Rupert Murdoch staying out of the e-reader business, Red Eye sadly still on the air
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted Jul 10th 2009 10:53AM
posted Jul 10th 2009 10:53AM
With the news biz in obvious (and some might say terminal) disarray, of course folks in the industry will be seeking out ways to stay afloat in the age of the e-reader -- and it's long been rumored that Rupert Murdoch's News Corp is looking to launch a device of its own (if by "long" you mean "since early April or thereabouts"). When asked yesterday if this was the case, Murdoch answered: "I don't think that's likely. We're looking and talking to a lot of laboratories and big companies around the world like Sony, Fujitsu, Samsung. We're all working on wireless readers for books or for newspapers or for magazines. I think they're a year or two away, being marketed in a mass way, high quality ones. And we will be absolutely neutral. We're very happy to have our products distributed over any device provided it's only going to subscribers who are paying for it." Of course, the man may have some sort of diabolical scheme up his sleeve (when doesn't he, really?), but for the time being, he says, the Wall Street Journal is doing "very well... you've got the wallstreetjournal.com and you pay for it. And there is 1.25 million people nearly who are doing that. And we get a lot of advertising with it. It's a big business for us." So it's more likely that we'll see more News Corp papers adopting an online subscription model before the advent of any Fox News e-ink device. But if it does get in the hardware business, we'll gladly shell out for a Glenn Beck signature model. But only if it's ironic.
[Via GigaOM]
[Via GigaOM]
Awesome pic. Get a grip, Glenn Beck.
OMG, Glenn is the only political commentator who actually isn't just putting on an act to get ratings. He truly cares about this country and gives an amazing perspective on the news and politics. Maybe if you actually watched his show you could see how he makes every other political commentator out there look like an actor. But you wouldn't learn that by reading People and skimming through the 10 minute recap of the daily news now would you?
Oh and Engadget you are just as bad by putting that pic of glenn up. You obviously know nothing about news or politics, instead you just want to smear the intelligent people actually alerting the world that our country is up in flames.
Glenn Beck is the shiz
no matter how many times I click I still only low rank once . . . damn.
Haha, that's what I'm doing. ^_^
@TGGGD86 - You're kidding... right? Either Glenn Beck is the biggest actor there is, or he is deeply, DEEPLY disturbed.
@TGGGD86
This guy is clearly being facetious or is one of the most misinformed media-unsavvy dolts that I've ever seen.
Holy crap did I just read that you wrote this?
"Libertarians should rule Washington, not the Demo-fascists or the Republi-fascists
Libertarians = You do what you want, I'll do what I want, leave me the $@#% alone"
Did you know Beck is a Libertarian? Wow, you really are as stupid as you look. I mean have you ever seen his show or just watched clips of Beck on Colbert Report?
@TGG
Glen Beck is a disturbed, right-wing evangelical nutjob. He spreads lies and disinformation on everything from climate change, to birth control, to evolution, etc. A perfect fit for the ridiculous parody that is Fox news..
@TGG
Not to mention this is the unbelievably myopic idiot hollering about America becoming "fascist" because Obama bailed out GM, and passed a stimulus bill.
However, apparently the Bush administration's full frontal assault on the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights, justice department, the courts, congressional oversight, and the American people themselves didn't warrant such concern:
# Clear manipulation of intelligence agencies, congress, and the media regarding WMDs and the Iraq regime's connection to Al-Qaeda to create a false pretext for the invasion of Iraq. (See downing street memo, yellowcake forgery, CIA vs Cheney battle over Saddam)
# Painting dissidents and those who urged prudent consideration as "unpatriotic" and "anti-American"
# Illegal extraordinary rendition of individuals to countries who practice torture
# Unconstitutional, limit-less detention of "unlawful combatants" and anyone "suspected of links to terrorism", including American citizens, off of American soil. Breaking of multiple international treaties by the revokation of habeus corpus.
# Torture and unethical treatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib, Gitmo, and other bases in Iraq and Afghanistan. Including many non-combatants and innocents, not just "hard-core terrorists".
# Illegal and unconstitutional wiretapping and dragnetting of American citizen's communications outside of existing FISA court framework.
# Unconstitutional executive power to disregard laws protecting freedom of speech, freedom of the press, unreasonable search and seizure, and other foundational rights during "emergency".
