When The Going Gets Weird
Wed, 05/28/2008 - 12:32pm
Barry Nolan's story is one you might not be familiar with, but he is a long-serving journalist who was recently fired by Comcast for publicly protesting a planned Emmy Award honor that was winging its way to one Bill O'Reilly.
He has taken a philosophical approach to the whole thing:
And in our role as citizens, we have been told by O’Reilly to shut up, or Fox Security may pay you a visit. We are called traitors if we simply speak the truth about the absence of WMD’s – the way the war is going – the disgraces of Abu Ghraib, of Gitmo, of waterboarding. Shut up.
So, when exactly do they think we have the right to speak up? To speak the quiet simple truth, to people who have more power than us?
You can get his take on it here, from ThinkProgress.
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There's A Misunderstanding
By Patrick M McLeod
Wed, 05/28/2008 - 4:42pm
I think there's a misunderstanding here on the part of Mr. Nolan: FOX News and its array of talking heads aren't interested is us speaking up.
They're only interested in us taking their outrageous distortions at face value while we "shut up and sing".
Honoring Bill O'Reilly is pretty low, but it's still not as low as Washington University in St. Louis conferring an honorary doctorate on Phyllis Schlafly. I would have liked to have read about the audience at that regional Emmy dinner standing up and turning their backs to him while he spoke...that is, if he bothered to show up.