Ya Think....

TW: I do not begrudge Fox New's business model of pursuing profits by taking an unbashed right-wing slant to their programming. I merely get frustrated when friends and acquaintances get sucked into the Orwellian propaganda from Fox that it is in anyway "fair and balanced". Just understand and appreciate what it is (and no ABC, CBS, NBC are not the left-wing equivalents).

From Economist:
"[quoting Media Matters]

'Fox News has provided attendance and organizing information for the events on air and online dozens of times. You name it, they’ve likely done it. Fox has offered viewers and readers such vital organizing information as protest dates and locations and addresses of Web sites where people can learn more. It has even posted information and publicity material for the events on its own Web site. Tea-party planners are now using the planned attendance of Fox News hosts to promote their protests and listing Fox News contributors as “Tea Party Sponsor[s]” on their Web site.'

Fox has even hired a gonzo motivational speaker who dresses up as Tom Paine, and who recently asked his supporters to mail bags of tea to Congress (the "suspicious items" are removed in the mail room), to promote the events on the air. There's something unseemly about a network using the public airwaves to call for revolution, especially when that network spent George Bush's presidency as, more or less, an arm of the state. (It was the only network to break away from 2009 inauguration coverage to run Mr Bush's speech upon arriving home to Texas for his retirement.) But this might just be one future of American journalism, partisan and proudly so, the way that the earliest newspapers backed one party or another. The Tea Party protesters might have to drop their pretense of being "grassroots", but only for now. Later, this will be the norm."