# Illegal routine wiretapping of journalists, liberal activist groups, and democratic politicians by NSA.
# Unconstitutional use of presidental signing statements to circumvent implementation of congressional legislation and oversight. Similarly, implementation of hard-line "Unitary executive theory" to greatly expand the executive branch and defeat the system of checks and balances
# Abuse of State Secrets Privilege to undermine executive oversight and hide illegal acts of the administration.
# retaliatory leaking of classified information against dissidents
# Dismantling of the practice of a non-partisan justice department, now filled with careerist political operatives.
@ all the party people out there
Hey, if you look at what I actually SAID about Glenn Beck, I never said I disagreed with Beck, only that his weeping on camera was distracting. It turned a lot of people off (including me).
On further reflection, let's all just talk about gadgets.
I like 'Red Eye' - it's the only show on the channel that doesn't fit into "the mold". Actually, it's the only show on any news channel that doesn't fit into any mold. It's a mold-breaker.
if the mold is a professional cast providing useful information while not putting in there 2 cents then yeah it's a mold breaker.
Agreed, plus it's just plain funny! I LOL'd hard at the episode where they had that priest as a commentator.
Red Eye is pure gold. I love that show.
I watch it in my shorty-robe. Made of blood.
Red Eye FTW!!!! I don't have cable tv right now and it's the only show I truly miss.
Yeah - why dissing on RedEye? It's my favorite show on TV. Truly funny and far hipper than the other fare in its category.
@jay jay
"if the mold is a professional cast providing useful information while not putting in there 2 cents then yeah it's a mold breaker."
This "professional cast" that you refer to. Would it be MSNBC, CNN, the rest of FOX? If so:
Keith Olbermann: “[Referring to President Bush as] the 21st-century Marie Antoinette, ... This is the law-and-order and terror government. But it can't save our citizens from a biological weapon called standing water.” OPINION
Anderson Cooper: "The question tonight, is President Obama simply making the best of a bad hand, taking small victories where he can, being diplomatic, or is he being too cautious? OPINION language shows bias towards
being diplomatic
Joining us now, senior -- CNN senior political analyst David Gergen. David, what -- what do you think? I mean, how big of a trip is this for the president? And -- and are people expecting too much to get done?" Fishing for OPINION
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0907/08/acd.01.html That's where I got the cooper qoutes. Just so you know, I scrolled down to the political portion of the show, ignoring the whole Jackson report. That whole thing is speculative and opinion no matter what your news source is. All the facts are is 1. he's dead 2. he was famous 3. he had drugs in his system 4. there was a big ass funeral with more famous people. If you hear anything elses it is speculation and opinion.
What other anchor would you like quotes from? The big difference is that Glenn Beck does NOT claim, nor has he EVER claimed that he was a reporter. For that matter, he is the only one who should be able to pepper his opinion throughout. Reporters are supposed to be unbiased and un opionated, reporting just the facts so that we can draw our own conclusions. Since reporters no longer do this, we have to get our news from multiple soource, compare and contrast the stories, all to filter out the opinion so we can formulate our own opinions. Anyone who gets their news and information from only one source is garuanteed to be misinformed. CNN was at the forefront of opinionating our news. I'm sure at first it was an unintentional side effect of trying to fill 24 hours of news programming. Previous to CNN, our news was squeezed into a half hour to hour long show. There was the morning edition, noon edition, evening, and nightime broadcasts. Much of the broadcasts were the same stories run anew for each show. There was only about ten to twelve minutes of new information by the late night broadcast. How then was CNN to constantly fill 24 hours of news? Report on anything, everything, beat it into the ground, and share your opinion of it. Don't think I'm sticking up for Fox here, cause I'm not. They do the exact same thing. Nor are they truly conservative. They are pseudo conservative. They are held up as a paragon of conservatism by the other networks and by the left leaning movement groups (move-on, code pink, etc.) The truth is that they are as maligned from the right leaning ultra conservatives in much the same way. Try listening to Michael Savage, or Mark Levine's opinions of Fox News sometime.
So Glenn Beck does have other emotions besides "extrememly pissed off".
Oh yeah, you should've seen his boo-hoo-ing during his presentation of his 9-12 Project. Comedians like Colbert had a hay day with that. It was completely distracting from the point of the 9-12 Project; it's the only thing I really remember about it (that he wept like a pansy).
It's probably on YouTube somewhere.
