Re: OT: Ukraine WH-meeting news coverage

On 3/2/25 7:55 PM, shawn wrote:

On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 16:28:34 -0800, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
wrote:

On 3/2/25 12:25 PM, Rhino wrote:

On 2025-03-01 10:55 PM, moviePig wrote:

On 3/1/2025 8:47 PM, Rhino wrote:

On 2025-03-01 5:01 PM, moviePig wrote:

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A quick glance at major TV news websites puts the Zelensky WH
meeting as the top story at ABC, CBS, and NBC.  Fox, meanwhile,
places it fourth, with the headline:
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     QUESTIONS SWIRL AROUND POSSIBLE ZELENSKYY RESIGNATION AFTER
HEATED TRUMP EXCHANGE
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(And Fox's next story gives Brett Favre's opinion on the WH debacle.)
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Even now, this sort of schism still takes me by surprise...

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It really distresses you when the major media outlets don't all take
exactly the same "correct" line on the issues of the day, doesn't it?
You would have LOVED the Soviet Union back in the day or both
contemporary Russia and China: all the "news" outlets take the same
line.
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Just to REALLY undermine your sense of order, you should watch Brett
Baier's interview with Zelenskyy on Fox. You will be VERY surprised
at how he DOESN'T pile on to Zelenskyy.
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Then again, you'd need to "invest" some time and I know you hate
doing that - unless of course you know in advance that a recommended
video is going to take the "progressive" line. But here it is anyway,
just in case....
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqLcBwUT_E [23 minutes]

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I watched the first half ...which, with one big exception, seemed a
relatively normal interview.  That exception was that Baier opened
with -- and *pursued* -- a suggestion that Zelensky owed Trump an
*apology*. I found that a true WTF moment ...similar to how Fox's
website (above) leads with a question about Zelensky's *resignation*,
ffs.

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And yet he let Zelenskyy answer all of his questions without
interruption and did NOT accuse him of anything or condemn him. I'll bet
you weren't expecting THAT from Fox.

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Brett Baier has always been a straight shooter.
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That said, I wonder how much longer he'll be at Fox - people who aren't
Trump bootlickers haven't done well at Fox lately, which is a real shame.

 That's typically been my way of choosing who to watch. Whether on Fox
News, CNN or MSNBC I look for those that try to stick to the facts
without filling up time with loads of opinions. It's why I only
watched MORNING JOE back when things got serious like with 2008
housing crisis. Otherwise it's maybe watch for ten to fifteen minutes
to get the sense of what is happening before they start repeating
themselves over and over again.

I don't watch "national news" at all anymore. (Read some, yes. Watch? No.) And I barely watch local news as well, and that mostly for weather and maybe stories about local public transpo or construction projects.