When Dems win the White House should Fox News be allowed in?

[markus]

Or should they be covering the White House from the sidewalk on Pennsylvania Avenue?

I think I know the vote of most people here.

I do wonder, however, it JK (or any other mainstream Dem) would have the edocrinal endowement to declare them a non-news organization.

I mean, would the RNC be able to get press credentials?

[prodigal_green]

1. A Kerry White House will let them in, but make them take

the seat Helen Thomas has had to sit in since the chimps sent her to the back of the classroom, er, briefing room.

[pacalo]

11. Yeah!

[LifeDuringWartime]

2. how about

they deny press credentials to any reporters who distort the truth or show obvious bias in their reporting?

[Gato Moteado]

3. roger ailes and rupert murdoch.....

...and the rest of the fascist boot lickers (i.e. hannity, o'reilly, etc) should be imprisoned for giving aid and comfort to the fascists (i.e. bush, rove, cheney, et al)

[banana republican]

12. Some of the hannity types in Kosovo

were convicted of war crimes because they inflamed to population.

[Syncronaut Seven]

18. That's kind of the way I'm leaning.

The propaganda is quite overt, the treasonous acts well established. There is no question as to culpability.

I would think that the sanctions should be much more severe than banishment from the Whitehouse press room. Fire ants would be nice.

[candy]

4. Wow! Sounds like you approve of government controlled media.

It boggles my mind.

[Gato Moteado]

10. fox news isn't really a news channel....

....so why should they be taken seriously? they should be treated as if they were comedy central or some other non-news cable network.

in fact the daily show is more credible as a news source than anything on fox news.

[markus]

20. Me? No, I do not.

I was a working journalist for a decade.

I know that if you don't want to talk to them, you don't have to. If you don't want to issue them credentials, you don't have to.

Actually, what bothers me is the pretense of objectivity. That, together with consolidation, have pretty much destroyed the Fourth Estate in this country.

I would prefer a media more on the European model (or even the nineteenth century American model) where there was a balance of partisan media on each side.

Until we get there, it's time to play hardball.

Now, if you're talking about the people who want to put Hannity in camps, well, that's another problem with no easy solution.

No, I don't want to put the 20 million Limbaugh listeners in political reducation camps. But what do you *do* with these people, who have a view of the world so warped that I no longer consider them to be Americans?

[StClone]

5. Helen Thomas should be the Official Press

Gate keeper.

[theorist]

6. They'll be treated as any other "news" channel.

But I guarantee that any perceived discimination on the part of FNC, e.g. when obviously partisan questions are asked at press briefings and the comm. director makes a joke, they'll try to turn it into a scandal. It'll be hilarious.

[Huckebein the Raven]

7. I say reinstate the Fairness Doctrine and enforce it with extra scrutiny

on Faux

[dogtag]

8. Hell, yes. The WH toilets need cleaning.

and we know they like to sift around in shit. Come on in!

[dogtag]

9. sorry, dupe. How can I delete a dupe?

[Blue Gardener]

13. Only if they dress appropriately

Since they are nothing but a bunch of whiny little cry-babies, I would suggest they wear adult diapers and have to suck on pacifiers in the press room.

[creeksneakers2]

14. I say let them in

If they don't try to run at least a little balance, they should be last to receive information.

[Kahuna]

15. Not until they begin to behave like a "news" organization. That goes

for CNN, MSNBC and all the rest of the so-called media.

[Swamp Rat]

16. I think we should have a review of Rupert Murdoch's citizenship status.

[timtom]

17. Sure! No problem!

But they have to have a ticket and sign a loyalty oath!

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[Cat Atomic]

19. No, they should not be allowed in.

And Rush should be removed from Armed Forces Radio, too.

They are not news organizations. They are conservative propaganda outlets, no more respectable than the Enquirer.