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?
Anyone fighting Islamism is on our side. If we don’t care about the few lone voices fighting Islamism, we are both stupid and heartless.
Saudi Prince Taweed (something or other, Frantzie knows) owns a chunk of FOX. They kiss Saudi butt. They’re disgusting and little if any better than the other “news” pimps.
Many in the blogosphere have commented on Fox’s and Murdoch’s ties to the Saudis, including a Saudi prince who is a major Fox News stockholder. I really don’t know if I buy this theory. I certainly hope that it is not true that Muslims are influencing the channel, though I wouldn’t put it beyond the realm of possibility. If Murdoch is trying to get in close with the Saudis and the UAE then naturally he would not want to cover things that might paint Muslims in a bad light.
At any rate, ratings undoubtedly play a big part in everything that Fox chooses to cover. However, I do believe that one of the reasons that most Americans are not too interested in foreign affairs is because most of our news outlets barely report on world news. Thus, Americans are largely ignorant of it, and it seems strange or irrelevant to them. If they were more familiar with it, they would find it more interesting and would see its relevance more easily. I do not really believe that it is a good idea to go over the same news topics again and again and again, when there is so much else of importance also going on. Radical Islam and the clamping down on basic rights in the West are both rapidly growing threats, and Americans need to know about them.
As far as Glenn Beck’s criticism of Wilders is concerned, I hope that that was merely a sign of his own ignorance of the situation. Still, in the two times that Beck interviewed Wilders in the past, he seemed largely supportive of him (esp. in his CNN Headline News interview). However, because Beck, Krauthammer, Bill Kristol, and at least one other Fox News contributor attacked Wilders all in the same day or two, I could not help but think that this was the “line” that the network suggested they follow in regard to Wilders. I could, of course, be very wrong about this, but it is suspicious.