iraq, I sure hope to God they aren't going to make the same exact mistake about Iran. So far, the signs are not encouraging. But Brave New Films, among others, are putting them on notice. Let's see, if they get it right this time.

I was on a press conference call this morning with Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films and Senator Bernie Sanders and Greenwald said that they have five more hours of footage just like this from just April of this year on. They out up an hour of it on their website. It's hard not to call Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes warmongers after seeing this footage. I wonder if they lose any sleep at all over the people killed in the senseless wars they start?

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FOXifying the Wall Street Journal: A Handy Conversion Chart

Posted Aug 1st 2007 12:04PM by Ada Calhoun
Filed under: Rupert Murdoch, Wall Street Journal

Murdoch won his bid, and we all know what that means: Wall Street Journal staff, you better start making with the punchy headlines. Today's WSJ was so drab! So plain! So fact-y! So, editors, let's get to Foxificating. But first, a quiz about your new sister property:

Which is a real Fox News.com headline today?

a) Dog Shoots Man!
b) Man Attempts Suicide by Chaining Self to Tree!
c) Teen Charged for Trying to Steal Woman's Fetus!
d) Car Chase Leads to Dead-Cat Find!
e) Sweaty Chinese Man Electrocuted by Computer!

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