I've been in the arts all my life. I know *exactly* how to manipulate
an audience. FOX News a joke in the US. They call their network "fair
and balanced" which is a real laugh. It's old Rupert's pet project and
fair removed from the way that the FOX entertainment outlets are run.
FFL used to have an Emmy award winning editor posting. He mentioned
that of the US TV networks that FOX was the easiest to work with. I
recalled an Esquire interview with Rupert Murdoch published in the 1990s
where they asked him about the content of his shows and he said he
didn't care as long as they made money.
What Brand was doing was no different than a lot of news analysts have
done critiquing FOX News. In fact there is a documentary about it
called "OutFoxed!" by Robert Greenwald:
https://youtu.be/P74oHhU5MDk
There are even right wingers who dislike FOX News as being just an arm
of the status quo.
On 03/31/2015 06:06 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
Re "Fox manipulation of the audience":
Yes, we know that the media manipulates the audience. I just hope that
you see that ALL the different media outlets - TV channels, cinema,
newspapers, mags - manipulate their consumers.
The thing is, I always get twitchy when people attack one particular
organisation (not that I've ever seen Fox News). It's as if they
imagine that their own preferred source of propaganda is reliable and
objective. Well, it isn't. Here in the UK I always read The Spectator
mag (right-wing) and The New Statesman mag (left-wing) every week.
That way both hemispheres of my brain are balanced out.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> wrote :
I watched the entire video. Brand pointed out the Fox manipulation of
the audience. IOW, status quo good, the public bad. I applaud that.
And since when does capitalism mean liberal democracy? In the US it
means a bunch of thugs who run big companies and screw the public.
Liberal democracy? My ass.
On 03/31/2015 05:09 PM, s3raphita@... <mailto:s3raphita@...>
[FairfieldLife] wrote:
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, <LEnglish5@...>
<mailto:LEnglish5@...> wrote :
That's it? That's all you got out of this video? "Blame fox?"
I got the usual overdose of Russell Brand's narcissism. His manic
presentation does no one any favours.
Do you really (I mean *really*) buy the idea that "capitalism" (aka
liberal democracy) is turning people into crackpots who willingly
terrorize and murder innocent people, including children? Ask your
friends and neighbours what they think of the outrage. They'll react
with disgust. Why should they react like that? Why haven't they been
infected with the Lubitz curse? Because they get on with their lives
and engage with the society around them and try and make use of the
opportunities on offer to do something positive for themselves and
their families.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, <s3raphita@...>
<mailto:s3raphita@...> wrote :
The loony Brand blames Fox News for the tragedy . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCREVmaRaeg
