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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>In part, Gary Crabtree wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>“</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>As for me, I accept the media for what it is and by that I mean by and large liberal. My only complaint, if I had any, would be when folks try to make out as though FOX were a direct extension of the Republican party and all the other news organizations were the embodiment of even handed, unbiased reportage.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Even though Gary Crabtree obviously doesn’t like to be confused with facts, other Visionaries might find the following interesting:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/201102100007">http://mediamatters.org/blog/201102100007</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#464646'>Asked what most viewers and observers of Fox News would be surprised to learn about the controversial cable channel, a former insider from the world of Rupert Murdoch was quick with a response: “I don’t think people would believe it’s as concocted as it is; that stuff is just made up.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:15.6pt;margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#464646'>Indeed, a former Fox News employee who recently agreed to talk with <i>Media Matters</i> confirmed what critics have been saying for years about Murdoch’s cable channel. Namely, that Fox News is run as a <a href="http://mediamatters.org/columns/200910130008"><b><span style='color:#265699;text-decoration:none'>purely partisan operation</span></b></a>, virtually every news story is actively spun by the staff, its primary goal is to prop up Republicans and knock down Democrats, and that staffers at Fox News <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/201012210005"><b><span style='color:#265699;text-decoration:none'>routinely operate</span></b></a> without the <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/200910190025"><b><span style='color:#265699;text-decoration:none'>slightest regard</span></b></a> for <a href="http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201012230002"><b><span style='color:#265699;text-decoration:none'>fairness</span></b></a> or <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/201012230007"><b><span style='color:#265699;text-decoration:none'>fact checking</span></b></a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:15.6pt;margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#464646'>“It is their M.O. to undermine the administration and to undermine Democrats,” says the source. “They’re a propaganda outfit but they call themselves news.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:15.6pt;margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#464646'>And that’s the word from <i>inside </i>Fox News.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#464646'>Note the story here isn’t that Fox News leans right. Everyone knows the channel pushes a conservative-friendly version of the news. Everyone who’s been paying attention has known that since the channel’s inception more than a decade ago. The real story, and the real danger posed by the cable outlet, is that over time Fox News stopped simply leaning to the right and instead became <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/201009160022"><b><span style='color:#265699;text-decoration:none'>an open</span></b></a> and active <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/200908170001"><b><span style='color:#265699;text-decoration:none'>political player</span></b></a>, sort of one-part character assassin and one-part <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/201011020054"><b><span style='color:#265699;text-decoration:none'>propagandist</span></b></a>, depending on which party was in power. And that the operation thrives on fabrications and falsehoods. <snip><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>(That’s only part of the article – I highly recommend reading the entire thing.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Of course, that’s nothing surprising to <b>objective</b> observers, is it?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Saundra Lund<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Moscow, ID<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>~ Edmund Burke<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>***** Original material contained herein is Copyright 2010 through life plus 70 years, Saundra Lund. Do not copy, forward, excerpt, or reproduce outside the Vision 2020 forum without the express written permission of the author.*****<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Gary Crabtree<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 10, 2011 6:02 PM<br><b>To:</b> Reggie Holmquist; the lockshop<br><b>Cc:</b> Moscow Vision 2020<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vision2020] News From the Left<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>You should be asking Ms. Lund. She suggested that Current was a solution to some complaint heard only in the cob web wrapped confines of her imagination.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>As for me, I accept the media for what it is and by that I mean by and large liberal. My only complaint, if I had any, would be when folks try to make out as though FOX were a direct extension of the Republican party and all the other news organizations were the embodiment of even handed, unbiased reportage. </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>As far as a solution for MSNBC and Mr. Olbermann is concerned, it has been found and implemented to my immense satisfaction with no involvement or input on my part required.