The Walking Dead - Fox News claims it is brainwashing viewers

[NewJeffCT]

into accepting the New World Order. OK, which one of you scoundrels let the cat out of the bag on our new secret plan?

The senior managing editor for Health News at the Fox News Channel warned on Thursday that AMC’s hit Zombie television series The
Walking Dead was not only “hurting American society,” it was inspiring viewers to “participate in this new world order.”

“Hate me all you want, or call me paranoid and misinformed, but there is one common theme that is pervasive in American pop culture today: violence,” Dr. Manny Alvarez wrote in a column on the Fox News website. “Even more specifically, zombie violence. The idea of a zombie-infested world inspires fantasies of monsters possessed by an uncontrollable rage to kill, and viewers get a thrill imagining what it would be like to participate in this new world order.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/17/fox-news-the-walking-dead-brainwashes-viewers-to-participate-in-this-new-world-order/

[Turbineguy]

1. Actually, the Walking Dead

are Fox News viewers and they are getting their asses kicked on the program.

[MFM008]

2. I wonder

If they realize WD is based on a COMIC book? A CARTOON? Anyone who watchs fox is easily brainwashed anyway....even the zombies wont touch those 'brains'.

[spanone]

33. i'm sure they see it as a documentary.

[Downtown Hound]

3. Fox News logic:

TV violence bad.

Real world violence in which you illegally invade another country and massacre hundreds of thousands of people and commit acts of torture and war crimes good.

[RGinNJ]

6. Thanks I totally agree with you.

[Tikki]

4. boosh war 500,000 dead boosh cheney rumsfeld

Tikki

[Bigmack]

29. No problem... brown people apparently don't count... nt

[yesphan]

5. So The Walking Dead

is responsible for all the neo-confederate libertarians ?
Who knew ?

[NewJeffCT]

11. of course

It's that powerful

[BluegrassStateBlues]

7. ...

[kydo]

8. More like Fox News turns people into the walking dead

[Tommy_Carcetti]

9. I only focused in on the last part of your thread title.

"Fox News claims it is brainwashing viewers"

To which I thought, Yeah. Duh.

[Shrike47]

34. Me, too. I was amazed they were admitting it.

[trumad]

37. Your namesake backstabbed the great Ned Stark.

Damn You!

[Mz Pip]

10. I just started watching this

And I will be happy to call Alvarez paranoid and misinformed.

Maybe I'm just old but if TWD is some kind of sinister propaganda I'm totally missing it. It just seems like relatively harmless entertainment not to be enjoyed while eating dinner.

[NewJeffCT]

13. you mean

you don't think it's a new world of mindless liberals chomping up poor, helpless conservatives?

[dixiegrrrrl]

16. Wait...

Let me enjoy that image for a few minutes.....

[exboyfil]

12. What kills me is one of the most beloved

characters, Daryl, is a dyed in the wool good ol' boy with a racist, violent brother that he loved but did not agree with. Sounds like family values to me. A father and two daughters are shown studying the Bible and praying together. More family values. A man who takes his responsibilities to his wife and children seriously. More family values. A woman who tries to mediate between two groups engaged in violence instead of just killing the leader of one of them. A very Christian thing to do. A man who took the church van around and picked up folks in need once the outbreak started and had a very personal relationship with God that gave him comfort even as he died. The Christians are not shown as wackos but caring individuals trying to survive while maintaining their humanity.

It is a great show.

[walkerbait41]

25. +1 well said

[NuclearDem]

14. Turning people into brainless zombies is Fox's job, TWD!

[Bradical79]

15. Dr. Alvarez, you are paranoid and misinformed.

Just following Doctor's orders.

[WilliamPitt]

17. The Walking Dead is 100% triple-X-rated gun porn.

I adore the show, but I am not at all blind to the rampaging gun-porn aspect of it.

Fox is Derp.

[SQUEE]

28. Not to be contrary

But, no it is far from gun porn, it is cringe worthy to anyone with a modicum of weapons awareness, I imagine Doctors, Nurses and MedTechs watching "House" or "E.R." spend less time rolling thier eyes or outright laughing at the ridiculousness of the guns and how they are handled on this show. I like the show, BECAUSE it would be very boring to watch a squared away fireteam, or even a well protected collective get through the zombie holocaust.

[TlalocW]

18. Well, the brainwashing didn't work with the Smurfs cartoon

Which is partially responsible for Romero's characterization of zombies, which in turn inspires, "The Dead Walk," (I know that's not it - it just pisses off the hard-core fans) so we're trying again.

TlalocW

[edhopper]

19. Faux viewers as zombies.

[dogknob]

20. I agree completely, but for completely different reasons.

Zombies in our culture are a metaphor for people you cannot reason with... and a lame-ass, solves-nothing, method of dealing with those people. Violence does not solve any problem. Violence delays a problem; it tables the issue -- and it will come up again and again until it is dealt with for real.

Zombie-culture is another Hunger Games-style conditioning to get everyone cool with this insane, dog-eat-dog, Randian world that assholes like Paul Ryan are pushing on us. It is depicted as inevitable rather than preventable. I refuse to accept that it is not preventable.

[BronxBoy]

21. Fox would....

Eat a bowl of brains to have TWD ratings. Me think they protest too much

[Initech]

22. In order for the zombie apocalypse to work..

Wouldn't Fox News viewers and commentators need brains for the zombies to eat to begin with?

[cthulu2016]

23. WTF? It promotes survivalist, tribalist gun culture

That doesn't make me dislike it. It's just a made-up story. But the world of Walking Dead is a Republican wet dream where you are free to gun down "the other."

[Iggo]

32. ^^^ This.

[Bradical79]

43. Republican fantasies

Often make for some entertaining dark Sci fi especially of the post apacolyptic variety. When the world is a rotten violent place it gives you room for a lot of action and conflict.

[sendero]

24. If there weren't so many idiots in power..

... I would have the luxury of worrying about zombies.

To be honest, I'm getting pretty tired of the zombie meme myself, by only bored, scared is ridiculous.

[JHB]

26. How ironic. n/t

[nykym]

27. Guess he did not know

his station had a show called GRIMM last season and this season has a show called Sleepy Hollow both dealing with a world overrun by Satanic vengeful monsters and creatures.

[meow2u3]

30. Fox News Is the walking dead

Who's calling whom zombies?

[xfundy]

31. "...monsters possessed by an uncontrollable rage to kill"

Who said republicans?

Perhaps Faux is afraid of competition in the brainwashing industry.

[Blue_In_AK]

35. I wonder how they feel about "Revolution"

where it appears more and more likely that the USA "patriots" are the bad guys.

[Solly Mack]

36. Fart noises.

[Jamastiene]

38. Do what now?

Fuck, that is just ridiculous. Where do they get this crap?

[MattBaggins]

39. Oh fer fuck sakes

people like zombies simply because of the simplicity they allow as an antagonist. There is no need to address the "gentle giant" or poor misunderstood good guy in an ugly body. They are mindless brutes that can not be brought back therefor allowing the story teller to concentrate on pure fear and the interactions amongst the human characters.

[angstlessk]

40. What time does the 'Walking Dead' come on??? and what is on Fox opposite?

[NewJeffCT]

42. Sunday night at 9pm

Not sure what Fox broadcasts on Sunday nights, though.

[KentuckyWoman]

44. Zombies wash the brainz first