Why I don't like Fox News

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Quoted from Scot Hacker's blog:

Protests clog NY, Philly, Washington. In San Francisco more than 1000 are arrested. Fox brushes up against this news, does all it can not to treat it with revulsion. I mean with Shock and Awe. How can anyone protest at a time like this?, the reporter asks. Our boys are halfway across the world at risk of dying to protect our very right to protest, and they're protesting? The irony is thick like chemical weapons gas, the reporter nearly coughs. Fox puts convicted war criminal Oliver North in the field as a reporter--that's what credibility is all about. 16 die in a helicopter crash--12 brits and a 4 yanks. Or so I hear on CNN. When Fox does the same story a few minutes later, they tell us that four people have died. If you're not American your life isn't worth prime-time mention. The info graphic tells me the cruising speed and gas mileage of the Abrams tank and I feel informed.

Remember, kids, the Liberal Media™ is biased--Fox is there to set things right for us!

Comments

[dajagr.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'm in an admittedly pissy mood this evening, but...some random person I've never heard of before doesn't like Fox News. Am I missing the relevance?

[prickvixen.livejournal.com]

'Where America turns for fair and unbiased reporting,' and if you say it often enough it'll be true.

[pathia.livejournal.com]

Deleted the first because it was repetitive.

Oliver North is obviously a controversial person, but lets look at his history. What was he before he got into politics?

A Marine

When he ran here (I live in Virginia), he garnered quite a bit of votes even though he was a independent candidate. I live approximately one mile from Quantico Marine base. The votes in this district counted over 75% for Ollie in that election. (In school people often looked at me funny when I said my dad worked locally but _wasn't_ military.)

What does that have anything to do with him being a reporter? Well, they have him because he's a good person to stick in with the troops. Given that fact he used to be one himself and obviously they view him favorably.

[pawslut.livejournal.com]

"Protests clog NY, Philly, Washington. In San Francisco more than 1000 are arrested. Fox brushes up against this news, does all it can not to treat it with revulsion. I mean with Shock and Awe. How can anyone protest at a time like this?, the reporter asks. Our boys are halfway across the world at risk of dying to protect our very right to protest, and they're protesting?"

Unfortunately, like I said in a previous post to Sylvan, it's okay to protest 'as long as you're being patriotic'. That seems to be the view, at any rate. The Bush Administration will do anything to bully you into not speaking out against them. And here's the evidence:

Stephen Down's arrest in Albany, New York for refusing to take off his shirt that said 'Give Peace a Chance'.

Vice President Dick Cheney's attempt to threaten legal action, with a threatening letter from the Office of the Vice President, against John Wooden and his website for making parodies of him and his wife. http://www.aclu.org/FreeSpeech/FreeSpeech.cfm?ID=12053&c=83

Bretton Barber of Michigan was instructed to leave his high school for wearing an anti-war shirt.

Students attending a graduation ceremony at an Ohio University Campus a year or two ago were threatened with expulsion, arrest, and losing their graduating status for 'turning their backs' on George W. Bush during his speech.

Thousands arrested in San Francisco.

Dozens arrested in Washington D.C., including famous author Alice Walker, for protesting the war.

This is just the tip of the iceberg. You won't see any of this on FoxNews, though. FoxNews is a damned near government run news station.

I advise anyone who is upset by this to write to their congressman, write to their senator, write to their governor, and don't vote Republican.

One last thing . . .

[pawslut.livejournal.com]

To quote Sylvan's sign, which I hope he's printed out and posted on his lawn:

Support our troops: Stop the War with Iraq.


Bring them home.

[chastmastr.livejournal.com]

Once again, I post in agreement with you. "Liberal Media" my ass. I remember when that whole notion was in vogue. Working as a copy editor helped really blast that idea out of the water...

[kareem.livejournal.com]

EuroNews on Sky Television is really good. They run a reel called 'no comment' which is just that, a series of snapshots. One made me upset, when they showed the Iraqi home guard, some sweet old men dressed in smartly pressed blue uniforms, each in their sixties of seventies and absolutely no contest against Western troops. I thought about my grandfather.