From: Karen Rand Smigrodzki (KarenSmi@adelphia.net)
Date: Sat Mar 29 2003 - 14:58:50 MST
I have to agree with gts on Fox news. Back when we had cable TV and got that
channel, I became so disgusted with their style of news cum commentary that
I stopped watching them altogether. I cannot remember now, since it was
many months ago, any examples, but perhaps one can find them on the Fox news
website.
--karen
karen@smigrodzki.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "gts" <gts_2000@yahoo.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 3:57 PM
Subject: RE: [Iraq] More enthusiasm than news in Fox's coverage of war
> John K Clark wrote:
>
> [gts wrote:]
> >> In less than a minute, Neil Cavuto managed to call this professor a
> >> "pontificating jerk," a "callous elitist," a "self-absorbed
> >> condescending imbecile," a "lie and a fraud and an ingrate," an
> >> "intellectual Lilliputian," who is "clueless" and "selfish" and who
> >> has "ice running through his veins."
> >
> > Ok, I accept that Cavuto said that, but to complete your
> > prosecution you now need to show me that what he said was
> > incorrect.
>
> Ad hominem is *never* correct, John. If Cavuto wanted to criticize the
> professor's anti-war views, or defend his own biases, then he could have
> done so without resorting to childish name-calling.
>
> As I mentioned in a previous message, if someone on this list were to
behave
> like Cavuto did last night on FOX then we'd either collectively ban him
from
> posting, or else many or most of us would individually kill-file his email
> address.
>
> FOX News is a circus act.
>
> -gts
>
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