Jon Stewart Takes On Bill Sammon

April 1st, 2011

Sammon is still a low-life. We might as well laugh at him.

Bill Sammon Thinks Propaganda is Funny

March 29th, 2011

It's one thing that we know from internal Murdoch Device memos that FOX News Washington editor Bill Sammon is a liar and a propagandist. Newly released audio received by Media Matters reveals that Mr. Sammon not only admitted 

to his smears in front of a friendly audience in 2009... he also think it's funny.

"I have to admit, that I went on TV on Fox News and publicly engaged in what I guess was some rather mischievous speculation about whether Barack Obama really advocated socialism, a premise that privately I found rather far-fetched."

 

 

Lies fed into the news stream to try and cripple political enemies are not simply "mischief." It's not a coincidence that Tea Party types are supporting efforts by corporations who literally pay no taxes at all to gut worker rights and compensation. The poor corporations can't stay "competitive" if they don't. FOX said so. Any attempt to make corporations pay what they should is "socialism." FOX said so. And they are "fair." And "balanced."

 

FOX said so.

L.A. Times KOs Fox

Dec 22nd, 2010

The L.A. Times hits hard at the now infamous instructions from Bill Sammon to spin stories on climate change:

“The way the data are interpreted can vary; it's legitimate for climate skeptics to reach conclusions that contradict mainstream theories. But only a crank would deny the underlying temperature data that show the Earth getting warmer — records compiled by independent stations around the world, combined with satellite measurements and confirmed by observations of rising sea levels, vanishing glaciers and other inputs — because to do so is to deny material and measurable facts. Instructing reporters to treat such facts as controversial is like telling them to question the laws of gravity when discussing plane crashes. The only reason for doing it is to further a partisan agenda, in this case an attempt to cast doubt on climate science in order to fend off government efforts to limit greenhouse gases.

Fox should either come clean about this and crack down on such partisanship in its news ranks, or it should stop pretending to be an objective news source.”