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Right wing media refuses to cover Christie scandal
Posted on 1/25/14 at 1:04 pm
Posted on 1/25/14 at 1:04 pm
Just Saw the MSNBC thread. Just trying to keep the board balanced. Might as well point out the inconsistencies across the media spectrum, instead of acting like this is a unique phenomenon. It helps put some of the faux outrage expressed by some posters in perspective.
Right wingers claim to be afraid of government power, but don't follow a story where the government is abusing its power.
Just goes to show that many people on here aren't principled people at all. Their outrage is only apparent when one side does it, but not the other. It s why nothing ever changes.
How Does Fox Solve a Problem Like Chris Christie’s?
Faced with a scandal involving one of the boss' reportedly favored politicians, Fox found a lot of other news to cover
Follow @TIMECulture
A couple of big news stories broke earlier this week. First, emails and texts implicated top aides and allies of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in snarling traffic in a small town to punish its mayor for not endorsing Christie’s reelection. Second, details began leaking from an upcoming book by Gabriel Sherman about Fox News boss Roger Ailes—among them, that Ailes had tried to persuade Christie to run for president in 2012.
Ailes still runs Fox News. And Christie is by every indication considering running for president in 2016. So how is Fox to cover the scandal gathering around him?
On Wednesday, the scandal gathering around an early frontrunner for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination dominated newspaper headlines, politics news sites, and TV news. Except on Fox, whose programs covered the story relatively little or not at all (Although, according to Buzzfeed, Fox covered the story for eight minutes more than Al Jazeera America.) The scandal was not at all mentioned by prime-time talkers Bill O’Reilly or Sean Hannity, and took a back seat to other stories on Greta Van Susteren’s and Megyn Kelly’s shows.
By Thursday, Fox was giving the story considerably more airtime, but not to the degree that CNN and MSNBC did. It led its 9 a.m. news block with the story, for instance, but soon turned to stories about two Obama administration scandals, the IRS audit and HealthCare.gov investigations (the IRS, in particular, came up repeatedly in Fox News discussions of the bridge scandal ). And as Christie gave a marathon, almost-two-hour apology news conference, Fox News was the first cable-news network to cut away, just over an hour in. It gave a few minutes to political analysis—at one point, an anchor almost apologetically explained that the network needed to cover the story because of Christie’s political profile—then moved on to other news.
Gauging the motivating factors in Fox’s coverage of a Christie scandal is a bit of a bank shot, given the internecine politics of the conservative base to which Fox appeals. On the one hand, it’s not just liberals who are happy to see Christie twist in the wind; plenty of conservative Republicans see him as too moderate or, in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, too tight with President Barack Obama. On the other hand, he’s not just a leading prospective candidate but a favorite of many establishment Republicans—like Ailes.
Right wingers claim to be afraid of government power, but don't follow a story where the government is abusing its power.
Just goes to show that many people on here aren't principled people at all. Their outrage is only apparent when one side does it, but not the other. It s why nothing ever changes.
How Does Fox Solve a Problem Like Chris Christie’s?
Faced with a scandal involving one of the boss' reportedly favored politicians, Fox found a lot of other news to cover
Follow @TIMECulture
A couple of big news stories broke earlier this week. First, emails and texts implicated top aides and allies of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in snarling traffic in a small town to punish its mayor for not endorsing Christie’s reelection. Second, details began leaking from an upcoming book by Gabriel Sherman about Fox News boss Roger Ailes—among them, that Ailes had tried to persuade Christie to run for president in 2012.
Ailes still runs Fox News. And Christie is by every indication considering running for president in 2016. So how is Fox to cover the scandal gathering around him?
On Wednesday, the scandal gathering around an early frontrunner for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination dominated newspaper headlines, politics news sites, and TV news. Except on Fox, whose programs covered the story relatively little or not at all (Although, according to Buzzfeed, Fox covered the story for eight minutes more than Al Jazeera America.) The scandal was not at all mentioned by prime-time talkers Bill O’Reilly or Sean Hannity, and took a back seat to other stories on Greta Van Susteren’s and Megyn Kelly’s shows.
By Thursday, Fox was giving the story considerably more airtime, but not to the degree that CNN and MSNBC did. It led its 9 a.m. news block with the story, for instance, but soon turned to stories about two Obama administration scandals, the IRS audit and HealthCare.gov investigations (the IRS, in particular, came up repeatedly in Fox News discussions of the bridge scandal ). And as Christie gave a marathon, almost-two-hour apology news conference, Fox News was the first cable-news network to cut away, just over an hour in. It gave a few minutes to political analysis—at one point, an anchor almost apologetically explained that the network needed to cover the story because of Christie’s political profile—then moved on to other news.
