Political-media alliance to Fox News: Let debate video ring

The nonpartisan alliance that formed this spring to advocate the open use of presidential-debate footage isn't very happy about Fox News' cease-and-desist letter to Republican presidential candidate John McCain's campaign over a McCain ad that used footage from a Fox-sponsored debate.

On Thursday, the nameless group announced that it has called on Fox to rescind the letter, as well as related missives to other Republican presidential candidates.

The McCain camp, meanwhile, has continued to air the ads, claiming that using 19 seconds of a 90-minute debate constitutes fair use.

"John McCain deserves praise for taking on Fox and opposing corporations (that) want to be gatekeepers of political speech," MoveOn.org representative Adam Green said in a statement that had been issued by the online leftist hub on behalf of the group.

The left-right alliance is helmed by Stanford law professor and copyright reform advocate Larry Lessig, and it counts a host of new-media luminaries among its ranks: Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales, Craigslist's Craig Newmark, Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas, MoveOn founder Eli Pariser, and Redstate co-founders Mike Krempasky and Erick Erickson. In April, shortly after forming, the group issued letters to the Democratic and Republican national headquarters, "calling for presidentia- debate video to be liberated--so that footage could be freely excerpted, shared, blogged, and YouTubed," according to a statement.

Eventually, CNN, ABC, and NBC/MSNBC responded to the initiative, announcing varying degrees of "openness" for debate footage. Fox News and other Fox broadcasting stations have not participated, and some right-leaning members of the open-debate alliance have indicated that they may encourage Republicans to follow the Democrats' lead in shunning the News Corp. division.

"Already, Fox is viewed as a partisan network by the Democrats, who will not use that forum for debates," said Redstate's Erickson. "It would be a shame if the Republicans now shut out Fox altogether from the debate process. Every other news organization has liberated their debate footage, and Fox should either be no different or no longer have the privilege of airing debates."

Fox has not yet responded to the organization's criticism.

[MyRightEye]

Who cares about Faux news anymore

They are losing their audience very very fast.

[jonkopp]

Fox News embargoes debate footage

What Roger Ailes at Fox needs to realize (as if he doesn't know it already) is that Fox owes its broadcast license to the people, in whose name the federal government (the FCC) granted Fox permission to use the airwaves to make money.<br /><br />These people should be reminded of their subordinate status; an administration with more integrity than Bush would do it forthwith.

[emes0000]

When we hire a person in our company, we look at the person's education, experience, personality and fit... I think the same goes when we are voting to fill the position of president... If so what choice is there. I have neither confirmed the below information, nor is it complete by any means, so could you please add to the same -- it would enable a lot of us in making a rational decision on it...<br /><br />EDUCATION:<br /><br />Barack Obama: Columbia University - B.A. Political Science with a Specialization in International Relations; Harvard - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna *** Laude; former president of the Harvard Law Review<br /><br />Biden as VP: University of Delaware - B.A. in History and B.A. in Political Science, Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)<br /><br />John McCain: United States Naval Academy - Class rank: 894 of 899 (finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class); (Palin as VP - with the "potential" of becoming our president in case of unforseen events?: Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semester, North Idaho College - 2 semesters - general study, University of Idaho - 2 semesters - journalism, Matanuska-Susitna College - 1 semester, University of Idaho - 3 semesters - B.A. in Journalism)<br /><br />PERSONALITY/FIT:<br /><br />Barack Obama: Charismatic, eloquent speaker; Still married to the first woman he said 'I do' to; Michelle Obama could be a First Lady graduated from Harvard<br /><br />John McCain: Left his first wife after she no longer measured up to his "standards"; Cindy McCain could be a First Lady who not only became addicted to pain killers but acquired them illegally through her "charitable" organization; has an unwed, pregnant teenage daughter; Member of the Keating-5 accused of corruption in 1989, igniting a major political scandal as part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis of the late '80s and early '90s(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Five)<br /><br />EXPERIENCE (too much to compare - someones done a better analysis at http://blueollie.wordpress.com/2008/03/03/experience-mccain-obama-and-clinton-compared-objectively/):<br /><br />Barack Obama: Sponsored 129 bills since Jan 4, 2005, of which 120 haven?t made it out of committee (Poor) and 1 were successfully enacted (Average, relative to peers); Co-sponsored 551 bills during the same time period. Strengths in economic and diplomatic solutions; Has not only Biden's help but also Bill and Hillary Clinton's vast experience to back him.<br /><br />John McCain: Sponsored 403 bills since Jan 21, 1997, of which 263 haven?t made it out of committee (Extremely Poor) and 12 were successfully enacted (Extremely Good, relative to peers). McCain has co-sponsored 876 bills during the same time period; Agreed with Bush failed policies 80% or more; Strength in War and National Security; Palin to "help" him?<br /><br />What is important NOW? Which team should we hire?

