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To: Congressman Billybob

Even Fox News is dramatizing the bridge accident to a fault.


18 posted on 08/03/2007 8:29:29 PM PDT by rbosque ("To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society." - Teddy Roosevelt)
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To: rbosque
Even Fox News is dramatizing the bridge accident to a fault.
Journalism is by its nature negative, superficial, and unrepresentative. "If it bleeds, it leads" illustrates journalism's negativity. "'Man Bites Dog' not 'Dog Bites Man'" illustrates that journalism is unrepresentative of the big picture of the society it reports on. And "There's nothing more worthless than yesterday's newspaper" - a.k.a., "Always meet your deadline," a.k.a. "The show must go on" - illustrates journalism's superficiality.

Fox News Channel is IMHO just as superficial as any other news outlet, and just as unrepresentative. It is slightly less negative toward the people who get things done in America, tho, and that is enough to get it labeled "conservative."

I put "conservative" in scare quotes not only because FNC is not as "conservative" as FReepers but because "conservative" is used by journalism as a negative label for anyone not sufficiently enthusiastic about criticism and second guessing of the leaders of the police, the military, and business who get things done for America. As the environmental movement illustrates, America's so-called "conservatives" are far more enthusiastic about progress than are America's so-called "progressives" - and we also are far more enthusiastic about liberty than are America's so-called "liberals."


21 posted on 08/04/2007 6:00:52 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.)
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