Yeah, he has fake crying (seriously, have you ever seen him do it, it's unbelievable), psychotic conspiracy mode (FEMA death camps in Georgia! and a man on his show, in a clip that never aired, who claimed Chinese restaurants were sleeper cells for the Chinese governments planned overthrow of the US) and just plan incoherent rambling.
I doubt anyone watching his show would want an e-reader anyway, because it's probably just a secret, communist designed tracking device, developed by Obama in partnership with the Soviet Government in exile (it's in exile and waiting, did you know that?) which will track all of your reading habits, and trace your whereabouts from space. Slowly the device will change your Fox News stories into stories about how great the Bolsheviks were, molding your mind into their favor as part of Obama's giant. lifelong conspiracy! Then, if you refuse to believe it, sputnik, which has been upgraded with lasers, will shoot you with a death ray from space, eliminating all opposition.
Then, Lenin, who's been sandbagging it the whole time, will wake from his tomb and conquer earth with Obama serving as vice president of the Politburo! You will also all be forcefully converted to Islam, for some reason, Muhaha.
Do I even need to type /end sarcasm here? I'm sure I do for Glen Beck followers ;)
I always thought he was just stupid. Is that an emotion or a condition?
Yeah, he has fake crying (seriously, have you ever seen him do it, it's unbelievable), psychotic conspiracy mode (FEMA death camps in Georgia! and a man on his show, in a clip that never aired, who claimed Chinese restaurants were sleeper cells for the Chinese governments planned overthrow of the US) and just plan incoherent rambling.
I dont believe I actually have to respond to this bullshit, but obviously you posted this nonsense in hopes that no one that actually watches his show would be on engadget to debunk this garbage.
#1, Idiot, Beck never believed those supposed camps were real, He even got sick of people calling and writing him about it. He did send out some investagators to either prove or disprove them.
Well the investigators came back and said they couldn't do either, so he sent them back to dig deeper.
Now they then came back and announced on his show that the supposed camps were a Amtrak repair yard, and the video that was on the net was a N. Korean camp.
Gee, you would think that some crazy nut like Beck would have skipped over doing real legwork to get to the bottom of something like this, and instead just piss it on the air and say it was 100% truth like Keith Olberman or Chris (tingle up my ass) Mathews.
"I doubt anyone watching his show would want an e-reader anyway, because it's probably just a secret, communist designed tracking device, developed by Obama in partnership with the Soviet Government in exile (it's in exile and waiting, did you know that?) which will track all of your reading habits, and trace your whereabouts from space. Slowly the device will change your Fox News stories into stories about how great the Bolsheviks were, molding your mind into their favor as part of Obama's giant. lifelong conspiracy! Then, if you refuse to believe it, sputnik, which has been upgraded with lasers, will shoot you with a death ray from space, eliminating all opposition."
Now if you just want to be a fucking retard, then just post "Hey, I'm a retard" and save the shitty attempts at comedy to people with talent.
"Do I even need to type /end sarcasm here? I'm sure I do for Glen Beck followers ;)"
We already got that you were full of shit from the first sentence.
And golly, he actually cried on-air. That just discredits him right off the bat. Gotcha. Let's not pay attention to what he says and actually rebut it, let's look for something retarded to harp on so you dont have to make a real effort.
The guy pulls in more viewers at 2:00pm in California then those Obama butt-boys on MSNBC combined. If anything they should be crying.
Yeah, he has fake crying (seriously, have you ever seen him do it, it's unbelievable), psychotic conspiracy mode (FEMA death camps in Georgia! and a man on his show, in a clip that never aired, who claimed Chinese restaurants were sleeper cells for the Chinese governments planned overthrow of the US) and just plan incoherent rambling.
I dont believe I actually have to respond to this bullshit, but obviously you posted this nonsense in hopes that no one that actually watches his show would be on engadget to debunk this garbage.
#1, Idiot, Beck never believed those supposed camps were real, He even got sick of people calling and writing him about it. He did send out some investagators to either prove or disprove them.
Well the investigators came back and said they couldn't do either, so he sent them back to dig deeper.
Now they then came back and announced on his show that the supposed camps were a Amtrak repair yard, and the video that was on the net was a N. Korean camp.
Gee, you would think that some crazy nut like Beck would have skipped over doing real legwork to get to the bottom of something like this, and instead just piss it on the air and say it was 100% truth like Keith Olberman or Chris (tingle up my ass) Mathews.
