How Fox News Changed American Media and Political Dynamics

Lengthy speech, but damn good.

"The Challenge of Journalism... Is to Survive in the Pressure Cooker of Plutocracy"

The section most relevant to the direction the thread has taken:

Yes, mob rule! Shut down everything you don't agree with - Cuba, North Korea and every tinpot dictator in the 3rd World would be proud. That's no big deal, it's all for the public good as you see it, so no harm done.

Yes, because they're also the people who couldn't cut it in a STEM major. Basically, they're high school cheerleaders who went to college and picked something easy that put them in front of a camera. They are ridiculously shallow thinkers and follow a pack mentality. As they admit, none of them even know anyone who grew up in a trailer park or worked in a factory.

I don't know where Obama was born but assholes can be from anywhere so it's a moot point. I'd call him a nigger but I don't want to insult black people.

Global warming, oh wait...cooling, oh wait...global potpourri, is caused by Dick Cheney. At least that's what Mika thinks.

I vote. Not everyone should be allowed to though.

Tabloids. I read Hillary is terminal and Bill is feeling frisky.

Home schooling is stupid. But then again I'll never send my kid to public school. 8k for kindergarten is worth every penny.

Also...

I can't stand Hannity.

I'm against the death penalty.

I'm having a D'Angelo's #9 for lunch tomorrow.

I watch Fox News.

Yeah, if only it weren't for the insulting black people part, that would be such a useful word, since it has all these other practical denotative and connotative features.

You don't say.

Yah, I know. But it's so much fun to watch the sheep cuddling up to him because they think he's for real.

Res ipsa loquitur.

This former reporter knows plenty of people who have worked in factories, thanks.

And the "only STEM disciplines are worthwhile or intellectually challenging" schtick is something my Asperger's brother would say.

I take it your a former reporter because they found out you knew people who had worked in factories. The higher you go in the media, the more isolated their bubble becomes.

Ah, the world according to gturner. Almost as entertaining as Federal Farmer's cartoon world.

No, that's from books on anchors like Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings, and books by journalists like Liz Trotta, who worked with more than one self-absorbed, arrogant, bigoted anchor. One held that Catholics couldn't do real journalism because all their learning was rote.

I'm impressed that gturner consults so wide an array of sources to wildly misinterpret from. He's downright scholarly about it.

Anchors: Brokaw, Jennings, Rather, and the Evening News. I got it in hardback.

Liz Trotta's book is more interesting, as are ones from other former network journalists.

I have the feeling that she wouldn't do you.

Shut up, dildo.

You give him far too much credit. No part of the Squire is designed to be inside a vagina.

Oh, I know. But a man can dream, can't he?

What, don't like D'Angelos?