Fox takes criticism of the Times to its logical conclusion
Well, you can’t say that this isn’t the logical endpoint of criticizing the press. MediaMatters reports that two Fox broadcasters have started calling for the government to create on Office of Censorship:
On the June 29 broadcast of Fox News Radio’s Brian & The Judge, co-host Brian Kilmeade, who also co-hosts Fox News’ Fox & Friends, suggested that the U.S. government should “put up the Office of Censorship,” in the wake of reports in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal detailing a Treasury Department program designed to monitor international financial transactions for terrorist activity. Similarly, during the June 29 edition of Fox & Friends, co-host E.D. Hill wondered if it would be appropriate for the U.S. government to create an “Office of Censorship.” During an interview with Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ) about The New York Times report, Hill asserted that such an office, previously established during World War II by the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, could screen news reports to determine whether they “hurt the country” or are of “news value.”
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mike wrote:
Fox television would be shut down, what with all the soft porn and dirty words and all that come off that channel. And now that DirecTV was bought by Murdoch, the number of porn channels has nearly doubled–the censors will just have to take tht down too. Btian and the Judge should hit the streets now for a job.
Posted on 15-Jul-06 at 7:57 am | Permalink