Fox News and the poisoning of American political debate
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O please. Next you'll be showing me blurry pictures that prove the existance of bigfoot.
Bigfoot does exist. He posts on several forums. I'm trying to persuade him to join CC.
Michael Mann and the guy from East Anglia gave their enemies the figurative ammunition they needed to discredit Global Warming. That is their failing. That's the whole point. Global Warming is now discredited in America, China and India. And Wikileaks did it by releasing the emails. Objective truth doesn't matter in this case. Perception rules the roost.
What, you screwed up the sight picture, yanked the trigger, or weren't you sighted in?????
Actually, the reason for that is because young people don't watch TV news in any great numbers and old people tend to be crotchety old conservatives. Faux news attracts those kinds of people. Fortunately for all of us, it is a dying demographic and Faux will eventually be put out of our misery.
No they didn't. Whomever stole the emails did, by presenting information in a vacuum, without context. Most people who use email probably have conversations stored in their email archives which could be distorted.
That's all I save to say now, unless, as I said earlier you want to move it to an appropriate thread, unless you have comments on how Fox News presented these emails. No context, no objectivity.
You say that like it is a bad thing. Personally, I'd like more illiterate eye candy. It would be a whole lot better than Beck, Mansbridge or Blitzer.
No it's not. It's simply an emotional response instead of an analytical one.
This is quite the coincidence...the CRTC has proposed to remove the provisions which make false or misleading news illegal, along with profane language and some other stuff.
CRTC receives thousands of comments on 'false and misleading news' amendment | The Wire Report
Broadcasting Notice of Consultation CRTC 2011-14
So, I guess if our Prime Minister is fine with his Ministers lying to the public, he won't expect much more from our media...
Yes....a lot of people do make that claim.....of being analytical:roll:
I'm a skeptic myself;-)
...probably because alot of people tend to be more analytical than emotional....at least among those that find Faux news amusing.
Even the part about Anderson Cooper?
Whenever you hear reports from these embattled Arab dictatorships or some other such dictatorship (like you North Korea or Burma) you'll sometimes here "state media is reporting..." and you know that whatever follows is complete bull****. Just once I'd like to be watching a foreign report on a Canadian election and have them say "State media has confirmed a landslide victory for..."
Anderson Cooper is literate eye candy.
Of course you would. PBS best paid news people who copy and change around major networks to their liking.
Fox News and MSNBC represents parallel universes roughly replicating the parallel universes into which America has been divided. Whether it is good or bad no longer matters. It is.
You are in error. The US is not divided. It's just that the fringe element has been given a voice so it appears that way. Most Americans don't watch these channels and most are middle of the road. Middle of the road doesn't garner much attention though.
This is where I get to ask you to prove that most Americans don't watch Fox News or MSNBC? You've made a declarative statement without condition or equivocation.
Haha.
Actually, she's not as bad as Chris Matthews who was once a respected analyst. Now he is hydophobic.I am absolutely stunned that anybody would ask me to prove that statement. It is like I said the sky is blue and you asked me to prove it. Usually I don't bother to do lazy people's research for them but you are relatively new here so I'll make the odd exception. It took all of 20 seconds to find this. I assume I could find mountains of "proof" were I so inclined to spoon feed you.
Cable TV: Audience
As you can see by the graph, 2004 cable news viewership spiked to a whopping 7 million viewers. Now, before you ask, I'm not interested in "proving" that 7 million Americans isn't a majority. You'll have to do your own research on that one.