"Avoid normal situations."
wrote:
> _Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism_. This movie is kind of
>interesting because it's a leftist "moral crusade" documentary that's just,
>well, wrong. They spent a lot of time making a case that Faux News is ruining
>American democracy, but if the American people were smart they wouldn't watch
>it. After the first 15-minute stretch of thinly disguised right-wing
>propaganda, they'd say, "These people are nuts," and change the channel...
>or better yet, realize that "television news" is an oxymoron and not watch
>any of it... or, better still, not watch TV at all. However, you can't tell
>folks who run around shouting, "All power to the people!" that The People are
>not real bright, so they blame Rupert Murdoch for The People's poor decisions.
I'll look for this documentary. I hate the way Fox prefaces every
genuine news item with "This is a FOX NEWS ALERT!" What follows is
invariably just ... news. But I guess when Greta spends six months
covering Anna Nicole in meticulous detail, an actual piece of news
could be construed as a FOX NEWS ALERT!!
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