Fox “news” is not in the business of making its viewing audience think (or appealing to those who do). Successful programming requires only memorization and repetition. Here are some of Fox’s success stories:
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These people will be first in line at the polls on Tuesday. Watch some of the video (if you have a strong stomach) and ask yourself: Do you really want to leave the selection of our country’s leadership up to them — again?
via: radiofortheblind
Fair summary:
So, VOTE!!
liberalsarecool: Predetermined narratives for the willfully ignorant.
Of course, who can criticize them too much for sticking with what ALWAYS works with their reliably low-info, ‘Omg, all the brown people will git us because of our freeeeedoms!’, Fox “News” brainwashed supporters? BE AFRAID, VOTE REPUBLICAN!
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To which Micah Zenko, writing on the Council on Foreign Relations (blog) calls bullshit [emphasis below is mine]:
Clear and Present Safety: The United States Is More Secure than Washington Thinks
In stark contrast to the prevailing rhetoric from Washington, we argue that the world today is one with fewer violent conflicts, increased political freedom, and greater economic opportunity than at virtually any other point in human history. On average, people enjoy longer life expectancy. The United States faces no plausible existential threats and no near-term competition for the role of global hegemon. The U.S. military is indisputably the most powerful in the world, and the U.S. economy remains the largest as well as among the most vibrant and dynamic.
Rather than multitude of threats, the United States faces challenges such as climate change, pandemic diseases, economic instability, and transnational criminal networks that post little risk to most American citizens and can be managed with existing diplomatic, economic, and—to a much lesser extent—military tools. To confront these challenges, we write, “American foreign policy needs fewer people who can jump out of airplanes and more who can convene roundtable discussions and lead negotiations.”
Today, the U.S. Agency for International Development and State Department (comprising 2,000 and 30,000 employees, respectively) share a $50 billion foreign affairs budget, while the Pentagon maintains more than 1.6 million employees and a budget upwards of $600 billion. When confronted by the numbers, it doesn’t come as a surprise that policymakers tend to perceive challenges through the distorting lens of the U.S. military, and respond accordingly.
Related — Bomb, baby, bomb!!
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If you watch Fox “News,” do yourself and your loved ones a favor: stop.
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FOX VIEWERS, pay no attention to the GOP’s actual agenda in Washington (more tax cuts for the wealthiest paid for with austerity cuts to your services and programs). Remember, the rich deserve all the money. Instead focus on how many times the Democratic presidents say GOD when compared to Dubya on the Holy Day of Thanksgiving. On the other hand, forget the fact that GWB invaded Iraq based on lies, killing thousands and thousands of innocent people and spending the nation’s treasury to enrich war profiteers and fellow one-percenters. What’s really important is that Dubya said GOD at Thanksgiving more times than Clinton or Obama. You know this is important because Fox made a graphic for you to focus on, to memorize, to crowd out all that other information you don’t need to think about… Raymond Prentice Shaw… Listen…
This is hilarious. Rupert Murdoch wants to be king of The Idiocracy:
“According to the latest results from Fairleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind Poll, some news sources make us less likely to know what’s going on in the world…
[P]eople who watch Fox News, the most popular of the 24-hour cable news networks, are 18-points less likely to know that Egyptians overthrew their government than those who watch no news at all (after controlling for other news sources, partisanship, education and other demographic factors). Fox News watchers are also 6-points less likely to know that Syrians have not yet overthrown their government than those who watch no news.
“Because of the controls for partisanship, we know these results are not just driven by Republicans or other groups being more likely to watch Fox News,” said Dan Cassino, a professor of political science at Fairleigh Dickinson and an analyst for the PublicMind Poll. “Rather, the results show us that there is something about watching Fox News that leads people to do worse on these questions than those who don’t watch any news at all.””
— The most misinformed news consumers (via: ryking)
liberalsarecool: FOX News: often wrong, never in doubt
Let’s take a quick look at the views on education / the Dept. of Education between President Obama and the GOP presidential candidates and their fan base:
Obama Says Better Public School System Key to Economic Recovery | Bloomberg
President Barack Obama said improving the nation’s public schools is crucial to the U.S.’s economic recovery as he highlighted his decision to let states sidestep the No Child Left Behind law by raising education standards.
“Education is an essential part of this economic agenda,” the president said today in a weekly radio and Internet address that urged Congress to pass his $447 billion jobs plan that includes money for teachers and schools. “It is an undeniable fact that countries who out-educate us today will out-compete us tomorrow. Businesses will hire wherever the highly skilled, highly trained workers are located.”
If the U.S. is “serious about building an economy that lasts” and strengthening the middle class, “we had better be serious about education,” Obama said. “We have to pick up our game and raise our standards.”
Now compare the ideas from the Fox “News” GOP debate this past week:
Abolish the Education Department? Abandoned Idea Gets New Life | Fox “News”
“I am going to promise to advocate the abolishment of the federal Department of Education.” — former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson.
“What I would do as president of the United States is pass the mother of all repeal bills on education. Then I would go over to the Department of Education, I’d turn off the lights, I would lock the door and I would spend all the money back to the states and localities.” — Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann
“You need to dramatically shrink the federal Department of Education, get rid of virtually all of its regulations.” — former House Speaker Newt Gingrich
“In 1980, when the Republican Party ran, part of the platform was to get rid of the Department of Education. By the year 2000, (that issue) was eliminated, and we fed on to it. Then … Republicans added No Child Left Behind.” — complained Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas
While Herman Cain said he would eliminate the EPA on TV, online viewers answered the same question on the YouTube.com/FoxNews channel, and they overwhelmingly favored eliminating the Department of Education (by 47%!!). Via: Google Public Sector blogspot
In summary:
The result of [Roger Ailes] concerted campaign of disinformation is a viewership that knows almost nothing about what’s going on in the world. According to recent polls, Fox News viewers are the most misinformed of all news consumers. They are 12 percentage points more likely to believe the stimulus package caused job losses, 17 points more likely to believe Muslims want to establish Shariah law in America, 30 points more likely to say that scientists dispute global warming, and 31 points more likely to doubt President Obama’s citizenship. In fact, a study by the University of Maryland reveals, ignorance of Fox viewers actually increases the longer they watch the network. That’s because Ailes isn’t interested in providing people with information, or even a balanced range of perspectives. Like his political mentor, Richard Nixon, Ailes traffics in the emotions of victimization. — Tim Dickinson | Rolling Stone
JUST TO CLEAR UP THIS DELUDED THOUGHT PROCESS: There’s no difference between Republicans and Democrats! Just like Bush! Doesn’t matter IF you vote or who you vote for!
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