2007-08-03 10:11:11 · 31 answers · asked by Page 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I believe it does. However, my problem with Fox is that guest are invited onto it's shows then insulted, talked over and/or mocked. Hence I refuse to watch it any more. I think of it as a very poor excuse for pseudo-entertainment and not a serious source of fact.
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2007-08-03 10:23:39 · answer #1 · answered by fitzovich 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Over and over, the main stream news agencies have had their motives and techniques questioned. Dan Rather, is a prime example. And yet, demos still take the word of these morons. Journalists are supposed to just report the news, not create it. The 3 major news agencies want to make money with the news, and Fox does too. Fox points it's newscasts towards forward thinking conservatives, like me, instead of backwoods thinking liberals, like you.
Think about it for a second, One just reported that thousands of bridges are about to fall down. The other reported that 1,700 bridges nationwide are found to be deficient, and more than half are being repaired or replaced at this time. Which report is fear based?
2007-08-03 10:21:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Bush and Republicans use fear of terrorism to push their social/environmental agenda... Al Gore and Democrats use fear of global warming to push their social/environmental agenda... So just because Rupert (not saying I accept the premise of this question) may use propaganda to further his own views... doesn't make him all that similar to hitler... but just like every other person who has an opinion. I don't have any reason to question the sincerity of either side just because one side is more fearful of one issue over another. Partisans on either side will try to attach sinister motives to the other... try to imply they are Nazi's, etc... but that only shows me that they are hateful and desperate. Politics requires issues... to be elected a politician must have an agenda that resonates with his constituents... you as a voter get to decide which politican will best serve your causes. Implying Rupert is like Hitler will not help your cause... it will only broaden the divide between reasonable people on both sides.
2016-05-17 10:29:47 · answer #3 · answered by debora 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My biggest problem with Fox News is when mistakes are made there is zero accountability. For as many mistakes that are made in the local daily newspaper - The Plain Dealer - at least the "mistakes" column chronicles the errors the editors care to rectify. With Fox, it's full speed ahead no matter what.
2007-08-03 11:44:22 · answer #4 · answered by Zombie Birdhouse 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As a Canadian reading these answers, I am amazed at the small amount of substance to many of these answers. "You lie" answers with nothing but dogmatic rhetoric will not solve anything.
As for the question propaganda is not necessarily lying, but reporting only the part of the news that you want others to hear as well. And Fox News and CNN are both guilty of it. Watch both then think for your self.
2007-08-03 10:45:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No because Hitler had his country have only one source of news. And to many conservatives the 40 years that the mainstream media was wailing away on the liberal front without the conservative media was pure propaganda for the left with no voice of reason to counteract them.+
2007-08-04 03:45:26 · answer #6 · answered by ALASPADA 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. I believe we have a whole culture of fear.
Think about it. Recently when I went over a bridge the thought crosses my mind when was this last checked. Obviously I dont freak out or anything but the idea popped into my head.
Think about random earthquakes, poisoned chinese food, Al-Queda, half of global warming is some extreme doom and gloom predictions of natural disasters.
2007-08-03 11:04:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
“Beware of the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry, [who] infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How will I know?
For this I have done. And I am Julius Caesar.”
2007-08-03 10:23:36 · answer #8 · answered by azqajaq 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Church invented propaganda. It's seen a lot of use since then by every concievable political movement and ideaology. It's not likely to go away.
2007-08-03 10:17:07 · answer #9 · answered by B.Kevorkian 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No… that would be the Bush Administration, along with their buddies using FOX as a Lapdog.
2007-08-03 11:19:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