Originally Posted by
DeadHead
I don't think he's giving it a 100% pass as much as he's saying that Fox News presents a contrived contrast of the news against other media outlets. Trust me, there is plenty of shows on Fox News I can't stomach, but I think the network plays an invaluable role.
If majority of news organizations leaned right, I would say the same about MSNBC.
Honestly, majority of news reported these days is driven at being sensational in an attempt to gum up knee-jerk emotional responses from the public. Journalistic integrity free of bias is for all intensive purposes gone.
But who knows, after 80 hours in Ghana I could be ebolaing myself.
I think the point is -- which this ebola thing proved -- is that we don't get news from ANY of these cable networks anymore, we get propaganda.
How do I know it's propaganda? Because, somehow a handful of cases of Ebola became a political issue. Republicans blamed Obama for not halting flights and not establishing a quarantine, the Democrats blamed Republicans for cutting funding to the CDC; and guess who fed the frenzy? MSNBC, FOX, & CNN.
Did it stop when the nurses recovered? No.
Did it stop when none of the original patients family members got it? No.
Did it stop when none of the passengers on the airplanes that the nurse took got it? No.
Ebola is a 40 year old virus that has sprung up off and on since the 1970's and each one of those networks reported it as if the future of this country was in jeopardy.
Fox is a good contrast to the other networks? Hardly.
There is no contrast to anything when it's all junk.
Thanks 80!
