I suspect that a lot of people don't have the time or inclination to
find out if what they hear is true. It is to your credit that you do try.
Many people who watch Fox do not know that they are right leaning,
sometimes radically so. These people are not stupid. They just don't
know any better, for a host of different reasons. Knowing what our
country has become, such ignorance is almost unforgivable. At this point
polls are showing that most people who choose to watch Fox are right
wing ideologues.
In the last few years, even NPR has been penetrated by the right.
Several of the media I mentioned previously are not out to make money.
They are subsidized by radical right wing millionaires. They are part of
the Republican noise machine.
If you are curious, check out
http://www.motherjones.com/news/qa/2004/09/09_400.html
Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
A classic mistake is made here.
Viewership does not equal believe/and or trust. Viewership is simply
that viewership. I watch CBS news (Katie Couirc) Simply because it is
the main local channel we get local news on. If it were an ABC/NBC
station I would watch it more for news. I not believe and/or trust
Katie anymore than I do Brain Williams or the other guy.
I watch both Fox News and listen to NPR. Do I believe one more than
the other. NO! I base the things I trust in what I can find out
personally and can ascertain for myself.
Now that puts me firmly somewhere in the middle. Just because the
news says it or someone reports does not make it factual to me.
Remember what I said about reporting earlier?
Remember all of these institutions are all out there to make or raise
money to broadcast. Their main goal is to be profitable. (Exemption
here is granted to NPR whose sole purpose seems to be to raise money!)
Any institution whose goal is to be profitable has an ulterior
motive. Take it from a guy who has worked in the non profit sector
for a very long time. I have to remind my folks of this axiom all the
time, as we do not exist to meet the bottom line, ours is a different
goal, so therefore our methods will be different!
Not crowing just stating a known fact.
Stewart
At 06:04 PM 4/28/2007, you wrote:
Wadda ya mean Tom? Didn't the American Spectator and the Weekly
Standard agree with the Washington times? That's 3 of 'em. Their
thinking must be mainstream! And then there's all those think
tanks........They must be right...errr, correct.
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