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Thanks for Fox News.......

A note to Free Republic..........

We should give thanks for Fox News……….10 years old.

There was a start our own TV station thread….. Some for and some against. From that thought of making some expensive positive action there came the thought of a cheap and readily accomplishable effort. Here is an on line Freep, something positive that is free and everyone can lend a hand and a few thoughts..

It has been ten years since Fox News came on the scene. As one who has followed one of the favorite sports on Free Republic namely Main Stream Media bashing, it seems appropriate to look back at the change Fox News has brought. To have a thread that gives one and all the opportunity to praise or bash the folks at Fox News. As the conservative core of their audience, our views should be important be they praise or criticism.

It is now fashionable among some to bash Fox. This bashing seems to come from a few who insist on their way or the hiway. An intolerant view of all thought that is in the slightest way a variance from that of the poster is posted as criticism. There is also much praise and over time the praise probably surpasses the criticism. Years ago we applauded loudly the birth of the MSM antithesis. That feeling of goodness when we could feel the breeze of media change is now a full blown gale as the other MSM is struggling to find the way. Fox News remains the only viable hope for conservative news watchers in spite of the bashing by those who insist on seeing a reflection of their narrow views.

This thread is for posting opinions on Fox News…. praise or criticism. It will be printed out in total and Fedexed to Roger Ailes. It will in actuality be a Fox News Freep. Good and bad, we can let Mr Ailes know how we condemn or appreciate his efforts over the last ten years.

I will post the thread to activism in hopes it will stay around for a while and coax comments from the depths of many PING lists. A few hundred posts will be good, but an all-out big time rousing 1,000 post discussion will be great.

We should include the various personalities. A Fox Babe discussion is mandatory. There might be a similar Hunk discussion as well. We can express our happiness at the removal of Julian Phillips and Rita Cosby. If there is still animosity toward Geraldo, let it out. Shep haters can get their licks in……. if they give a good reason for the disdain. Shep makes me sick won’t get it. Because a good reason must be added.

What were the really great moments…… Brian Kilmeade’s killer impromptu interview with a Bill Clinton drawn mothlike to the TV camera on the post 911 streets of New York. Rita Cosby breathlessly reporting incorrectly from the steps of the Supreme Court that Gore won. Shep’s hardcore disgruntled report from the New Orleans Bridge. The Greg Kelly report as he, live on camera, entered Baghdad with the conquerors. Tell Roger Ailes what you liked or disliked.

Then there are the segments. Fox and Friends is Great. Fox and Friends is too silly for me in the morning. Brit is the greatest but O’rilley sucks. More Cavuto. Less Wesley Clark.

The opportunity to present our views is too great to pass up. Rather than bitch and moan, we can make a real contribution to the movers and shakers at Fox as they toil to increase their ratings. We are the core of their viewer ship. We matter.

Five hundred words……… did I make my point?

Bias in Arab Media?

A reader asked.....

In an effort at "multiculturalism" and under the guise of recognizing 911 and media bias, a student at our school wrote in the school newspapaper that students have "too narrow a view and should go to aljazeera.com and palestine-daily.com to see why other countries hate us and why on 911 2001 people on the other side of the globe were running in the streets of the country in joy becuase the U.S. felt the violence and destruction that plague their countries."

He sites these news media as highly respected and unbiased and that American media is pro-American and pro-Israel with too narrow of views.

Can you help me out with this one?

Can you guide me to instances of aljazeera and palestinian papers being truthful, respected, etc.? I don't think they are, who owns and runs these?

The reply....

I can't comment on the ownership of the papers you cite.

The thing about bias is that it exists to promote a point of view or an agenda. The papers cited are Arab and sell their news to an Arab population wanting something closer to home than the BBC or SkyNews(Fox). They sell a point of view desirable to their local consumers.

I will argue that the writer in your school paper correctly directs readers to other than known and trusted sources. There is a vast difference between knowingly seeking out conflicting viewpoints and swallowing the package they deliver.

We suffer in America from severely biased organizations that are received daily into our homes. Both Reuters and the Associated Press have decidedly antiwar agendas and both provide the American masses in small town papers. Many of these small papers surrender their news gathering ability totally to these wire services. While the internet provides daily feeds m directly from the military command in Iraq, the papers choose to take the events filtered through the biased wire services. Dan Rather taught us that network TV news is totaly unreliable and often out right untruthful. He is no more.

The internet provides far more than a person can absorb, but continuous sampling with in-depth research on specific issues is beneficial. A sampling of the opposition is not a completely bad thing. It must be noted that the recent events in Lebanon were totally managed by Hezbollah. An individual known on the internet as Green Helmet Guy was present at each and every press event. He not only managed the event but actually staged false events. He apparently seeded bomb craters with new furry toys meant to show the deaths of children.

Here is a link: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1681197/posts

Reuters published an unknown but massive quantity of photo shopped pictures.

Here is a link: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1680949/posts

You used the term multiculturism. There is a difference between multiculturism in America and being a citizen of the world. Many today seek American isolation when the exact opposite course is unfolding. To develop a world view, it is necessary to sample thought across a very wide spectrum. To sample and to learn is not to agree.

Thanks for your question

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