Wednesday, April 15, 2009

I'd like to tea-bag Fox News

Question: If CNN had co-opted and supported protests against the DOD budget, torture in Guantanamo, or warrant-less wiretapping, would that make them "unfair and unbalanced"? Of course it would. Instead of giving us the news, they would be filtering the "news" using an ideology and throwing their support behind a certain cause (that many say is a cause of the "left"). So why is Fox News still pretending they are "fair and balanced" as their entire network turns into the "Teaparty Network"?

STOP PRETENDING ALREADY! Fox News is not "fair and balanced" news. If it was, they wouldn't have to continually beat us over the head with the ridiculous Orwellian newspeak that is "fair and balanced". Call it what it is, a channel for daily confirmation of the beliefs of right-wing ideologues. This is the final nail in the coffin of Fox's objectivity. You can no longer claim that Fox is an unbiased source of news (not that you really could before either).

I'm fine with Fox changing their network name to the Fox Network (or something similarly ambiguous that doesn't try to hide the fact that they are biased). They can even use a new tag line since "Fair and Balanced" is clearly old news.

How about this?

FOX NETWORK: "We'll tell you what you already believe."

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