We’re all used to the obvious, that Fox is a Republican/far right marketing outlet than any sort of news organization. If your reality filter is so broken that you want to parrot the ‘they’re just like the NYTimes’ or some other blather, kindly go somewhere else. You’re a laughable idiot with sub-par comprehension and critical thinking skills who can offer nothing but a distraction here. Go start a different thread on the Fox-as-Propaganda premise; this one is for people with the capacity to think rationally and take the premise as a given.
That said, holy hell I’ve never seen Fox be so blatant before. Yes, on one or two issues, whether it’s reversing the D and R in a politician’s name or their general astroturfing of the tea party. But much of that took slightly wider view and a mild awareness to see for what it was. Now? Whether it’s the major push to call it a “slimdown” or struggle to shift the blame for the shutdown to the Democrats, it’s been an all-out propaganda war. Things like “TWO VIEWS OF THE BUDGET IMPASSE: Reid holding gov’t hostage | GOP already won, why not compromise?” their recent “Budget Battle, can we do without HUD Education Department, IRS NASA” and their cat call that Boener is in DC ready to talk but Obama is out somewhere campaigning or some drivel like that.
It’s a massive effort on their part to change the conversation, an effort at a scale I don’t think I’ve seen from them before. Have you?
Pit me for being an idiot…but did they really put those photos up? Why didn’t they just put up a picture of Mr. Potato Head and get it over with? Jesus Christ Almighty tapdancing with Joseph and Mary in Tinseltown!
That was horrific. I put their names into Google and found a couple articles for context.
The ‘we’ thing was pretty funny, but a slip of the curtain rather than an organized propaganda push. I’m flabbergasted at how hard they’re working on this one.
I still remember channel surfing past FOXNEWS during election time. Anytime they found some poll, any poll that showed either Obama down in the race or that his approval rating was down, they’d run a scrolling banner across the bottom of the screen screaming !!! FOX NEWS ALERT!! OBAMA APPROVAL RATING DOWN 4%!!!
or !!! FOX NEWS ALERT!!! OBAMA DOWN IN POLLS BY 3%!!!
They must have had a team assigned to run these FOX NEWS ALERTS 24/7.
I get much of my comedy from Stewart. It’s comedy because he’s generally making fun of news organizations’ (remember, his is a comedy show) treatment of stories that I’m already aware of.
And “channel”? Really? Granted, my circle of acquiescences has shrunk over the years, but I don’t know of a single well-informed individual from either side of the political spectrum that gets their news from television. If that’s your primary news source or you think others get their news from a “channel,” it’s pretty much a sign of ignorance.
Oops. Meant ‘circle of acquaintances’. Sorry you weren’t able to figure that out by context. So you’ve spooged out a sort of failed attempt at associating the gist of the OP with Nancy Grace and Al Sharpton and now hipsters. You may want to try cutting back on the rather pathetic quest for an insult. ‘Hipster’? Yes. At 45, I’m speaking hipster. I’m hoping for a part in the upcoming Airplane! sequel.