Francis Bacon 1626 asked:


After days of intense media coverage about Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s qualifications, more than 40 million Americans tuned in Wednesday to see for themselves what they thought of her.

The huge audience for Palin’s acceptance speech rivaled that for Obama’s address at the Democratic National Convention six days earlier, and set a tough standard for the top of her own ticket. John McCain was to accept the GOP presidential nomination on Thursday.

The first two days of the GOP convention essentially served as a build-up for Palin. The Alaska governor hadn’t spoken publicly since McCain selected her for the ticket last Friday, as a series of stories circulated questioning whether McCain had properly vetted her.

Her poised speech, primarily going after Obama and touting McCain’s case for the presidency, was gushed over by many analysts.

An audience of 37.2 million people watched Palin on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC, Nielsen Media Research said Thursday. PBS estimated its audience at 3.9 million, based on a less reliable sample of several big cities. Nielsen does not count the audience for C-SPAN, which also showed the speech.

Last week, Nielsen said 38.4 million people watched Obama speak at a Denver stadium on the six commercial networks, along with BET, TV One, Univision and Telemundo — four networks that didn’t cover Palin’s speech. PBS added an estimated 4 million to that total.

Nearly 2 million more women were watching Palin than men, Nielsen said.

Viewers were far more interested in Palin than Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden. Biden’s speech to Democrats last week was seen by an estimated 24 million people.

The audiences for the Obama and Palin speeches were bigger than the ones this year for the Academy Awards, the finale of “American Idol” or the Olympics opening ceremony in Beijing.

Nearly 120 million Americans voted in the 2004 presidential election and numbers could be higher this year because of young and minority voters attracted to Obama, and renewed enthusiasm among Republicans for their ticket.

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Scooter_the_squirrel_agent asked:


Fox News again accused of airing misleading video

For the second time in just over a week, Fox News is coming under fire for misusing old news footage. The latest flap is leading some people to charge that the cable news network is intentionally misleading its audience, while Fox claims a “production error.”

Wednesday’s incident occurred when Fox News host Gregg Jarrett mentioned that a Sarah Palin appearance and book signing in Grand Rapids, Michigan had a massive turnout. As footage rolled of a smiling and waving Palin amidst a throng of fans, Jarrett noted that the former Republican vice-presidential candidate is “continuing to draw huge crowds while she’s promoting her brand-new book,” adding that the images being shown were “some of the pictures just coming in to us…. The lines earlier had formed this morning.”

However, the video used in the segment was from a 2008 McCain/Palin campaign rally. In response to the minor uproar that arose after clips of Jarrett’s report hit the Internet, Fox senior vice-president of news Michael Clemente issued an initial statement saying, “This was a production error in which the copy editor changed a script and didn’t alert the control room to update the video.”

On Thursday afternoon, Fox News issued an on-air apology delivered by host Jane Skinner:

Yesterday we told you about Sarah Palin kicking off her book tour and then we spoke to Sean Hannity about an interview that he did with former Governor Palin. When introducing the segment we showed you footage of people lining up in Michigan for a book signing that evening. In the tease before the segment, the tease to commercial, we told you how those people were already lining up to meet Palin. The problem is we didn’t show you the video we were actually referencing. Instead we mistakenly aired what’s called “file tape” of Sarah Palin. We didn’t mean to mislead anybody in that tease. It was a mistake, and for that we apologize.

The current mishap comes on the heels of a controversy sparked last week when footage from a conservative rally held over the summer was played on “Hannity” during a segment on a more recent rally. During the clip, host Sean Hannity marveled over the large turnout for a Washington, DC protest. The Daily Show later pointed out that there seemed to be some inconsistencies with the video shown on Hannity’s show, namely that the atmospheric conditions seemed to vary from shot to shot. Hannity later apologized on the air for what he called “an inadvertent mistake.”

Barely a week into Palin’s blitz to promote “Going Rogue,” media coverage is becoming its own story. Fox News rival MSNBC caught heat last week for using altered images of Sarah Palin on the air, for which they later apologized. On Wednesday, Yahoo! News reported Newsweek’s defense of their latest controversial cover, which Palin herself blasted as “sexist.”

– Brett Michael Dykes is a contributor to the Yahoo! News Blog
Thumbs up for everyone as i don’t favor any of the News Networks.

