FOX News memorandum

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Dale and Rich, you guys are obviously reasonably smart gentlemen, but you both demonstrate that even smart people as yourselves have no clue the difference between regular news and editorial news on TV. The best description I can give you is regular tv news is much like the front page of a newspaper, and the editorial tv news is like reading the editorial page. What Fox News does is blur the lines between those two, and I'm sure they're not the only ones. It seems CNN is now a Fox News wannabe...all in the name of ratings.

Edited August 19, 2008 by Jabberwocky

[Dan J 277]

Why is this one right wing?

The conservative solution to everything is the free market? Though I've never heard of a radicalistic economy.

Doesn't it seem more likely that a Iran centered more around Capitalism would be friendlier to the US?

A country's economic policy does not determine its politics. But at this point, most countries have a free market economy with diffrent degrees of regulation. Even Iran.

In this case, capitalism is being used as a code word for US style government and economics, or in other words, regime change. But that fell out of favor in the public with the Iraq debacle.

At least China doesn't have a liberal or conservative media bias.

If certain people had their way in the US, we would be the same.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Dale and Rich, you guys are obviously reasonably smart gentlemen, but you both demonstrate that even smart people as yourselves have no clue the difference between regular news and editorial news on TV. The best description I can give you is regular tv news is much like the front page of a newspaper, and the editorial tv news is like reading the editorial page. What Fox News does is blur the lines between those two, and I'm sure they're not the only ones. It seems CNN is now a Fox News wannabe...all in the name of ratings.

I know the difference but I say... free speech rules!! Even for Entertainment tonight.

Dude. I have a friend that is a Fox news junky. And he drinks and yells along with O'Reilly. If he wasn't a close friend I would make him a youtube star.

goodnight bro

[IAMX 3,055]

Okay, what exactly is the story biased towards? Captialism?

Obviously.

[Ms. Squirrel 11]

Just wondering, is watching Fox news like reading the tabloid? Lot of photos and big sensational headlines that no one can possibly take serious?

[Dan J 277]

Just wondering, is watching Fox news like reading the tabloid? Lot of photos and big sensational headlines that no one can possibly take serious?

Yes, except for the last part...

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Just wondering, is watching Fox news like reading the tabloid? Lot of photos and big sensational headlines that no one can possibly take serious?

Yes, except for the last part...

lol...

[pedroh 21]

Just wondering, is watching Fox news like reading the tabloid? Lot of photos and big sensational headlines that no one can possibly take serious?

Yes, except for the last part...

lol...

yea... unfortunately people actually take O'Reilly serious, or Hannity and Colmes

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Just wondering, is watching Fox news like reading the tabloid? Lot of photos and big sensational headlines that no one can possibly take serious?

Yes, except for the last part...

lol...

yea... unfortunately people actually take O'Reilly serious, or Hannity and Colmes

Citizen Kane, arguably one of the best films ever made, addressed the issue of how influential the press could be in persuading public opinion on important issues. There was a term used back then called, yellow journalism.

Yellow journalism is a pejorative reference to journalism that features sex scandals, scandal-mongering, sensationalism, or other unethical or unprofessional practices by news media organizations or journalists. It has been loosely defined as "not quite libel".

The term originated during the Gilded Age with the circulation battles between Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal. They ran from 1895 to about 1898 and can refer specifically to this period. Both papers were accused by critics of sensationalizing the news in order to drive up circulation, although the newspapers did serious reporting as well. The New York Press coined the term yellow kid journalism in early 1897 after a then-popular comic strip to describe the down-market papers of Pulitzer and Hearst, which both published versions of it during a circulation war.^[1] This was soon shortened to yellow journalism with the New York Press insisting, "We called them Yellow because they are Yellow."^[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

All of the TV news media is sensationalist to some degree - even at the local level. Even when they're covering something as mundane as a road traffic accident, you can channel hop and see how the local networks try to outdo each other to come up with the most emotionally loaded headline for the story.

[Emancipation 2]

All of the TV news media is sensationalist to some degree - even at the local level. Even when they're covering something as mundane as a road traffic accident, you can channel hop and see how the local networks try to outdo each other to come up with the most emotionally loaded headline for the story.

A recent "local" headline "Local beaches infested with Jellyfish swarms" or "Jellyfish Descend On Sound Beaches"...

c'mon.... it's jellyfish.. they go where the currents take them.. it's not like a shark attack here.. perhaps we could come up with a little less "hype filled" headline? And besides.. it's a sting people.. get over it.. it's not like they are going to eat your leg off

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

All of the TV news media is sensationalist to some degree - even at the local level. Even when they're covering something as mundane as a road traffic accident, you can channel hop and see how the local networks try to outdo each other to come up with the most emotionally loaded headline for the story.

A recent "local" headline "Local beaches infested with Jellyfish swarms" or "Jellyfish Descend On Sound Beaches"...

c'mon.... it's jellyfish.. they go where the currents take them.. it's not like a shark attack here.. perhaps we could come up with a little less "hype filled" headline? And besides.. it's a sting people.. get over it.. it's not like they are going to eat your leg off

Sensationalist!? I think those journos are right on the money with that

I suggest the following sub-head:

"Run for your lives! Bombs and bullets have no effect!"

[HAL 9000 96]

All of the TV news media is sensationalist to some degree - even at the local level. Even when they're covering something as mundane as a road traffic accident, you can channel hop and see how the local networks try to outdo each other to come up with the most emotionally loaded headline for the story.

A recent "local" headline "Local beaches infested with Jellyfish swarms" or "Jellyfish Descend On Sound Beaches"...

c'mon.... it's jellyfish.. they go where the currents take them.. it's not like a shark attack here.. perhaps we could come up with a little less "hype filled" headline? And besides.. it's a sting people.. get over it.. it's not like they are going to eat your leg off

Liberal Communist Jellies.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

All of the TV news media is sensationalist to some degree - even at the local level. Even when they're covering something as mundane as a road traffic accident, you can channel hop and see how the local networks try to outdo each other to come up with the most emotionally loaded headline for the story.

A recent "local" headline "Local beaches infested with Jellyfish swarms" or "Jellyfish Descend On Sound Beaches"...

c'mon.... it's jellyfish.. they go where the currents take them.. it's not like a shark attack here.. perhaps we could come up with a little less "hype filled" headline? And besides.. it's a sting people.. get over it.. it's not like they are going to eat your leg off

Liberal Communist Jellies.

....with a ticker on the bottom of the screen that asks, "Will the infestation of liberal communist jellyfish scare us into a recession?" You decide.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Totally O/T - but wasn't The Blob making a point about the evils of communism?

A big red monster that basically absorbs everything...