On 5/31/2011 12:58 AM, Invisible wrote:
>>> I was about to ask "is it really this bad?"
>>
>>> And then I realised the obviousness of the answer...
>>
>> You know that a news channel is really bad when even foreigners are aware
>> of how bad and biased it is.
>
> Actually I know nothing about Fox. I was operating more along the lines
> of "if their 'news' as the same level of factual accuracy as most of the
> media coverage in my country, they can't be very accurate..."

The man that owns Fox is.. Well, he seems to be mild conspiracy nuts, 
mostly right wing politically, with a with other quirks. He seems to be 
more "Tea Party" than "Conservative", in his leanings, but then a lot of 
Libertarians tend to lean that way, without being quite so insane. In 
any case, you can't get by with saying anything on Fox that contradicts 
Fox, or makes it sponsors look bad, etc. By comparison, MSNBC *has* 
occasionally commented on the positions of their own other shows, their 
company, and others, way more openly.

Basically, all the evidence suggests, including statements the man made 
himself on occasion, that Fox is *very specifically* the political 
mouthpiece of one single man, with a very specific view, and that its 
completely failure to resemble reality has only become serious when 
someone like Beck gets so bad that they lost nearly all sponsors for his 
show. Until then, no one there cared to contradict him, or say anything 
bad about him, or otherwise rock the boat. Now that he is out, you start 
to hear some commentary on how he was a bit off his rocker, once in a 
while. But, only after his show got pulled.

Its PT Barnum does the news, sans the intent to entertain and amaze, but 
instead evangelize.

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