Did Ron Paul Break Fox News? Article just out

[manbefree]

An article I wrote about Ron Paul was just published an hour ago and already has 25+ comments: http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=5323

It's also published here: http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=5293

Total combined readership of the two is probably about 100,000.

Cheers,
Phil

PS: If you haven't seen it from a while ago, I interviewed Ron Paul back in August, before he was a big shot Here's that interview: http://maymin.com/node/86

 

[Pauliana]

vry niice

 

[Devil_rules_in_extremes]

It's a good article.

 

[dennismontreal]

excellent article!

 

[PC_for_Paul]

Nice, we have to create our own PR. Nice job.

 

[1000-points-of-fright]

Except (and correct me if I'm wrong), RP was never officially excluded from the FOX debate... only the FOX forum.

 

[RonRules]

I added this comment:

This is the KNEE OF THE CURVE in the fall of old media. Internet streaming, user generated content, forums is where all the action (and growth) is concentrated in. Newspapers, magazines and regular broadcast are all going down quickly. Not only is their viewership going down, their info is time shifted (with TiVo, YouTube) sans commercials.

Ron Paul broke their backs.

 

[tamor]

Nice job - we each do what we can -viva relvolution

 

[Lars]

Great work! I have added it at www.WhatTheySayAboutRonPaul.com as well

 

[Cleaner44]

Great job.

 

[slantedview]

Except (and correct me if I'm wrong), RP was never officially excluded from the FOX debate... only the FOX forum.

yeah, well, debate, forum - whateva

 

[1000-points-of-fright]

yeah, well, debate, forum - whateva

That kind of lack of attention to detail is why we have the government we do right now.

Details matter people.

 

[Publicani]

It was a debate, the same kind of debate as before and after. Fauz News came up with the word "forum" probably for legal reasons.

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I am excited about kicking ass of NWS!
We did it! We did it!
We said that we would do it, and indeed we did!
Congratulations, Ron Paul supporters!

 

[manbefree]

Yes, it was called a forum

I did refer to it as a forum, twice in the opening paragraph alone.

Two days before the New Hampshire primary, Fox News staged a forum for the Republican presidential candidates and invited everyone who was at the ABC debate the day before, except for Ron Paul. They introduced the forum by saying that the GOP nominee would be one of the five candidates who were there, a statement clearly meant to suggest that Ron Paul doesn't have a chance to win.

That may have been the straw that broke the camel's back, if the camel was an American populace growing increasingly impatient and frustrated with Faux News propaganda.

http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=5323

Though really, the forum/debate distinction is one that Fox News is trying to create but probably doesn't exist in any meaningful sense. The format was not that different.

Best,
Phil

 

[cheese]

you writes good

 

[musicmax]

An article I wrote about Ron Paul was just published an hour ago and already has 25+ comments: http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=5323

It's also published here: http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=5293

Is it in PRINT? Online means NOTHING.

 

[Publicani]

Is it in PRINT? Online means NOTHING.

Yes, it is in print in two newspapers.

 

[Conza88]

Wrong.

But there was one major difference: Whereas in past debates, Paul received a vanishingly small portion of air time, in this one he received approximately equal time. I counted the number of words each candidate uttered. Paul surpassed the word output of John McCain, Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson, and Rudy Giuliani. Only Mike Huckabee said more words.

Maybe it's because Paul talks faster than the others, or because he needed to respond to accusations against him by the other candidates. Or maybe Fox News has realized that the people buttering its proverbial bread are conservatives like Paul and they are trying to recapture that key demographic.

He got equal time. You know why? Because every question he asked was a negative one. They set him up, and were told to let him go for it as long as possible. - The longer he talks about the negative issue, the more ingrained it gets into these peoples heads.

Cept they don't know RP as well as they should He sees this shit comin.

 

[ronpaulblogsdotcom]

Not trying to steal a thread but I wrote a similar article.

http://ronpaulblogs.com/media-bias/fox-news-shown-to-be-stacking-and-easy-deck-for-their-girl/

I urge everyone to write and blog about Fox news. There are tons of stories out there. I didnt even mention the "forum" in mine. Or the FU Frank stuff or Hannity.