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No, this isn't on-topic, so I'll probably catch hell, but I recall w-a-y back when Rupert Murdoch was establishing the Fox "news" operation and I clearly recall hearing either from him or one of the other higher-ups during an interview that the entire purpose of "Fox News" was to destroy the Democratic Party. This from the guy previously noted for his cheesy tabloids with scantily clad young ladies on the front cover and who uses the First Amendment as a trinket to flaunt only if he's caught red-handed.
That being said, and seeing how Fox panders to the lowest common denominator with extremely hostile (to anyone not a Fox fan) opinion, misleading or -- as already stated here -- outright false stories, they're doing just that (trying to kills off the Dem. party). The "Tea Party" activists make up a huge portion of the Fox audience, and gladly parrot the stuff passed off as fact by Glenn Beck. Many of the placards they carried at their Washington, DC, demonstration some months back indicated just how uneducated (and really illiterate) many of them are.
Yeah, every political party has a mix of higher and lower educated folks, but Fox seems to excel (and revel) in apparently having the highest percentage.
Interesting that the film footage of the overall crowd scenes at that DC rally that Fox broadcast turned out to be blatantly wrong, with overall crowd footage from a much larger and unrelated event many months earlier. When "outed" by other networks, Fox claimed an error in editing. Heck, it wasn't a simple error; instead someone had to deliberately take considerable time to research various DC events to find similar crowd scenes and then splice them into the Tea Party event footage. That's out-and-out lying.
Basically, Fox national news throw enough s___ to see what sticks, and it has no problem pulling its brain-dead audience (and their advertising dollars) in -- just like one of the last scenes in the movie "Magic Christian" where folks were jumping into the swimming pool full of (xdfjaw;efm;f) to pluck out dollar out bills.
-- Kenpo
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From: Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Sent: Thu, February 18, 2010 10:13:39 AM
Subject: Re: Fox news
A lot of people seem to trust the National Enquirer as well...
I find it generally disturbing that anyone would "trust" any single news source
significantly more than all the others. OTOH, the number of stories from Fox
that can be easily determined to be flat out false and not merely a matter of
differing opinion make it easily the least reliable of the major networks for
news. Their success is based on telling their audience what it wants to hear
rather than what it probably needs to know.
Gene Kim-Eng
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Neeley" <dbneeley -at- gmail -dot- com>
> I should point out that a survey publicized in the last week or so
> listed Fox by far as the most trusted news network by the American
> people
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