Although I share the outrage about Fox News's dirty tricks, it represents the splintering of news agencies aimed at specific markets. There has always been bias in media, but in the past it either pretended to fair or actually tried. Now with 24 hour coverage fighting for our eyeballs news has become more blatantly biased and aimed at target belief markets.
Anyone who watches Fox is not only being influenced by the bias, but is creating it as they reward the show by watching. We all know exactly what we are getting if we choose that channel at least. I think I am beginning to prefer this overt bias to more sneaky forms that mascaraed as objective journalism. I think that ship has sailed as an ideal in modern media. One nice use for Fox News is a rebuttal to the typical conservative claim that ALL mass media has a liberal bias. Everybody now chooses networks that support their pre-conceived notions. We are clannish apes. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dear Friends, > > Right now, Fox News is trying to paint Barack Obama as foreign, > un-American, suspicious, and scary. They're trying to send Americans > the message that our country's first viable Black candidate for > President is not "one of us." > > I've joined on to ColorOfChange.org's campaign to push back on Fox, > publicly demanding they stop their race-baiting and fear mongering. > If that doesn't work, then we'll go to their advertisers and the FCC. > I wanted to invite you to sign on as well. It takes only a moment: > > http://www.colorofchange.org/foxobama/?id=2357-561284 > > Here's what happened recently: > > After Senator Obama won the nomination, he and his wife gave each > other a "pound" in front of the cameras. Fox anchor E.D. Hill called > the act of celebration a "terrorist fist jab." Then last week, a Fox > News on-screen graphic referred to Michelle Obama as "Obama's baby > mama"--slang used to describe the unmarried mother of a man's child. > It was a clear attempt to associate the Obamas with negative cultural > stereotypes about Black people, an insult not only to Michelle Obama > but to women and Black people everywhere. > > After each of the incidents mentioned, Fox issued some form of weak > apology. But what does it mean when you slap someone in the face, > apologize the next day, then slap them again on the third? It means > the apology is meaningless. > > These aren't one-time incidents--they're part of a pattern that > continues no matter how often Fox is forced to apologize. Fox has a > clear record of attacking and undermining Black institutions, Black > leaders, and Black people in general. > > If we don't push back now, we will see more of the same from now until > November. Please join me in helping to bring an end to Fox's > behavior. > > http://www.colorofchange.org/foxobama/?id=2357-561284 > > Thanks. >
