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October 23, 2009

Friday’s Links

World Net Daily: Radical Obama Czar calls for abolition of marriage.

Doug Ross: Obama tries to ban Fox News from WH Press Pool.

Dan Riehl:If he thinks he can simply shut down a member of the press on a whim, how long before he goes full Chavez?”

NewsRealBlog: Arguments that Fox News may actually be the only real news network.

Posted by Danny Carlton at October 23, 2009 8:11 AM

Comments

First I don't understand what it means to "going Full Chavez". Does this mean that if Fox television stations encourage an armed overthrow of the government that it not jail the people encouraging it? In America I would have expected the people that did this would have been prosecuted within the full extent of the law.

Second, I am amused by Fox's Orwellian motto "Fair and Balanced". I encourage readers to go to wikipedia (specifically "Fox News Controversies") and youtube (see "Outfoxed" and numerous clips from the network and affiliates) many of which are funny) to at least understand some of the criticisms of Fox news. One of my favorites was in my local market was when Fox "mixed up" a story about an convicted sex offender and Obama before the election.

I believe that Fox news is simply a format that makes huge profits by placating to the views of the uneducated subset of America's Right Wing. I have no problem if you agree with or are entertained by their content but at least view it for what it is.

I encourage you to evaluate how Fox "news" fails to represent alternative ideologies and present opinion as fact in subtle ways.

Posted by: Santo Gold at October 25, 2009 12:18 PM

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