My DVR didn't catch last night's Real Time with Bill Maher, so I had to seek it out on the cable box, and was lucky enough to find it running in. . .well. . .real time this morning. After it was over, I wanted to just surf around the internets for a little while, so I needed to put the teevee machine on something that wouldn't distract me too much. FOX "News" fits the bill. It's good for little else, right?
Heh. Okay, so I'm doing this little experiment. Every so often, I'll stick it on FOX "News" at a time of day when they supposedly are doing "hard news," rather than news commentary. There is no such time of day, apparently. This morning, I landed on America's News HQ, which sounds like a news program. There were two blonde bombshell news readers talking about the GOP "Pledge to America." No, not really talking, pitching. They gave the conservative selling points of the pledge, and left it there, as though there was no counter-point.
Then, they moved on to other issues involving President Barack Obama and the 2010 election. There, they had no problem with counter-points! In fact--just like they do on Hannity, Glenn Beck, Huckabee, and The O'Reilly Factor--they had arguing pundits in split-screen to shout about it! Then they aired various clips of Democrats on the floors of Congress in moments of extreme agitation. . .various Democrats at various times, out of context. I didn't gather what story these clips were connected to, I think it was an attempt to show Democrats being crazy to counter-balance Christine O'Donnell.
Anyway, they managed to squeeze in a little bit of news, a flood, and the Iranian president (where they couldn't resist a little editorializing), but mostly my little experiment proved what it always does: FOX "News" is NOT news.
Faux news is pathetic. There is apparently money in sucking up to Socialists and the Saudis (ownershipdriven content).
ReplyDeleteLefty-Light-Faux (LLF) is ridiculous, yet their ratings have them crushing the communist networks. But aren't they mostly irrelevant? Only a delusional few still get their news from dinosaur media. It's 'entertainment' now, not 'news'.
regarding the "teabag"-
ReplyDeleteWhat the picture reveals is a fundamental misunderstanding: Tea Party folks hate RINOs, and for the same reason would not be fans of Faux News.
"NINO" = News in Name only
ReplyDeleteFOX "News" promotes the tea party events, even branding some with the FOX logo. Glenn Beck claims to be a tea party "outsider" and yet leads quite a contingent of them. Sarah Palin: tea party heroine and FOX "News" paid employee.
ReplyDeleteThere is quite a strange dichotomy between the establishment GOP and the tea partiers, but it is a vague and blurry distinction. Much like the tea party itself. Leaderless, but has leaders. "Taxed enough already" even though--thus far--taxes have gone DOWN. Grassroots, even though it's all bankrolled and promoted by people like the billionaire Koch brothers and GOP stalwart Dick Armey.
But no, I don't believe I've got my teabag imagery wrong.
I suspect that since the Tea Party folks are big news, that every news agency would cover them. And all news organizations are, as well as entertainment programs like Fox.
ReplyDeleteLinkages seem to be wishful thinking on the part of outsiders, who cannot grasp what the tea party represents, and are trying to make it fit thier own pre-conceived notions.
Look again.
The Tea-Party folks continue to distance themselves from Fox and from Beck. And they run against establishment GOP'ers in GOP primaries. They keep separating themselves. Why is that?
Tired old notions don't fit new events.