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'Daily Show': the fair and balanced TV news
J. David McSwane
Issue date: 9/8/08 Section: Opinion
I have this silly little habit of watching the Fox News Channel when I'm bored or in some weird self-loathing state of mind. So for the Republican National Convention, I thought it appropriate to bathe in their conservative credibility instead of the CNN/Barack Obama PDA I witnessed the week before.
I'm not alone because this dense hemorrhoid on the backside of contemporary media beat outnumbered every other network in the RNC ratings race -- no surprise there. In a world with so many disjointed options with respect to the dissemination of news (and propaganda), people will seek the views that complement their own.
Usually, I find myself lost in Sean Hannity's soulless eyes as he farts out lies and pretends to ask real questions to Republican pundits or unfairly framed ones to the occasional dimwitted Democrat; It's always good fun.
But during the RNC I wondered if Fox was, for probably the first time in their history, vindicated in their slanted coverage and Karl Rove tug jobs.
Months before, when our editor asked me to join in the filthy self-aggrandizing media orgy that would soon become the Democrats' greatest advertisement -- the Democratic National Convention -- I took a shower, lit myself on fire and apologized to any deity I could fathom.
It was mostly the journalistic whore fest that deterred me from spending the first week of classes in Denver, but a tiny piece of me knew the relative insignificance of covering an event that would be dominated and shaped by CNN, which it ultimately was.
Honestly, I get most of my news from print media, but to follow a major election, the print guy must deign to the makeup-wearing ninnies of the major TV news networks.
And as I sat in my living room watching CNN's coverage of the DNC, it became apparent -- not only to me -- that if it tickled his fancy, Sen. Barack Obama could go out on stage and drop a presidential dooker to the applause of mainstream media. I call it "The Audacity of Poop" phenomenon.
I'm not alone because this dense hemorrhoid on the backside of contemporary media beat outnumbered every other network in the RNC ratings race -- no surprise there. In a world with so many disjointed options with respect to the dissemination of news (and propaganda), people will seek the views that complement their own.
Usually, I find myself lost in Sean Hannity's soulless eyes as he farts out lies and pretends to ask real questions to Republican pundits or unfairly framed ones to the occasional dimwitted Democrat; It's always good fun.
But during the RNC I wondered if Fox was, for probably the first time in their history, vindicated in their slanted coverage and Karl Rove tug jobs.
Months before, when our editor asked me to join in the filthy self-aggrandizing media orgy that would soon become the Democrats' greatest advertisement -- the Democratic National Convention -- I took a shower, lit myself on fire and apologized to any deity I could fathom.
It was mostly the journalistic whore fest that deterred me from spending the first week of classes in Denver, but a tiny piece of me knew the relative insignificance of covering an event that would be dominated and shaped by CNN, which it ultimately was.
Honestly, I get most of my news from print media, but to follow a major election, the print guy must deign to the makeup-wearing ninnies of the major TV news networks.
And as I sat in my living room watching CNN's coverage of the DNC, it became apparent -- not only to me -- that if it tickled his fancy, Sen. Barack Obama could go out on stage and drop a presidential dooker to the applause of mainstream media. I call it "The Audacity of Poop" phenomenon.
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Craig Hawley
posted 9/08/08 @ 12:58 AM MST
We have already seen how McSwane handles the Status Quo. Not with wit and fairness but with a F bush.
So McSWane trying to say he wants balance in anything is ludicrous. (Continued…)
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