Just a little anecdote from early in the week
I was hospitalized for a day, a night, and a day earlier this week and shared a room with an old guy, old even by my standards. He was a nice enough old coot but we didn't get off to a great start when I took notice that the very first thing he did when they rolled him in was ask for the TV channel number for FOX. "Jesus", I thought, "I'm stuck in a room with one of these idiots". We chatted a bit and got along well enough, but he never turned his FOX off. Fortunately he figured out how to do the closed captioned and he kept his sound off.
Morning came and I tuned my TV to C-span and as luck would have it they covered the Holder/Senate hearing live right after Washington Journal. So there I was watching the Hearing going on live, and listening intently to every word I might add, but at the same time not 3 feet away there was another TV with coverage of the Hearing on FOX. I could see them both at the same time. Now here's the thing. On Cspan I was watching and listening to the hearing and I got every word. I had full context, I knew who said what, to whom, and what they were talking about a minute ago and how that lead into what they were talking about right now. I had full context. But at the same time I notice on the FOX broadcast that they have half of the screen showing, within a few seconds of C-Span's real time coverage, Eric Holder or whoever was questioning him, but they did not carry the sound. What they had instead was some guy telling you what Holder was saying, and telling you what Holder meant, and telling you what the story was - at least according to him. You got to see it, and you got to hear something being said about it, but you never got to hear the real thing.
This is FOX, this is how they do it. You think you've heard the news, but you have't, you've seen a picture and you've been given a narrative - that's all.
And in the meantime Cspan goes on, mostly unwatched, ridiculed at times.
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