Author Topic: There is a movement underfoot to boycott Faux News (Non-DU bouncy)  (Read 454 times)

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Offline Ralph Wiggum

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I just read this on a non-political board.  Someone started a thread about Noam Chomsky, and this post was made:

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If that's the best you have, you probably find Faux News to be intellectually challenging.

You might even find Faux News to be fair and balanced.

Memo: If you have to say you're fair and balanced, you aren't. The New York Times, which I'm sure you loathe, became the United States' newspaper of record by walking the walk day in and day out, not to mention year in and year out. I acknowledge the NYT is imperfect, but its faults did not come from the executive suite.

BTW, I spoke up at my site when they had Faux News on their monitors the other day, and asked them to switch it off. Two other people encouraged me to speak up before I did. No one at my site ever asked them to switch off CNN.

The bartender gladly switched Faux News off, and I have not seen it on their monitors since. In fact, there is a movement underfoot where people who walk into businesses that have Faux News on ask them to change the channel, or they will leave.


BTW, if you look at O'Reilly's demographics, he skews older than GM's Buick division. Hopefully, as he loses his viewers to the graveyard, the pestilence to an informed democracy known as Faux News will follow suit.

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Offline Lord Undies

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Re: There is a movement underfoot to boycott Faux News (Non-DU bouncy)
« Reply #1 on: July 04, 2009, 12:51:45 PM »
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The New York Times, which I'm sure you loathe, became the United States' newspaper of record by walking the walk day in and day out, not to mention year in and year out.

This line of purposeful dishonesty made the whole thing a POS.  How unintellectual does one have to be in order to rage against a simple cable news channel like FOX News and worship the NYT?

Yes, it's just another "bouncy".

Offline JohnnyReb

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Re: There is a movement underfoot to boycott Faux News (Non-DU bouncy)
« Reply #2 on: July 04, 2009, 01:56:08 PM »
DAMMIT !!!! DAM THEM ALL TO HELL !!!! They're gonna force be to buy a business, go back to work and take cable TV so I can pester their asses with FOX NEWS.
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