http://dailycaller.com/2010/12/27/s...ampaign-against-the-term-illegal-immigrant/The Diversity Committee of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) is seeking to inform and sensitize reporters nationwide about how offensive the term illegal immigrant is to Latinos.
Diversity Committee member Leo Laurence announced the campaign against illegal immigrant and illegal alien terminology in the latest issue of the organizations magazine, Quill, writing that those who have not obtained citizenship but have entered the country without any prior approval should be called undocumented workers or undocumented immigrants.
Gives a shit not found and your attempt to compare/defend Fox is, as usual, laughable. Society of Professional Journalists!!!! That's pretty funny, too.
GAFL
Friend umbrella, I doubt you will find Fox and Friends in this Society; even they would be loath to associate with such lightweights.
. . . about how “offensive” the term “illegal immigrant” is toLatinosillegal immigrants.
Gives a shit not found and your attempt to compare/defend Fox is, as usual, laughable. Society of Professional Journalists!!!! That's pretty funny, too.
GAFL
And people here claim that Fox News is bias,
Well, there are a lot of brainwashed liberals here who hate anyone who's not part of their groupthink.
Patranus said:And people here claim that Fox News is bias
During the height of the health care debate a Fox News vice president Bill Sammon sent a memo to staff asking them to refer to the 'public option' as the 'government option.'
Please use the term ‘government-run health insurance,’ or, when brevity is a concern, ‘government option,’ whenever possible.”
This memo came shortly after Republican pollster Frank Luntz advised Sean Hannity thusly:
“If you call it a public option, the American people are split,” he explained. “If you call it the government option, the public is overwhelmingly against it.”
This edict was backed up by Michael Clemente, Fox’s senior vice president for news, who responded to Sammon's email: “#3 on your list is the preferred way to say it, write it, use it.” He was referring to the longer version: “The public option, which is the government-run plan.”
In all fairness to your quote about the Fox News memo, it IS a government option. Calling it a "public option" is a misnomer designed to make the public think it's something it's not. Kind of like the Patriot Act.
In all fairness either way Fox News is basing its decisions on polling done by a GOP strategist.
Because MSNBC doesn't put its own spin on everything, to make sure it caters to their own target audience?
Bashing one without bashing the other is kind of silly, imo.
[/FONT]JESSICA YELLIN, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT: I think the press corps dropped the ball at the beginning. When the lead-up to the war began, the press corps was under enormous pressure from corporate executives, frankly, to make sure that this was a war that was presented in a way that was consistent with the patriotic fever in the nation and the president's high approval ratings.
edit: You added this after I posted[FONT=times new roman, times, serif] And my own experience at the White House was that, the higher the president's approval ratings, the more pressure I had from news executives -- and I was not at this network at the time -- but the more pressure I had from news executives to put on positive stories about the president. [/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman, times, serif] I think, over time... [/FONT]
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[FONT=times new roman, times, serif] COOPER: You had pressure from news executives to put on positive stories about the president? [/FONT]
[FONT=times new roman, times, serif] YELLIN: Not in that exact -- they wouldn't say it in that way, but they would edit my pieces. They would push me in different directions. They would turn down stories that were more critical and try to put on pieces that were more positive, yes. That was my experience.[/FONT]
Except that this time, they're right. The government chose the term "public option" to put their own spin on it. It isn't really a "public" option any more than the Patriot Act is a "we want to save our citizens" act
Actually MSNBC does put a spin on things. For instance they fired anchors who were critical of Bush and the Iraq war, and pressured journalists not to be critical of the president when his approval ratings were high.
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2008/05/29/yellin/print.html
edit: You added this after I posted
I'm sure if a memo was leaked from MSNBC instructing anchors and reporters to call the patriot act the police state act because its what the democrats wanted that would be totally cool right?
They can always pull the we stole 2/3 of Mexico from them so technically they are not illegals, we are...?.
You kidding? "Progressives" LOVE the war. Of course they don't want people to be critical of it. Seriously, the war is absolutely central to everything they're trying to do. Without the "war", there is no Patriot Act, there is no DHS, and there is no control over every aspect of our lives. The war is absolutely paramount. It must be there to keep the chattle in line...er, I mean, the people safe.