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Post by Ceci on May 17, 2007 22:23:07 GMT -5
I'd like to know what everyone thought about FOX news and its programming. Personally, I don't really care for the news outlet because I think it is biased. But, I've found that in a lot of circles, there are people who religiously watch it and follow their pundits whole-heartedly.
Where do you stand with FOX News? What do you think about it?
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Post by SeventhSeal17 on May 18, 2007 1:43:39 GMT -5
Fox News, if you can call it, is entertainment for the MTV generation.
Anyone, and I am making a judgment call I stand behind 100%, who watches Fox News religiously, is a moron. Plain and simple. Anyone that has an IQ over 90 would notice how asinine the things they discuss (and the people who discuss them) are.
They romanticize and sensationalize everything, and that's if they don't straight up lie about things that didn't even happen.
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Post by Ceci on May 18, 2007 1:50:35 GMT -5
The thing about FOX is that it sets up an agenda that is polarizing. That is why I don't understand why Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes and the like have a large viewership. It seems as if they are shouting down anyone who disagrees with them. Or, people who express any dissent against what is supposed be presented it rapidly cut off. So, it isn't "fair and balanced" as they say. Instead, it is only there to promote the Republican talking points that are given to them. It makes you wonder whether this is because of the politics of Rupert Murdoch, or because of the viewership who watches them.
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Post by dcfusion on May 29, 2007 11:27:06 GMT -5
I love FOX News! Wait! Wait! Don't flame me just yet.
Do I go to FOX News for news - nope! Do I go to FOX news for entertainment - yep, sure do. And I think that is the key to answering this question. If you go to FOX news and watch it for the 'news', then you are - as SeventhSeal17 put it - a moron.
However, if you watch it purely as entertainment, then I wouldn't think that you are a moron.
For example, I love to decipher their news headlines.
Recently, this was the lead in (I'm going from memory here, so it's not a direct quote): "Guns being sold in our schools!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! More after the commercial!!!!!!!!!!!!"
The truth: A kid in a secondary school got caught selling a pellet gun.
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