Posted on 04/08/2005 7:51:19 AM PDT by CitizenM
I read all the comments up through #113 or so, and I couldn't believe that no one had mentioned the obvious... Jesse Jackson!!
The Reverend Jackson surely wouldn't miss a TV opportunity like this one by "consoling the mourning Catholics" In front of the world's TV Audience. Only a pair of F-16s could keep him from this "duty"....
You must be a satan-worshipping, demon-spawned , minion-of-hell, to speak that way...you should be smote by the righteous sword of rightedness, until you come back to your senses.
So what's your source of news, if any?
FreeRepublic is my source haha!
Along with Fox occasionally
I think we need FR TV
FR tv? All we'd have would be a lot of arguing about what programming to show, and what the programs really mean...
I'm not a Shep Smith fan myself, but...
When I asked for an example or three, what I had in mind was whatever other news sources you'd deem reputable and credible.
Fantasizing what you'd like to see on Fox does not address this question, and indeed, seems to be a post that addresses nothing.
Perhaps you can clarify...
Thanking you in advance,
CA....
Re: FOX --> Crap that smells good and looks good is still crap.
I don't put much credibility into any of the major news sources - especially for breaking news. They're all hideously sloppy and climbing over each other to "break" first.
Are you heavily invested in Fox news? Because you seem to be chugging the Kool Aid in massive amounts if you think they're a shadow of what they were three or four years ago.
To be honest, the Pajamahadeen do a much better job of vetting out stories than these so-called "news" organizations. You see, bloggers and FRee Republicans aren't looking for an entertainment angle to everything. We're not looking for shock value ot selling commercial time or ad space. We just want the truth, and we're willing to do the leg work to prove or disprove a story that comes out in the mass media.
So when FOX incessantly bangs the GONG with breaking news about some juror in the Jocko trial seeing a spider in the courtroom, the credibility factor just continues to decline. So we waste half an hour wringing hands over a supposed "bomb" on a "suspicious" plane flying somewhere in the vicinity of Rome, instead of letting the story unfold (they already knew it was being escorted to landing) and getting the facts and then reporting the complete story.
Otherwise, it's just hysteria. Everytime someone spills a packet of Sweet 'n' Lo on an airplane, the news agencies start freaking out like a "suspicious substance" on a contained airliner means anything to anyone NOT on said airliner. Not a single episode of "suspicious substances" has turned out to be something evil. So, the news media knows it can keep people tuned in. By using the effective "breaking news" mantra over and over and over...
FOX BREAKING NEWS (GONG!): "Sun looking 'not as bright today' according to Mildred Flannery of Long Island. We'll keep you up to date as this sunrise unfolds..."
Let me put it this way - whenever we have a news channel on in this house, invariably it is Fox. My wife sometimes absent-mindedly watches CNN, and she does like Imus on MSNBC, but for me, the only good thing about that show is (on occasion) Contessa Brewer! A-hem!
Kool-Aid? My, my - aren't we sledgehammering this to death! I do think Fox has changed in the past few years, some for the better, some not so.
But if, as you say, you have little confidence in any of the networks on breaking news, just where do you get breaking news info? And how can you approach such a source with any degree of confidence?
You can bitch and moan all you want, but if you're onto breaking news at all, you have to get it somewhere, and a lot of us here get it from Fox.
Of course, if you don't follow breaking news with any regularity, what was the purpose of your original post?
CA....
Of course, if you don't follow breaking news with any regularity, what was the purpose of your original post?
The problem is, most of what constitutes breaking news to Fox doesn't turn out to be news at all because it turns out they have their facts wrong or it's a non-story altogether - MOST OF THE TIME - and that's just unacceptable for a network that casts itself as a serious news entity.
I used to be an avid Fox-head. Watched it all the time. Now it's just oversensationalized. To each their own.
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