17yr old black kid shot and killed for walking in white suburbia?

[natina]

FOX NEWS FOR IDIOTS



STUDY FINDS THAT Fox News Makes You Stupid?


http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/ar...kes-you-stupid



FOX NEWS INSIDER: “Stuff Is Just Made Up”

Asked what most viewers and observers of Fox News would be surprised to learn about the controversial cable channel, a former insider from the world of Rupert Murdoch was quick with a response: “I don’t think people would believe it’s as concocted as it is; that stuff is just made up.”

Indeed, a former Fox News employee who recently agreed to talk with Media Matters confirmed what critics have been saying for years about Murdoch’s cable channel. Namely, that Fox News is run as a purely partisan operation, virtually every news story is actively spun by the staff, its primary goal is to prop up Republicans and knock down Democrats, and that staffers at Fox News routinely operate without the slightest regard for fairness or fact checking.

“It is their M.O. to undermine the administration and to undermine Democrats,” says the source. “They’re a propaganda outfit but they call themselves news.”

And that’s the word from inside Fox News.

Note the story here isn’t that Fox News leans right. Everyone knows the channel pushes a conservative-friendly version of the news. Everyone who’s been paying attention has known that since the channel’s inception more than a decade ago. The real story, and the real danger posed by the cable outlet, is that over time Fox News stopped simply leaning to the right and instead became an open and active political player, sort of one-part character assassin and one-part propagandist, depending on which party was in power. And that the operation thrives on fabrications and falsehoods.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201102100007

WARNING! BREAKING NEWS!:exposure to Fox News makes voters stupid, university study finds




exposure to Fox News makes voters stupid, university study finds


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/1...voters-stupid/

[natina]

Fox News Viewers Believe the Darndest Things, Study Finds


(Dec. 17) -- Fair and balanced ... and factually incorrect?

A newly released study out of the University of Maryland concludes that viewers of the Fox News Channel were "significantly more likely" to believe a host of factually incorrect information than viewers who watched other television news organizations.

Fox is by no means the only media outlet guilty of spreading what the study considers misniformation, but the channel's viewers were found to believe incorrect views on matters of established fact in much higher percentages than those peple who got their news of the world elsewhere.

Those who watched Fox News during the 2010 election cycle were significantly more likely than those who never watched it to believe that ...

... most economists estimate the stimulus caused job losses (12 points more likely).

... most economists have estimated the health care law will worsen the deficit (31 points more likely).

... the economy is getting worse (26 points more likely).

... most scientists do not agree that climate change is occurring (30 points more likely).

... the stimulus legislation did not include any tax cuts (14 points more likely).

... their own income taxes have gone up (14 points).

... the auto bailout only occurred under Obama (13 points).

... when TARP came up for a vote, most Republicans opposed it (12 points).

... it is not clear that Obama was born in the United States (31 points).

The study found that it wasn't just Republican Fox viewers who were swayed to believe the less-than-accurate information. Democratic viewers of the channel also more likely to believe those things, too.

Surge Desk's calls to the Fox News Channel for comment on the study were not returned.



http://www.aolnews.com/2010/12/17/fo...s-study-finds/

[tsdvdman]

The latest
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/...190108284.html

[giovanni_hotel]

Zimmerman has 48 hours to report to jail, his bond was revoked.

[Silcc69]

I haven't been on this this board for a few months, but was it ever discussed how Zimmerman came up with all of those donations? I have heard that the Koch brothers were donating a shit ton of money but never could found out if it was true or not.

[Token Williams-Black]

The latest
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/...190108284.html

Note to self: don't read the comments...

[giovanni_hotel]

He set up a site on the interwebz to raise money for his legal bills and like minded individuals sent him cash.
It's not like he raised millions of dollars, but even the $100,000 he got is significant.

[Silcc69]

Note to self: don't read the comments...

The right wing zealots are out full force today.

[Queens Guy]

I haven't been on this this board for a few months, but was it ever discussed how Zimmerman came up with all of those donations? I have heard that the Koch brothers were donating a shit ton of money but never could found out if it was true or not.

The Koch brothers are a boogeyman for some on the left of the political spectrum, the way Soros is a boogeyman for some of those on the right of the political spectrum. I'm skeptical of anybody that uses these boogeyman arguments.

Zimmerman raised around $200 thousand dollars. The Koch brothers have very, very deep pockets. $200k is nothing to them. It came in much smaller amounts from regular citizens.

[Silcc69]

The Koch brothers are a boogeyman for some on the left of the political spectrum, the way Soros is a boogeyman for some of those on the right of the political spectrum. I'm skeptical of anybody that uses these boogeyman arguments.

Zimmerman raised around $200 thousand dollars. The Koch brothers have very, very deep pockets. $200k is nothing to them. It came in much smaller amounts from regular citizens.

LOL at your boogeyman comment. But I found a link. http://www.powerlineblog.com/archive...gone-crazy.php

I'm not a huge fan of the Koch brothers but I did want to find out more info rather than just jumping the gun.