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Old 10-24-2009, 10:41 AM   #11 (permalink)
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News shouldn't have to be something you need to 'try' and watch. They are not journalists, they are just opinion makers with journalism passes. I think the Tea Party ad that Fox News ran was very revealing about their desire to want to appear as news:



If you have to literally change your tagline to read "We cover all the news"...it's a fair bet to say you probably don't.

And Mydriasis, along those lines, that's a slippery slope. What stops an outright propaganda arm from simply slapping the name "news" on their network and then distorting the content of the conference into unadulterated propaganda that is meant to only add fuel to a fire? Furthermore, Fox organized the tea party movement...how can a News network organize a protest and still be considered news still? They crossed the line a long time ago from being news to being simple propaganda for the GOP. At some point, the network would need to be called out for not being news...and that's what is happening. And damnit, it's beautiful.
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