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sigmasix

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15. The product produced by Fox "News"
Fri Nov 30, 2012, 01:37 AM
Nov 2012

I call the product that Fox "News" is selling "The Pornography of Hate".
Porn addiction and Fox News loyalty take advantage of the same human foibles. The same sort of ritualized emotional fantasy world construction as well as sometimes violent, highly emotional resolution and reward rituals. Fox and the rest of right wing American media are hard at work trying to give the impression that right wing cultural definitions of Americans haven't already lose. They lost in the late 60s, and have been performing a cultural and political retreat since then that has damaged our country and the world.

I mentioned this a while back; Feminism already won the war over the right to apply criticism to western society. Feminism has earned the charitable inclusion of it's theories to modern American political discussions about making a "more perfect union". The individuals representing and working within feminist articulations of post-modern criticism deserve to be listened to with just as much charity as the rest of our legitimate political and social experts and academia.

It's a shame that this very powerful school of thought and criticism isn't given more positive media attention.

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