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Fox News: Please Grow Up
self | 4/21/2007 | self

Posted on 04/21/2007 5:31:14 PM PDT by unspun

A Brief, Open Letter to Fox News

Dear Fox News:

You are nearly our only source for some fair, balanced, and sensible news on television, aside from a few minutes on CBN, etc. Thank you for reporting some actually important news objectively, at least here and there.

But why all the stupid sensationalism? Why the incessently repeating clips of...

-- the abducted blonde girl of the week?

-- semi-naked runway models?

-- the latest crotch-model to have died?

-- the abducted blonde girl of the week?

-- an actor who vilifies his daughter via voice mail?

-- the latest stripper who gets her foolish customers in trouble?

-- the abducted girl of another hair color?

-- the latest teacher sex scandal?

-- heinous speculations on the story of an abducted boy?

-- lurid "Tales from the Divorce Filings?"

-- etc., etc., etc.

Why cause sensible people to turn off your channel?

Please grow up, instead of acting like the gossip of the 6th Grade class.

Sincerely, unspun


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1 posted on 04/21/2007 5:31:15 PM PDT by unspun
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To: unspun

Oh, and now, Geraldo has the “Girls Gone Wild” publisher story on...

...and next, the teacher/principle scandal, with yet another clip of the embraced and gyrating pair.


2 posted on 04/21/2007 5:33:14 PM PDT by unspun (What do you think? Please think, before you answer.)
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To: unspun

Pardon.

Make that “principal,” of course — hardly principle.


3 posted on 04/21/2007 5:33:50 PM PDT by unspun (What do you think? Please think, before you answer.)
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To: unspun

Is your remote control broken?


4 posted on 04/21/2007 5:34:18 PM PDT by leadpenny
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To: unspun

They are exhibiting degeneracy, not promoting it. That is only a good thing.


5 posted on 04/21/2007 5:34:55 PM PDT by SteveMcKing
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To: leadpenny
Is your remote control broken?

I suppose people will kick that fallacious horse to eternity.

And aside from addressing the ludicracy behind your vacant "point," turn to what station, for actually important news, objectively related?

6 posted on 04/21/2007 5:36:50 PM PDT by unspun (What do you think? Please think, before you answer.)
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Don’t forget the hard hitting body language segments and trying to give Geraldo Rivera credibility.
7 posted on 04/21/2007 5:37:10 PM PDT by Vision ("Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him." Jeremiah 17:7)
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To: SteveMcKing
They are exhibiting degeneracy, not promoting it. That is only a good thing.

I suppose some would say the same, about "True Confessions" and "Police Stories" magazines.

8 posted on 04/21/2007 5:37:43 PM PDT by unspun (What do you think? Please think, before you answer.)
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To: unspun
You are expressing what most of us have been feeling and saying for the last four years. Excellent post.
9 posted on 04/21/2007 5:38:37 PM PDT by jveritas (Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
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To: unspun
And aside from addressing the ludicracy behind your vacant "point," turn to what station, for actually important news, objectively related?

I prefer the internet. I only want to see video for breaking news.

10 posted on 04/21/2007 5:39:53 PM PDT by operation clinton cleanup
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To: unspun

Yeah, this is really important. Maybe you should have put it in breaking news?


11 posted on 04/21/2007 5:40:09 PM PDT by leadpenny
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To: unspun

I can’t stand Fox News anymore. I only turn it on first thing in the morning while I’m making coffee to see if some huge event happened while I was asleep. I can usually only take about 5 minutes & then I usually switch it over to the History or Movie Channels. There are no news programs in the morning on any channel that is geared to an adult that just wants to hear the news.

Who wants to watch that silly stuff before you’ve even had a chance to wake up?


12 posted on 04/21/2007 5:42:00 PM PDT by alicewonders (I like Duncan Hunter for President in 2008!)
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To: unspun

I just heard from a former NYPD detective that Geraldo was a lawyer who failed in NYC and re-invented himself as what he is now


13 posted on 04/21/2007 5:45:33 PM PDT by RaceBannon (Innocent until proven guilty: The Pendleton 8...down to 3..GWB, we hardly knew ye...)
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To: unspun

I don’t have a problem with the semi-naked runway models or the latest stripper who gets her foolish customers in trouble, but no question Geraldo’s gotta go !!!


14 posted on 04/21/2007 5:46:46 PM PDT by Obie Wan
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To: alicewonders

I gave up on Fox about a year ago. Popularity/$$ ruined a good conservative network.

I gave up TV programming at the same time.

Now: Internet news, XM radio, audible.com, and netflix.

When I am in a waiting room, and the TV is on, I just about throw up at the garbage.


15 posted on 04/21/2007 5:47:47 PM PDT by mountaineer1997
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To: unspun

Good post.........I am beginning to feel the same way. For some reason, Fox doesn’t report on what’s really going on in this country. Hate to bring this up again but.....why have they never researched the “NAU”? They should do a whole series on it and bring it out in the open so our people can decide if that’s where we want to go.


16 posted on 04/21/2007 5:47:48 PM PDT by RC2
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To: unspun
-- semi-naked runway models?

Hey now...let's not get too carried away here.

17 posted on 04/21/2007 5:49:28 PM PDT by txroadkill
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To: unspun
I agree with your sentiments entirely. FNC is just about the only source of reasonably unbalanced news, but the fact is, they aren't very deep in terms of staffing below the anchor level.

They hold their own during prime-time news and talk (I can even tolerate Bill O'Reilly), and for planned events such as Presidential addresses, debates, election nights, etc., they do well. But if news breaks at 10 AM on a weekday, or Sunday afternoon, they are often caught short. I hate to say it, but I often find myself turning to CNN or ABC in such cases.

It's almost as if they only have a large enough budget to "do it right" a few hours a day. The rest is filled, as you say, with tabloid material. Greta Van Susteren over and over and over again reporting on the same dead/missing/abducted/abused blonde girl.

Disappointing, because I want them to succeed. But they have a long way to go before they can rid themselves of the tag of "Faux News."

18 posted on 04/21/2007 5:50:07 PM PDT by southernnorthcarolina (These are my principals. If you don't like them, I have others.)
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“FNC is just about the only source of reasonably unbalanced news”

Yep, that’s what we need.


19 posted on 04/21/2007 5:52:13 PM PDT by leadpenny
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To: unspun

What are you doing watching Fox News right now anyway...NASCAR is on!


20 posted on 04/21/2007 5:52:40 PM PDT by txroadkill
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