I once heard Jello Biafra
You rock bro! Onc I read that I knew you were cool
I usually don’t use capitals in my posting and I usually don’t get that excited, but honestly Fox needs some passion.
I recall CNN, Toronto Star, etc claim that more and more people are narrowing in and focusing on media that fits their perspective, and their viewpoint. I loathed. While I completely agree with you that we should get a wide variety of media sources, but like Outfoxed showed, along with countless others (McChesney, Chomsky), that when you own large corporate media centers with many outlets of media, tv, newspapers, magazines, etc you can control the public mind of what can and will not be published.
For example if you watch CNN and read time magazine then you’re getting your information from one company who can suppress and ignore information. For example, the Toronto star has reported that Iraq is close to a civil war…I have heard nothing on that on CNN. Or, the LA times, and NY times have both reported about a memo that the British government had about Blair and Bush’s agenda to take out Saddam through military action, and diplomacy was only for show. I haven’t heard that on television. Moreover, on Al Jazeera, a British administrative official specifically said Iraq was for oil. Again, nothing in the major western papers.
It will be a sad day when people only watch of read once source of “news” to shape their minds. It will result of corporations trying to control other corporations and using people as their soldiers. Oh wait…they already do that.
Hell is other people.
Sartre
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TheBrothersCarruthers
19 years ago
Back at you! Anybody who's down with Jello Biafra's work gets maximum respect from me.That was another excellent posting. You keep throwing darts and you keep hitting bullseyes.
Back when the majority of rappers tended to rap about what was going on, rather than cars, clothes, money and women, the great Chuck D once said something like: "Rap music is the "CNN" for black people". Biafra, the 'Democratic Underground' site, films (like this one) from this great renaissance in documentary film-making, other infomational outlets as well: I feel that they constitute my "CNN".
My sincere sympathies go out to anyone whose television is able to receive Fox News Channel. Of course, most sentients wouldn't normally watch the thing but, like a wound that you might not be able to stop scratching, even though it hurts, one might still watch it on occasion and get angry and depressed.
That Bill O'Reilly bloke: I wonder how he starts his show? No doubt he's presented to the audience as if he's - cough! - a journalist (serious lighting? dramatic music?) but, from what I've seen of him, it would be more appropriate if he drove onto the studio set while honking the horn of a great big clown car.
I probably won't put any more postings on this board (although I'll keep reading everyone else's thoughts and comments). The reason why is that I feel that talking about Fox News Channel is like (to paraphrase the writer/director Bruce Robinson) looking at a pile of s _ _ t and talking about what shade of brown it is.
Much kudos to people like Al Franken, Robert Greenwald and the many others who have identified that there's a pressing need for the world's biggest pooper-scooper.
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