doesn't mean I'm trying to get laughs.
What a relief. Of course I'm referring to our last discussion in which you kept insisting to posters that you were here trying to be funny and cheer people up and aren't a partisan hack. At least you wisely dropped that pretense.
All good man, "used to be fair and balanced" just reads as "used to support my own ideals" when you are aware of Fox News' history, and the confidence with which you state something that is factually dubious at best is jarring. Just an observation.
Nope, that's not much of an observation at all and speaks more to your own bias than mine. I'm very capable of objective, nuanced analysis and I grew up watching the network evening news, CNN, and reading Time, Newsweek, AP articles, etc., always with a critical eye. I also watched FNC regularly from the late 90s on, which I doubt you have.
Your very phrasing, "aware of Fox News' history" hints at viewing the network through a third party prism, and most such commentaries on FNC have been published by its rivals and those pushing a leftist agenda. Of course the left has always hated Fox News because it didn't have a leftist bias and even tilted conservative in its opinion programming (though not as much as its competitors tilted left). If you accept the premise that media generally has had a leftist bias for decades, which isn't rationally deniable, then a network like FNC would stand out as an aberration just for having neutral hard news, let alone conservative opinion hosts, making it a target of propagandists.
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5 years ago
Again, just an observation, you can calm down and lighten up. You are a very defensive person. You have referred to me as a "partisan hack" every time I have dared to question your great and unmatched wisdom in a lighthearted way. Yes, you read newspapers and watched news growing up, that's great, it hardly makes you unique or an indisputable expert.
I would react exactly the same way if someone suggested that, say, Stephen Colbert was unbiased. He's clearly not.
Admitting Fox News was created with a specific agenda by a media mogul with specific interests shouldn't detract from your delight at the departure of Smith.
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krl97a (5619)
5 years ago
No, I've been perfectly calm and have simply been correcting your poorly thought out comments, along with some light hearted prods at your pretenses of not being partisan or not even being here to post seriously, which appear to have gotten under your skin. Just an observation. All your political comments have been in one direction and have been banal textbook talking points at that. Dishonestly posturing as non-partisan is an old hackneyed tactic and I've gotten a kick of out deconstructing such poseurs over the years.
The specific "agenda" with which FNC was created was to fill a vacuum in an industry that had skewed completely in one direction for decades and left a market ravenous for an alternative. That's why it was a spectacular success. I wonder if you realize that citing Colbert, rather than CNN, NBC, or the NY Times, as an implied equivalent of Fox News only reinforces what I said above.
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[deleted]
5 years ago
Gee I bet you're a riot at parties.
Well I stand thoroughly scolded and corrected. Thank you sir I'll try to do better next time.
I'll leave you alone to converse with people who agree with you and slap the others down with witty retorts like "dim tool". Enjoy.
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krl97a (5619)
5 years ago
Gee I bet you're a riot at parties.
Funny, that's basically what I said about you a few posts ago.
Bye.
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