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To: Prime Choice

I gave up on Fox when they were still sniffing Michael Jackson's underwear 90 minutes into the breaking news that Saddam Hussein had been captured.



Their MO of late (past few years) seems to be to latch on to some tabloidesque story, and then flog it to death, and KEEP on flogging it until some OTHER tabloidesque story comes along.

Sometimes, REAL news will impinge on this process, i.e., a pope dies, a storm rages... so, they will apply that same MO to the real news too. They will flog that one story to the exclusion of ALL other news, 24 hours a day, for days on end.

I guess I'm having a hard time seeing the "fair and balanced" aspect of that. When only ONE "story" is covered -- almost invariably something that can charitably be characterized as a random "slice of life" tabloid-fodder story fished out of the slushpile -- it's hardly "fair" to any of the OTHER news going on. Nor is it "fair" to the VIEWERS, who tune it so that they can find out about what's going on in the world.

I swear, when the Pope died, the Martians could have landed in the middle of Central Park and started giving out free Orange Julius, and we'd never have heard word one about it.

Who knows what kind of legislative travesties are ramrodded through, while the "watchdog" Fifth Estate is obsessing day and night (for weeks on end) on the minutia of Aruba's court system?

Fox News is IMO a lightweight. It's fluff, and it's a crapshoot as to what "stories" they end up grabbing and running with. It's kind of amusing to watch what happens when one "story" suddenly ends, leaving them high and dry. The MJ trial ends, and poor Greta is at sixes and sevens trying to come up with a NEW "story" to cover. She parades a conga line of hapless souls (missing wife, boyfriend, husband, boss, whatever), giving each one a few minutes of fame... you can almost see the wheels turning in her head, trying to figure out if ANY of them will be "the one" she runs with for the next few months.

OK, the "audition of misery" isn't something to poke fun at, but the PROCESS sure is hilarious.


61 posted on 09/25/2005 11:30:06 PM PDT by Tom Thumbs
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To: Tom Thumbs

Free Orange Julius? Where?


62 posted on 09/25/2005 11:35:01 PM PDT by durasell
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