Good one in The Nation - The Fox News Effect
http://www.thenation.com/article/166668/fox-news-effectsnip
"Third, I learned how people are Foxified: it comes from watching too much Fox News over a period of time. They fall asleep watching reruns of OReilly and Hannity, starting at 11 or midnight. Instead of turning into a cockroach like the guy in the Kafka story, they wake up as a right-wing ideologue, or as we progressives call them, nuts.
Now I understand what Ailes and his diabolical mind-benders are up to. At the Fox News Channel, they treat the news as a script. A more apt slogan than Fair & Balanced would be Fox NewsBased on a True Story.
But thats not being objective, you say. Sorry, theres no such thing as objective journalism. Objectivity is a sham. Every time you pick one story from the smorgasbord of news coming in, youre making a selective judgment. When Uncle Walt used to claim, And thats the way it is, Ayn Rand, Ralph Nader, the Smothers Brothers (either Tom or Dick) could say, No, thats not the way it is.
Fox News is news with an attitude. Its proud to be American news with a lot of flag-waving. Its aimed at angry people who see good factory jobs disappearing overseas. It finds stories its audience didnt even know they should be angry about until Fox News called their attention to them. Fox News is aimed at people who feel left out. People who feel the left-wing media controlling TV news dont serve them the way talk-radio news does. Its only a niche, but Roger Ailes has driven an eighteen-wheel Mack truck through it. And its all the Anointed Ones fault."
pretty entertaining read.
MarianJack
(10,237 posts)Instead of turning into a cockroach like the guy in the Kafka story, they wake up as a right-wing ideologue, or as we progressives call them, nuts.
PEACE!
niyad
(113,552 posts)GopperStopper2680
(397 posts)Objectivity is the gold standard in a debate. The news is not a debate and there is no room for debate in journalism. The Journalist's profession is to faithfully report to us the event in question-not put their own spin on it, embellish it, or muddy it. If you're discussing something like Global Warming, Peak Oil, or Santa Claus these are debates and objectivity has its place. The latest Republican scandal on Wall Street is another matter.
It's unfortunate that the media is a ready made forum that's just waiting to be taken and shapen like a lump of clay into a plug-and-play propeganda machine. And after all we've seen it done too many times...Pravda, Al Jezira, etc. Fox News is just the latest.
underpants
(182,877 posts)The Wizard
(12,547 posts)that can't critically reason. It's blatant propaganda provides cover for the corporate shills that report the sames crap but without the painfully obvious Republican version of news.
The corporate shills are far more dangerous as they reach many more victims than Pox, and as such, have the ability to wield greater influence over elections.