Inside the Mind of Murdoch – News Corp’s Path To Domination
At least the Hume show is the best of its kind in television.
That’s 5 hours per WEEK. Plus 1 hour for the Sunday News Show with Chris Wallace + maybe another 3 or 4 hours for other Weekend Shows.
So lets round it up to an even dozen and maybe even throw in O’Riley for another 5. And another 5 just to be fair.
That’s 20 hours per WEEK of halfway intelligent programming. On a 24-7 NEWS CHANNEL. At a time when it is important for Americans to learn about the Wider World which is increasingly impinging on them, Fox cocoons them in mindless trash.
Think BBC without the BBC spin and that’s a News Channel. That’s what Fox should be compared to.
Fox is deliberate cynical ‘garbage’ designed for the lowest possible denominator. The information equivalent of musak. I sometimes visit sites such as the Free Republic just because they post articles that I might never catch otherwise. But usually the commentary accompanying those pieces is often ,umm, shall we say less than stellar.
And most people there think Fox is a complete waste of time because it’s tabloid heaven, 24-7.
Where is Fox’s coverage of Iraq for example? Fox coverage of Iraq in 2007 has been almost non-existent and yet 2007 is proving to be the tipping point there. That’s pathetic.
Let’s sum up —- Fox News is to a decent NEWS Channel what the Head-On commercials are to decent advertising.
And Murdoch is responsible for it. I don’t think he merits much of a salute for that.
