North Dakota’s Most Biased Reporter Defaults To The Anti-Tea Party Headline

Rob Port • January 17, 2012

This is an interesting headline from the Fargo Forum’s Kristen Daum about the upcoming North Dakota Tea Party Caucus debate in Fargo on Friday (full disclosure: SAB is a sponsor):

Daum opts immediately for the headline that makes the NDTPC debate look irrelevant. But is that really the story here?

It seems to me that the larger story is Republicans Jack Dalrymple and Rick Berg refusing to debate. With so many other Republican candidates slated to appear and debate (all five of the House candidates, with the sixth candidate who just joined the race last week being invited), is there really any excuse for Dalrymple and Berg not to appear? Outside of the fact that they apparently think of themselves as incumbents (they’re not) without any obligation to engage their opponents?

The NDTPC debate isn’t some ideologically-driven event. Dave Thompson from Prairie Public Broadcasting is the moderator. The intent was to provide a forum for a debate, and all the Republican candidates invited but two are attending. So the story shouldn’t be a slap at the NDTPC. The story should be a slap at Dalrymple and Berg for not honoring a good-faith invitation to debate.

Tags: election 2012, fargo forum, jack dalrymple, kristen daum, media bias, North Dakota News, Rick Berg

borborygmi

“headline that makes the NDTPC debate look irrelevant”,,,,,,,,Are you bothered because she wrote the truth and you don’t want to acknowledge reality.
or is it you truly believe in the NDTPC and someone outdid you in false or hyped headlines and you are miffed at being outperformed.

http://sayanythingblog.com Rob

I’m bothered about how she slanted the story.

Dakotacyr

How did she slant the story. Every single sentence and paragraph is factual. Can you explain what she wrote in the story that is slanted?

Is it the headline?

http://sayanythingblog.com Rob

Well of course you wouldn’t see slant in a tea party-bashing article.

The slant is the manner in which she chose to report the facts. The tea party is irrelevant…because they got all the Republican candidates but two?

C’mon.

Dakotacyr

Again, I don’t see it. She never wrote anything bashing the tea party. She never wrote the tea party was irrelevant.

I think you are projecting. Her article does not have one negative statement about the tea party.

c’mon.

Anonymous

She took a page from you.
Haven’t you noticed? She is copying you.
You do exactly the same thing you are accusing her of doing
One might rightfully label you North Dakota’s Most Biased Reporter, who usually Defaults To The Anti-Obama Anti Democratic Headline.

Demosthenes

One is a journalist and one is a blogger…… duh.

Guest

But I thought bloggers were the “new journalists”?
Anonymous

I expect the truth from both.
Do the bloggers have a license to be less than truthful and or deceive their readers?
Hmmmm?
http://realitybasedbob.sayanythingblog.com/ realitybasedbob

HA! That reminds me, did you know that Pox won a lawsuit in Florida which upheld their right to lie?

The court agreed with WTVT’s (Fox) argument “that the FCC’s
policy against the intentional falsification of the news — which the FCC
has called its “news distortion policy” — does not qualify as the
required “law, rule, or regulation” under section 448.102.[...] Because
the FCC’s news distortion policy is not a “law, rule, or regulation”
under section 448.102, Akre has failed to state a claim under the whistle-blower’s statute.”[1]

…The attorneys for Fox, owned by
media baron Rupert Murdoch, argued the First Amendment gives
broadcasters the right to lie or deliberately distort news reports on
the public airwaves.
In its six-page written decision, the Court of Appeals held that the
Federal Communications Commission position against news distortion is
only a “policy,” not a promulgated law, rule, or regulation. Fox aired a report after the ruling saying it was “totally vindicated” by the verdict.

http://foxnewsboycott.com/resources/fox-can-lie-lawsuit/

After a five-week trial and six hours of deliberation which ended August
18, 2000, a Florida state court jury unanimously determined that Fox “acted
intentionally and deliberately to falsify or distort the plaintiffs’ news
reporting on BGH.” In that decision, the jury also found that Jane’s
threat to blow the whistle on Fox’s misconduct to the FCC was the sole reason
for the termination… and the jury awarded $425,000 in damages which makes her
eligible to apply for reimbursement for all court costs, expenses and legal
fees.

