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Is America becoming a cable nation?
Poll: CNN Is America's 'Most Trusted' News Source
by Mike Moody, posted May 5th 2010 11:40AM
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note: Stewart, defending his satirical show's impact on the media and culture, said during a recent airing, "I have not moved out of the comedian's box into the news box, the news box is moving toward me."
...one family member out here only watches Sean Hannity on Fox News, because Hannity tells it like it is, and another reads all the Glenn Beck books and says Beck is the only man in America who knows what is really happening.
Those two say, in effect, that CNN is caught in a cognitive trap, only able to see things through the syntax and grammar of the liberal left and cant see what is really happening.
Tell them no, thats MSNBC and theyll say maybe so, but CNN is just as bad.
Of course the whole premise of Fox News Fair and Balanced and We Report, You Decide was to claim they had escaped the cognitive trap of all other news organization and had no lens of any kind filtering anything thus OReillys No Spin Zone. And of course that was brilliant marketing. But ones mans freedom from the traps everyone else has fallen into is just another mans spin.
And thus there are the flame wars where OReilly on Fox and Olbermann on MSNBC go at each other, and the poor guys at CNN wonder where all their ratings went.
The poor guys at CNN thought they were just reporting the news.
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Is America becoming a cable nation?
Poll: CNN Is America's 'Most Trusted' News Source
by Mike Moody, posted May 5th 2010 11:40AM
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Fox innovation used by Hannity last week in connection with the foiled New York attack. For a text voting segment, he invited the audience to vote if you think the Times Square bombing suspect acted alone or with the Taliban or with Al Qaeda.
The winner, he announced at the programs end, was Al Qaeda.
So what if the correct answer is the Pakistani Taliban? Fox viewers are officially entitled to decide their own facts. Youd think that if America is at war with terrorists, it might be helpful if we knew precisely which terrorists we are at war with.
Were still paying for having conflated Iraq with Al Qaeda after 9/11.
Op-Ed Columnist - They Dont Report. You Dont Have to Decide. - NYTimes.com
note: Stewart, defending his satirical show's impact on the media and culture, said during a recent airing, "I have not moved out of the comedian's box into the news box, the news box is moving toward me."