I agree with you in general mlocher, but I think that it is a shame that more attention isn’t paid here to what’s going on in the rest of the world. What happens in Europe affects the U.S. and vice-versa. The entire Western world has been infected with the same authoritarian, politically correct nonsense that allows for no contrary opinions. This is extremely dangerous to personal liberty. If it weren’t for the first amendment, the PC police would probably already be trying this in the U.S. The shutting down of free speech in Europe and the government take-over in the U.S. are all symptoms of the same Marxist disease in my opinion.
And besides, the most significant events in the Wilders trial happened earlier this year well before the health care bill was rammed down everyone’s throats. Fox could have covered both. After all, last year Fox did cover Wilders’ trial and short film, Fitna, a little bit. Beck and O’Reilly interviewed him then. However, the trial didn’t really get underway until this year—and now they’re ignoring it. Why the change?
I actually am very interested in world events. When I switched cable companies I had Bloomberg News, which gave a broader financial and world coverage. It took me about a month to realize these guys are packaging the Obama message as financial and world news -- so I stopped watching. As you stated, Fox did some minimal coverage of the issue.
There seem to be 2 things in play. As I mentioned earlier -- ratings. Second is that you need to pick your battles carefully. It is clear to me that FNC and FBC have made a clear choice to give their full attention to exposing Obama and showing the impact on our society and on our economy.
I don't think there is anything else behind it. What are your thoughts?