First they came for Fox News *UPDATED*
Bookworm on Oct 22 2009 at 9:30 pm | Filed under: Barack Obama, Media matters
Kudos to the major news networks for refusing to allow the Obama administration to blackball Fox:
Here’s how Pastor Martin Niemöller would have seen it, if he was alive today:
First they came for Fox News, and we did not speak out—because we did not have openly conservative commentators as part of our news program;
Then they came for CBS, and we did not speak out—because we figured that Katie Couric had it coming to her;
Then they came for CNN, and we did not speak out—because we’d always been jealous of their monopoly in airports;
Then they came for the MSNBC, and we did not speak out—because we had to admit that Olbermann had crossed a few lines there;
Then they came for the rest of us —and, First Amendment or not, there was no one left to speak out for us.
UPDATE: Tucker Carlson gives a fine epitaph in a scolding post (scolding the MSM) pre-dating the above fine display of stiffened spines:
Since when does the federal government get to make programming decisions, much less decide what is and what is not a legitimate news organization? Where did political consultants—people who spend their lives lying to reporters—get the moral standing to make pronouncements about journalistic ethics?
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Nicely and profoundly updated BW.
Biting the hand that created them…
Via Bookworm, heartening news of media collusion. Yes, heartening: Crossposted(*)…….
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It’s that old Alinsky thing again…
http://www.4-blockworld.com/2009/10/obamas-plan-for-fox-news.html
Laugh for the day. Well, sort of.
http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/2009/10/23/#005401
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