"I doubt anyone watching his show would want an e-reader anyway, because it's probably just a secret, communist designed tracking device, developed by Obama in partnership with the Soviet Government in exile (it's in exile and waiting, did you know that?) which will track all of your reading habits, and trace your whereabouts from space. Slowly the device will change your Fox News stories into stories about how great the Bolsheviks were, molding your mind into their favor as part of Obama's giant. lifelong conspiracy! Then, if you refuse to believe it, sputnik, which has been upgraded with lasers, will shoot you with a death ray from space, eliminating all opposition."
Now if you just want to be a fucking retard, then just post "Hey, I'm a retard" and save the shitty attempts at comedy to people with talent.
"Do I even need to type /end sarcasm here? I'm sure I do for Glen Beck followers ;)"
We already got that you were full of shit from the first sentence.
And golly, he actually cried on-air. That just discredits him right off the bat. Gotcha. Let's not pay attention to what he says and actually rebut it, let's look for something retarded to harp on so you dont have to make a real effort.
The guy pulls in more viewers at 2:00pm in California then those Obama butt-boys on MSNBC combined. If anything they should be crying.
"I always thought he was just stupid. Is that an emotion or a condition?"
Well we are intrigued. What exactly makes him stupid?
I'm just curious here, but do those of you slamming Beck slam Keith Olberman as well? That guy is at least as full of crap as you say Beck is. Oh, and he does the fake emotion bs too - see Republican Convention coverage.
Now, I don't like Beck because I'm not into fervent opinions in my news, but you can't talk smack about one end of the spectrum without taking note of your own end.
Also, this news about Chinese restaurants being sleeper cells for the Chinese government's planned overthrow of the US is quite disturbing. How shall I ever enjoy my Hot & Sour soup now!?
Beck: Climate Bill = watermelon
Me: Beck = dumbass
WTF does Red Eye have to do w/ anything (other than being on FNC)? It's an awesome show.
I wonder if Glenn Beck is tractor proof. I doubt it.
+1
Glenn Beck-no, Red Eye, yes. Andy Levy FTW
TV's very own Andy Levy...
on a side note, Pinch sucks but Fluffy McNutter is awesome.
What!? Red Eye is the most hilarious (and sometimes truthful) show on any new network. It comes on around 2am CST, so check it out...check it outters. And if you disagree with me, than you sir, are WORSE THAN HITLER. HAHA.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpW6hRtoUds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKdNz_lrX8o&feature=related
Does Rupert Murdoch have access to these e-Readers so he can change the content of all text on a whim?
Flame-bait. Yeah, yeah, no big surprise, poke fun at Fox News, bunch of apple-using, blocky-minivan-driving-with-your-apple-sticker-in-the-window, yes-we-can liberal hipsters. ON the other hand, you would have to be crazy to buy an e-reader just to get your news from one media outlet.
Fuck you. Not all people who vote Democratic are liberals. Not all liberals are the same. You make yourself a huge target when you say things like that. Luckily you are too stupid to realise it!
@Matt, I agree all liberals are not the same. Some are more emotion driven. Latest crisis at eleven...
But Engadget has decided that it is not hip and deserves to be mocked. Because as you all know, writers for a tech blog are the arbiters of cool.
Now where's an Iphone news item they can post and fawn over??? Anybody? Hey, engadget needs some new Iphone news, stat!
The Arbiters of Cool sound like a band, a band of self important twits. Engadget Twits and Apple Fawn. Now there's a two-headed phony act if ever I made one up!
I enjoy Engadget but keeping politics off of my favorite gadget blog would make me a happier reader.
Agreed. Especially since the hipster "writers" (I can't really consider some who writes a paragraph or two based on a press release / recycled story to be a real writer, so they get quotation marks) only ever chose to go after the non-liberal side. You know, to show how original and daring they are to go after the same people all the other hacks go after.
Note to engadget "writers". Be glad you have a job in this economy. Ticking off half your reader base isn't a good idea to maintain long term success or employment.
Considering the swing of voters away from the GOP, I'd say Engadget is only pissing off about 20% of its readers.
Even with a horrible candidate for the republicans, obama only got what, 53%?
