FOX Newscasters Have Been Reduced to Carnival Geeks. Fox is Not News
Free Speech is only free when it is not backed by front groups supported by makers of products you are shilling. So the suppression of FOX NEWS would not be an abridgment of the right to free speech . Mascarade news designed to sell products is commercial speech, which is not free at all. If it is proven that you have unfairly undercut competition by misrepresentation, then this may be prosecutable.
In a similar manner news is not news unless it is separate from commentary and stands on its own without the filter of editorial talking points. To give the appearance that your opinion is news would appear also to be a form of commercial speech. If you promote a millennial point of view garnered only from tainted sources and advertise gold, for example, then this is commercial speech. It has also been said that FOX news only uses incestuous sources.
News also is generally reported without high drama and emotional appeals where possible. Reporting of “grassroots” organizations that are funded by billionaires with ties to FOX and orchestrating these “grassroots” organization’s crowds is being and making the news, but it is not news. Reporting entrapment you have arranged on a group you have done nothing but misrepresent and use their own information against them, is not news. Reporting this “news” with appeals that would make carnies blush is so abhorrent that I would say that FOX newscasters have been reduced to carnival geeks, but the commentators are the real freaks. When FOX backs a movements and a party based on fear, then they can only stand for fear and ballast reporting. Maybe they used Glenn Beck’s spelling for their slogan? So when they distort, you decide as they report all the news that fit to fake.
Fox is not news, nor is it entertaining. What FOX is, is reality TV gone wild. The cheap faux reality presented at ‘fair and balanced‘ FOX sounds more Orwellian than Orwell these days. All the expert pundits are just hired guns that follow the party line like good whore mongers. None of this is surprising as their conservative backers move more toward a fascism, politely called corporatism. The favorite media tool of corporatism is projection, accusing their potential opposition of what they are actually doing themselves. It is done preemptively at FOX lest anyone notice that Rupert Murdoch has no clothes.
Maybe a little history and a bit of smoke might help. Consider the parallels between Keith Rupert Murdoch and William Randolph Heart. They are astounding. Take such items as the illegality of hemp and Global Warming. Hearst championed hemp’s ban for the same reason Murdoch had the two reporters fired that did the report on Monsanto. That reason is corporatism. So how is hemp related to global warming? Monsanto now, like Dupont back in Hearst’s time, and now, have a vested interests in the illegality of hemp and FOX comes up with reasons to discredit anyone that objects. Similarly, Murdoch has a vested interest in global warming denial. This corporate bias can also be seen by Murdoch’s flip flop on the climate change theme after a corporate deal with a Saudi prince, he selectively had allowed some parts of his “news” organization to champion climate change skepticism, then they did a total turnaround. Obviously Murdoch’s ideals are only based on what he considers best to make a profit. Clearly for his reality, read news, to always have a Right wing bent, his world view must be one of a Reptilian shape shifter. The stories in Murdoch’s media, like Hearst’s media, are as real as they say they are. Their pseudoscience is firmly backed by the science of profit from human frailty.
Yet this is just the start of the parallels of Murdoch with Hearst and their strange mix of politics with faux news. They both inherited a struggling newspaper from their father. They both were leftist before they went right. They both made their name with tabloid journalism. They both have been noted as ruthless competitors. They both are warmongers. One can go on, but in the end we can reduce it all to one word: rosebud.
Other than that, why would anyone even consider boycotting Rupert Murdoch?
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Posted by p. joseph potocki on January 17, 2010 at 2:14 am
Nice piece. While Murdoch, together with whatever he sets his slimy hands on equals what fascism had in mind, the real issue with his Fox content really comes down to We the People. We need to exert our legal right to insist that Newscorp (a misnomer if ever there was one) serve the common good. We own the airwaves, while Murdoch, Disney, GE, Clear Channel and the rest of the right wing nuttery who own broadcasting networks just lease the airwaves (television and radio, both) from us. Were we, the FCC or our Attorney General to insist that Murdoch henceforth actually serve the common good, or if we were to put his broadcast signal up to auction, or were we simply to bring back some semblance of the fairness doctrine (whose liquidation is responsible for 95 percent of all talk radio being of the conservative persuasion) the media landscape would change instantly. Alas, we have bought-and-sold corporate lackies on both sides of the isle, though admittedly the Repugs are far worse. For a humorous take on the idiocy of Fox newscasters read Fox Newscasters Demand Pay Cut: http://blog.baytimedetective.com/?p=6339
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