Brandon Paddock's Blog - Desktop Search and more » Blog Archive » Fox News? Or the Jerry Springer Channel?

Fox News? Or the Jerry Springer Channel?

June 20, 2006 at 9:32 pm
Other, Politics

A friend sent me a link to an interesting clip from a Fox News program today. I can’t believe people actually get their news from sources like this. They have some crazy anti-american “religious” zealot on the show and pit her against a raging screaming “journalist.” Of course both of them sound like total whack-jobs - but that’s exactly what they want. I can’t help but feel like the whole argument was scripted. They throw a news ticker on the bottom and claim it’s a news station. But really it’s The Jerry Springer show with a different cast and fewer thrown chairs. I feel like the only purpose of programming like this is to make politics “entertaining” for the masses who get their kicks from Springer or COPS or championship rodeo on SpikeTV.

I would wonder about whether the motivation is to drive ratings or News Corp’s political agenda. But the sad fact is it probably serves both.

Link

3 Responses to “Fox News? Or the Jerry Springer Channel?”

Bryan Zug Says:
June 21st, 2006 at 5:34 am
I lived in a small town in Colorado once where these religious nuts staged a protest. They were on their way to take their schtick to the Matthew Shepard funeral/trial — very sick.

There is a really cool scene in the HBO film “The Laramie Project” from a few years ago on this topic.

Some folks from Laramie confront these people by dressing up as angels and standing between them and a field of media folks — the nuts screams quickly go silent — that method was much more moving than this clip.
Lockergnome's Windows Fanatics Says:
June 21st, 2006 at 10:28 pm
Making New Friends…

Serindipity is fun. As such, I thought I’d introduce you to a few of my friends. These folks are the 2006 Gnomedexers (at least, the ones who have signed up for our conference and have sites for you to peruse)…….
Don Says:
June 22nd, 2006 at 4:36 pm
sheesh…what a Loon

Hi. I'm Brandon. I'm a geek, and I work on Search technology for Windows at Microsoft. This is my blog.

Picture

June 2006
M	T	W	T	F	S	S
« May		Jul »
	1	2	3	4
5	6	7	8	9	10	11
12	13	14	15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30

search this site:

The views expressed within my blog are my own - and are not in any way indicative of those of the company I work for, Microsoft, or it's employees. No warranties or other guarantees will be offered as to the quality of the opinions or anything else offered here.