And you might want to check that again based on the latest rasmussen poll. The public is swinging back to the republicans even though they can barely shoot straight. Something about all that debt obama and company are piling up and the coming double digit unemployment rates.
Finally, fox is kicking cnn / msnbc in every important category. So there is a big market.
I'd wager Glenn Beck's audience totals is a bit bigger than engadget's. And with that big of a lead, ticking off watchers or even those sympathetic to GB / redeye is a stupid idea. Advertising is down all over (well, except for fox, glenn beck, rush limbaugh, etc) so if the editors had a brain they'd figure out to stop the juvenile political crap, otherwise they'll be joining the unemployed when their bosses see that their little jokes are offending a big part of their audience.
I want tech news on a tech site, not political BS.
"We're very happy to have our products distributed over any device provided it's only going to subscribers who are paying for it."
Rupie must have forgotten about the Wall Street Journal app for the iPhone and iPod touch. It's free and one of my favorite apps. I suspect they want to start charging for it soon, though.
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More reporting on Chinese gadgets and smooching Steve Job's hinder and less faulty political opinion, please. You just encourage the 12 year old crazies to post their Che poetry and repeat stupid conspiracy crap they read on prison planet and the Daily KoS.
Let Gizmodo keep the hippie comments, please.
+1
+5
Seriously.
"Oooooh we dont like Fox News or Glenn Beck. Aint we uber sophisticated?"
No.
I hate it when engadget gets political.. Stick to the gadgets! Becoming political is the one thing turns me off from bands that I've loved in the past... It ruins them for me.
Now be honest here, do you hate it when people get political, or do you hate when people disagree with your politics?
Well put. I left Gizmodo and the rest of the Gawker and ex-Gawker properties behind because they became cesspools of uninformed and noisy leftist prattle. Initially, this was limited to the comments, but then it seems the editors were emboldened by the pervasive political preening and then started incorporating their own views (cribbed from HuffPo, Daily Show, etc.) into their articles. Looks like we've got the same pattern forming here: wtf does Fox's interest or lack thereof in Kindle have to do with their television programming? I suppose it's Engadget's prerogative to use their venue as a means to perform drive-by hits upon political content they don't like, but they would be wise to remember that about 50% (or more, if you relied upon Fox ratings) of the potential readership doesn't share their snarky view of the Right, and people do tend to ignore media sources which insinuate insults of their audience into their content. See: decline of newspapers, network news, and abject failure of liberal radio.
Off Topic but I used to use the handle AtomicPlayboy years and years ago. Where'd you come up with it?
@Dave:
From watching Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie a couple of years back. Admiral William Blandy, when describing early nuclear testing, denied being "an atomic playboy, as one of my critics labeled me, exploding these bombs to satisfy my personal whim." This cracked me up, and I'm a rabid fan of all things nuclear, so there you go. I had to go with AtomicPlayboyX on XBox Live, so somebody (maybe you?) beat me to it there.
Sorry for the OT, everyone, but I had to respond.
Umm... you got your moonbat in my tech blog. Could you please remove it?
Beck FTW,
LOL @ Beck. Love the guy, except when he's having his emo moments.
Murdoch won't have a business left if all the people he's been phone tapping get together!?
Down with the baddies I say!
I guess you haven't looked at the Nielsen Ratings lately.
@Andy - If you're talking about media ratings then so what?
I'm talking about corruption and there seems to be enough people with enough power (and money) to take him down a peg or two!
"Yeah, he has fake crying (seriously, have you ever seen him do it, it's unbelievable), psychotic conspiracy mode (FEMA death camps in Georgia! and a man on his show, in a clip that never aired, who claimed Chinese restaurants were sleeper cells for the Chinese governments planned overthrow of the US) and just plan incoherent rambling."
I dont believe I actually have to respond to this bullshit, but obviously you posted this nonsense in hopes that no one that actually watches his show would be on engadget to debunk this garbage.
#1, Idiot, Beck never believed those supposed camps were real, He even got sick of people calling and writing him about it. He did send out some investigators to either prove or disprove them.
Well the investigators came back and said they couldn't do either, so he sent them back to dig deeper.
Now they then came back and announced on his show that the supposed camps were a Amtrak repair yard, and the video that was on the net was a N. Korean camp.
Gee, you would think that some crazy nut like Beck would have skipped over doing real legwork to get to the bottom of something like this, and instead just piss it on the air and say it was 100% truth like Keith Olberman or Chris (tingle up my ass) Mathews.
