In the upcoming days before the election, as we are presented with poll after poll, and article after article, it's VERY important to remember who is control of the media, and the slant that certain news channels (I'm referring to you Fox News) puts on the news. What it comes down to is who owns what channels, and what kind of press will put money in their pockets. Keep tabs on your favorite media conglomerate with this tool here. It's great for corporate timelines, and taking a look at the money behind the news. Your kidding yourself if you think that all the information out there is impartial.
A good example of this going down in New York right now is Bill O'Reilly and the sexual harrassment lawsuit against him. Remember that Rupert Murdoch owns both Fox News and The Post. Recently a producer for Bill O'Reilly's show "The O'Reilly Factor" charged him with sexual harrassment for some kind of phone sex. I don't want to go into details, but if you want to you can check here. The story as told by the Post concerns itself with slandering the accuser with tails of a hysterical meltdown in a local restaurant, and being drunk in a bar and "boasting" that she was going to ruin O'Reilly. (If you want, you can pay for the entire article, but I think the headline says it all.) Nothing like using all of your media outlets to spin a story and ruin someone's public image after they accuse one of your star "reporters" of sexual harrassment. Maybe she can sue Rupert Murdoch as well. Remember the good old days when journalists took pride in reporting the facts?
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those days went out with the fedora....
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