[emes0000]

When we hire a person in our company, we look at the person's education, experience, personality and fit... I think the same goes when we are voting to fill the position of president... If so what choice is there. I have neither confirmed the below information, nor is it complete by any means, so could you please add to the same -- it would enable a lot of us in making a rational decision on it...<br /><br />EDUCATION:<br /><br />Barack Obama: Columbia University - B.A. Political Science with a Specialization in International Relations; Harvard - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna *** Laude; former president of the Harvard Law Review<br /><br />Biden as VP: University of Delaware - B.A. in History and B.A. in Political Science, Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)<br /><br />John McCain: United States Naval Academy - Class rank: 894 of 899 (finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class); (Palin as VP - with the "potential" of becoming our president in case of unforseen events?: Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semester, North Idaho College - 2 semesters - general study, University of Idaho - 2 semesters - journalism, Matanuska-Susitna College - 1 semester, University of Idaho - 3 semesters - B.A. in Journalism)<br /><br />PERSONALITY/FIT:<br /><br />Barack Obama: Charismatic, eloquent speaker; Still married to the first woman he said 'I do' to; Michelle Obama could be a First Lady graduated from Harvard<br /><br />John McCain: Left his first wife after she no longer measured up to his "standards"; Cindy McCain could be a First Lady who not only became addicted to pain killers but acquired them illegally through her "charitable" organization; has an unwed, pregnant teenage daughter; Member of the Keating-5 accused of corruption in 1989, igniting a major political scandal as part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis of the late '80s and early '90s(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Five)<br /><br />EXPERIENCE (too much to compare - someones done a better analysis at http://blueollie.wordpress.com/2008/03/03/experience-mccain-obama-and-clinton-compared-objectively/):<br /><br />Barack Obama: Sponsored 129 bills since Jan 4, 2005, of which 120 haven?t made it out of committee (Poor) and 1 were successfully enacted (Average, relative to peers); Co-sponsored 551 bills during the same time period. Strengths in economic and diplomatic solutions; Has not only Biden's help but also Bill and Hillary Clinton's vast experience to back him.<br /><br />John McCain: Sponsored 403 bills since Jan 21, 1997, of which 263 haven?t made it out of committee (Extremely Poor) and 12 were successfully enacted (Extremely Good, relative to peers). McCain has co-sponsored 876 bills during the same time period; Agreed with Bush failed policies 80% or more; Strength in War and National Security; Palin to "help" him?<br /><br />What is important NOW? Which team should we hire?

[MeaganU]

When it comes to news report Fox News is one of the best networks on doing this. On the other hand, The Fox Nation is a new website launched by Fox News, the news corporation known for punditry and conservative views. The tag line is that it presents news that is "fair and balanced," though many have said it is anything but. (Including former President Bill Clinton who, after Chris Wallace asked him a loaded question, proceeded to whipsaw the pundit with gusto.) Some have said the website is essentially just the Fox networks' version of the Huffington Post, and others insist it?s a forum for conservative fascists to bad mouth President Obama and his cash advance stimulus plan. If anything else, the Fox Nation ought to be entertaining. To read more visit http://personalmoneystore.com/moneyblog/2009/03/30/fox-nation-part-1/.