rssFox News Reporter Groveled to Get Sanford Interview
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 at 11:51 am
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South Carolina’s The State newspaper’s expose of emails sent by journalists to Gov. Mark Sanford’s (R-S.C.) office are essential reading. One of the worst offenders in the cache is Griff Jenkins, the color reporter for Fox News, who groveled to Sanford’s staff and attached the way other media were covering the story.
If the Gov does an interview and its exclusive, it will make air on the tv channel and our radio news service all across the country. And I’m not sure if you’ve seen the stuff I do on the channel as a reporter, but I work mostly for our primetime coverage – Oreilly, Hannity, Greta, Beck — so there likely would be primetime coverage as well for some soundbites of the gov dispelling this flap…
Jenkins has a … complicated relationship with journalistic ethics. Back in May, he repeatedly identified himself as a “blogger,” not a reporter for Fox News, in order to get an interview with Janeane Garofalo which then ran on Fox News.
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Comment posted July 15, 2009 @ 3:03 pm
Fox News is Der Sturmer television, not suitable for any purpose but the willful incitement of old people with heart conditions and imbecilic sheep. They will do anything for the Fuhrerprinzip, and have done. Look at the Murdoch empire in Britain right now-they seem to think they are the NSA now, with illegal wiretapping and such. If we had a real government, there would be oversight.
Comment posted July 15, 2009 @ 10:03 pm
Fox News is Der Sturmer television, not suitable for any purpose but the willful incitement of old people with heart conditions and imbecilic sheep. They will do anything for the Fuhrerprinzip, and have done. Look at the Murdoch empire in Britain right now-they seem to think they are the NSA now, with illegal wiretapping and such. If we had a real government, there would be oversight.
Comment posted July 22, 2009 @ 2:12 am
The appearance of David Weigel on the Rachel Maddow sho on MSNBC led me to yor web site of which I had no previous knowledge. I am impressed and grateful for your efforts to peel away the dissembling of some very dangerous voices.
I call your attention to the attempts to dishonor Van Jones, President Obama's recent appointment to the White House Council in charge of a green-economic effort to ease our way into a stronger and healthier country.
Gaeton Lauri
Evanston, IL
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BA 195o Rutgers; MA UCLA 1953; all on the GI Bill.
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