Gauging the motivating factors in Fox’s coverage of a Christie scandal is a bit of a bank shot, given the internecine politics of the conservative base to which Fox appeals. On the one hand, it’s not just liberals who are happy to see Christie twist in the wind; plenty of conservative Republicans see him as too moderate or, in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, too tight with President Barack Obama. On the other hand, he’s not just a leading prospective candidate but a favorite of many establishment Republicans—like Ailes.
This post was edited on 1/25/14 at 1:26 pm
Posted on 1/25/14 at 1:05 pm to sammyptiger
So as a conservative what is your analysis of this?
Posted on 1/25/14 at 1:06 pm to sammyptiger
Im sharpening my pitchfork now.
Posted on 1/25/14 at 1:07 pm to sammyptiger
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Right wing media refuses to cover Christie scandal
Horsehockey!!
Posted on 1/25/14 at 1:10 pm to sammyptiger
Are you fricking crazy? Media bias only exists to champion liberalism. Everyone on this board knows this to be true. MSNBC is the wolf and FOX is the shepard.
Posted on 1/25/14 at 1:10 pm to sammyptiger
Someone complaining about lack of media coverage on a political scandal. :shockedface:
Posted on 1/25/14 at 1:16 pm to sammyptiger
When we complain about lack of focus on Benghazi... a scandal involving the current president, or at the very least his direct reports within this administration...we're racists with an axe to grind.
People in a governors staff coordinated a TRAFFIC JAM... and now its the end of the world because Fox isn't following Traffic Jam 2014!!!
Liberal logic
People in a governors staff coordinated a TRAFFIC JAM... and now its the end of the world because Fox isn't following Traffic Jam 2014!!!
Liberal logic
Posted on 1/25/14 at 1:16 pm to sammyptiger
From your own story:
quote:
Right wing media refuses to cover Christie scandal
quote:So because Fox didn't cover the story to the extent that MSNBC or CNN did, that means the right wing media "refuses to cover" the scandal?
By Thursday, Fox was giving the story considerably more airtime, but not to the degree that CNN and MSNBC did. It led its 9 a.m. news block with the story
This post was edited on 1/25/14 at 1:18 pm
Posted on 1/25/14 at 1:17 pm to sammyptiger
chances of me reading all that = zero.
but question: why would supposed right-wingers (FOX is run by dems but that's another issue) go to bat for a liberal like Christie?
but question: why would supposed right-wingers (FOX is run by dems but that's another issue) go to bat for a liberal like Christie?
Posted on 1/25/14 at 1:20 pm to sammyptiger
In your OP it mentions only Fox...that's not 'the right wing media.' I don't watch Fox so I have no idea if the OP is true. But I listen to Rush and he covered Christie a LOT. I read the WSJ every day and they covered Christie a LOT.
Posted on 1/25/14 at 1:20 pm to sammyptiger
Left wing media refuses to cover IRS scandal.
See how easy that was?
See how easy that was?
Posted on 1/25/14 at 1:30 pm to sammyptiger
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Fox was giving the story considerably more airtime, but not to the degree that CNN and MSNBC did.
Posted on 1/25/14 at 2:06 pm to sammyptiger
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This post was edited on 1/27/14 at 12:53 am
Posted on 1/25/14 at 2:27 pm to sammyptiger
What I find interesting about the OP is that it quoted Poniewozik's Time article in its entirety - except after making a strong insinuation that Ailes was using Fox to protect Christie, he ended the article with the one short paragraph YOU deliberately "left out" of your post.
"If you work at Fox, how do you not do that math? I don’t claim, or purport to know, whether or not Ailes is giving orders as to how or how much Christie is being covered. But part of the question in the Chris Christie controversy is this: Even if the boss never orders it directly, isn’t it possible his employees will act on what they think he probably wants anyway? That’s not only a question in Trenton."
"If you work at Fox, how do you not do that math? I don’t claim, or purport to know, whether or not Ailes is giving orders as to how or how much Christie is being covered. But part of the question in the Chris Christie controversy is this: Even if the boss never orders it directly, isn’t it possible his employees will act on what they think he probably wants anyway? That’s not only a question in Trenton."
Posted on 1/25/14 at 2:45 pm to sammyptiger
It was all over on the Drudge Report for days and yes, I recall seeing it being discussed on Fox news.
BTW, Christie is NOT a conservative.
BTW, Christie is NOT a conservative.
Posted on 1/25/14 at 2:48 pm to sammyptiger
So Fox covers it, just not as much as other networks, other networks cover only it and don't cover other stories that are negative to President Obama, or Democrats and Fox is at fault?
yeah that is worth mentioning.
yeah that is worth mentioning.
Posted on 1/25/14 at 3:15 pm to sammyptiger
quote:\
By Thursday, Fox was giving the story considerably more airtime
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Right wing media refuses to cover Christie scandal
Derp
Posted on 1/25/14 at 3:40 pm to sammyptiger
I'll worry about Christie when he decides to run for president. Until that time he is none of my concern and anything more then a mention on national news is too much, IMO. No NJ resident NO CARE what fat boy does.
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