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>g</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:reggieholmquist@u.boisestate.edu" title="mailto:reggieholmquist@u.boisestate.edu CTRL + Click to follow link">Reggie Holmquist</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Sent:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Thursday, February 10, 2011 2:17 PM<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>To:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:lockshop@pull.twcbc.com" title="lockshop@pull.twcbc.com">the lockshop</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Cc:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com" title="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com CTRL + Click to follow link">Moscow Vision 2020</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Subject:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Re: [Vision2020] News From the Left<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>What do you mean by "the solution to a 'lame stream' media that has a decided leftward bias"?<br><br>What do you mean by "solution"? I'm seriously confused. Is everything but Fox News left-wing and we need some sort of "solution" for that? Or are you just saying that we need some sort of "solution" for MSNBC and/or Keith Olbermann? Please elaborate clearly.<br><br>-Reggie<br><br> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 2:12 PM, the lockshop <<a href="mailto:lockshop@pull.twcbc.com">lockshop@pull.twcbc.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The "irony" is that you imagine that the solution to a "lame stream" media<br>that has a decided leftward bias is yet another media outlet with a lefty<br>slant. Providing a refuge for Olbermann as the company's chief news officer<br>is not too likely to make Current into anything other than an updated<br>version of MSNBC/CNN with even less journalistic objectivity or integrity.<br><br>That said, as long as the enterprise is privately funded they are fine by me<br>and I am fairly sure that you would have a remarkably difficult time<br>pointing to anything I might have said in the previous postings that would<br>indicate anything other than the plain and simple fact that their viewership<br>numbers are low.<br><br>When it comes to minds both narrow and simple, I would have to think that<br>they would best be typified by those who work themselves into a frenzied<br>snit over things they only imagine having been said.<br><br>g<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "Saundra Lund" <<a href="mailto:v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm">v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm</a>><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>To: "'Moscow Vision 2020'" <<a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a>><br>Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 11:35 AM<br>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] News From the Left<br><br><br>> Just as I thought -- both again posted their verbal vomit without even<br>> making an attempt to educate themselves. All they had to see was<br>> Olbermann & Gore, and their simple-minded narrow-mindedness again<br>> triumphed.<br>><br>> The irony, of course, is that both should be supporting networks like<br>> Current TV since both love to trash "lamestream" media. Smaller networks<br>> & community stations are a solution to their complaints, yet they still<br>> can't do anything more than trash talk. What a shock!<br>><br>> Not :-)<br>><br>><br>><br>> -----Original Message-----<br>> From: lfalen [mailto:<a href="mailto:lfalen@turbonet.com">lfalen@turbonet.com</a>]<br>> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 10:53 AM<br>> To: Saundra Lund; 'Moscow Vision 2020'<br>> Subject: RE: [Vision2020] News From the Left<br>><br>> I do not know anything about Current TV as I do not watch TV and have no<br>> opinion on theit content. My comment was in regard to what I have heard<br>> is their low viewing audience.<br>> Roger<br>> -----Original message-----<br>> From: "Saundra Lund" <a href="mailto:v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm">v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm</a><br>> Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 13:00:42 -0800<br>> To: "'lfalen'" <a href="mailto:lfalen@turbonet.com">lfalen@turbonet.com</a>, "'Moscow Vision 2020'"<br>> <a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>> Subject: RE: [Vision2020] News From the Left<br>><br>>> Thanks for once again reminding us, Gary & Roger, of your<br>>> narrow-mindedness. Not much chance any of us would forget it, but it's<br>>> nice that you both take every opportunity to make *sure* we don’t forget<br>>> it while also never missing an opportunity to unceasingly whine when you<br>>> think the Unthinking Right is getting picked upon.<br>>><br>>> I'm also grateful that you two continue to show your ignorance. Current<br>>> TV actually has some great programming enjoyed by many Americans, but you<br>>> two ideologues are too ignorant to even attempt to educate yourselves<br>>> before spouting off your ugliness. Good job -- I'm sure your families<br>>> are SO PROUD of you!!!<br>>><br>>> Roger & Gary, why don't you both tell us what you find wrong with Current<br>>> TV? Do it quickly, though, or it will be obvious that you both ran off<br>>> at the mouth -- again -- without having the slightest idea of what you<br>>> were attempting to talk about.<br>>><br>>><br>>><br>>> Saundra Lund<br>>> Moscow, ID<br>>><br>>> The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do<br>>> nothing.<br>>> ~ Edmund Burke<br>>><br>>> ***** Original material contained herein is Copyright 2010 through life<br>>> plus 70 years, Saundra Lund. Do not copy, forward, excerpt, or reproduce<br>>> outside the Vision 2020 forum without the express written permission of<br>>> the author.*****<br>>><br>>><br>>><br>>> -----Original Message-----<br>>> From: <a href="mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com">vision2020-bounces@moscow.com</a><br>>> [mailto:<a href="mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com">vision2020-bounces@moscow.com</a>] On Behalf Of lfalen<br>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 11:25 AM<br>>> To: Tom Hansen; Moscow Vision 2020<br>>> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] News From the Left<br>>><br>>> Good place for him. 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