AlterNet: MediaCulture: Fox News: Unfair and Unbalanced:
As Robert Greenwald’s film “Outfoxed” generates controversy and acclaim, AlterNet joins MoveOn.org in a major campaign to challenge Fox as a partisan news channel – a 24/7 commercial for a political party, and an insult to America’s media consumers. And we’re going to need your help to carry the battle forward.
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I don’t watch TV, much less TV news, so I only know how bad Fox is from what I hear and read (this includes people who like it as well as those who don’t: if Sean Hannity or Newt Gingrich have free rein, that’s all I need to know).
As noted in the piece at AlterNet, Fox tried to claim ownership of the phrase “fair and balanced” (is there a better example of the Big Lie[1] currently at work?) in its suit against Al Franken, but thought better of it when the judge suggested it might be indefensible.
fn1. Joseph Goebbels: some of his techniques below.
* “The bigger the lie, the more it will be believed”
* “The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly… it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.”
* ” …the rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious.”