sr71plt
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The bottomline is viewers.
What bottom line? That the news is generally useful enough to expend the time watching it?
Your typical lame posting, James.
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The bottomline is viewers.
What bottom line? That the news is generally useful enough to expend the time watching it?
Your typical lame posting, James.
What bottom line? That the news is generally useful enough to expend the time watching it?
Your typical lame posting, James.
An ex-exec at Faux Nuze was quoted saying the staff receives word from on high to "make stuff up." What they don't invent, they spin mercilessly. If a non-Teabag pol were to be recorded saying, "If someone said I am a Nazi, they'd be lying," Faux would run a loop of "...I am a Nazi...I am a Nazi..."
An ex-exec at Faux Nuze was quoted saying the staff receives word from on high to "make stuff up." What they don't invent, they spin mercilessly. If a non-Teabag pol were to be recorded saying, "If someone said I am a Nazi, they'd be lying," Faux would run a loop of "...I am a Nazi...I am a Nazi..."
Well duh, people like being entertained. They can sit back and not have to think.
It's like watching one of those un-reality shows. Absolutely mindless drivel.
Just thought you folks might enjoy this.
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Lets be clear about something, I don't watch FOX but most people do. CNN and MSNBC suck so no one watches them. And when you come on here and razz FOX youre farting rainbows out your ass.
SR71. No point was missed, and my original post makes that clear. There is no statement in my post indicating either Fox is entertainment or that viewers are seeking entertainment. Those are your words not mine.
Your comment is strictly an opinion statement (like mine), with absolutely no way to verify what you're saying.
I disagree. Who's right?
Um, no. SR71 is correct. It is acknowledged inside and out of the industry that Fox is entertainment, not news. They don't report so much as offer up their one-sided opinion. They have even gone to court to say it is acceptable for them to lie to their viewers.
Again, Fox is highest in ratings because they entertain, not because they report. If you look at the demographics of who watches Fox, you will see their viewers are much older and less educated than the other stations. That tells you something.
It's one thing to get a story wrong once in a while. Every single station does it from time to time. But when every story is turned into a political talking point, that is no longer news.
Remember, Fox is owned and run by Rupert Murdoch, the guy who had two of his newspapers in England shut down because they were hacking people's phones. This is the same company who has outright told its people to sway stories to present the best light for Republicans and has told their on-air women employees to wear short dresses/skirts and placed them front and center.
Where does Fox News get its facts? I could show you, but we’d need an extra-powerful flashlight and several cocktails to loosen up Steve Doocy.
Now that I’ve ruined your day by putting the thought of that horrifying, hypothetical spelunking excursion in your head, let me hit you with a totally unsurprising and predictable bit of information: Fox is making headlines this week for a wildly inaccurate assertion made on its air.
In an unlikely manifestation of the Israel-Palestine conflict, the comedian Russell Brand and the Fox News anchor Sean Hannity have had a very public and personal disagreement over the Gaza crisis.
The row started when Brand focused an episode of his satirical YouTube series, The Trews, on an episode of Hannity’s show where he questioned Yousef Munayyer, executive director of the Jerusalem Fund. As part of the interview, Hannity asked Munayyer, “what part of this can’t you get through your thick head?”, before stopping the interview short when Munayyer refused to answer “yes” to the question “Is Hamas a terrorist organisation?”
“One of the definitions of a terrorist is using intimidation to reach your goals,” says Brand in his video. “Who in that situation was behaving like a terrorist? Using intimidation, bullying, being unreasonable? Sean Hannity, that is where the terrorism is coming from.”
SR71. No point was missed, and my original post makes that clear. There is no statement in my post indicating either Fox is entertainment or that viewers are seeking entertainment. Those are your words not mine.
Your comment is strictly an opinion statement (like mine), with absolutely no way to verify what you're saying.
I disagree. Who's right?