The sewer called Fox “news”

[Cyrano]

Last edited Fri May 1, 2015, 06:58 PM - Edit history (1)

No one can watch what’s going on 24/7. The injustice and the anger will overload your brain and tear you apart.

However, I tune in from time to time to see what’s happening in the Baltimore shtetl, the country, and the rest of the world.

And occasionally, I tune into Fox “news”, (yes, it’s painful), to see what flavor of shit of the day they’re peddling. In past days, it’s been that Obama is blaming the cops for some “crazy black kid” who threw himself around in the back of a police van. Today, it’s an overzealous prosecutor who is after six “good cops” and tarnishing the police with “unproven” stuff.

There is no end to the shit they will fling at your screen to make you believe that reality is not reality. There is no lie they won’t make up. There is no sense of decency, ever, that anyone displays on Fox “news.”

And this is the tragedy. Perhaps as much as half the people in this country watch the sewer called Fox “news” and believe they’re watching News. The rest of us know that they’re watching propaganda. It’s propaganda that’s preventing their ability to think, or reason. It’s propaganda that’s rotting their minds. And it's propaganda that's well along the path to destroying our country.

[ErikJ]

1. Thats why we need to occasionally monitor Fox.

To know what the 'enemy" is up to. Thank goodness for Media Matters.

[Cyrano]

2. Monitoring them is one thing

but stopping the diseased ideas and thinking they spread is virtually impossible.

"Freedom of the press" gives them the right to do what they do.

But at what point are they "crying fire in a crowded theater"?

That's a hard call to make. And it's one that lets them go on spewing out their venom to poison the minds of those who just don't "get it," and never will.

[Volaris]

19. non profit news would be a good line to draw in the sand...

I have a network.
I have a nightly news program.
either that news program is revenue-neutral,
or I HAVE to call it entertainment, and do so at the beginning AND END of every commercial break.
'Faux Newz' would be gone in a month, as would limbaugh, beck, morning joe, etc. Hays, Maddow, PBS and whatever Olbermann would want to do would be all that would be left of the nonnetwork Newsdesks.

[ZX86]

23. I've had a similar idea for years.

Make public affairs news publishing and broadcasting tax free like churches with only two caveats. You can't have other business outside of news publishing. You must give 10% of print space/broadcast time to rebuttal of news and commentaries to the public and public affairs organizations.

The idea is simple and revenue neutral. Would be a boon to enterprising journalists. Corporate "news" organizations wouldn't qualify. Any loud mouthed talk show host like Limbaugh or slimy website like Breitbart wanted tax exempt status would have to broadcast and publish rebuttals from Media Matters and ACLU.

[hifiguy]

3. The Faux theme song

Unmitigated swine they are.

[maryellen99]

4. I wonder if they realize that 2 of the cops charged are black nt

Daily Mail has the cops pictures up

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

5. Here is the SCARY problem. Between Alan Keyes and others wanting to kill others over Gay marriage

and the police on rampages of killing innocents, and Fox news purposely fanning all these flames, I wont be surprised if the perfect storm happens when, not if, the SC ends this nonsense about whether or not all Americans deserve civil rights.

[upaloopa]

6. Everyone that I know who watches Fox

tells me it is the only station that tells the truth.
I am jealous of the right's ability to control people like they do. They have the wealth of the 1% to build as a motive. The people believing their lies are being used.

[Cyrano]

8. But they don't believe hundreds of years of history,

facts, or even current reality.

Oh, "Great Invisible Sky Wizard," save us from those who eat dung and think they're eating cake.

[world wide wally]

7. We have met the enemy, and they are

Fox News

[Wellstone ruled]

9. Remember who runs the show at Fake Noise.

Ruppert Murdoch,Roger Alie's. Alie's was the GOP president at one time,and Lee Attwater trained him well. All these slugs are doing is following the Propaganda Book of the Nazi's in the 1930's. Propaganda works,Stalin and Hitler as well as our own Government proved the theory.

[hifiguy]

12. If there is a great beyond, Herr Doktor Goebbels

is grinning and wringing his hands in glee watching the success of his best pupil. Roger Ailes. Ailes has perfected what Goebbels only dreamed of.

[Wellstone ruled]

13. Wasn't Herr Doktor trained by

some Austrian by the name of Schwartz or Schultz? Old age and memory loss go hand and foot.

[hunter]

10. Fox News is one of the toxic waste dumps.

The sewers are most of cable, satellite, broadcast television, radio, and other U.S.A. "mass media" news outlets.

I don't subscribe to any of them anymore.

Even our local broadcast news, in a community that is majority non-white, follows the "scary non-white person of the day" format, when much scarier bad white people deserve a much higher ranking in the bad news queue.

[Johonny]

11. Government and Unions are always the problem on FOX

unless when it comes to questionable tactics by cops... The disconnect needed to be a conservative is too much to bear at times.

[Fred Sanders]

14. Kudos! This is how to report on anything to do with Fox, racist, xenophobic, extremist religion TV to the core.

Doesn't Washington Post owe a huge apology for presenting one piece of hearsay as judgment on exactly what happened in an enclosed steel cage, and for that wrongly swift judgment to be so wrong?

The real scary part lately is that it is Fox viewers in Iowa and NH and a couple of billionaires that will decide one of two choices for President, and that is just part of how scary Fox is.

[spanone]

15. noted this earlier.....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026603788

[Doctor_J]

16. I'm surprised how many duers seem to be addicted

When we decide to fight back, fox and all of the hate radio stations will be an excellent place to start

[kairos12]

17. Be careful Cyrano. I liken watching Faux News to gradual exposure to radiation. Exposure

accumulates. Enough exposure over time will kill you--at least spiritually.

[Cyrano]

21. Yeah, I get it. Even a minute or

two of watching Fox is enough to get me into a screaming, irrational shit-fit.

But it's me that's allowing that to happen. Just because some diseased cable channel is spewing toxic waste, doesn't mean I have to ingest it.

Nonetheless, the anger generated by tuning into their venomous poison is virtually unavoidable. I'd suggest that no one ever tune them in. -- Ever. For their own health.

[workinclasszero]

18. Fox and the Reich wing have never seen

A black man dying at the hands of the police that they didn't whole heartily approve of!


Ever!

[Bluenorthwest]

20. You are wrong about the size of their audience, not anything like 'half the people in this country'

watch Fox News. They have a tiny, niche audience with an aged demographic profile. So that's something.
I wish people would stop believing Fox News own promotional bullshit and go read the ratings.

[Cyrano]

22. Yes. But they tell their friends, relatives,

etc., who in turn tell their friends, relatives, etc.

Fox "news" is an infectious disease spread by rumor and innuendo. And it doesn't need people who watch it directly to spread venom/hatred/propaganda/lies.