From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Mar 28 2003 - 17:29:29 MST
Oh, before some FOX or North fan slams me for bad-mouthing Oliver North: yes
I do remember that his conviction was later overturned on a technicality.
But we all know it was a technicality.
North was convicted of three felonies, the most egregious of which was his
destruction and falsification of government documents pertaining to US
relations with foreign governments. And now FOX news expects us to trust him
to accurately report international news to the American people. (?)
I'd sooner trust FOX's laughable, self-promoting, sensationalist war
correspondent Geraldo Rivera, but then on the other hand Geraldo has already
been caught once lying to the FOX audience during the war against the
Taliban.
The more I watch FOX, the more I realize that it's a news network designed
for and by morons.
-gts
gts wrote:
> "ANALYSIS: More enthusiasm than news in Fox's coverage of
> war" http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/local/3_22_03war_aaron.html
>
> I've been flipping between FOX and CNN from day one of the
> war. I find this reporter's observations to be true.
>
> I agree especially with her comment that FOX "appeals to a
> younger audience." I get that impression all the time, from
> the language and attitude of the reporters. Among other
> things, FOX reporters are more prone to use inflammatory
> language. It's highly sensationalized news reporting. Kinda'
> exciting, I would agree, but hardly unbiased!
>
> CNN is boring by comparison, but in my view news SHOULD be
> boring. FOX seems to think news is about entertainment rather
> than information. And this, no doubt, is the reason FOX's
> ratings have climbed. Most people, especially younger people,
> want to be entertained and excited whenever they turn on
> their televisions. I noticed that because FOX has so little
> to offer in terms of real war coverage from embedded
> reporters in the field, it tries instead to entertain its
> audience with actors in the FOX studio dressed in military
> uniforms. What's up with that?? The fake soldiers draw
> daggers and point rifles at imaginary enemies, to the sound
> of dramatic war music. How absurd! That's not news. That's
> blatant entertainment programming designed to keep FOX's
> hawkish right-wing audience from turning the channel back to CNN.
>
> FOX gives me an adrenaline rush, sometimes to the point where
> I can't stand it anymore. I might have liked it back in the
> 80's, when I was a 20-something hard-line Reaganite who
> thought he had just "seen the light"...
>
>
> "Rah Rah Rah! Go Reagan! Go Bush! Go GOP! Down with the
> liberals! Down with our enemies! Down with the French and
> Germans and Russians! Down with the peace-niks! And, above
> all, DOWN WITH SADDAM HUSSEIN! OFF WITH HIS HEAD!!!"...
>
> That's the kind of zealotry that comes through between the
> lines from FOX. I guess I'm getting old and maybe a little
> jaded. FOX-style reporting annoys me.
>
> Only FOX news, with its hard-line right-wing audience, could
> get away with having a war correspondent like Oliver North.
> The FOX audience no doubt considers Oliver North a true
> patriot, and that he might be, but let's not forget that he's
> also a convicted felon. I'm surprised they haven't also hired
> G. Gordon Liddy of Watergate infamy. (Actually I'd bet
> dollars to doughnuts that they've tried to hire him! Last I
> heard, Liddy had his own radio show. He's already in the
> business of spewing anti-leftist hatred on the airwaves, just
> not for FOX.)
>
> And there should be no disagreement that FOX's other war
> correspondent Geraldo Rivera is a joke.
>
> When it comes to news, especially international news, I just
> want the facts conveyed to me in a non-emotional,
> intelligent, mature, matter-of-fact, unbiased manner. I want
> to see the big picture from a *global* point of view, not
> just from the pro-administration American point of view. I
> don't want pizzazz and excitement and heated emotions. I just
> want the facts. CNN isn't perfect, but in my view it meets
> the criteria above far better than does FOX. I can watch CNN
> all day long without getting my shorts in a wad.
>
> -gts
>
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