Is it me or do others hear the same thing from our friends and family members who like to invoke the name of “Fox News” whenever they refer to hearing something on the mainstream media.
I keep getting this specific media reference when the person with whom I am speaking about the news of the day.
You know what I’m talking about, yes?
You’re talking to someone about, oh, a particular event. It might have something to do with politics of public policy; or … it might not. The person to whom you are talking will say, “I heard something on Fox News about that … ”
The Fox News reference might be relevant. So many times, though, it is irrelevant. It lends nothing to whatever discussion is taking place. I generally feel no need to mention the source of whatever item I heard on cable or broadcast TV news networks.
But, hey, that’s just me … I guess.
To be candid, this kind of gratuitous mention of “Fox News” is about as relevant as the individual who says: “I was walking down the street and this colored guy waved at me.”
Do you get where I’m going with this?
It’s as if the Fox News devotees are trying to validate something about their broadcast/cable TV watching preferences. Or, it might be that my friends and family members — knowing that I do not watch Fox News — are trying to get under my skin.
I’m not irritated. I’m just, oh, curious.
Fox News is Biased toward the conservative, while most of the mainstream news is biased toward the liberal. Neither side of the media reports the real news. The problem is that while journalists were taught in journalism school to report ALL the facts and let the reader decide, modern journalism is designed to filter the facts to fit the views of the editor or publisher and tells the reader to accept his opinion because that’s all that matters. What about us that are actually in the middle. We accept some conservative values and accept some liberal values. We aren’t represented by any media source.