I have friends who watch Fox "news"

[linazelle]

Over the weekend, at a lifelong friend's house. She starts channel surfing--after we had a discussion about **, the economy, the war, yada yada...

Guess what she turns to? Fox News. I ask her if she knows they don't really tell the truth--that they NEVER say anything negative about **. She said "I believe that" but happily left the channel there. :eyes:

I have another friend. She bought satellite radio just to get AAR. She and I spent the entire year last year talking about politics and the state of our country. I go to visit her. She channel surfs and guess what station she rests at? FOX NEWS.


I know I'm preaching to the choir here but even without listening to the actual content, Fox News blows. There's all those cheesy graphics and whooshing sounds as they move from one part of a program to another. It's the adult equivalent of Sesame Street if you ask me. It's a "shiny thing" that attracts people with ADD.

[bryant69]

1. I used to watch the Fox New morning show

Found it bracing - that woman they have on there would get my tempature boiling and my mouth cursing and soon I'd have the energy to take on another day.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[linazelle]

3. Well, if you want to get "energized", I can see watching it...LOL nt

[alcuno]

6. The lower camera level aims right for her.....

hips.

[underpants]

2. I watch it

Just to see how things are being spun.

[linazelle]

5. I wish my friends watched it for that reason...they don't buy some

of the obvious distortions, but they like a lot of the newsreaders--they have no idea they're being fed lies and half truths.

[bicentennial_baby]

4. It's blocked at my house

Blech! :puke:

[kliljedahl]

17. I don't have it blocked

Although I do have it labeled "LIES". If on the rare occasions Bushco drones come to visit & want to see it, that's the first thing they see when it comes on.


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[Midlodemocrat]

7. I have ADD, and I don't watch it.

My FIL does though. He lives with us and has poor vision. I think all the graphics are the reason he watches it.

At lunch time I read him stories from LBN to counter balance him. Not an easy job.

[IrateCitizen]

10. Ding Ding Ding!!! We have a winner!

I think all the graphics are the reason he watches it.

That's why most people who aren't necessarily hard-core RW nutjobs tune into Faux Nooze -- because it's designed to be visually stimulating and a simulation of what it must be like to live with ADD. Plus, it doesn't bore people with FACTS and STATISTICS -- but rather treats news like Page Six gossip, dealing in innuendo and commentary like, "People are saying...."

[atommom]

11. I was about to say the same thing!

When I'm ready to focus on something, I want it to be actual NEWS, dammit! ;)

[Fridays Child]

8. You hit the nail right on the head.

Cheesy graphics and juvenile sound effects keep the ignorant masses entertained. Imagine if Walter Cronkite had been frozen in 1965 and thawed out today. Would he even recognize that garbage as news?

[ovidsen]

14. Walter is still alive, bless 'em.

And he's no fan of Faux.

* Fox News "It's unusual in this country to have a news channel that's so clearly committed to one party."

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/ArticleDisplay.php?id=450

"And that's the way it is... "

[marmar]

9. I don't watch Faux...

but I don't watch CNN or MSNBC either. I get news from the BBC, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. (one of the advantages of living in a border state), CSPAN and the web. I would love to see someone launch the Air America Channel or some other progressive TV channel.

[Gyre]

12. I've got a friend who watches who also hates the chimp

1) says he does it to keep an eye on what "the enemy" is thinking
2) also says it wouldn't be a bad thing if we took out Iran.

Doya think that he's absorbed a little bit of KoolAid by osmosis?

Gyre

[linazelle]

18. I think so. nt

[Village Idiot]

13. Bell ExpressVu (In Canada) has added FAUXNews to their lineup...

so I completely cancelled the News category of my Satellite service.

It is sad, and I will miss BBC News / CTV NewsNet / CBC NewsWorld, but you have to take a stand sometimes...

[FrannyD]

15. Faux News

I never watched Fox News. After reading Al Franken's "Lying Liars", I had to tune in to see what he was talking about. That lasted about two days. It is completely unwatchable! I heard their ratings are tanking. People are waking up.
If C-SPAN kept ratings, I think they would be way up.

[Lexingtonian]

16. it's Tabloid TV (tm)

It's for people who are relatively inarticulate and marginally literate, and it operates in the tabloid "safe zone" of stuff that is bizarre but kept at enough of a distance to be not emotionally difficult to handle. The undertone is the tabloids' 'your prejudices are safe and will never be challenged here'.

[Auntie Bush]

19. Well...Wes Clark is going to be on Fox and he'll do some balancing.

[linazelle]

20. Love Wes Clark, unfortunately, I can't watch Fox--for any reason n/t

[The_Mule]

21. I have ADD....

and I can *still* tell that Fox News isn't worth my time to watch.