Fox appealed and prevailed February 14, 2003 when an appeals court issued
a ruling reversing the jury, accepting a defense argument that had been rejected
by three other judges on at least six separate occasions.

http://www.foxbghsuit.com/
Anonymous

Yes I heard about it.
That is terrible.
Government sanctioned lying.
They (the liars) have no shame.
http://realitybasedbob.sayanythingblog.com/ realitybasedbob

When someone defends Pox against the charge that they lie, one needs only to point out Pox went to court to defend it’s right to lie and they won.
Anonymous

I see it differently. They went to the government/court and the government/court upheld their right to lie.
There are no laws against news organization lying to their audience.
Guest

“There are no laws against news organization lying to their audience.”

Glad to see that your opinion is fair and balanced and applies to ALL the news channels.
Anonymous

My opinion is based on reality. FOX went to court to protect their right to lie.
If it applies to FOX, it also applies to the rest.
Guest

WHY DON’T YOU LINK US TO THE LIE THAT YOU’RE SPEAKING OF, AND ALSO LINK US TO THE LIES OF THE “OTHERS.”
Anonymous

Are you ready to deny that FOX fired two journalists because they refused to lie to their audience?
A simple yes or no will do,
Guest

I’ve never heard that, where’s the link(s)?
Anonymous

You never heard about it because you were too busy looking at sites with right wing propaganda, fearmongering, and communists under your bed.
Look at RBB’s post for links.
Also google it.
Guest

So you can’t provide any links except the bullshit from RBB…got it.
Anonymous

No, You ain’t got shit. Answer the question:
Are you ready to deny that FOX fired two journalists because they refused to lie to their audience?
A simple yes or no will do,
http://realitybasedbob.sayanythingblog.com/ realitybasedbob

Yeah, I can see that.
Anonymous

That is horrible.
Our government allowing the News broadcasters to lie to us.
Why? It is because the government lies to us through these organizations/business.
http://realitybasedbob.sayanythingblog.com/ realitybasedbob

I’m with ya, brother.

opinionated

or the anti-hoeven agenda or the overspending agenda

Anonymous

Those too.
Classic case of the donkey calling the rooster big headed.

Anonymous

I find it odd that majority of people that discuss politics
in a local setting have a constant theme of how they are sick of the same old
same old.

Then when a forum is created for people to actually make a
decision about candidates early in the process, the old guard media and
establishment tries to talk it down or pretend it is irrelevant.
borborygmi

The NDTPC debate isn’t some ideologically-driven event- Is the moderator asking questions put forth from the audience? His own questions? What is the format? Is the moderator a Republican, Conservative, Independent. Being a cynic I can’t believe a debate put on by North Dakota Tea Party Caucus isn’t “ideologically-driven”.

http://sayanythingblog.com Rob

The questions are coming from the audience, and are being asked by no less a conservative ideologue…than a Prairie Public Broadcasting host.

Which are all things I’ve written about before, if you’d been paying attention.
Spartacus

Good point. It’s like having a Liberal journalist moderate the Republican debates, wait…

Wesley Fargo

With the addition of Mr. Duane Hendrickson, we have 6 folks running for the House the event will be long enough with all 6 answering 4 questions and each given 3 minutes for opening and closing statements. The one in Valley city (very good debate I might add) lasted over 2 hours
Guest

Isn’t this Friday’s debate in Bismarck with the Fargo one coming at the end of February? You say this Friday’s is in Fargo in the first sentence of this story. Just want to make sure people don’t show up at the wrong spot.
opinionated

Rob can we please get a smug photo of our smug Rhino Governor on that sign bragging about 5 governors from Casselton…. I think that this would be a great photo of him to hang beside my Heidi?SEIU photo….. If you are running from a Tea Party Debate there is a reason. you wither think they are a joke or you are simpy not a fiscal candidate… either way the voters will remember that….. Just ask Kent, Byron and Earl..
Star2cities

Last I heard the journalist writes the article and someone else chooses a headline. You should check into that star2city. At least that was what I was told happens at the Fargo Forum.

Beentheredonethat

This is true at all newspapers. The page designers write the headlines not the reporter. The reporters would have no idea what kind of space, pica length, font size, etc. they would be writing a headline for. The designers write headlines long after the reporters are gone for the day.

Star2cities

Last I heard the journalist writes the article and someone else chooses a headline. You should check into that star2city. At least that was what I was told happens at the Fargo Forum.
Star2cities

Last I heard the journalist writes the article and someone else chooses a headline. You should check into that star2city. At least that was what I was told happens at the Fargo Forum.
Rick Olson

That’s what happens at any newspaper. I’m a former newspaperman myself. The reporter writes the story and generally, a copyeditor writes the headline.

Beentheredonethat

True that!

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