Fox Nation -The White Trash Pravda- Squelches Free Speech

[babylonsister]

http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=2965

Fox Nation -The White Trash Pravda- Squelches Free Speech
Posted by Mark on October 14, 2010 at 1:09 pm.


Most fair observers already know that Fox Nation is a cesspool of right-wing propaganda and deliberately dishonest attacks on Democrats and progressives. Their blatantly biased approach to news would embarrass any conscientious journalist. The Fox Nation is the perfect communications model for other nations like China or North Korea. They are publishing what would best be described as the White Trash Pravda.

Fox Nation CensorshipIt appears that their comments section is no more fair and/or balanced than their so-called news. Despite the fact that their logo says “All Opinions Welcome,” the truth is that only opinions that don’t challenge their readers’ sensitive preconceptions are permitted. When attempting to post comments there I am now being rejected with a message that says “Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.” Then, of course, it never appears. And my comments are always civil and relevant to the topic.

For instance, in an item about Bill O’Reilly’s appearance on The View, the Fox Nationalists noted with shock that Whoopie Goldberg and Joy Behar walked off the stage in response to O’Reilly’s bigoted assertion that “Muslims killed us” on 9/11. Here is my comment on this:

“How come no one on this site seems to have noticed that O’Reilly backed down and apologized for his outrageous bigotry?

He was wrong and even HE knew it. Yet most of the comments here are supporting the bigotry for which he apologized.”

This doesn’t even seem to me like a particularly controversial remark. It simply states a fact that was being ignored by the Fox Nation community. Nevertheless, I made two additional attempts to express this opinion and all were rejected by the Fox Nationalist censors. Comments that were approved included references to the the show’s hosts as “bitches” and to all Muslims as terrorists.

That should tell us something about Fox and their audience. They are clearly afraid of engaging in an open dialog. They have determined that their arguments are too weak to undergo debate and that their readers are too stupid to be allowed exposure to free thought. But when all you have on your side is disinformation and lies, I suppose it’s necessary to shield your feeble flock from frightening concepts like the truth.

This principle is in play throughout the Fox News empire. And it is why Fox News is so harmful to the state of discourse and to democracy.

[sailor65]

1. I'm surprised you posted this

Even though you're quoting someone else, the term "White Trash" is disgusting and beneath the quality I've seen from you.

[mmonk]

2. I've actually used the term myself but not out of disrespect

for the poor. It just comes out sometimes. (I'm white and southern)

[babylonsister]

3. Oh well... sometimes the shoe fits certain people. I

am sorry if you've taken this personally because that wasn't the intent at all.

[sailor65]

4. No, I didn't take it personally.

I was surprised at the post, not offended. It just seemed out of character for you.

[babylonsister]

5. I post often from newscorpse. I like

that he's constantly on the tail of faux news and their daily hypocrisy. And the term or expression didn't even faze me, so I guess I don't think of it as big of a bad description as you do.

:hi:

[HopeHoops]

6. That's not a fair comparison. Pravda is a news source, and a damn good one at that.

Well, it has been since the USSR fell apart. Prior to that it was almost as bad as FOX except that Pravda was controlled by the government to deliver pro-government propaganda and FOX is just the opposite.

[hobbit709]

7. I understood it to mean the Soviet era Pravda.

In those days even the Russian people caught the irony of the name. After all pravda is truth.

[HopeHoops]

8. Yeah, and FOX uses the term "News" in their name and the term "fair and balanced".

Same shit, different media.

Still, Pravda is a really good news source now, and yes, I also assumed the reference was to Soviet-era Pravda. Unfortunately, they didn't change their name when the USSR broke up.

[hobbit709]

9. Maybe they should have changed it to Novya Pravda.