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I watch it to listen to the newest republican lie. I need to have my dosage of rightwing propaganda as well. It's fun to watch people lie out of their asses. Like Bill O'reilly.
It is part of my mental discipline to spend some time each day watching Fox News ("always unfair and unbalanced").
It is important to me that I make the effort to understand as many angles to an issue as I can. It helps me understand that, as weird and distorted as Fox News ("always unfair and unbalanced") seems to me, that there are those who believe it is actually a fair presentation of the news.
Let me hasten to add that I also detect biases in my own favorite news sources. My favorite is MSNBC, but I also like CNN International, Headline News (for a quick bite of the headlines), PBS, and several varieties of local news (some of them ALMOST as unbalanced as Fox News ("always unfair and unbalanced").
I often think that Fox News ("always unfair and unbalanced") has gone too far; that even their ... their apparently incredibly naive and twisted audience MUST see the distortions, but this seems not to be the case.
So, I ask myself, could these apparent nutjobs be right and me, wrong. And then, I put down the pipe, shake my head, and change channels.
^yes exactly^
it is really important to see (& try to understand) how Everyone is thinking about the Real issues. Looking at things from all points is the only way to be Sure about "opinions" (which are all any of us actually have, you know :)
by Jyl on Sat Apr 15, 06 3:37am
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I watch it sometimes too, how can I bitch about it if I don't watch ? It is amazing how they can spin the worse situations and make it look good for our fearless leader.
I watch it occasionally with a sort of detached curiosity. When you're fully cognizant of media bias--not only limited to Fox News, like griffon says--it ranges from irritating to amusing to fascinating to stifling. One thing I like to do sometimes is to check out some of the major news sites -- CNN, MSNBC, FOX, and compare them. Once you're tuned in to the bias you start to notice things like how the specific layout of the page(s) reflects their respective agendas; how each source reports the same story, or which stories they choose to report, and where. And it's so bloody obvious that it's sad to me that a lot of people don't even think about it.
I've always watched it, for the sole reason of being able to know what the enemy is thinking and saying.
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