I just had a weird Faux News experience...

[milkyway]

I was just finishing up reading the NY Times article about the Pentagon announcing that countries that didn't join in the invasion of Iraq could not bid on Iraq contracts. This was made public just hours before ultimate whore James Baker was going to meet with those same countries to ask for debt forgiveness. I was flipping channels and saw the Faux anchor, with an incredulous grin on his face, say that the NY Times was caught flat-footed today because * just announced that he 100% supported the Pentagon policy to not allow these countries to bid on contracts. The anchor said that the Times said Bush was furious about the policy. But that is not at all what the article said. It said he was upset because of the timing of the contracts policy being made public, just hours before Baker was going to meet with those countries to ask for debt forgiveness. It never anywhere said anything that could be misunderstood that * was opposed to the Pentagon's policy.

It was a strange experience--seconds after reading the article saying one thing, I hear someone say that it said something very different. I know this goes on all day long at Faux. It's scary to think that a lot of people's only news source is Faux--It's like they're living in an alternate reality, removed from the real world.

[tom_paine]

1. Yes, the Matrix was an idea who's time had come

because we are now living in our own variant of it, the Bushevik variant.

Which isn't really all that different from it's prototype, the Soviet variant.

[Exultant Democracy]

2. we don't call it Faux news for nothing.

I would almost endorse corporal punishment for the whores on faux.

[PSU84]

3. No other Administration in history

has had its own television network.

I was greatly disappointed that Chris Wallace joined Fox. I thought he was a journalist and not just another media whore.

[zbdent]

4. If Faux News reported that every single Dem candidate for

President died in simultaneous but seperate car crashes, their viewers would believe it, even if they had a live news conference in their pic-in-pic starring four of the "deceased".

It's unlikely that anybody who takes Faux News seriously would actually bother to look at a New York Times article. They let talking heads do their thinking for them.

Hey, I think that I just figured out the last-ditch election eve tactic to re-select Bush.

[truthspeaker]

5. Orwell was wrong

In 1984 the government had to mandate that telescreens stay on all day. The truth is, people will do it voluntarily.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

6. I feel sorry for Faux viewers

Faux viewers do find themselves in a reality very different from the reality the well-informed experience. I feel sorry for them, because they can no longer discriminate truth from fiction, and fact from myth.

The real question is does Fox turn people into cogs in the machine, or do those most prone to being cogs in the machine seek outlets like Fox?

[Skittles]

7. FOX is a f***ing joke

and everyone knows it, including those who work there. These creeps sell out their country for money just to deliver "news" to people too stupid to know OR too stupid to CARE that they are being conned. It's a sad fact in the decline of what was once a great country.

[milkyway]

8. To Faux viewers, the NYT is a commie newspaper that they think of...

in the same way we think of Faux. But the NY Times is at best a moderate newspaper that has become tepid in its reporting. 98% of the news we get from today's mainstream media is simply government press releases. For all the round-the-clock news, there is very little real journalism during the chimp years. The Joseph Wilson-Valerie Plame case should not only be a major scandal, the Times, the Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, and others should all be scrambling to beat the others to a scoop. Instead, the only time it's in the news is when the government issues a press release about it. Why are we dependent on the government to investigate everything? What the hell ever happened to the press doing the investigating? The biggest example of this is 9/11. We have been waiting for years for the chimp misadministration to finish its "investigation." Why aren't the NY Times and others leading the way on this? There has been a mainstream media blackout of the events surrounding 9/11.

[mrgorth]

9. They are

that's it 100%.

[deminflorida]

10. Pravda, - - - State Owned....

n/t

[tomzee]

11. A lotta nerve from an upstart

Faux has been around, what, about five years? A storied past as an icon of American journalism....ha. It galls me that they have the nerve to denigrate what is, regardless of your politics, a great newspaper, with the clips to prove it. These right wing think flunkies turned "journalists" uttering the holllow, idiotic "fair and balanced, "real journalism" party line makes the blood boil. It really hit home a few days ago when Kukla, Fran and Ollie North, a great journalist himself of course, signed off from Iraq with the "fair and balanced, real journalism, the station America trusts" nonsense. They have no shame.