Moments in time captured with various odd symbols referred to in the lingua franca as letters.

Wednesday, April 08, 2009

News or not news?

I like to read Foxnews sometimes. Why is the question that is most likely coming to your lips at this moment? Because they are amusing. First, they always have this celebrity section down at the bottom with a couple pictures of scantily clad females wearing way to much make-up. Secondly, their layout is oddly reminiscent of a gossip tabloid and the headlines of most of the articles seem to back this up. Thirdly, the content of their political commentaries are pure classics in the sense of how biased they are. Take today: there is an article stating that the President has yet to attend church in Washington. I don´t see what is so newsworthy here. In fact the only point of this article is a weak attempt by some right wing nut to try to impose his views on why Obama is not a Christian and so on. A typical right wing evangelical stance (I apologize to the evangelicals who vote left). The truth is that its actually none of this writers business when or if he goes to church.

Final note: I want someone to write a book doing research about all the lying that Sean Hannity does on his show. Its amazing that Fox news would present themselves as serious journalism and then run with this type of programming, don´t get me wrong I very much like the fact that this man spews his lies whenever he opens his mouth, I just wish the rest of the media would really do their homework on the issues and call him on it. Of course I don´t see this realistically happening, but it would be nice.

No comments:

Followers