On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 12:41:14 -0500, "Ed Huntress"
wrote:

"Nocturnal Dragon" wrote in message
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Ed Huntress wrote:

"sittingduck" wrote in message
ynews.com...
Nocturnal Dragon wrote:

That works. But renaming Fox News to something that describes it
accurately would be even better.

"Fox Sensationalism" fits perfectly.

Can't say that I've seen much of it, but from what I have seen and
heard,
it's geared towards people with ADD, and no desire for real news.
Sadly,
that seems to cover most Americans these days.

IMO, that isn't really fair. They like to dig out things that other news
organizations miss, and sometimes they come up with some really
surprising
stuff.

The trouble with Fox News is that its whole reason for living is to put
a
rightish slant on the news. This is not opinion, it's something that
Roger
Ailes admitted in the early days of Fox. It was a marketing tool, as
well as
something that suited the dispositions of quite a few of the people who
work
there.

It's intentionally spun for a specific audience.

Obviously an audience that can't, or refuses to, think for itself.

Still looking for WMDs, eh?

I'm not defending Fox here,

Gummer is.

but I think the audience they've targeted

Think they all have gun permits?

(which is larger than many people suspected)

Many know of the decline in US educational standards.

Can you find the Winger & Fundie States?

(Click on "View Map" "if you have the flash plugin installed. If you
haven't look at the mini-map: green means 80-89%, dark brown 60%..")

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Educa...chools/default

Well, you know about the new plans, right?
Worked in Texas as it clearly shows ......

is one that resents the way things
were going, and feels supported and legitimized by seeing highly paid
newspeople express with sarcasm and dismissiveness the anger they'd like to
be able to express themselves, but just can't pull off on their own.

Neither seems touched much (by reality).
Touched, yes.

Many are just mooing over the herd .....

They
don't want to believe they were bamboozled

So the WMDs are ..... and god really did say "murder them" to the
shrubbie ...

by their high school civics
teachers and Fox tells them that they're OK and they've been right all
along.

About what?

That's powerful media medicine. It's influencing the media all over, in
terms of demonstrating where the strengths and weaknesses lie in attracting
audiences.

Sells stuff.

It's put bitterness high up on the scale of human motivations.

They know suckers .....
--
Cliff