This Sunday, during the SuperBowl, Fox took fair and balanced to a new level. In a rare display of patriotism, Fox had NFL players read the Declaration of Interdependence. What a patriotic act! Glen Beck should be proud! Of course, the Declaration was edited to remove content that might offend G[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Fox’
February 7th, 2011 - 2:59 am § in Uncategorized
AOL AGREES TO ACQUIRE THE HUFFINGTON POST
Where does this sad event lead? Are we headed to some sort of bicameral, corporatist 1984 where Big Brother and Big Sister compete for our interest .. and votes ….by spin from the right and spi9n from the left? Are we headed to an era where Democrat and Republican are corporate brand names [...]
FOX attacks Al Jazeera
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Everyone of O’Reilly’s quotes show NOT that the Qatar based news channel is biased but that Al Jazeera actually reports what happens. If some crazed ex internee talks wildly about being hexed in Gitmo by Jews and witches, is that something we d[...]
Campus Threats: Not Funny Anymore
Over at the AAUP listserv, Galya Diment has a funny post about a math professor at California State University, Northridge caught on video urinating on a colleague’s door. While I assume that the post was an effort to relieve tension, I am not at all relieved by the lack of focus on our REAL[...]
January 21st, 2011 - 11:56 am § in America
A Real News Station
As editor of THE-Ave.US I very much want this site to be truly balanced. On problem I face is that out national media no longer are balanced. Leaving off the tabloid extremism of Murdock’s chain, CNN, NPR, ABC, NBC, CBS are now so US-parcohail and so superficial as to be nearly worthless. [...]
January 20th, 2011 - 9:14 am § in Uncategorized
Berkeley Chancellor on Campus Violence
Recently the AAUP listserv has run a serious of emails from faculty upset by students involved in a game called “Humans and Zombies.” Apparently, students involved in the game stalk each other on campus and shoot each other with pellet guns that look realistic except for an orange tip on[...]
January 18th, 2011 - 9:00 am § in America
Humor: Listen to this!
FCC: Fox Commits to Civility SNL mocks focks or this (from earlier post): Wonderful NPR parody. fundraising[...]
Hate Rhetoric Moves On.
David Brock, former right-wing ring-leader of the anti-Clinton movement, writes of the oncoming torrent of right wing hate speech. See full article at The Daily Beast: …..I’m struck by how little we have learned from the political traumas of the 90s. The anti-Clinton craziness had nothin[...]
December 16th, 2010 - 11:04 am § in Misc.
Amy Hagopian, UW Professor, Target of Fox Machine
An Indecent Man: Bill O’Reilly’s Shameful Campaign Against Amy Hagopian David Zarin at Huff Post In my mind, when the Fox News star Bill O’Reilly decides to make you a target, it’s a badge of honor. This is a man who politically is a proud Islamaphobe, declaring, “We ha[...]
Obama, the Failed Professor?
I would like to suggest that our national problems have a strong message about the failures of American education. President Obama’s policies, given the challenges we face, have been outstanding, but his ability to teach Americans why these things need to be done has been abysmal. I say “[...]