http://itchaway.net/blog/2006/09/29/fair-and-balanced-means-having-the-last-word-according-to-fox-news/ Mystery Guts Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:20:42 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://itchaway.net/blog/2006/09/29/fair-and-balanced-means-having-the-last-word-according-to-fox-news/comment-page-1/#comment-12 FuegoDiego Sat, 21 Oct 2006 06:08:22 +0000 http://itchaway.net/blog/2006/09/29/fair-and-balanced-means-having-the-last-word-according-to-fox-news/#comment-12 It's true. It's about being right at all costs, and in the event your wrong, you should at least be stubborn in your conviction, because that shows courage and honor. It is literally a page out of Roger Ailes training guide for his anchors at Fox News. The other useful and successful tactic is to associate yourself with the disenfranchised by appealing to their helplessness by standing for unwinnable issues, i.e. abortion, religious influence in government and "less government" style government. This way the very people who stand to lose the most by supporting you will gladly vote for you because you are, at the very least, as disenfranchised as they are. It makes my stomach hurt to watch the poor vote for millionaire republicans because they claim some sort of brotherhood within their religious conviction. When the truth is that the poor go to church because there's no where else to turn and the Republicans go there to get votes. <br/>But I digress. The part I find most disturbing about Fox News is that people like Howard Dean continue to grant them interviews, as if anyone watching would ever dare support him. By allowing them to torture and edit you on live television, you give them 'mainstream credentials' to do just that. It makes it somehow acceptable to be a bully-jouralist when you continue to land prize guests. It’s true. It’s about being right at all costs, and in the event your wrong, you should at least be stubborn in your conviction, because that shows courage and honor. It is literally a page out of Roger Ailes training guide for his anchors at Fox News. The other useful and successful tactic is to associate yourself with the disenfranchised by appealing to their helplessness by standing for unwinnable issues, i.e. abortion, religious influence in government and “less government” style government. This way the very people who stand to lose the most by supporting you will gladly vote for you because you are, at the very least, as disenfranchised as they are. It makes my stomach hurt to watch the poor vote for millionaire republicans because they claim some sort of brotherhood within their religious conviction. When the truth is that the poor go to church because there’s no where else to turn and the Republicans go there to get votes.
But I digress. The part I find most disturbing about Fox News is that people like Howard Dean continue to grant them interviews, as if anyone watching would ever dare support him. By allowing them to torture and edit you on live television, you give them ‘mainstream credentials’ to do just that. It makes it somehow acceptable to be a bully-jouralist when you continue to land prize guests.

]]> http://itchaway.net/blog/2006/09/29/fair-and-balanced-means-having-the-last-word-according-to-fox-news/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Helena Handbasket Mon, 02 Oct 2006 00:40:06 +0000 http://itchaway.net/blog/2006/09/29/fair-and-balanced-means-having-the-last-word-according-to-fox-news/#comment-11 It is infuriating. As I told you by phone, I witnessed the same kind of exchange on Friday morning on CNN; Newsreader A was challenging Democratic Party Leader Howard Dean, interrupting and agressively pushing to get in the last word. What the fuck are her credentials, I wonder, Newsreader A? It is infuriating. As I told you by phone, I witnessed the same kind of exchange on Friday morning on CNN; Newsreader A was challenging Democratic Party Leader Howard Dean, interrupting and agressively pushing to get in the last word. What the fuck are her credentials, I wonder, Newsreader A?

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