RE: Pandering, was Re: [MEDIA] More enthusiasm than news in Fox's coverage of war

From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Mar 30 2003 - 08:26:35 MST

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    Michael M. Butler wrote:

    > The younger & hungrier Right Wing Talk Zealots do get cranked
    > up a lot-- their producers and agents want them to stay in the
    > "shock"/controversy/polarization zone.

    Yes, shock jocks.

    > Hannity is not Jack Kennedy or Eric Sevareid, for damn sure. But
    > he's not the far end of my personal fingernails-on-chalkboard scale.
    > I can usually stand about ten minutes of Hannity, thirty seconds of
    > Michael Savage (radio right gunslinger trying for out-Rush
    > Rush Limbaugh), and six seconds of Senator Charles Schumer
    > (who occupies the other side of some scale of mine, not
    > exactly Left/Right).

    Agreed.

    > Six seconds is my limit for watching the WWF smackdowns, too.

    Funny you mentioned this. I almost wrote in another post that FOX News seems
    to be aimed at WWF fans who somehow managed to graduate high school.

    -gts

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