Is Faux News biased against the Medieval Period/Renaissance?

[RedXIII]

Because on the program titled "On This Day" they mention colonial or Modern History,But not Ancient or Medieval/Renaissance History.

Are they biased against that part of history? Being a Rennie i would like them to mention what happened during the Middle ages/Renaissance.

[RedXIII]

1. ....

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[jobycom]

2. They aren't completely sure the world existed back then.

They have a call in to Jerry Falwell for confirmation, but so far he's not responding.

[NewJeffCT]

7. To Fox News

the world started when Ronald Reagan became president in January of 1981.

[Orsino]

3. They're royalists.

I wouldn't expect them to have a problem with medieval or Renaissance history.

[MonkeyFunk]

4. They probably just don't want the hassle

of dealing with the 10-day shift that occurred when we switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar. Because June 20, 1581 wasn't really "this day in history"

[RedXIII]

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[opiate69]

6. You're a rennie? Coolness! I'ma Bard in the SCA..

Here's a pic of me and the crew in action at JuneFaire.. (I'm the guitarist on the far right)

[JoDog]

8. Chronicler checking in

I run the newsletter for my local SCA group. I include a monthly feature called "This Month in Period". I get my info from this website:

http://historymedren.about.com/library/date/bl0621.htm

Search for the date, and voila! A list of important events, births and deaths that happened on that date from the Dark Ages through the Ren. For instance, on June 21, 1527, Niccolo Machiavelli died.

Cool pic Opiate! Let me know if you're ever in Northshield!

Yours in the dream, JoeDog (known in the SCA as Kolgrimma "Edda" Eiriksdottir)

[opiate69]

24. Thanks, Kolgrimma!

Not sure if we'll ever get that far out of our little kingdom, but I'd sure love to.

[guitar man]

9. that's strange

I always thought they would have a soft spot for that period. You know, caliphates crusades, witch burnings, the inquisition, the earth is flat. It all seems to be right up their alley, no? :shrug:

[meegbear]

10. Because Ancient or Medieval/Renaissance History is inferior ...

to modern AMERICAN history, the greatest history EVER!!!!!

What does a REAL American care about, on June 21:

1404 - Owain Glyndwr established a Welsh Parliament at Machynlleth and was crowned Prince of Wales.

1937 - In Paris, Leon Blum's Popular Front Cabinet resigned.

or

1788 - The U.S. Constitution went into effect when New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify it!!!!!

1940 - Richard M. Nixon and Thelma Catherine ‘Pat’ Ryan were married!!!!!

I rest my case!

[RedXIII]

12. .,,

Or on July 6th 1535AD Sir Thomas more was killed.


So his death date is coming up.

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

[RedXIII]

14. What do you mean that it's inferior?

Because in 1066AD the Normans brought cider to England.

The idea of "Trial by Jury" actually started with the Vikings.

And many gothic Churches/Cathedrals. seem to use the Medieval style.

And it was monks who invented the symbols used in music sheets, like the symbol for the C chord.

[LibertyLover]

11. Baronial herald and kingdom deputy marshal for hounds here

Fox News doesn't want to have to try and explain medieval history to its audience, all those kings and queens and stuff. As for the Renaissance, well, what did it ever give us except paintings of nakkid people?

[RedXIII]

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[Taverner]

13. They never liked the enlightenment

They long for a flat earth and a terra-centric universe

[RedXIII]

15. Well according to this,the belief of that they believed the world was flat is a myth.

Those Terrible Middle Ages (Debunking the Myths.)

Those Terrible Middle Ages is not so much a recitation of facts as it is an eloquent meditation on the achievements of the era and the root causes for the continued perception that the millennium following the fall of the Roman Empire was a time of intellectual darkness and brutality.

As Pernoud points out, it was, in fact, the Renaissance that set western civilization on a destructive course of colonialism, deprivation of women's rights, and religious intolerance through a strict adherence to "classical" thinking, a philosophy that extended to the obliteration of anything considered "Gothic." Over time, medieval contributions would not only be overshadowed by the Renaissance but would also be relegated to the backwaters of history, giving rise to the shadowy myths that persist to this day.

http://www.renaissancemagazine.com/books/terr.html

So that means that the belief of them thinking the world was flat is a hoax

[Taverner]

17. Meh - during the Dark Ages they murdered each other (Spanish Inquisition)

Afterwards, they murdered other people...

Murder is murder...but read Dante's Divine Comedy and you definitely get the idea they thought the Earth was flat.

[RedXIII]

18. MYTHS ABOUT THE MIDDLE AGES

MYTHS ABOUT THE MIDDLE AGES

James Franklin

There are so many myths about the Middle Ages, it has to be suspected that the general level of "knowledge" about things medieval is actually negative.
Here are some of the more famous ones.

In the Middle Ages it was believed the earth was flat.
There's a whole book devoted to refuting this one: J.B. Russell's Inventing the Flat Earth: Columbus and Modern Historians (New York, 1991) (review; also `The myth of the flat earth'.)
The facts are that the Greeks knew the earth was spherical from about 500 BC, and all but a tiny number of educated persons have known it in all times since. Thomas Aquinas gives the roundness of the earth as a standard example of a scientific truth, in Summa theologiae bk. I q. 1 art. 1.

http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/medmyths.html

[Taverner]

25. I can't believe you're defending the Dark Ages

Theocracies are hellish existences...

[RedXIII]

26. well they have/had great music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JApax3L1mbo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsragAHrhEY&mode=related&search=





Methinks Thou art a Mundane.

[RedXIII]

29. ..

Well at least they have Chivalry and Romance and organizations for those who like to hit people with sticks ,well for me i'm a minstrel.

Another sign if you're a Rennie.

If you have a Warhammer.

If you have a Tudor Rose as a tattoo on you.

If you actually have a Renaissance German dress.

And in 1455AD the printing press was invented.

[idgiehkt]

19. it dint happin in Murica. Its imagunery.

[RedXIII]

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[Katina]

21. they don't know what it is

so it's not bias, just ignorance.

[RedXIII]

22. Signs you Might be a Rennie....

Signs you might be a rennie...

If you have swords on your tables.

If you correct someone who mistakes a flail with a mace by telling them to go to wikipedia and type in "flail".

If you Listen to Jethro Tull at work or on saturdays with the volume turned all the way up.

When someone mentions Queen Elizabeth, you say, "Which one?"

If you get peeved that the only time that "Greensleeves" is sung/sang is Xmas and you don't understand why they keep calling it "What child is this?"

[RedXIII]

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[RedXIII]

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[baldguy]

28. On this day...

1757 - Seven Years' War: British forces under Robert Clive defeated troops under Siraj ud-Daulah at the Battle of Plassey, allowing the British East India Company to annex Bengal.

Fox Snooze viewers wouldn't understand or care. Might as well be speaking Swahili to them.

1947: Despite the veto of President Harry Truman, the U.S. Congress passes the Taft-Hartley Act, which significantly restricts the ability of labor unions to organize.

This, they'd celebrate - after working about 50 hrs during the previous week, with no overtime.

[RedXIII]

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[DFW]

31. I think New Jeff pegged it

The world began on January 20, 1981. 1993-2001 was their Dark Ages,
and the Age of Enlightenment (for them) started on Jan. 20, 2001.

They haven't been accused of accuracy on any other level, so why should
history be an exception?

[RedXIII]

32. well i believe that...

the Dark Ages began in 460-1000CE

The Middle Ages were 1000-1400CE

The Renaissance was 1400-1600CE

[DFW]

33. So does most everybody else, with the exception of Fox viewers