They Get Paid For This: Part VII - Pesky Semantics

Oliver Willis - who, I remind you, is a blogger I used to mildly admire - notes:

These ads should have been running for months. And Fox News Channel, The Official Network of the Swift Boat Vets, refuses to air it.

A few finer points for Willis, and the mindless lemmings who may take anything he says for fact:

• An ad isn't news. Accepting advertising is not the job of the news division of any network. In theory, they are kept rigidly separate; this is important for journalistic detachment (not that Willis would know about that, working as he does for the George Soros-funded "Media Matters," he'd have no idea about keeping money separate from news).
• The Swifties, despite the endless incantations of the left, actually relay some documentable facts - in fact, I have yet to see any of their claims debunked in any way.
• The claims on these ads read like a lot of typical conspiracy-fodder.

For that matter, I've seen these ads on no other networks either.

Posted by Mitch at September 25, 2004 09:35 AM | TrackBack