From: Melinda - Health Care for America Now
Date: December 9, 2010 7:10:28 AM PST
Subject: REVEALED: Fox & GOP Conspire to Kill Public Option
Today Media Matters for America released leaked internal Fox News emails detailing an in-house policy to regurgitate Republican talking points on the air to smear health care reform. Finally we have proof that during the health reform debate Fox News ordered its reporters to use only Republican poll-tested language, such as "government option,"1 instead of the more precise and widely accepted "public option" to make the case that the offering would be a government takeover of our health care system.
Now is the time to fight back against huge corporate interests like Fox and its parent company, News Corp. Click here and forward this email to your friends and family.
As the country focuses on the implementation of the historic health care law, it is essential that we expose politically motivated reporting poorly disguised as "fair and balanced." America's working families won't be bullied by a propagandist cable network and the politicians it hires and endorses.
We reject Fox News and its attempts to continually attack the Affordable Care Act and the people who support it under the guise of legitimate "reporting." The repeal-mongers have a cable news network, but we have the grassroots on our side. Get the word out about Fox and send this message to as many people as you can.
The line between news and politicking has been obliterated thanks to Fox News's brazen partisanship. When you look at the way Fox News hires so many Republican presidential candidates as commentators and the way the network follows the party's poll-tested talking points, it's clear that Fox News is nothing more than a mouthpiece for the Republican agenda. The American people lose when a network's news presentation is designed only to serve the political goals of billionaires and big corporations.
In Solidarity,
Melinda Gibson
Health Care for America Now
1. Media Matters for America - LEAKED EMAIL: Fox boss caught slanting news reporting
