Study Confirms that watching no news is better than watching Fox News.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Democrat
Colorado Springs, CO
-
Are you sure you want to delete this post?
Schmidt Wrote: A couple of books that I recommend for your enlightenment. You can read the reviews at the Amazon links below.
The Fox Effect: How Roger Ailes Turned a Network into a Propaganda Machine
“Fox News has created a generation of woefully (and objectively) misinformed ideological sycophants to pursue its radical agenda. It's no accident. Now David Brock and Ari Rabin-Havt show that no matter how unethical and dishonest you think Fox News is, the reality is that they're much, much worse.” —Markos Moulitsas, publisher, Daily Kos
The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News--and Divided a Country
“The book excels at compiling data establishing Ailes’s control freakishness and authoritarian nature. . . . A veteran of the New York media-reporting scene, Sherman nails the Fox News palace intrigue and brings to light interactions that Ailes clearly never wanted to go public.”—Erik Wemple, The Washington Post
--------------------------------------
"People believe what they want to believe...and Fox News provides that outlet, especially for the right wing crazies." -- Schmidt The Fox Effect : A book based on 'research' by an organization (Media Matters) that has practically nothing on their site but bashing Fox News and virtually nothing about the other news organizations. Sounds like a 'single source study' to me...
The Loudest Voice in the Room : A book by the New York Times which has long been outspoken against Fox News and has ignored facts in favor of promoting liberal views. (i.e. making a big deal about Bush releasing plans for Nuclear Warheads and only having one small statement about where the United States got those plans at a time when there was a huge debate about Iraq and WMDs) Sounds like yellow journalism to me.
Is Fox News biased? Yes, I have never denied that, but to use biased sources to support you just shows your bias as well. Fact is if you want to prove Fox News is biased, use Fox News website, there's enough proof their in the stories they cover and how they cover them. All news is biased. (example: CNN reporting on the Military under Bush loosing millions of tons of enriched weapons grade uranium in Iraq and using it to bash Bush, then reporting that it was thanks to Obama that Bin Laden was found and killed when the infrastructure [which Obama did not change or even touch in any way to improve] was established by Bush, but using the story to praise Obama and how Intelligence Gathering has advanced under Obama)
To bring this back to the point of the thread, people watch news to be told what is happening in a way they agree with. If you want a liberal view, you watch (I'll go with one we can all agree on) MSNBC. If you want a conservative view, you watch Fox News. To get the full story and be able to be considered well informed you should watch/get your news from a variety of sources, including those you don't agree with.
-
Are you sure you want to delete this post?
Hi RanMaMOJ: Your comment was reasonable & well-intentioned, & in better times, it would have made perfect sense, to get all your news from a variety of sources, even the ones you disagree with. But that was back when we had something called "journalistic integrity," & people had morals and basic honesty about their motives for writing. Various awards were given out to those who risked their lives to expose the Truth, (like Woodward & Bernstein exposed the Watergate Scandal, in Nixon's Admin). Not much going on there, except attempts to rig an election, bribe high officials to keep their mouth shut, including the Atty General (Mitchell), the GOP running a brothel to blackmail US Senators, & breaking into Democrat Hdqtrs to "bug" the telephones, & the GOP murder of Martha Mitchell (wife of Atty Genl). Just your ordinary GOP political tactics : )
In TODAY'S GOP media, you will hear such things as "Don't EVER listen to any "lame stream" media, because they will lead you astray" -- & they have such genius minds as Sara Palin echoing that refrain. It is a deliberate attempt to PREVENT any "mainstream media" from being heard on Air Force One, & by our own US military, in places like Iraq, Afghanistan, & other hell holes of deployment. Our fighting men must be kept in check, by listening to only right-wing propaganda. In the military, "no independent thought" must be allowed. They must all be "obedient" 24/7, no dissent.
By the "echo chamber" of GOP mass-media, spreading repetitious lies 24/7, & having spent $billion$ of dollars over the last 29 years, to brain-wash the American public -- to manipulate their minds, their opinions, & especially their votes, -- the subversive aspects of the right-wing in the USA, are readily apparent. People like Lush Limbo tell so many lies, they have to "unscrew" their heads, to go to bed at night. And the lies are deliberately fashioned as to create the maximum damage to the Democratic party. That is not "politics as usual" but the kind of subversion you would expect in a fascist society. Like the Nazi's blasted venom against the Jews, the most similar paradigm is when the GOP blasts away a barrage of LIES against the Democrats. It is not just for winning an election. It is deliberate character assassination, so as to annihilate the enemy & any power he has left.
If both parties had equal respect for the Constitution, for human rights, for personal freedoms, & wanted all our citizens to have the basic right to live their lives with ability to make a living wage, to vote, to get an education, & worship at the church of our choice. If both believed, as Democrats do, that we have a right to clean air & water & to have uncensored text books. We have a right to REAL Science, which was a REAL BIG FACTOR to our Founding Fathers. "The Age of Enlightenment." Now, the GOP want to go "backward" to the time BEFORE we had an Age of Enlightenment. If we let them continue on this course, pretty soon we will be either Planet of the Apes, or totally extinct.
-
-
-
-
|