"I doubt anyone watching his show would want an e-reader anyway, because it's probably just a secret, communist designed tracking device, developed by Obama in partnership with the Soviet Government in exile (it's in exile and waiting, did you know that?) which will track all of your reading habits, and trace your whereabouts from space. Slowly the device will change your Fox News stories into stories about how great the Bolsheviks were, molding your mind into their favor as part of Obama's giant. lifelong conspiracy! Then, if you refuse to believe it, sputnik, which has been upgraded with lasers, will shoot you with a death ray from space, eliminating all opposition."
Now if you just want to be a fucking retard, then just post "Hey, I'm a retard" and save the shitty attempts at comedy to people with talent.
"Do I even need to type /end sarcasm here? I'm sure I do for Glen Beck followers ;)"
We already got that you were full of shit from the first sentence.
And golly, he actually cried on-air. That just discredits him right off the bat. Gotcha. Let's not pay attention to what he says and actually rebut it, let's look for something retarded to harp on so you dont have to make a real effort.
The guy pulls in more viewers at 2:00pm in California then those Obama butt-boys on MSNBC combined. If anything they should be crying.
Third time's the charm, apparently.
Well said, anyone who watches a weeks worth of his show will see a lot they never thought about Conservatives before.
#1 Just because you're on Fox News doesn't make you a right wing loon, he said the same stuff on CNN and got booted because he was too harsh on Michelle Obama when everyone else at CNN was too scared to offend the future first lady.
#2 Glenn doesn't put on a show just to keep viewers, he will say stuff that pisses his viewers off and he doesn't care. He's more concerned with giving the raw truth and the whole picture than keeping his ratings up like O'Rielly.
#3 He cares about this country and it's future more than anyone I've ever seen on television! He listens to the people and builds his beliefs on the principles that founded this country. He welcomes disagreement and doesn't make a scene as O'Rielly does. Instead he attempts to make a point to his veiwers, not win in a angry, forced worded argument.
#4 While he is very conservative all he really cares is that the Government and our politicians are bound by the Constitution and not finding ways to get around it to gain power. He doesn't care if you're on the left or right, if you're not a stand up person and really are fighting for the people and not for political power he'll support you no matter what your views are.
Seriously I challenge everyone reading this, spend a week watching his program and maybe you'll realize why his show is gaining exponential ammounts of viewers every week.
"He listens to the people and builds his beliefs on the principles that founded this country."
For the most part I agree with him, but I disagree with him touting some imaginary "God" figure like he does. Both the 9 and 12 points he has preaches his religious beliefs and the founding fathers clearly wanted to allow people to choose for themselves otherwise they would have declared Christianity as the national religion if they thought it was at all important.
I like fox news
I like Glenn Beck.
I dont like immature media bias
Agreed! Engadget, this article is immature and childish. This belongs on forchan more than a respectable tech news site...
I dont like immature media bias ether, but in the uk News corp. owns sky (the main pay tv platform by a mile) the sun (the largest new paper) part of ITV (the 2nd most popular tv chanel) the news of the world (also a masive paper) and the times (one of the top broadsheet news papers) myspace, IGN, gamespy, and NDS(a Conditional access technology company making very dificult to watch there progaming with out a valid card which is fine but it is also a closed sysem making it dificult to use a 3rd party settop box, not so great!)
Now if that isnt media bias i dont know what is?
No doubt! What is this, Twitter?
Keep the political media bias to yourself Engadget!
+1. The daily kos called and they want their blogger back.
Engadget, instead of posting crap why don't you fix your comment system?
hahahahhaha
WTF? Did the Gizmodo bloggers hack the site so they could start injecting their stupid political opinions disguised as news posts here too?
Yeah. There's no way in hell any of them are Engadgeteers.
a big FU...ha ha. actually, i had no reason to believe in the best in you...and you just vindicated my beliefs.
look, i hate glenn beck and i hate keith olberman. they are both phonies. pretentious blowhards. whether or not an inkling of truth can be found in what they say is besides the point (they never try to convince anyone of anything that they don't already believe). its all just childish crap. so if this engadget writer wants to poke fun at glenn beck, then just shut your trap and comment about the original topic.
News Corp hates e-readers/hardware that can stream digital content? sounds like a losing POV. but we already know that murdoch doesnt understand new technology. otherwise, he wouldnt have bought myspace.
