BillHobbs.com is a frequently updated blog of original reporting and commentary by Bill Hobbs, a longtime Nashville journalist and media relations adviser. I am currently serving as communications director for the Tennessee Republican Party, a job I began on Oct. 29, 2007.
So, Glenn Reynolds is blogging about ketchup, specifically Heinz and a new alternative ketchup for those who would rather not purchase Heinz for political reasons. Indeed, he's touched off a ketchup debate in the blogosphere. The big question is, how could the king of all bloggers write about ketchup and politics without mentioning the original anti-Heinz/pro-Bush ketchup?
Finally people are fighting back vs. MoveOn.Org....
In response to a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) complaint filed earlier this week by MoveOn.org against FOX News for allegedly using a deceptive slogan in their advertising, Citizen Outreach President Chuck Muth and Citizen Outreach Senior Policy Adviser Lyn Nofziger urged the FTC in a letter released today to immediately reject the complaint against FOX News...or accept their own complaint against the New York Times.
"We encourage the FTC to give this frivolous and absurd complaint exactly the attention it deserves: None," Muth and Nofziger write regarding the complaint against FOX News. "We hope the FTC will immediately dismiss this partisan stunt as the political theater it is and not waste so much as one minute or one dime pursuing it."
The Citizen Outreach letter continues, "However, should the FTC take this ridiculous complaint seriously, please be advised that we ask for 'equal time.' We'll start with the New York Times, which regularly misleads consumers with its slogan of 'All the news that's fit to print.' This slogan doesn't even pass the snicker test."
Muth and Nofziger note the paper's well-known and well- documented liberal bias, and remind folks of the "news" the paper printed written by reporter Jayson Blair...who left the paper in disgrace after admitting he made things up out of thin air.
In conclusion, the Citizen Outreach letter asks the FTC to "give our frivolous, meritless, absurd, inane, ridiculous complaint against the New York Times absolutely no consideration whatsoever" and urges the commission "to give the MoveOn.org complaint the exact same treatment." (Citizen Outreach Press Release, 7/22/04) *Link: http://www.citizenoutreach.com/
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