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=MistressNomad;571423]But you failed to ask me WHY I don't watch Fox News on TV.
I tried twice to explain that my remarks werent aimed at you, but at the statement that was made and the problems I have with that line of thinking which that statement implies, of course all of which is and was and always will be nothing but my opinion. I am glad though to see that you narrowed your statement to "on TV" :) Thats what we are here for, to keep each other honest, which only happens when two or more views are allowed to be heard and examined.
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It isn't because I'm closed to other points of view. I watch plenty of Fox online. Although I admit I don't do it for my education of current events, since I don't consider Fox to have a good enough track record for me to trust anything they say.
This statement is a contradiction, in itself. How can one be open to another point of view, if said person already believes that they cant trust "ANYTHING" the opposition view says. Sometimes one needs to search through a dung hill to find a diamond. Thats why I watch ogerman, from time to time, yet I have yet to find that diamond. :)
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Here's a hint. It's related to the reason I don't own a TV.
I would suspect that not having a TV is a very large contributing factor as to why you dont watch Fox on TV. :)
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TV's are a one-way system of communication. As such, they are far more suited to propaganda, on either side, than they are to education.
The same could be said of our current education system, atleast until graduate school, save for a few fields, such as philosophy. Even with philosophy, though, I would bet that if ones view of nietche, went completely against what the instructors opinion was, decent grades could be hard to come by. Just because certain people have titles, doesnt mean that their opinion is 100 percent correct and unquestionable and should be open to rebuttle.
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I do not want to lend the ratings that keep channels like Fox News in business, and I certainly don't want to pay money for it.
Online, I watch Fox, CNN, MSNBC, BBC, and pretty much anything else. I do so to educate myself not of the news, but of the current methods of propaganda. And I do it online so that I will not be helping support what I see to be an inherently faulty method of education.
If you dont want to support Fox, you might want to quit looking online as well, granted its not the nelson ratings, but page viewership counts towards their advertising also, from which they get their sustanance, however I see from a later comment that it is only TV and not Fox you are boycotting.
I do agree about news channels being great at showing the latest techniques of propaganda, but instead of stopping at the propaganda, we should try to see through it, imo, and gain knowledge of something that before we hadnt known. Every opinion in the world is biased, if we only open ourselves to one bias, we already 'believe', we will never know, as Paul Harvey says, the rest of the story. Finding the bias is the first thing I try to do when starting to read, or listen to anything. Once the bias is established the rest of the works, are easier to dissect and get something from them.
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Particularly in the case of Fox News. Other channels may be slanted in speech, or occasionally lie by omission, but they tend not to outright lie the way Fox News has, over and over again.
All the same, it doesn't matter. I don't like any of the news stations, though if I had to pick I'd probably go with the BBC just on the sheer breadth of the news they report.
If I want news, I read an article or analysis. I don't watch TV
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Do you atleast put CBS news on the same list, remember dan rather, that chose to repeat rather than report(pardon the pun). They all distort the truth, to some extent to suit their opinion, its just that imo, Fox is always wrong, according to liberals, because Fox is contridicting so much they already 'know'. So they focus on the disortions, in order to not have to question what they've been taught. :) Which takes us back to the gdeat education system which is in place.
P.S. I just caught myself lying to you, check out the typo in the last sentence, I put a d where a r was supposed to be, hope you havent lost all hope for all of my opinions because of it. :)
P.S.S. I broke your quote up, not so that I could pick it apart piece by piece, but so that I didnt get too far off track or as long winded, as I find myself getting sometimes, alright most of the time and it didnt seem to help much this time either. :) I am only human, after all. Admitting to have a problem is the first step, right?