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PuraVidaChica asked:


She is a beautiful woman, with or without photo retouching. I am a card carrying feminist and I think that the picture is beautiful. I think that the text on the cover is more offensive than the picture itself. I think the coverage on FOX news is hilarious because they are basically saying, “How dare Newsweek show this beautiful woman as she really is!”.

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Deathly Ranch asked:


That her daughter gave birth to Trent? Home videos have clearly shown her pregnant with Trent. And even political officials have said how she went into labor after a speech. Why do people still believe in this tabloid crap? My source is a documentary about her on Fox News.

I do not want you opinion on her! Keep your party differences aside and answer the question, please.
Yes I know, Fox News. Whatever.

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JessicaL asked:


So Rush Limbaugh can spout off about every horrid thing that pops into his head but when Letterman makes a lame joke about Sarah Palin’s 18 year old daughter, who thrust herself into the spotlight by going on talk show after talk show speaking on behalf of abstinence, he gets chewed out by everyone….

I thought republicans and Fox News were for free speech?

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Jack Bauer my Hero asked:


I watched a Fox and Friends clip on youtube and they were talking about how unfair SNL was being with all the Sarah Palin skits. Why does a comedy show have to be fair in politics esp. when Fox is not balanced themselves?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnGBdKO5gEc

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amnestiswrong asked:


FOX news aired a video of a large crowd gathered around Sarah Palin explaining it was occuring right now and it was a tremendous turn out for her book signing event. It was later determined that the FOX story was fake and that the pictures shown were not of the book signing but shots taken last fall when she was running for Vice President. FOX news explained they had made a mistake blaming it on one of the technicians. Another similar incident used videos of various events patched to appear as a single event; the deception was exposed when climatic conditions between shots were inconsistent. Why does FOX talk show people think they have to fake things or try to trick viewers? It is hard to believe what we hear on the radio or see on TV between the FOX talk show people and radios Lush Limpbaugh. Do you think the patch work videos and the book signing errors were just mistakes or is this normal operating procedures for talk show hosts?
Please do not get me wrong – Nazeem says it happens all the time; I feel most of the FOX media people are great and refrain from dishonest and misleading information. Some however, like Hannity and his band of chanters, are about as unamerican as they come.

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Ryan C asked:


Consider this, Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren said to Sarah Palin {during an interview}: “I’ve been up in Alaska, went up and met a lot of your friends, a lot of people you worked with. And it’s a beautiful state. You have a very high approval rating up there.” See http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,434944,00.html . CNN’s Drew Griffin, accurately, said to Sarah Palin {in an interview}: “you are the only person in this race with executive experience, who’s taken over governments as mayor and governor.” In response, Sarah Palin, said: “I do have more experience than Barack Obama does.” See http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/21/palin.sitcom.transcript/ . In fact, while campaigning, Sarah Palin, said: “Barack Obama only spent 304 days-just 304 days-in the senate before running for president,” See http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/734268.html .

Accordingly, this is former President Bill Clinton’s argument against Barack Obama, as well. Clinton, during “An hour” interview with Charlie Rose, questioned voters being “prepared to roll the dice” with a Barack Obama Presidency. As Clinton puts it, “When is the last time we elected a president based on one year of service in the senate before he started running?” Clinton, further, said: “If you listen to the people who are most strongly for him they say, ‘basicly we have to throw away all those experienced people…And we want somebody who started running for president a year after he became a senator because he’s fresh, he’s new…and we’re willing to risk it.” However, Clinton, said: “I think a president ought to’ve done something for other people and for his country when you pick a president.” see http://www.charlierose.com/shows/2007/12/14/1/an-hour-with-former-president-bill-clinton .

In short, that describes Sarah Palin. She would make a wonderful vice president and/or president (not to say that the others wouldn’t make an okay president or vice president).
What’s your political party and gender (or sex)

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threegooofs asked:


I’m guessing an audience made up of 90% middle aged white males.

That explains a lot about Sarah Palin’s popularity in that group too.

http://www.reason.com/news/show/134677.html

The link is to a Steve Chapman column who makes the argument pretty eloquently. And Chapman is no liberal…. he’s a libertarian.

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SIMON BARSINISTER asked:


did you see “Morning Joe” this morning?
Scarborough and Mika were about to start balling this morning as they talked about poor poor Sarah Palin, attacked by the media…

There is NO show on Fox News with a left slant, so why is MSNBC killing us with these 2 wingnuts?

**daily guest, Pat Buchanan….its TOO much first thing in the morning…

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