{"id":40387,"date":"2014-01-07T11:47:50","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T18:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/07\/fail-and-unbalanced.html"},"modified":"2014-01-08T08:18:18","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T15:18:18","slug":"fail-and-unbalanced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/07\/fail-and-unbalanced.html","title":{"rendered":"Fail and Unbalanced"},"content":{"rendered":"
I've seen an increasing number of articles asking the question, "What the hell's going on with '60 Minutes'?" It does seem like CBS News and "60 Minutes" have been starting to sound\u00a0like Fox News … and there's a a very simple reason:<\/p>\n

'The guy [David Rhodes] who cut his teeth in the news business, beginning as a Production Assistant and working his way up to become VP at Fox "News", is now the President of CBS News.'<\/i><\/p>\n

Rhodes was VP of News as Fox News. Now, since he came on as head of CBS News, we have "60 Minutes" offering a (debunked and since retracted) story on Benghazi, an NSA puff piece, an Amazon press release, and, detailed here, a crazily slanted story on the "crash" of the "cleantech" industry.<\/p>\n

It's not, I don't think, about some vast Murdochian conspiracy on behalf of the Koch Bros. or something like that. But it is, it seems to me, about coming up with flashy stories that try to draw current Fox News viewers over to boost CBS's ratings. "Hey, look! They're not the only ones smearing solar energy! We're doing it, too! Watch us!" That it has nothing to do with actual news<\/i> is, apparently, not germane.<\/p>\n

Perhaps instead of "cleantech" we can harness the power of Edward R Murrow spinning in his grave.<\/p>\n

(h\/t +<\/span>George Wiman<\/a><\/span>)\ufeff<\/div>\n

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The BRAD BLOG : The Fox ‘News’-ification of CBS News and ’60 Minutes’: ‘The Cleantech Crash’<\/a><\/p>\n

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I've seen an increasing number of articles asking the question, "What the hell's going on with '60 Minutes'?" It does seem like CBS News and "60 Minutes" have been starting to sound\u00a0like Fox News … and there's a a very simple reason: 'The guy [David Rhodes] who cut his teeth in the news business, beginning … Continue reading “Fail and Unbalanced”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-fourth-estate"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133410,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/06\/we-report-you-comply.html","url_meta":{"origin":40387,"position":0},"title":""We Report, You Comply"","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 6-May-17 12:19pm","format":false,"excerpt":"No, it's not at all Orwellian that Trump Administration officials have dictated that all TV News Monitors at the FDA White Oak campus (at least) should be turned to Trump-friendly Fox News, and not to any other (presumably FAKE) news channels.Or that they deny it. Now, I have run across\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":24324,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/07\/am-i-a-democrat-or-a-republican-lets-ask-the-tv.html","url_meta":{"origin":40387,"position":1},"title":"Am I a Democrat or a Republican? 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I'm immediately deeply suspicious, but it might also simply be both saner heads prevailing and coming up with a way to straddle the line between fan creativity and intellectual property protection. Post-Axanar, CBS unveils first official fan filmmaking initiative in Trek history Star Trek Film\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":25070,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/04\/one-crazy-still-in-the-race.html","url_meta":{"origin":40387,"position":4},"title":"One crazy still in the race","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 4-Jan-12 10:19am","format":false,"excerpt":"Actually, maybe crazy like a fox. My speculation:1. Perry's worried about his Texas status. Quitting too early won't play well there.2. 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