Fox News, Fx and 'Oil Storm'

[amicus]

The Fox News Network, FX and “Oil Storm”

The heavily promoted ‘special’ program that aired during the first week of June, the beginning on the annual hurricane season in the Atlantic and Gulf Coast region attracted my attention for several reasons.

Because Fox News has been tagged as ‘Right Wing’, I was curious as to the over-all ‘anti-American- content of the film; puzzled enough to title my comments: ‘Those Clever Liberals Strike Again’

I surmised that perhaps the naïve management chain at Fox Broadcasting had been duped by a subtle and sophisticated screen writer.

Imagine my surprise when Friday night, June 10th, 2005 on the ‘Biz News’ program aired on Fox news, to hear that Tropical Storm Arlene was bearing down on oil platforms in the Gulf and refinery and pipeline facilities in Louisiana.

The guilty looks and tone of voice of the news personnel gave evidence that they were blatantly referring to the Oil Storm film and how it might affect oil supplies, business and the stock market.

I have often listened to Ted Turner, founder of CNN and the Lou Dobbs show, both of which are unabashed in promoting a ‘liberal’ view and interpretation of news events.

While I do not maintain personally that Fox news is tilted to the right, I formerly would have judged them as somewhat more ‘fair’ in coverage than ABC, MSNBC, CBS and certainly more equitable than PBS news content.

Fox News is as guilty as those who promoted the Michael Moore Mocumentary in that they also foisted upon an unsuspecting public a political document in sheep’s (entertainment) clothing.

I now lump Fox Broadcasting with all the other Networks that preponderantly broadcast a left of center vision of the news and the world in general.

I will email this essay to the aforementioned news agencies and grant full use if any should with to refer this information to a political webblogsite.

Regards, amicus…

 

[amicus]

Not that it matters…but something is afoot that has the old Amicus perplexed…

Although apparently few have seen ‘Oil Storm’ a Fox Channel production that has been running for a week on the FX Channel on cable television; it is a ‘tour de force’ of a cataclysm of the American oil industry brought about by a hurricane affecting Port Fourchon, Louisiana. The Port apparently handles about 30 percent of petroleum products entering the U.S.

Lo and behold, in addition to FX re running the film Saturday night, June 11th, 2005, the Discovery Science Channel ran a program entitled ‘Coastal Crisis’ which concentrated on the very same area, Port Fourchon, Louisiana.

Apparently way back in 1927, following a serious Mississippi flood, the US Government contracted the US Corps of Engineers to begin a decade long project of building dikes to contain the Mississippi river.

One of the results of that construction was the diversion of the river away from the marsh and swamp lands in lower Louisiana. Since the marshes had been built extended by sediment carried by the Mississippi for untold ages, the diversion has led to the destruction and loss of land in the Mississippi Delta.

That loss of land has and is threatening not only Port Fourchon, but also the City of New Orleans and many other low lying communities in the Delta region.

Now…I have long suspected the Discovery Science Channel to favor one particular political party and ideology, that of ecological preservation over human growth and development. But, I did not expect the Fox Network to follow suit.

It appears to me that Fox has teamed with a wing of the liberal democrat party and with a wing of the conservative republican party to form an unholy alliance…with what goal in mind?

In the Fox Network production of ‘Oil Storm’ the religious right was portrayed as being activist in a ‘food not oil’ movement, coordinating with farm labor in maintaining subsidies for agricultural products over solving the oil crisis.

I suspect that neither of these programs were created or aired by accident, or as ‘informational or educational’ only; I sense a political agenda. But just what agenda is it and who is behind it?

I have been closely involved in News, on radio, television and print media for nearly 40 years and this is truly an anomaly to me.

Any ideas? Anyone…?

A puzzled amicus…

 

[EnglishMuffin]

i dont know

promo for new john grisham book/movie?

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Not that it matters…but something is afoot that has the old Amicus perplexed…

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It appears to me that Fox has teamed with a wing of the liberal democrat party and with a wing of the conservative republican party to form an unholy alliance…with what goal in mind?

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I suspect that neither of these programs were created or aired by accident, or as ‘informational or educational’ only; I sense a political agenda. But just what agenda is it and who is behind it?

I have been closely involved in News, on radio, television and print media for nearly 40 years and this is truly an anomaly to me.

Any ideas? Anyone…?

A puzzled amicus…

Your paranoia is really out of hand. You're seeing conspiracies everywhere.

Fox "News" is a joke and everyone knows it. Any station that reports the results of last night's "American Idol" voting along with the international headlines is just not credible.

Really, Amicus, this is bizarre even for you. Next comes the tinfoil hat to keep the FBI from controlling your brain with radio waves.

 

[cantdog]

We are seeing the dissolution of a mediocre mind.