[lit-ideas] Re: Media exposure
- From: "Simon Ward" <sedward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 19:36:50 -0000
As it happens, I make a point of watching Fox News, so I'm not talking blindly
(is that a bad phrase?). However much I get annoyed by the channel, I think
it's important to understand the agenda - though it's noticeable that the
agenda as expoused by Fox is increasingly being set by the left.
What annoys me about Fox is not so much the bias but the deliberate dumbing
down of issues to a level that the channel feels will appeal to the majority of
its viewers.
A few years ago in the UK, following a high profile paedofile murder, a daily
tabloid stirred up its readers by publishing the names and adresses of known
child molesters in a name and shame campaign. Working class people took to the
streets to protest and one such protest ended with insulting remarks daubed on
the door of a local doctor. On the door was a sign that described the doctors
speciality, he was a Paediatrician.
This is the kind of thing that happens when the media follow an agenda using
the kind of dumbing down methodology employed by Fox News; those on the left
who are critical of those on the right find themselves suddenly treasonous, a
country becomes overcome by a fear of attack (today's gas smell in New York was
a perfect example of Fox News tactics), and, to feed into another thread, a
huge market is developed for right wing psuedo-intellectual analysis.
Simon
----- Original Message -----
From: Brian
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 7:00 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Media exposure
This backhand at Fox News reminds me to bring up something that I think
further distinguishes Left and Right: Leftists don't listen to or read as much
opposing opinion as their counterparts do. For the most part the newspapers
and news magazines are liberally biased and the Leftist has to go out of their
way to read conservative views. While the conservative often reads those same
liberal outlets as well as points of view that they agree with.
For instance, I have The Nation, Mother Jones, CounterPunch, and DailyKos on
my blog list that I read regularly. Does anyone here watch Fox News? Read
conservative or libertarian pundits and authors? Listen to any talk radio?
How fair and balanced are you?
Brian
On Jan 7, 2007, at 4:01 AM, Simon Ward wrote:
we have all become 'the enemy' through a literary manouvre that is no doubt
taught in the 'Schools of the Right' (disguised as regular viewing on FOX News)
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