Post by DaveParkinson on May 25, 2005 21:54:30 GMT -5
We've all had experience with media spin.
Whether as a participant or an observer your experiences can be useful in helping others appreciate the complexities of media spin and how it can be used for or against us....
We just got FOX news in Canada and we're discussing it on another thread and I thought this would be a good topic to start a thread where people can share their experiences with others....
FOX News....
Bill O'Reilly and Ann Coulter sure have it in for Canada ...
Gay Marriages, Medical Marijuana, a whole province that's FRENCH...
Of course FOX hates us !
I'm waiting for the day Hannity & Colmes try to rip ME a new assh*le on national TV like they do to so many other left leaning talking heads.
C'mon O'Reilly talk dirty to me, you know you want to !
FOX News has got to be the laughing stock of journalistic integrity, (...if there is such a thing these days) We just got it up here in Canada recently and I'm dumbfounded as
to how people eat this sh*t up... I thought CNN and MSNBC were bad propaganda mouthpieces for the state but really....
One thing I do find odd about FOX regarding the death penalty, maybe it's just coincidence but....
When Shaka Sankofa (Gary Graham) was executed back in 2000 in Texas, Geraldo had a show on MSNBC and Greta van Facelift had one on CNN.
Both shows had MAJOR coverage of the execution, (more than any other execution with the exception of Tim McVeigh since...)
They had camera crews on the ground, Texas activists will remember it was the biggest media circus since Karla Faye Tucker (if not bigger !)
Both Greta and Geraldo were quite vocal in their opposition to the execution and were in condemnation of the Texas injustice system and Governor Bush, I was surprised
just how much coverage there was, and how critical both Geraldo and Greta were in particular...
Oddly enough shortly after Shaka's Texecution and just before Bush's 2000 Un-election both Greta and Geraldo were offered jobs at FOX.
Now CNN and MSNBC have lost their 2 most outspoken anti-death penalty advocates (both lawyers too...)
and FOX has gained 2 new mouthpeices which as far as I know haven't covered the issue of the death penalty at all as FOX news anchors,
at least not in a critical way speaking out against it like they did with their previous networks.... Isn't that special !
As for their previous networks....
Well I know CNN's Lou Dobbs hates illegal immigrants, he hates them ALOT ! ...and MSNBC's Kramer from Kudlow & Kramer is obviously completely insane !
Too bad they don't have news channels in America anymore, just cheap propaganda courtesy of the good ole boys in Washington...
(...and not very good propaganda either I might add !)
COMING SOON:
" Tonight, on a special edition of America's Most Wanted, The execution of Al-Qaeda sleeper agents connected to the 911 attacks,
' I'm John Walsh and tonight, America gets closure on a special edition of America's Most Wanted live from Guantanamo Bay Cuba'."
FAIR & BALANCED
(on the edge of the abyss)
Whether as a participant or an observer your experiences can be useful in helping others appreciate the complexities of media spin and how it can be used for or against us....
We just got FOX news in Canada and we're discussing it on another thread and I thought this would be a good topic to start a thread where people can share their experiences with others....
FOX News....
Bill O'Reilly and Ann Coulter sure have it in for Canada ...
Gay Marriages, Medical Marijuana, a whole province that's FRENCH...
Of course FOX hates us !
I'm waiting for the day Hannity & Colmes try to rip ME a new assh*le on national TV like they do to so many other left leaning talking heads.
C'mon O'Reilly talk dirty to me, you know you want to !
FOX News has got to be the laughing stock of journalistic integrity, (...if there is such a thing these days) We just got it up here in Canada recently and I'm dumbfounded as
to how people eat this sh*t up... I thought CNN and MSNBC were bad propaganda mouthpieces for the state but really....
One thing I do find odd about FOX regarding the death penalty, maybe it's just coincidence but....
When Shaka Sankofa (Gary Graham) was executed back in 2000 in Texas, Geraldo had a show on MSNBC and Greta van Facelift had one on CNN.
Both shows had MAJOR coverage of the execution, (more than any other execution with the exception of Tim McVeigh since...)
They had camera crews on the ground, Texas activists will remember it was the biggest media circus since Karla Faye Tucker (if not bigger !)
Both Greta and Geraldo were quite vocal in their opposition to the execution and were in condemnation of the Texas injustice system and Governor Bush, I was surprised
just how much coverage there was, and how critical both Geraldo and Greta were in particular...
Oddly enough shortly after Shaka's Texecution and just before Bush's 2000 Un-election both Greta and Geraldo were offered jobs at FOX.
Now CNN and MSNBC have lost their 2 most outspoken anti-death penalty advocates (both lawyers too...)
and FOX has gained 2 new mouthpeices which as far as I know haven't covered the issue of the death penalty at all as FOX news anchors,
at least not in a critical way speaking out against it like they did with their previous networks.... Isn't that special !
As for their previous networks....
Well I know CNN's Lou Dobbs hates illegal immigrants, he hates them ALOT ! ...and MSNBC's Kramer from Kudlow & Kramer is obviously completely insane !
Too bad they don't have news channels in America anymore, just cheap propaganda courtesy of the good ole boys in Washington...
(...and not very good propaganda either I might add !)
COMING SOON:
" Tonight, on a special edition of America's Most Wanted, The execution of Al-Qaeda sleeper agents connected to the 911 attacks,
' I'm John Walsh and tonight, America gets closure on a special edition of America's Most Wanted live from Guantanamo Bay Cuba'."
FAIR & BALANCED
(on the edge of the abyss)