I gave up on Fox a number of years ago, deciding like the writer here that they are just like the rest. An inch deep, gutless, clueless.
They claimed high ratings from the start because they positioned themselves slightly to the right of the normal left-wing press. Its statistics: the left press split the left half of the country half a dozen ways while Fox had the right half of the country to itself.
But I don’t want a right-leaning press, I just want someone to report the news with as little bias as possible. I can apply the bias myself. That’s my job.
I used to say that Bill O’Reilly was a huge phony: his schtick was to position himself as the sane middle ground between two straw men. I haven’t watched him since Kerry ran for president and Bill attacked the Swift Boat vets in an effort to get Kerry to come on his show. That’s a long time ago now.
Fox’s idea of “fair and balanced” has always been to have a nutball leftist and some vaguely right-leaning dweeb shouting each other down. Please, that’s not worth my time.
I never missed Beck when he was on, he was the only one doing any real reporting. It is thanks to him that we know who Obama is. No one else, and I mean including the rest of Fox, no one else on TV has made any attempt to dig out Obama’s connections and past. When Beck left, I stopped watching Fox altogether. I don’t watch TV news. I find the more I watch, the more access I give to the Noise Machine, the less I know that is true and significant. Conversely the less I watch, the more I know that is, as I say, true and significant.
I figure, especially if you are a regular at FR, we know more than most folks about who our candidates are. Hang on to what you knew about them the day before they announced for president. That’s who they are. Whatever you’ve heard from the Noise Machine since is an effort to change the subject. Fox, sadly, is just another piece of the Noise Machine.
Read books. Check the headlines at FR. Live your life. Tune out the Noise Machine, give them no further access to your head.
Read books. Check the headlines at FR. Live your life. Tune out the Noise Machine, give them no further access to your head
“Hang on to what you knew about them the day before they announced for president. That’s who they are.”
A truth worth repeating. Whereas the MSM and FOX repeat lies and smears to achieve a group-think agenda. Unfortunatley their goal does not include providing the unbiased news to their viewers. They believe we are all pawns in their game to win.