Fox News.
I don't watch Fox News much, but with my internet down this morning, I had to watch TV news(shiver) while I drank my coffee. So CNN went to some Sanjay Gupta health show which was unwatchable, MSNBC went to commercial, so I flipped to Fox (news?).
I caught about 20 seconds leading to a break. The closing segment was on the riots in Toledo when the Klan tried to march(it's all the rage in the right wing media today. Rioting blacks trying to stop a peaceful Klan march.....) But the interesting thing was that the Fox anchor blamed the violence on locals "inflamed by socialists and anarchists" which were at the WTO talks." Really, they went from Genoa, Italy to Toledo, Ohio to protest a local Klan chapter march?
Then the fade out/next up topics were.
1) Is Harriet Miers' religion a problem? And should it be?
Fox news viewer: Of course not, my religion is being persecuted by those damn liberal elites!!!!
As Jon Stewart once pointed out: "When will the persecution end? I dream that one day there may even be a Christian president, or 43 of them consecutively."
2) Will the Iraqi vote derail the progress being made by our troops?
Fox news viewer: Yeah, that's it. It's the Iraqis that aren't holding up their end of the deal.
Oh my, Oh my. Fox news when you want the world to appear to support your illinformed biases.
It's 8:30 tonight, and I'm still incredulous.
Update: I got a comment on this and I would like to echo it here. This post is referring to the national Fox News cable network, not my local Houston Fox affiliate, which is generally pretty good of late.
I caught about 20 seconds leading to a break. The closing segment was on the riots in Toledo when the Klan tried to march(it's all the rage in the right wing media today. Rioting blacks trying to stop a peaceful Klan march.....) But the interesting thing was that the Fox anchor blamed the violence on locals "inflamed by socialists and anarchists" which were at the WTO talks." Really, they went from Genoa, Italy to Toledo, Ohio to protest a local Klan chapter march?
Then the fade out/next up topics were.
1) Is Harriet Miers' religion a problem? And should it be?
Fox news viewer: Of course not, my religion is being persecuted by those damn liberal elites!!!!
As Jon Stewart once pointed out: "When will the persecution end? I dream that one day there may even be a Christian president, or 43 of them consecutively."
2) Will the Iraqi vote derail the progress being made by our troops?
Fox news viewer: Yeah, that's it. It's the Iraqis that aren't holding up their end of the deal.
Oh my, Oh my. Fox news when you want the world to appear to support your illinformed biases.
It's 8:30 tonight, and I'm still incredulous.
Update: I got a comment on this and I would like to echo it here. This post is referring to the national Fox News cable network, not my local Houston Fox affiliate, which is generally pretty good of late.
posted by mikevotes at
8:21 PM
1 Comments:
I do hope viewers (and the author) will distinguish between FNN (FOX News Network) and FOX News (morning or evening newscasts as aired by local, FOX affiliates in many large cities in our nation). Same company in many, but not all, instances. However, the content is often notably different at the local stations. I've personally heard of some employees of our local affiliate (which is owned by FOX) getting a very bad and unfair verbal thrashing based on confusion about the difference. I've also heard of employees who work for FOX affiliates owned by some pretty liberal media companies getting same. Not huge news (no pun) but worth noting... if only to save some poor, card-carrying A.C.L.U. member who always votes socialist party or something from getting lynched because it's assumed he/she is an O'Reilly disciple.
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