[ale] OT: Fox News on Mass. & OpenDoc

[aaron]

On Tuesday 04 October 2005 11:53, Geoffrey wrote:
> aaron wrote:
> > Considering all the deliberate distortions, puppet propaganda and hate 
> > mongering punditry that Faux news pukes onto the American public every day, 
> > the fact that they would readily repeat the despicable and desperate lies of 
> > Micro$haft's fraudulent vilifications of Free Speech and Open Source should 
> > be of no surprise to anyone.
> > 
> > I would hope that there isn't anyone on this list so dense that they would 
> > take a story out of Faux news as anything but more of the Fraud and Bias they 
> > endlessly advertise their network to be. Sadly, though, it seems there are a 
> > lot of below average cretins out there lending credence the casino mantra of 
> > "one being born every minute",  thus swindlers like Faux news thrive on their 
> > ignorance, hook them to the corporate propaganda line, and spin them until 
> > they're so dizzy they can't see the fraud in their freedom fries.
> > 
> > It's just more corporate crime from the culture of corruption.
> > (sigh)
> 
> Sounds like CNN... :) (stirring the fire...)

True enough. The steady erosion of journalistic integrity has directly tracked
the erosion of FCC protections against media monopolies over the past 25
years. (The recent FCC rulings allowing the phone and cable monopolies to
completely shut down provider competition in high speed internet access
being the latest examples of corporate corruption.) Ever since Faux news set
up camp in the sewers, CNN has been sliding down to their level, abandoning
their high ground integrity to the pandering, puerile punditry of the ratings race.
With a few increasingly rare (and heavily attacked through the corporate media)
PBS exceptions, U.S. "Telvision journalism" has become a pathetic oxymoron.

peace
aaron