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Enough is Enough We have endured this pretense that Fox News is a legitimate news organization for too long. It's not. It's the 24 hour propaganda channel of the Republican party, and Washington should marginalize and stigmatize it until it withers and dies. (More on this in a later post). The first step is for all real The death of American accountability – John McQuaid
I have been railing about the collapse of accountability for years. This Of all the great ideas Jay Rosen has had, I never really understood what made this one anything but self-evident. Fact-checking the news in real, or-near real-time, has been an obvious need for over 20 years, and the technology to do it was old school even before blogging, Twitter and Facebook. It's just that no Frank Rich Writes in today's NY Times: Are these politicians so frightened of offending anyone in the Tea Party-Glenn Beck base that they would rather fall silent than call out its extremist elements and their enablers? Seemingly so, and if G.O.P. leaders of all stripes, from Romney to Mitch McConnell to Olympia In March, CNN made stunning announcement that Erick Erickson, editor of the ultra-right Tea Party screed Redstate.com (owned by Eagle Publishing, owner of malodorous HumanEvents.com) would be a regular panelist on the new "John King's USA" program. We get the media we deserve, and I was loath to roll over for one more indignity. I Thursday, April 1st is Rachel #Maddow's Birthday Update 1: Today is the day. Add #maddow to your tweets. Update 2: SIGN HER BIRTHDAY CARD. By adding a comment to @sluggahjells's diary on @dailyKos. Background Without going into all the reasons why we worship her for proving that the entire Partisan Crashers: CNN Knows What It's Getting with Erickson
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