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The Only Network to Provide Live Coverage of Speaker Pelosi? It's Not CNN or MSNBC

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This is embarrassing!

So, we wonder if the White House still thinks Fox News is "not a news network." Tonight, Fox News was the only news channel [other than C-SPAN] to provide live coverage of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi making her way to the house chamber, then speaking to members ahead of tonight's vote on health care reform. CNN stayed with a taped replay of The Situation Room. MSNBC was airing a crime documentary, but mentioned that Pelosi was speaking during a scheduled live cut-in. FNC and MSNBC have teased they'll have coverage of the vote when it happens.

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There is a reason why our nations Founders deemed a free press to be one of the requirements of democracy:

"The most effectual engines for [pacifying a nation] are the public papers... [A despotic] government always [keeps] a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, [invent] and put into the papers whatever might serve the ministers. This suffices with the mass of the people who have no means of distinguishing the false from the true paragraphs of a newspaper." --Thomas Jefferson to G. K. van Hogendorp, Oct. 13, 1785. (*) ME 5:181, Papers 8:632
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    Reply#1 - Sat Nov 7, 2009 9:06 PM EST
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    They must have forgotten they were the 'liberal media.'

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    Reply#2 - Sun Nov 8, 2009 12:28 AM EST
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