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Posted on 09/12/2005 10:34:15 PM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
Today Geraldo Rivera appeared on my screen, with tousled hair, stern countenance, mock outrage on full display, standing among some dejected New Orleans Hurricane survivors and I realized it was enough for me. I turned the TV off and have not gone back to it.
It wasn't just Geraldo, of course. It has been coming for some time. This newest disaster to hit the American people is just the catalyst for my disdain for TV "news". It was the final straw that broke my TV habit.
We have all seen the complaints of the coverage of news with the 24-hour cable stations pursuing that all-important story, the one we are all just dying to hear about... over and over and over again. We have heard the complaints about how those news stations beat a story to death with such relentless, constant coverage that even the news anchors find they have nothing left to say and stumble over their words trying desperately to utter anything intelligible. You will now have to count me in among that camp.
Oh, I resisted. I wanted to stay a loyal Fox News junkie. But they have beaten me into submission. Sure, when Fox fist came on I was enamored by the style, elated by the caliber of commentators and excited by the ... well, the excitement of it all. I was so happy that at last we had some people on TV with which I agreed. I was also interested to see that their news services were free of the bias I was so sick of from the big three network news casts.
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FoxNews is to the right of CNN but then so are some articles in Pravda.
They don't do us any favors and some of the criticism of Fox comes from the same leftists who have been irate about Rupert Murdoch since the 1960s.
I pretty much stopped watching the nightly shows. Brit Hume is good, and Chris Wallace is the best interviewer in TV. But when they stopped covering our soldiers in Iraq in favor of endless coverage of the latest missing teenager, they pretty much lost me.
Agreed. I started changing channels as soon the "missing" soundtrack would come on. Greta should bang some heads together in the producer's room - I'd much rather hear her tale on SCOTUS descisions or Geneva Code re Al Queda prisoners.
O'Reilly has become a blowhard who won't shut up long enough for *interesting* guests to finish a sentence. Worse, he always seems to interrupt right when an expert is about to give me good inside info, and its not like O'Reilly's remarks are that insightful to begin with.
Sean is great but I already get him on AM
Brit is the only FOX caster that gets me to put down the remote.
And of course, my little Fox & Friends, for sheer entertainment value.
Since most of the media is owned or edited by liberals I don't waste much time with "mainstream" sources anymore. That includes the spinmasters and egoists at Fox "news" who want you to believe that presenting the views of deranged liberals along with those of a conservative bent somehow ends up with the dissemination of truth. All you get from this silly format is more confusion than ever.
These times require us to find out the truth for ourselves, because there are precious few in the 'news' business who care about facts, honesty and integrity. It's about pretty faces, neat hair, big egos and scripted, sanitized 'reporting'.
I do not watch television news, period. The problem I have with it, is that it is too easy to be manipulated by images.
Negative, spectacular and titillating sells, and they have a vested interest in selling, so they pander to the worst in us in order to get ratings. This in turn slant the news towards the negative (Iraq/Afghanistan are good examples)
They can take a 10 minute interview with someone and strategically clip a five second sound bite to give the unaware a certain perspective.
Most consumers of MSM news do not realize that much thought goes into how the news is presented. Nothing happens by accident or chance...
"I pretty much stopped watching the nightly shows."
Same here. After Brit's show it goes downhill fast. I was channel flipping last night and landed on Greta interviewing someone via phone for a few moments. The byline on the screen crawler read "Mother of Missing Daughter". So, it's either the Aruba story or a new story along those lines.
How original.
Fox News is just boring. I also hate how their story-of-the-week manages to infect every single one of their shows, even their business shows.
If the author is not intelligent enough to "filter" any news reporting he should not be allowed to have a tv.
I'd say the author is PROVING that he can filter. That is why he is tired of the spin!
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All FoxNews show hosts and reporters are outstanding. If you want to whine and complain about FoxNews this and FoxNews that start your own network and out compete them. The FoxNews whiners are the same folks that complain about Walmart. If you FoxNews whiners pool your money together you should have at least enough to buy one video camera and you can build on that.
We need a FoxNews whiner and crybaby ping list.
Today I joined you.
At 7:09 pm I turned Fox News off.
Fox has been a constant in my house since prior to the 2000 elections. If I was in the house, Fox was on. Not anymore.
I listened all evening to story after story about how Pres. Bush had admitted responsibility for the "Katrina Fiasco". And after hearing Shepard (he of the hysterical heiny) go on about it, I just couldn't listen any more. Not when all he had to do was walk over that overpass and carry a case of water back to those people he went on an on about.
Both he and Geraldo knew those trucks were over there. They had to pass them to get in to the city. But they never mentioned them. They continued to incite panic and tried to incite riots. And if they didn't know, all the worse. They are not much of a reporter, then, are they?
They must think that makes for good TV.
I turned O'Reilly off almost 2 years ago. I can no longer stomach the weekend crew, or Juan Williams for that matter. I lose IQ everytime they appear on the screen. And after listening to a Bill Crystal interview this morning about how everyone on that show just really admired each other, I about barfed.
Well, that's my rant. Thanks for listening. I just thought you'd want to know you weren't alone.
Becki
Thanks for the ping!
TV news gives me gas and most of it is lies anyway.
One is already started. Its called FR. I'm posting this on FR instead of watching Fox News. Try it more often and see how refreshing it feels.
I view Free Republic, Fox News, the blogosphere, conservative columnists and talk radio as a team effort to combat the liberal main stream media.
FoxNews is a vital part of this team effort, even though not everyone at FoxNews is a conservative. Unlike wacko leftists at MSNBC and CNN, etc. the liberal minded folks at FoxNews aren't part of the blame America crowd. Even though they may disagree on issues I view hosts like Alan Colmes and Greta Van Sustern as pro-United States. Same for all the reporters at Fox News.
Here in Colorado our main radio station, 850am KOA, recently switched over to Fox News radio and the difference between them and ABC News radio is night and day. ABC News radio reporting was dripping with the blame America / hate America spin. It's noticably different from the 'patriots' who report for FoxNews, whether they are right of center or left of center.
I appreciate the Fair and Balanced approach of Fox News each and every day regardless of what the FoxNews whiners and crybabies have to say no matter if that's the wacko lefitsts who marched in front of Fox News in New York last year or their brethern complainers here at FR.
The unappeaseables cannot, by definition, be satisfied.
It is in their nature to bitch, and piss, and moan.
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