Catch Ed Niedermeyer On Fox And Friends

by Edward Niedermeyer

December 20th, 2010 12:23 AM

I will be appearing on Fox New Channel’s Fox and Friends program tomorrow at 8:40 am Eastern (5:40 Pacific) to discuss my latest NY Times Op-Ed, the auto bailout, and Detroit’s fuel economy issues. And if none of that interests you, be sure to tune in anyway for a chance to see what TTAC’s Editor-in-Chief looks like just moments after rolling out of bed.

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Fincar1 on Dec 20, 2010

+1 DweezilSFV ...and not only that, but Fox News understands the difference between news and opinion, as compared to the other outlets you mentioned which seem unable to distinguish between news and Democratic Party talking points.

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- Psarhjinian on Dec 20, 2010
  Fox News understands the difference between news and opinion I couldn't let this one go. No news organization is truly good at separating propaganda and news (NPR/PBS/BBC aren't perfect, but are better by a wide margin, the mainstream private media is wholly poor) but Fox is by far one of the worst. Newsmedia is, by and large, entertainment salted with the interest of the controlling entity. That means that regardless of the channel you tune to, you're getting the worst of corporatism and populism.
  
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- Ronnie Schreiber on Dec 20, 2010
  NPR/PBS/BBC aren’t perfect, but are better by a wide margin, the mainstream private media is wholly poor Would that be the same BBC that had to admit that its coverage of the Middle East was biased against Israel? Would that be the same NPR one of whose reporters insisted to me that the "government controlled the media" in the United States as much as the Chinese government does in China? This was three years ago. I got her to agree that she worked for a left wing news agency that received some level of government funding and that there was a conservative, George W. Bush (actually kind of RINOish squishy on budgetary matters and the growth of the Fed gov't continued unabated in his administration, though that growth has skyrocketed along with the hundreds of new regulations foisted on people by Obama's team) in the White House. Still, she insisted that the government here controls the media, though her own personal situation proves exactly the opposite. See what I mean about cognitive dissonance? BTW, since you mentioned PBS, is there a more amateurish operation going? Sure, it's great that their stations run all those cool music shows during pledge drives (I wish I had recorded the times when Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul & Mary, who is originally from Detroit, has been on doing the pledge interruptions, so I could show you the times he alluded to PBS' liberal political tilt with codewords), but they recently played a historic meeting between Stevie Ray Vaughn and one of his idols, one of the three kings, Albert King. Every two songs they interrupted with pledge begging. Fully 33% of the broadcast was pledge begging, by a station manager who was speaking off the cuff, and a volunteer who didn't know nuthin' 'bout the blues. It was so amateurish as to be cringeworthy. Also, how many times in 10 minutes do they have to repeat what premiums are available for what level "gift"? I thought the folks who watch PBS are smart.
  
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- Psarhjinian on Dec 20, 2010
  
  Ronnie, you'll note I said "they're not perfect". What they are is a) better, and b) given much more independence from their parents than the corporate media is. You and I, of course, disagree on corporatism's virtues.
  
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David C. Holzman on Dec 20, 2010

Good luck Ed. Just remember: you're much better than they are.

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- Ronnie Schreiber on Dec 20, 2010
  
  David, My experience with people working tv news on the national level is that they're people like you and me. Some are smart and know what they're talking about and some are chuckleheads, just like everyone else. I try not to underestimate people. Sure, some act like stars, but then so do Dutch Mandell and Keith Crain when they're walking around the NAIAS like pashas. At the Chevy Volt press event a few weeks ago I wanted to ask Bob Lutz a couple of questions about Lotus and I waited while Phil LeBeau of CNBC did a live interview with Lutz. After the segment was over I made a point of telling LeBeau that I thought that CNBC's recent special on Ford was well done and unlike most major network looks at the auto industry it actually taught me new things. He knew exactly what I was talking about and took it as a compliment that someone who specializes in cars thought they did a good job. He was genuinely gracious. In a town where the car biz is a good chunk of the local news, WDIV's Rob Meloni does a pretty good job on the auto industry within the constraints of local tv news. He makes an effort to understand what's going on and it shows. Mary Conway of WXYZ-TV and I think one of the cable networks also does solid coverage of auto related stuff. She's an old school reporter and I've watched her work at press events and she's clearly serious about her job. So not everyone who does tv news is an idiot. Frankly, I think CNN has a couple of anchors that make anyone on Fox look like Einstein by comparison. Speaking of smart Jews, btw, is there anyone on CNN or MSNBC that is Charles Krauthammer's intellectual peer? Someone as smart as Dr. Krauthammer (he headed a psychiatry department before he went into punditry) on Fox must make some progressive heads explode in cognitive dissonance. Smart conservatives like the good doctor and the late Mr. Buckley must really confuse those who conflate political ideology with intelligence. Anytime one thinks that they are smart, they should recognize that humanity's worst ideas have generally been crafted by smart folks. I understand the progressives' ire at Fox, after all, it's the only major news agency in the US that doesn't reliably tilt left so it must upset some folks who live in the progressive bubble. Even the Wall Street Journal's news department tilts left. Still, the let-me-pretend-how-clever-I-am-when-I-make-a-trite-hackneyed-pun-out-of-Fox's-name routine is getting tiresome. Like Christopher Hitchens (a man of the left, may God grant him a full recovery) said about "Bush is an idiot" jokes, "Faux News" is the kind of joke that people who aren't deep thinkers make. Well, actually Hitchens used the word "stupid" but I don't want to call any TTAC readers stupid. Yeah, we get it, liberals think they're not just our moral superiors, they think they're smarter and more beautiful as well. Jalopnik says that Ed's a Tom Friedman clone. On the other hand, some folks assume that because Ed takes an interview request from the tv news network with the highest ratings (an appearance that could help publicize this site) he must be an extreme right winger. Both of those views can't be correct and in fact neither is.
  
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- Caljn on Dec 20, 2010
  
  Ronnie: everyone knows what Faux is and does. No one respects them beyond recognizing the size of their audience. Proven to be misinformed, as they may be. CNN has their own problems but at least deceiving their audience isn't one of them and yes they have some anchors who are clearly reading and not at all in the moment. Krauthammer is smart? I would happily deconstuct any of his arguments for you. Sometimes for kicks, I'll tune to Faux to see how long it takes to correct the broadcast. A matter of minutes ususlly. How do you stand all that speculation? "If Obama does this, then THAT is going to happen and the sky will fall!" There, I just programmed another day at Faux. Hitchens is not a credilble man, and please refrain from calling Faux a news agency...they're not. They have been caught with their hands in the cookie jar way too frequently.
  
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Daanii2 on Dec 20, 2010

Good luck!

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David C. Holzman on Dec 21, 2010

The right wing media is certainly deceptive on many issues. the left wing media is much less so, but not immune. The NYT editorial page is absolutely full of ordure when it comes to facts about immigration. A couple of their reporters are also substantially biased. NPR and its affiliates are similarly problematic on this issue. I suspect that bias combined with closed mindedness afflicts most H. sapiens.

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