The official "Fox News Channel Needs to be Destroyed" thread

argentine soccer fan · Jul 6, 2005

Matt Clark said:

I'm deadly serious. Untouchably superior.

Oh - and they're called the Falklands.
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Yes...That's also what the BBC called them. But other than that, they were mostly reporting the truth.

YankBastard · Jul 6, 2005

Colm said:

I was just watching fox news and they seem happy that London got it so thumps up
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Yeah, they would just die if the French got the nod. Maybe some conspiracy theorists will say the U.S. was behind the Paris rejection.

Dante · Jul 6, 2005

So FNC now has Tiki Barber as a FNC anchor? That's messed up.

Mel Brennan · Jul 19, 2005

It's not just Fox people...

Network News as Counter-Reality
by Steven Laffoley

Certainly, it wasn't what I expected to hear from a CNN news anchor. But there it was - striking honesty about the news.

Arms waving for emphasis, the host of the CNN morning show passionately complains about the Bush administration's unwillingness to accept the science of global warming. The host says it is "a fear of science." "In fact," says the host, "the members of the Bush administration are like American Mullahs." The host thinks for a moment, perhaps amused by the comparison. "Yes," the host repeats, "like American Mullahs."

But the criticism doesn't stop there. Leaning forward on elbows, the host talks about the whole CNN network and its cowardice to report the honest news about global warming. "Look," the host says with disgust, "only now can CNN finally say the science is sound - finally." Not knowing what else to say, the host throws hands up, resigned, then looks down and has a bite of salad.

I am sitting at an adjoining table in the Brooklyn Diner on 7th avenue in New York City, not far from CNN's New York offices. I'm eating a $16 dollar plate of short pasta covered in a thick layer of mozzarella cheese. The CNN host is eating a light salad with vinaigrette dressing. I am trying not to listen to the conversation, but the tables are close, and the CNN host, sitting almost at my shoulder, is not shy about sharing opinions with a companion at a good volume.

The companion is a slender woman in her late forties or early fifties, attractive, with long grey hair and a warm smile. She is a television producer for what sounds like a rival network's news show, and she is equally incredulous about the network's unwillingness to report the news honestly. She doesn't say much, but she agrees with the CNN host, often nodding and repeating many of the CNN host's comments between bites of salad and vinaigrette dressing.

The next morning in my hotel room, I watch the CNN morning show and listen to the same host. I am waiting, with some faint, naive hope, for some of the same honest reporting I'd heard the day before. But on television the host is both congenial and earnest. There is talk of the space shuttle launch and of Karl Rove, but there is no hint of American Mullahs and their fear of science, or of CNN's cowardice to report honestly about global warming. Nope, just the morning news as comfort food. I sip my coffee and watch the CNN weather report. I find myself wondering if network news is, perhaps, just a counter-reality, a virtual reality where truth and fact have no place nor purpose...
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Now we're getting somewhere; when we acknowledge that the "news" has an entirely different agenda from useful/actionable information for a citizen looking to maximize her/his participation, her/his public life, we've begun to peek under the buns of this crap sandwich we've been given/given ourselves, to smell it for what it really is...

IntheNet · Jul 19, 2005

Dante said:

So FNC now has Tiki Barber as a FNC anchor? That's messed up.
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Are you angry that another liberal network didn't get him as a sports announcer or that conservative Fox did?
"How good was Tiki Barber Tuesday filling in for Steve Doocy?"
Fox & Friends
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,148377,00.html

Dante · Jul 19, 2005

He looked like a complete idiot delivering the news.

SoFla Metro · Jul 19, 2005

IntheNet said:

I could come up with longer lists for any network; the incidents of liberal bias at PBS would be pages long... up yours!
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I shall hold my breath starting............now.

SoFla Metro · Jul 19, 2005

USAsoccer said:

To quote Jon Stewart from the daily show...anytime you compare anything to Hitler...you lose ALL credibility!
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Hitler was old-fashioned fascism. He's talking about neofascism. Different animal. You'll certainly notice the neo prefix

SoFla Metro · Jul 19, 2005

JBigjake said:

FWIW, the ratings indicate FNC is popular.
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So is crystal meth.

Claymore · Jul 19, 2005

I was in our cafeteria at lunch yesterday, and they had Fox News on. I couldn't tell you who it was or which program, but the female anchor was pointing out that it was this day (yesterday) in whatever year it was that Rome burned. As she was ending her little "history in a minute" blurb, she made an obviously scripted (she was reading off the teleprompter) remark that Nero blamed a group of religious fanatics for the blaze, and that "Christians have been persecuted ever since".

I almost spit out my iced tea.

SoFla Metro · Jul 19, 2005

patrickm said:

perhaps, but there is a major difference. that is, moore and his group of untermenchen filth despise america, western culture, white people, capitalism, chrsitianity, judaism and the military as a matter of principle. whil;e bill o'reily may be a bit of an over the top clown, he loves his country. that is the difference between the far left and the far right as i see it.
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That's because you're a pinhead.

SoFla Metro · Jul 19, 2005

argentine soccer fan said:

I don't know if you're being serious or sarcastic, but I vouch for the BBC. During the war of the Malvinas we used to risk going to the slammer in order to listen to the BBC. Somebody had smuggled in a short-wave radio and we were able to tune into it at night and find out what was really going on with the war. To this day the BBC (now the website) is my first source for news.
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You misspelled Falklands

bigredfutbol · Jul 19, 2005

Claymore said:

I was in our cafeteria at lunch yesterday, and they had Fox News on. I couldn't tell you who it was or which program, but the female anchor was pointing out that it was this day (yesterday) in whatever year it was that Rome burned. As she was ending her little "history in a minute" blurb, she made an obviously scripted (she was reading off the teleprompter) remark that Nero blamed a group of religious fanatics for the blaze, and that "Christians have been persecuted ever since".

I almost spit out my iced tea.
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Yeah, they really suffered under Constantine, Justinian, etc.

Wingtips1 · Jul 21, 2005

YankBastard said:

I'm sick of these fvckwits making all Americans look like we're dumb-ass, right-wing, fundementalist-christians to the rest of the world!!
Fvcking propagandists!!

Right wingers can neg-rep me all they want
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Why are you so threatened by a news channel? It isn't on non-cable television. It isn't mandatory to watch. It is usually hidden in the high numbered channels. Yet for some reason, you lefties seem to think it has some divine influence on the whole of the country.

afgrijselijkheid · Jul 22, 2005

Wingtips1 said:

Why are you so threatened by a news channel? It isn't on non-cable television. It isn't mandatory to watch. It is usually hidden in the high numbered channels. Yet for some reason, you lefties seem to think it has some divine influence on the whole of the country.
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we are only threatened by fox masquerading as a news channel, and nobody thinks they influence the whole country... but they sure as hell influence a lot of sheep that can vote

NUFCBayern · Jul 22, 2005

Wingtips1 said:

Why are you so threatened by a news channel? It isn't on non-cable television. It isn't mandatory to watch. It is usually hidden in the high numbered channels. Yet for some reason, you lefties seem to think it has some divine influence on the whole of the country.
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What pissed me off is how it claims to be "fair and balanced." Ever seen Outfoxed? Rupert Murdoch is a biatch.