Ah, my favorite argument. “Oh yeah, well other people are bad too!”
And OMG Foxnews.com does have a Rove story now! You win the intarnet!
Isn’t this thread about Fox? Sure, other channels suck too, so what? Does that make Fox’s coverage more forgiveable?
Like I said — you’re biased. This whole topic is like an argument over whether a 30-story building is tall.
All righty. I suppose I’m “biased” against a lot of things. Gwen Stefani, Michael Bay movies, broccoli, diet soda…
That is likely since Kool-aid Republicans are seeing no evil, never mind that recently even former CIA agents that are republican have complained about the White House doing nothing regarding the leakers. What is important is that the independents and reasonable republicans that mistakenly gave the vote to Bush learn about things like this:
http://www.dailykos.com/
There was a recent thread on the Daily Howler in which Joe Scarborough went on his show to complain about how America had gotten complacent about the dangers of terrorism, and how the media should be ashamed of itself for focusing on trivial issues (such as torture at Guantanamo Bay). Bob Somerby then analyzed what ol’ Joe himself had been focusing for the past month, and, lo and behold, it was Natalee Holloway all day, every day. I sometimes think that I could choke on the hypocrisy.
Can’t we have him kidnapped?
From the February 6, 2004 FOXNews.com story Bomb Rips Apart Moscow Subway, Killing 39:
Way to go, Fox! :rolleyes:
(As to the actual topic of the thread, I don’t watch Fox, and barely watch any of the cable news channels anymore, so I don’t really know if Fox is worse or maybe even better than, say, CNN when it comes to how relentless it is in covering the latest over-hyped news story du jour.)
You all should switch networks and tune into the new WWWA Network.
Props to the Doper who first clued us in to this article. I don’t remember who it was. The original page the link goes to is no longer up, but the link I gave should point you to a copy of the hilarious, spot-on satire of the bullshit that passes for news these days.
You can blame Ted Koppel.
The evening news used to provide our “world” coverage. It was 22 minutes long. Then back in the late 70’s, some Iranian insurgents stormed our embassy and kidnapped Americans. President Carter, God bless him, seemed helpless to do anything. Enter President Elect “Here I Come to Save the Daaaaaay!” Ronald Reagan who negotiated for the release of the hostages behind the back of the President… throw in inflation and people waiting in lines to buy gas…well, there were far more stories than the evening news could handle.
Ergo “Nightline” was born. “Nightline” was supposed to be a temporary program to handle the “overflow” of information that the 6pm world news couldn’t fit in.
Trouble is, the Iranians held onto the hostages for freaking YEARS. By the time the “incident” was over, “Nightline” had evolved from a short term fix into a late night staple. And it had solid ratings behind it to keep it on the air, even after the world stabilized and there really wasn’t a compelling need for it. With the proliferation of cable and satellite t.v., 24/7 coverage was the next logical step.
And it all began with that little weasle Ted Koppel.
Of course, the main problem with 24/7 news channels is that absent an Iranian Hostage crisis, 24/7 coverage is 23.5/7 too much.
Natalee Holloway is simply the 23.5 filler du jour. MSRIP.
Rove would have to have some kind of ‘hittability’, which, he does not.
Well, I feel pretty good now. In a few different threads, I mentioned the “C” word (conspiracy), and now it looks like I may have been right. But, I’m skeptical as to whether anyone will pay for this. Unless there are actual convictions, the whole bunch will just skate again.
Define “hittability.” Given the chance and a couple of hefty goons to help out, I would happily pound him into cube steak.
Then again, he’s probably got a bigger Secret Service detail than Duhbya. (And a secret-er one.)
One does not crawl out from under NPR News. One slithers. Or perhaps scuttles.