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

[Mark Wright]

Come on tell us how you really feel.





On Tue, 4 Oct 2005 11:27:32 +0000
aaron <aaron at pd.org> wrote:

> 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
> 
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