Until around late 2002 to early 2003 I watched Fox 'News' "coverage" about equally with CNN and MSNBC. I say "coverage" because my viewing never included any of their talking head shows.
I could never take Bill "A Current Affair" O'Reilly all that seriously, and found the others (like Sean Hannity) cut from his same cloth of bombastic doctrinaire pseudo-patriotism.
When even their "news coverage" devolved into a constant shrill hype-fest for WAR WAR WAR with Iraq I simply tuned out for good and never looked back.
This is not to say I didn't regularly channel-flip through their "programming" (what a perfect word for it) for occasional 5-10 minute (out)bursts of high-pitched nonsense.
They never failed to deliver and have morphed over the last 6 years from propagandizing alarmists to truly alarming propagandists.
Witness their preposterous alteration (distortion) of the images of two New York Times journalists :
I could never take Bill "A Current Affair" O'Reilly all that seriously, and found the others (like Sean Hannity) cut from his same cloth of bombastic doctrinaire pseudo-patriotism.
When even their "news coverage" devolved into a constant shrill hype-fest for WAR WAR WAR with Iraq I simply tuned out for good and never looked back.
This is not to say I didn't regularly channel-flip through their "programming" (what a perfect word for it) for occasional 5-10 minute (out)bursts of high-pitched nonsense.
They never failed to deliver and have morphed over the last 6 years from propagandizing alarmists to truly alarming propagandists.
Witness their preposterous alteration (distortion) of the images of two New York Times journalists :
This is truly a new low worthy only of the Nazis or Stalinists.
It reminds of the propaganda posters physically caricaturing Jewish people as misanthropic gnomes with large hooked noses and sharp teeth. (The exaggerated nose of a target whose name is Steinberg certainly strikes me as no accident.)
The only thing more disturbing than these indefensible photo forgeries is the fact that millions of people still swear by Fox News and are daily "programmed" by its propaganda trash.
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I agree it is childish; however, singling out the ONLY major right-leaning network for doing such is disingenuous.
Fox is not a "right-leaning" network. They are a shameless and disgusting propaganda machine for war.
Goebbels would marvel at what Fox is capable of.
I thought it was funny and totally apt coming from a network like FOX.
(I think its a button called "fit to form".)
Bastards. (lol)