Fox News is not news, time to stop calls for boycotts
Categories: Media
Written By: Shawn Williams
Fox News is not a news station. I’m amazed at how much credibility people give to a right wing PR outfit like Faux.
Maybe it’s because people don’t have the chance to listen to their hosts on the radio. Driving around throughout the day, I have time to fly by Sean Insanity’s propaganda filled 3 hours as well as Bill O’Reiley’s radio factor.
I keep getting emails asking for people to boycott Fox News. That’s an unreasonable request because most of the people getting the emails don’t watch Fox with any consistency. The closed minded race baiting crowd who believe in Fox have no intentention to stop watching.
But back to the point, just because they call themselves “fair an balanced” doesn’t meat that they are. There has never been a solitary action taken by the station to make one believe fair is their intent. Whether it’s immigration or God forbid the thought of a black man running for POTUS, Fox takes the position of the hard right on at all cost.
People should treat Fox as what it is, a tool to stir up fear; fear of cooky liberals, dangerous immigrants, fanatical Muslims, and angry black women. O’Reiley has been preaching a World War III over oil on his radio program for the last few weeks.
If anyone were to go after Fox, they should target companies who advertise on the network. However their demographic foundation of “conservative”, pro-life, pro-gun, pro-Republican, white viewers are coveted by television advertisers. Throw in a healthy helping of racists and bigots and you’ve got a substantial number of American consumers
Here are just three examples of their most recent desperate grabs for attention:
- Calling Michelle Obama Barack’s Baby’s Mama
- Accusing the Obama fist bump of having terrorist origins
- One of their contributors suggesting Sen. Obama be killed along with Osama Bin Laden
They stay relevant by getting people talking about this ignorant mess for a news cycle and then issuing a meaningless apology.
Fox News represents the worst in America. It’s how many people across the world view our country, as aloof nationalists only interested in self. Folks who look to that station for news should be ashamed of themselves.
June 29th, 2008 at 5:31 am
“They stay relevant by getting people talking about this ignorant mess for a news cycle and then issuing a meaningless apology.”
Amazingly those same hard right die- hard Republicans want to view every individual that does not believe in their view of pro-life, pro- gun as un-American or having ties to some terrorist organization or participating in terrorists activity (i.e. fist bump).
• Calling Michelle Obama Barack’s Baby’s Mama
This was totally unacceptable and insulting. As a married woman anyone that has EVERY been married understands the hard work, time, and commitment that MUST go into a marriage. To degrade and denigrate the Obama’s union and the birth of their two children to the level of some one just shacking makes evident the sensationalism of Faux News at its best. Then for Faux News to back door this insult with a trivial apology that they were unaware that this was insulting to some viewers. BULL SHIT I’m sure they watch BET probably where they got that mess; no where has Baby Mama every been used in a “oh she’s such a sweet caring woman, or the father is in the child’s life” context. I also whole heartedly believe that by calling Mrs. Obama Barack’s baby mama Faux news was deliberately insinuating a degrading debilitating look that most Americans have regarding the lives and families of black people in general.
I think this egg would be a lot easier to swallow if the vast majority of Fox viewers would just fess up and admit that their issue is not that Obama is not the answer that he is a fraud, that he is inexperience (when has anyone every had experience being a president, wtf) but that their issue is that he identifies himself as biracial BUT realizes exteriorly that he looks like a black man and will therefore be judged as a black man.
June 29th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Without FOX and the conservative talk show hosts how else would we find out about their thought pattern?
June 29th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
Not even when Michelle Obama said it?
I don’t think it was professional and it shouldn’t have been done, but I don’t think it was racist.
Calling everyone who watches Fox News closed minded and race baiting, however, is the sort of bigotry that would get me to stop reading here.
June 29th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Phleps you can’t leave, I’d find you. Fox is pitching to the closed minded crowd. Anyone who thinks a fist bump is a terrorist gesture is closed minded. Period. They have not true view of what’s going on. As we saw in pictures after their assertion, George H.W. Bush even fist bumps. I wouldn’t consider him closed minded or racist, but he wouldn’t have minded getting votes from people who were. So is the case with Fox Noose.
June 29th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
Faux News is agitprop for rednecks, nothing more, nothing less. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that we haven’t heard John McCain’s wife referred to as a “baby mama.” There was obvious racist intent there, in my opinion.
June 29th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
You haven’t limited your statements to Fox itself (even though I think that those too are wrong.) You have broadened your proclamations to the entirety of Fox’s patronage.
We all have moments where we use too wide a brush and start to slip into bigotry. This looks like one of those cases.
And Fox Noose is over the line. True lynching victims deserve more respect.
June 29th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
Phelps we’ll have to agree to disagree this time (novel concept). I continue to be surprised that people who should know better associated themselves with the bigotry of the station. That’s all.
June 30th, 2008 at 5:29 am
Phelps mmm what were those words you spoke to me once oh oh I remember I believe it went something like this “Sometimes someone doth protest too much.”
June 30th, 2008 at 8:26 am
Like it or not FOX News serves a purpose. It has an audience. There are people that absolutely love their far right views. It’s okay with me. I tune in on occasion to see what they are up to. So, I agree with Dewberry.