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Is America’s Economic Crisis No. 1 Priority at Fox News?

October 10th, 2008
By DORIAN DE WIND

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I had just finished watching “Jon Stewart’s round-up video of Fox News election coverage since the debate” in Joe Windish’s “Palin report Due Today,” when our lame duck president came on the networks to make another non-news, non-encouraging and “non-sensical” address on the mess he has gotten our country in. (By the way, the Dow tanked another 80 points or so while Bush was talking—it has now “stabilized” at around 8,300).

When Bush felt that he had done enough additional damage and went back into his mansion without answering a reporter’s question, I decided to check out Fox News. And, lo and behold, after the “great” Cavuto lamented for a few minutes, Fox went right back to an “Acorn” report, immediately followed by a report and video of an angry man at a McCain rally yesterday begging McCain to “take it to Obama.” The other networks were still trying to make sense of the president’s address and of the economic crisis we are in.

You betcha, Fox is fair and balanced, and really cares about the real issues facing Americans.



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    FOX's millionaire syndicated hosts really don't speak for Joe Six Pack.
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    While CNN held brief court with domestic PSYOPS (otherwise known as the "goonsquad") http://www.counterpunch.org/cnnpsyops.html
    they appear to have pulled up stakes there and moved to FOX for the red carpet treatment. PSYOPS works for the current administration. Dick Cheney (Dubya) is their commander-in-cheif. Do the math: they're promoting McCain.

    yeah, that's right, the maverick gets his grain from the evil cowboys...

    As far as I can tell, the spectrum of fake to real news goes as follows (in order of increasing truthfulness):
    1. FOX (at the bottom of the barrel),
    2. CNN,
    3. MSNBC,
    4. The Colbert Report and The Daily Show.

    I would say too that the viewers of each respective show also increase in intellect along the same scale. Those at the bottom won't be convinced via logic to move from their easy-chair of spoon-fed "truth" anytime soon. Thinking independantly is not in the top ten of their list of things to do.. And PSYOPS banks on that of course. Oops, I meant FOX banks on that. I mean, you can't prove that PSYOPS is at FOX, right?
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    faux news is even getting a horselaugh from those that they are "reporting" on. TDS and C&L have clips.
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    Looking at the differene between foxnews.com versus cnn.com and msnbc.com, they do not look that different.

    Of course, if you compare the number of Ayers posts in the last 24 hours versus financial crisis post at themoderatevoice.com, one would have to conclude that themoderatevoice.com is not very moderate.

    I guess since the meltdown in European or Asian markets cannot be blamed on Bush or deregulation, the regular posters at themoderatevoice.com cannot be bothers to write about it.
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    It's very easy to laugh at Fox News....but you shouldn't. And reason is, because millions of Americans get their news *only* from Fox News.

    Everybody should spend a little bit of time watching Fox News as part of their regular routine of news-gathering. It is very easy to get caught up in the "echo chamber" of reading, watching, listening only to news sources you agree with. In 2004, I fell into the dailykos trap of only websurfing one side of the political spectrum, and I was sure-as-rain that the Democrats would win in a landslide. If I had been paying attention to the other half of the nation, I might have had a better perspective on the election.

    I'm serious - it is important to pay attention to Fox News if only to see how the "other half" views the world. Spend fifteen minutes or half an hour viewing the world through their eyes, considering what they consider important, getting a skewed slant of the world from the other side. It's a great reality check.

    I switched over to Fox this morning. They went from Obama's smear campaign against McCain, to a breaking news story about how Obama's Muslim advisor met with known terrorists in a meeting last month, then right into voter fraud and ACORN. In fact, I would estimate ACORN accounts for about half their news coverage right now.

    Spend some time on Fox, and then you will begin to understand how some of the rah-rah-McCain posters out there can remain so rah-rah-McCain. If I only listened to Fox, then I would probably believe McCain was winning the election right now.
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    The only news content I can stomach is Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN, The Colbert Report (so over the top you can basically reach out and touch the bias), and The Newshour with Jim Lehrer. I amalgamate the rest of my news from TMV (natch!) and Google News and always try to read multiple articles on any given topic.

    My father-in-law leaves his big screen TV on Fox News most of the time he's awake, so I know what I'm up against if I don't remain an independent thinker!
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    mlhradi says:

    "I'm serious - it is important to pay attention to Fox News if only to see how the "other half" views the world."

    I fully agree, that's why I try to listen to Rush Limbaugh for a few minutes once-in-a-while. That is, until my stomach (and my psyche) can just no longer stand it
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    lotusflwr, I would also recommend you browse through memeorandum.com as well, which is an amalgamation of political blogs, opinions and news articles from literally hundreds of sources all over the web, left middle and right, sorted by topics and weighted by importance (i.e. most linked, most viewed). It's a good way to get an overview of the political opinions on the web, the direction the winds are blowing, and for me I often see stories there that I may not have seen otherwise.
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    The Colbert Repor(t) is satire- if you don't get that then maybe you shouldn't be watching. Stephen Colbert is an ACTOR. Watch strangers with candy. He's playing a persona.
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    I know Colbert is playing a part; I'm not a moron. :) He's a comedic actor who happens to use his real name as his character. He still covers most of the top stories of the day. I believe it is very important to be able to laugh at the daily dramas in our world, and I also believe that satire is a lot more truthful & powerful than highly partisan rhetoric & puditry. When newscasters have been replaced with "news personalities" who don't even attempt to be objective, I'll take satire straight up, thank you.