On 1/23/2012 5:50 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:10:36 +0000, Stephen wrote:
>
>> On 23/01/2012 9:39 PM, Patrick Elliott wrote:
>>> Fox News
>>
>> ??? :-P
>
> Some over here refer to them as "Faux News" - because a fair bit of the
> opinion side is "manufactured rage".
>
> Jim
And, the fact that their "main" news has a habit of citing their 
manufactured rage, from their own talk shows, to defend their version of 
events. And, well, the fact that you can sometimes find the different, 
or even the exact same, ragers contradicting their own less than 24 hour 
ago statements, without batting an eye, or being willing to admit, even 
when they are shown the film footage, that their "opinion" magically 
changed over night.

The basic view of lefties I know is:

Faux reports gibberish, repeats the gibberish as fact, while convenient, 
then cuts its own throat, when ever it stops being convenient to think 
its true.
MSNBC reports bias, but admits it, and admits making mistakes, when they 
do, and does try to back up their facts, even on their opinion shows 
(usually without quoting the other pundant, without any supporting facts).
CNN, et al, report what ever the other two say, and anyone else tells 
them, with little or no fact checking, since its way easier to let 
someone else do your news for you, than actually make sure any of it is 
real.

Sort of a case of listening to the people that admit they have a clear 
side, versus people that have no clue which side to take, or the ones 
insisting, as Faux does, that, "We don't take sides, we just report the 
facts, even when they change mid-week, mid-day, mid-show, or even 
mid-sentence!"

I sometimes wonder how people can live with the cognitive dissonance of 
religion vs. reality, then I am reminded of Fox News viewers, and have 
to conclude that this is a bit like asking how someone can stand on 
their head, while someone behind you is standing on one finger, while 
holding an elephant up, by their feet, while riding a roller coaster. By 
comparison, believing in science, and god, at the same time, has got to 
be pretty damn trivial to thinking that what Fox says is true, and so is 
the 50 billion pieces of bloody obvious information that contradicts 
them, at the same time.

As someone put it, if they said the sky was blue, they would have to 
consult a meteorologists *and* check for themselves, before they could 
be sure that "fact" was being reported accurately by them.

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