FOX NEWS Continues to Lead Way to America’s International Ignorance

[w8liftinglady]

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/03/07/fox-news-leads-way-to-americas-international-ignorance/

FOX NEWS Continues to Lead Way to America’s International Ignorance
March 7, 2011 posted by Veterans Today · 9 Comments

“America is facing an information war … and we are losing that war.” That is what Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, said as she spoke before the Senate foreign relations committee.

The war, she says, is being won by networks that offer “real news”. She praised Al Jazeera and said that it is changing peoples’ minds and attitudes.

Her comments came as Republicans plan to cut the state department’s budget by half.

Over the last 10 years, American’s have been forced fed political propaganda channels posing as “news” and the big losers have been the American people. The dumbing down of the American public has NOT served the country well. It has created a generation of uncompetitive foolish peoples that are now falling behind and unable to cope with 21 century challenges. With programming from profit infotainment political propaganda channels e.g. Fox News which criminally misrepresent and use the phrase “News” in their title when, in fact, are just a arms of the political party with an agenda, Americans are doomed to remain in the dark when it comes to cold hard facts around the globe.

What now? Is the US really losing the information war? And is public funding the solution?

Al Jazeera’s Inside Story presenter Sami Zeidan discusses with guests: Tom Fenton, a former foreign correspondent and author of Bad News: The Decline of Reporting, the Business of News, and the Danger to Us All; Charlie Wolf, a political commentator and broadcaster; and Abdallah Schliefer, the former NBC Cairo bureau chief and now professor emeritus

[whattheidonot]

1. hour to hour Fox rebuttal News Network

Fox has gotten so out of hand that an hour to hour rebuttal is needed on the News or internet. Not a left wing rebuttal just a rebuttal. that should not be so hard. MS NBC and CNN can also be challenged IT is mostly FOx though. They have down to an art form. They are not even trying to disguise it.

[Johnny2X2X]

3. This is true

I debate on Right leaning sites and nearly every issue there is an opportunity to bring up how FOX lied about the event. And not just in the slant, but actually editing video, faking poll results, pretending a Republican wrong doer is a Democrat. It goes on and on and I don't think Media Matters scratches the surface of their video and graphics editing. I see stuff I question on FOX several times an hour.

FOX is no longer a Right Wing News organization where you have to question their perspective, it is now a full on ministry of information and nothing, nothing! that you hear, see, read, or listen to can be trusted as being not totally fake. If FOX tells you it's sunny outside, you better look out the window to confirm. They cannot be trusted as an accurate or reliable source of information at all anymore.

They should have their license suspended and be investigated. It is wrong and illegal to purposely edit and change video, audio, and charts and present it as News.

[Uncle Joe]

2. But FOX "News" is just the red flag, blatant propaganda that enrages the American People while

masking the more subtle and yet most dangerous corporate centric propaganda passed off as news by the rest of the corporate media; they're the sword that actually kills the bull.

FOX "News" hard right propaganda legitimatizes the other networks right skewed point of view by comparison and just as the public might be consciously aware of FOX News warped information, they can and will succumb to the stealth, brainwashing, propaganda from the remaining corporate media.

What used to be tabloid stories fit for the Enquirer, etc. now serve as the main course on the nightly news hour, as the corporate media "news" morphs in to high brow Jerry Springer entertainment.

But there is at least a two fold purpose to this corporate media madness.

1. To divide and conquer the public along cultural lines on behalf of the corporations; that either own the American People and/or their representative government.

2. To dumb down the public, keeping in mind that an ignorant people are easier to manipulate toward corporate supremacist desires.

The bottom line is, this all for the corporate pursuit of money, power and influence, and any idea of a public good or enlightenment to be damned.

Thanks for the thread, w8liftinglady.