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RE: Russell Brand destroys Fox News
June 27, 2014 at 10:36 am
(This post was last modified: June 27, 2014 at 10:36 am by SteelCurtain.)
Ahhh. Bullshit Mountain.
It's that travesty that happens when a shrinking minority of people who have a bit of money watch one TV station for their "news."
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RE: Russell Brand destroys Fox News
June 27, 2014 at 10:51 am
Hmm. My opinion of Russel Brand just went up.
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RE: Russell Brand destroys Fox News
June 27, 2014 at 11:10 am
(June 27, 2014 at 8:52 am)Napoléon Wrote: No wonder so much of America is indoctrinated with ignorance if these are the kinds of people allowed to spout vitriol on a news station.
Pretty much.
Fox "News" = The "Pravda" of the American right wing
No doubt the creators of Fox "News" studied the propaganda ministry of the former Soviet Union and used their techniques.
Most of the rest of the American media is controlled by one of six major corporations. While not as overt as Fox, American media offers a heavy right wing, pro-corporate-interest slant. We sometimes won't even hear about news stories if corporate interests won't allow it. The slant is underscored on the Sunday talk shows (shows where issues are discussed in depth by pundits) usually feature hard-right-neo-cons and soft-spoken-faux-liberals.
On a related note, I just love it on the occasions when GOP pundits and politicians go on foreign media shows and you see that deer-in-the-headlights look in their eyes as they are asked hard questions instead of getting the softball treatment they receive on our media.
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RE: Russell Brand destroys Fox News
June 27, 2014 at 12:01 pm
(June 27, 2014 at 12:01 pm)Heywood Wrote: I've seen rants just as silly on MSNBC. Foxnews doesn't have an exclusive on stupidity.
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Russell Brand destroys Fox News
June 27, 2014 at 12:24 pm
Thanks for posting those. I was going to say, Russell Brand is pretty on the ball with this sort of thing.