The Daily Caller has some fresh dirt from its recently acquired Journolist archives. The listserv that until only a month ago was a vibrant community of more than 400 liberal journalists and media hacks.
[Click here for yesterday’s Journolist dirt]
While the liberal media and liberals in general have an intense white hot hatred of Conservatives, nothing quite rivals their venomous rage at Fox News.
Fortunately, Journolist is where the liberal media let their totalitarian flags fly and talked openly with each other about what should be done with the #1 cable news channel in America.
Not surprisingly, the idea that got the most support was having the government simply shut the cable channel down. You know, like Hugo Chavez does to the stations he doesn’t like.
“I am genuinely scared” of Fox, wrote Guardian columnist Daniel Davies, because it “shows you that a genuinely shameless and unethical media organisation *cannot* be controlled by any form of peer pressure or self-regulation, and nor can it be successfully cold-shouldered or ostracised. In order to have even a semblance of control, you need a tough legal framework.”
Jonathan Zasloff, a law professor at UCLA, suggested that the federal government simply yank Fox off the air. “I hate to open this can of worms,” he wrote, “but is there any reason why the FCC couldn’t simply pull their broadcasting permit once it expires?”
Only one journalist spoke up and suggested maybe it wasn’t such a good idea to have the government shutting down news organizations it doesn’t agree with.
This cautionary note found little support. The consensus among the journalists was that slippery slope or not — Fox News needs to be shut down.
That’s only a small part of the article and I encourage everyone to click over to Daily Caller and read the entire piece.
-Chris Jones
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