[FlingWingFlyer]

The antics of the clowns on FOX News Channel yesterday were disgraceful. IMHO. While they were telling us that Giffords was deceased, they were also telling us that Sarah Palin and Americans belonging to the TEA Party were responsible for this tragedy. FNC really needs to get a grip.

[andy58-in-nh]

The news media have been trained to create "templates" - prefabricated boxes in which to fit people and events to make them not understandable so much as marketable as "news". They learn this from journalism schools and then from editors and producers who have made careers of it.

The plain task of finding and reporting facts - no matter how confusing, complex or even seemingly contradictory - has long taken a back seat to creating programming and headlines. It is left to a discerning and properly skeptical public to make sense of what the media will not.

[verity]

You should have watched the NFL games instead. ;-0