Posted on 11/10/2005 9:03:38 AM PST by yankeedame
FED UP --- I'M MAKING THE SWITCH .... TO FOX.
I've mentioned many times that I generally watch CNN in the mornings while I'm preparing for my program. Fox News Channel is definitely my first choice throughout the rest of the day, but that morning coffee-klatch "Fox & Friends" bit is just too much for me to stomach. Until now.
My first 30 minutes of watching the morning news is generally spent in the workout room. That would be the first 30 Minutes of CNN's "Daybreak" with Carol Costello. During that first thirty minutes of CNN watching this morning I saw the following:
1. They ran a story saying that House Republicans had "abandoned" its plans to push for drilling in ANWR. During that report CNN showed video of Alaska that most definitely was NOT taped in Section 1002 of ANWR. Snow-capped mountains, rolling grasslands with rushing streams .. this is not ANWR Section 1002. They even ran video of tourists enjoying a white-water rafting trip. This is not ANWR Section 1002 ... so why did CNN run these videos? Simple .. because they know that only a very small percentage of Americans realize that the portion of ANWR which has been specifically set aside for oil exploration, known as Section 1002, is not what you would call picturesque. In the winter it resembles a frozen-over Wal-Mart parking lot. Capitalizing on this ignorance CNN tries to put forth the image that exploration in Section 1002 would ravage beautiful countryside and interrupt tourist rafting trips.
2. Then CNN runs a story from Paris. Almost 485 cars were torched last night in the City of Lights. The CNN reporter told us that the violence was being caused by "disadvantaged youth who have been rioting." Not one single time in the entire report did CNN mention that these rioters were Muslim. Why? Well, maybe it's just political correctness. Then again, maybe their goal is to soften any language that might alert Americans to the fact that the Islamic radicals are still out there, and that they are, in fact, making some rather astounding headway in their efforts to bring the Western world to its knees under Islamic culture and law.
3. Plus, we have the continuing CNN coverage of what they would most certainly like us to believe is a huge scandal over oil company profits. Again, not once did any CNN expert or reporter make any mention of oil company profit margins or price-to-earnings ratios. Instead, they just made references to "windfall" profits. In addition, their entire coverage during that first report centered on what the oil company executives were making. Nothing about supply and demand. Not one segment that could be construed as informational as to how the free enterprise system works. Just "windfall" profits and evil oil executives making tons of money (but still less than Oprah makes).
So ... as soon as I got off the ellipse machine and took my shower, I walked into my office and put on Fox & Friends. I'm going to give them a try for a few days. Giggly sometimes? Perhaps so. But maybe they won't make the leftist agenda quite so obvious.
The F & F crew takes some getting used to, but generally, they are pretty good -- certainly preferrable to most of the other morning programs.
I gotta be suspect of someone when it takes them nearly a decade to figure this out.
I can't watch Fox & Friends. Seems like 3 chatty, light weight nit wits. They seem ridiculous and clueless to me.
Took him long enough to realize CNN is biased...
Seems to me someone in the information business would want to keep an eye on the enemy.
The morning news shows are all awful. Pick the one that is not quite as bad as the others if you must watch. Or come to FR and read the news, along with some very interesting, entertaining and often hilarious responses from your fellow Freepers.
Soon, hopefully, Boortz will switch from Fox and get FR.
Then he'll REALLY be on top of the game -like the rest of us!
They don't. I've found Fox and Friends very morning work-out friendly. Steve Doocey is sharp as a tack. ED Hill and Brian Kilmeade aren't chopped liver.
How true! The best news on Fox is Brit Hume's evening news. Took me a month or so to get use to Fox & Friends.
forget Fox. he needs to tune in to Captain Obvious
Hmm... a couple of days ago, watching Fox, they covered the tornado disaster by showing a 'orphaned parakeet' in a tree for minutes: isn't their more important news to cover around the world an locally?
So I went to CNN, (rare) and saw the Situation Room with 6 screens up! Techno-marvel! On-Line! I returned to FOX the next day, which bravely showed 4 screens at once...
It's a screen real-estate multimedia battle! Go Fox!
the weekend trio are clueless idiots........the weekday crew I like
I'm not defending CNN and I did not see the piece.
But rafting is done on the Kongakut River and Hulahula River.
http://www.equinoxexpeditions.com/kongakut.html
http://www.equinoxexpeditions.com/hulahula.html
I like Boortz but good Lord...what took him so long?
I see they've brought back the ANWR pics depicting it as a "pristine wilderness" and "God's country, whereas it is actually a bleak, barren tundra.
Yeah, F & F can get REAL sweet, but it's a little better than the alternative stations. If it gets too cute and sickening, that means it's time to go to the internet for the news, namely FreeRepublic!
Well, you're just fiquring this out about CNN? Pffft...spend less time on the treadmill on more on your brain.
amen to that. Silly, giggly, not professional at all. None of them. Theya re always talking over each other.
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