Fox News? Or the Jerry Springer Channel?
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.
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.
sheesh…what a Loon