Mr. Flatley, who is the parent company of the company for whom you blog? AOL? The same AOL formerly joined at the shared brain as Time Warner? The same Time Warner who is parent to such channels as CNN?
So your motivation has nothing to do with Beck and/or Red Eye substantively. Just your need to feel like a bad ass bashing FNC, the network that recently recorded the top 10 cable news shows (including Beck). I understand that AOL-Time Warner is no more in reality, but apparently still exists in spirit. And that spirit is the spirit of pettiness and poor judgment.
Hey Red Eye has Lil Jimmy Norton at times...how dare you bash it
Folks I am not a huge Glenn Beck fan either, his presentation style gets on my nerves. However all I have seen from the people who hate him that are posting here is personal attacks. I would like to see someone here attack his politics or positions. Next Red Eye is every funny. It is not meant to be hard news show, and the panel is not supposed to be objective. Kinda like John Stewart and Bill Maher without the clapping seals in the audience to reinforce their egos and opinions.
Libs don't attack political position because they have no historical evidence of failure to compare it to. Everything they come up with is better than the past because it's not been done and therefore better in their eyes. When it fails they hide it the best they can. (ie: Nancy Pelosi knowing about CIA tactics.) ;)
Please don't use Neo-Con shill Beck as a representative example of conservatism. He serves his corporate masters and follows their orders by making a mockery of what he supposedly represents.
Here here. ** drink **
Libertarians should rule Washington, not the Demo-fascists or the Republi-fascists
Libertarians = You do what you want, I'll do what I want, leave me the $@#% alone.
And then watch as everyone screws everyone else over. What a fantastic political system Mr. Libertarian!
Libertarians =/= Anarchist.
Holy shit! You're blowing my fucking mind, Duke. You mean to tell me, that a libertarian political system does not, in fact, equal the complete nonexistence of a political system. Fucking shit, my whole world is turned upside down.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/10/rupert-murdoch-staying-out-of-the-e-reader-business-red-eye-sad/2#thankYou
Holy shit! You're blowing my fucking mind, Duke. You mean to tell me, that a libertarian political system does not, in fact, equal the complete nonexistence of a political system. Fucking shit, my whole world is turned upside down.
P.S. What the hell, Engadget? I posted this comment previously and it replaced it with a link?
Way to be a jackass, either way you were tinting them as out for only their own needs. Call it what you like.
IMHO, our founding fathers were Libertarians. Libertarianism isn't about screwing each other over. It's about giving the people freedom to do what they will as long as it doesn't infringe on the freedoms of others. I can also argue that in a Libertarian government, people don't have power to screw other people over. (ie: what Barrack is doing to every one of us right now...)
Oh come on... Leave Glenn Beck and your political shortfallings at home next time you write an article. This should be about the product itself, not what you want to make of Glenn Beck.
Attention Engadget Writers:
We don't come here to read political commentary so what's the deal? Don't like Fox? Great. Good for you. Fantastic. Here's an idea; how about you leave the poorly thought out posts for the other websites that specialize in them?
Holy shit! You're blowing my fucking mind, Duke. You mean to tell me, that a libertarian political system does not, in fact, equal the complete nonexistence of a political system. Fucking shit, my whole world is turned upside down.
This place is being raided with conservative nutters. I wonder what the referrer logs show. Hilarious how they defend conspiracy theories, Fox News, media bias, and ignorance. Keep up the crappy work guys, it cost you all branches of government! I cant wait to see more of the loony rights destroy itself.
The conservatives destroyed the branches to the government? What are you even talking about? I get that you hate conservatives but your comment makes no sense beyond that.
Oh funny, I get it, the conservatives lost elections for the branches.
Your use of the nutter/wingnut/etc. jargon makes it obvious that you're uninformed twit who subscribes to the us-vs-them school of political "argument" which typifies the liberal blogosphere. This impression is only amplified by the fact that you either don't recognize that the Judiciary is a branch of our government, or know that said branch is still very much in the control of a conservative majority, a situation which will remain unchanged if five justices remain in good health.
@gunboat
Why the hell would anyone try to convince someone something they already didn't believe?
So many angry liberals here.
And it seems some of them work for engadget.
I think he was more or less saying they slant the news to convince news viewers of their personal beliefs as factual observation.
This is very true.