PlatKat.com: A Friend Who Turns Off Fox News Is a Friend Indeed

Wednesday, February 02, 2005

A Friend Who Turns Off Fox News Is a Friend Indeed

Today's pleasant morning workout was brought to me in part by Wayne Seagroves, who also expressed disdain for the Fox News Network's barrage of terror alerts and tragic accidents. He, like many other folks at our humble NI gym as it turns out, would rather listen to music and get on with their lives than watch the same footage of a plane crash for over an hour. As one person running on a treadmill in Austin, Texas at eight in the morning, I have absolutely nothing to gain from watching such drivel. That channel relies on the basest qualities of human nature to get ratings: fear and rubbernecking.

True, CNN isn't all that it could be, but calling the crap on Fox news is a joke. You call this fair and balanced reporting? Beyond producing lousy and unvaried content, Fox obviously pushes a fierce, unbending agenda that brainwashed reporters can't hold back defending when slightly challenged on camera.

I don't promote living in a bubble and being oblivious to international and political news, but I think Fox overdoes it. The stories are sensationalized and useless to the average viewer. TV news in general is not that great, but if I'm going to watch it, I would like to be diversely informed and mildly entertained, not mentally drained and perpetually afraid.

posted by platkat @ 6:59 AM