Classic Media Cheerleading

[hippifried]

The conservative media watchdog group NewsBusters reported this morning that Schultz was paid $190,000 in 2011 "for what the U.S. Department of Labor categorized as 'representational activities,'" and an additional $9,900 from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, according to the U.S. Labor Department. Skowronski said that all of those funds came from speaking engagements. Schultz, who advocates for unions on his MSNBC show and his radio program, "The Ed Schultz Show," often delivers speeches at union conventions.

Oh boo hoo hoo! An admitted liberal made some money. Sob sob... That can't possibly be allowed, can it? Waaaaaaaaaaaa!

Welcome to America, you snivlin' peck.

[paulclifford]

>>>Ed Schultz, the host of MSNBC's "The Ed Show" and a champion of labor unions . . .

Something else about MSNBC:

It's owned by General Electric, which accepted federal "stimulus" money (i.e., taxpayer dollars).

So taxpayer dollars are being used to finance, in part, a far left media outlet like MSNBC. Can you imagine the uproar by the left if taxpayer bailout money had been used to finance any part of Fox News?

However, that would never happen. While MSNBC's ratings are constantly in the crapper, pretty much everyone who watches cable watches Fox — mainly because Fox does a pretty good job of separating and distinguishing its straightforward news reporting from its news commentators and editorialists (like O'Reilly and Hannity). Many viewers also appreciate the fact that even Fox's right-of-center commentators give air-time to leftist "Fox News Contributors" such as Juan Williams (previously a regular on NPR before he was fired for making a politically-incorrect remark about Islam) and former congressman Dennis Kucinich.

[trish]

General Motors, which recieved government bailout money, contributes "taxpayer" money to Fox. So where's the uproar?
http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=4087

Btw, you can regularly find both conservative and liberal commentators on both venues. Thank you for not falsely characterizing the facts in the future, 'cause in the present you're not doing too well.

[paulclifford]

>>>General Motors, which recieved government bailout money, contributes "taxpayer" money to Fox.

Wrong. Read your own link. General Motors contributes nothing to Fox. It purchases advertising time so viewers will buy its products and it can (with any luck) make a profit.

You don't understand the difference between a contribution and a purchase?

[trish]

And by the same token, MSNBC did not directly receive government money did it? Money passes from one hand to the next. You might as well argue that since the U.S. mints it's own money, everybody who gets paid in U.S. currency is receiving a government subsidy. Find another boat, this one won't float.

[paulclifford]

>>>MSNBC did not directly receive government money did it?

MSNBC is owned by GE. When GE received bailout money, it used some of those funds to prop up a far-left media outlet that probably couldn't survive on its own if it only had to rely on ratings and ad revenue. Its ratings suck.

That's obviously different from a company accepting bailout cash and then using it merely to BUY something from someone else (chairs, tables, advertising time).

[Prospero]

MSNBC... far left... from an inhabitant of cloud cuckoo land!!!