BS: Faux news

Subject: RE: BS: Faux news
From: GUEST,Dickey
Date: 27 Feb 07 - 05:26 PM

Is Link TV fair and balanced?

I was recently informed by Link TV that "Drugs are Wonderful" and not refering to prescriptions. Also Teddy Roosevelt and the rough riders did not charge up San Juan Hill, there were no horses and they advanced up Kettle hill. The charge up San Jaun hill was just hype to sell newspapers.

Is that correct?

"Link TV is the first nationwide television channel dedicated to providing Americans with global perspectives on news, events and culture."

Sounds like a news channel to me or at least an "educational channel" that seeks to tell people the truth.

Subject: RE: BS: Faux news
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Feb 07 - 05:27 PM

Enternewsment is amusment
for those who know the facts.
Infotainment needs arraignment
for the fools and the Fox.

Subject: RE: BS: Faux news
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 27 Feb 07 - 05:30 PM

Link TV is not a newschannel first of all. They offer liberal programs. They are giving a global perspective but they are not claiming to be "fair and balanced". Their agenda is not hidden.

It has been documented that Teddy Roosevelt did not charge up San Juan Hill. He did not invent the Teddy Bear either. Urban legends do have a tendancy to sell newspapers.

Perhaps that is why Link TV is important - if it can clear up misconceptions like Teddy Roosevelt's supposed charge, maybe it is a good thing!

Subject: RE: BS: Faux news
From: GUEST,Dickey
Date: 27 Feb 07 - 10:22 PM

However how can any network claim to be educational when they have a liberal agenda?

They do have some good stuff on Link TV. I just watched a program about Beatbox, Tap and Hambone but just when you get to liking that they slip something into a show like "drugs are wonderful". Later I got to thinking about that when I heard heard someone died from taking drugs and I realized how wrong they are. They are "educating" people to think drugs are wonderful.

Then they tell you that newspapers are lying to you.

From what I can gather from other sources Teddy did ride a horse, Little Tex but it was the only horse. He did lead a charge up San Juan hill after Kettle hill had been taken.

Subject: RE: BS: Faux news
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 27 Feb 07 - 10:55 PM

"However how can any network claim to be educational when they have a liberal agenda?"

Maybe you should look up the word "liberal" before you ask.

It sounds like you were interpreting a song in the award winning documentary "The Human Hambone" in a way that wasn't intended. I would also double check your facts about Teddy, a great president regardless of who was riding on a horse.

Subject: RE: BS: Faux news
From: GUEST,Dickey
Date: 28 Feb 07 - 01:21 PM

"Broadly speaking, liberalism emphasizes individual rights. It seeks a society characterized by freedom of thought for individuals, limitations on power (especially of government and religion), the rule of law, the free exchange of ideas, a market economy that supports free private enterprise, and a transparent system of government in which the rights of all citizens are protected. In modern society, liberals favor a liberal democracy with open and fair elections, where all citizens have equal rights by law and an equal opportunity to succeed.

Many new liberals advocate a greater degree of government interference in the free market, often in the form of anti-discrimination laws, universal education, and progressive taxation. This philosophy frequently extends to a belief that the government should provide for a degree of general welfare, including benefits for the unemployed, housing for the homeless, and medical care for the sick.

Such publicly-funded initiatives and interferences in the market are rejected by modern advocates of classical liberalism, which emphasizes free private enterprise, individual property rights and freedom of contract; classical liberals hold that economic inequality, as arising naturally from competition in the free market, does not justify the violation of private property rights." WIKI

Are you a new liberal or a classic liberal?

I can identify with the broad and classic liberal definition.

Subject: RE: BS: Faux news
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 28 Feb 07 - 01:29 PM

Dickey - you are overthinking all of this. You seem to have a need to classify people and thought. Open up, you will feel better.

Subject: RE: BS: Faux news
From: GUEST,Dickey
Date: 28 Feb 07 - 10:47 PM

When I see a program on Link TV that says Drugs are Wonderful and I see it is associated with George Soros and the production of Outfoxed, It sort of tells me that there is an agenda there. I don't consider it educational but subversive.

I read the definition as requested and I am surprised to find my Ideology is not that far from classic liberalism or general liberalisim.

Subject: RE: BS: Faux news
From: GUEST,Viewer
Date: 28 Feb 07 - 11:57 PM

CNN and BBC have lots of viewers, which makes this story problematic.

On the morning of Sept 11, 2001, the BBC and CNN were reporting World Trade Center building 7 had collapsed (past tense), but they reported it BEFORE the collapse.

http://www.infowars.com/articles/sept11/bbc_wtc_7_911_coverup_unraveling.htm

This opens the door to subpoena sources. Who issued those prepared statements?

This is videotaped proof of prior knowledge.

(The googlevideo and youtube links may or may not be active, but a search of those sites will turn up whatever clips are active at the moment).