Conquer Club

Many of us understand the damage Rush Limbaugh, FOX News, and 'hate' media' has done to [America] in promoting racism, homophobia, misogyny and bigotry. They perpetuate lies and poison the minds of people who get sucked in... Jen Senko is a filmmaker who watched the transformation of her father, as he slowly came to believe the extreme Right Wing lies, and she's making a documentary about it

chang50 wrote:Fox News,Hannity is the worst recently,since Beck left.Their motto is 'fair and balanced',yet every slot is dominated by right-wingers,and the token left-wingers are regularly ridiculed and marginalised.Look at Bob Beckel on the Five,taking on 4 adversaries gamely,shouted down every episode.Or O'Reilly's recent haranguing of Alan Colmes.Disgraceful.

thegreekdog wrote:

chang50 wrote:Fox News,Hannity is the worst recently,since Beck left.Their motto is 'fair and balanced',yet every slot is dominated by right-wingers,and the token left-wingers are regularly ridiculed and marginalised.Look at Bob Beckel on the Five,taking on 4 adversaries gamely,shouted down every episode.Or O'Reilly's recent haranguing of Alan Colmes.Disgraceful.

It boggles the mind why you would watch it. I'm pretty conservative and I don't watch that stuff (to be fair and balanced, I do read some of the stuff that comes from conservative commentators).

If we keep in mind that the ultimate goal of the Hannity, Beck, O'Reilly, Limbaugh crowd is to make money, sensationalizing and editorializing seem to be effective ways to reach those goals.

chang50 wrote:

thegreekdog wrote:

chang50 wrote:Fox News,Hannity is the worst recently,since Beck left.Their motto is 'fair and balanced',yet every slot is dominated by right-wingers,and the token left-wingers are regularly ridiculed and marginalised.Look at Bob Beckel on the Five,taking on 4 adversaries gamely,shouted down every episode.Or O'Reilly's recent haranguing of Alan Colmes.Disgraceful.

It boggles the mind why you would watch it. I'm pretty conservative and I don't watch that stuff (to be fair and balanced, I do read some of the stuff that comes from conservative commentators).

If we keep in mind that the ultimate goal of the Hannity, Beck, O'Reilly, Limbaugh crowd is to make money, sensationalizing and editorializing seem to be effective ways to reach those goals.

There is limited choice of English language news programmes in Thailand.On the positive side it has opened my eyes to what can pass as news journalism in your country

saxitoxin wrote:

chang50 wrote:

thegreekdog wrote:

chang50 wrote:Fox News,Hannity is the worst recently,since Beck left.Their motto is 'fair and balanced',yet every slot is dominated by right-wingers,and the token left-wingers are regularly ridiculed and marginalised.Look at Bob Beckel on the Five,taking on 4 adversaries gamely,shouted down every episode.Or O'Reilly's recent haranguing of Alan Colmes.Disgraceful.

It boggles the mind why you would watch it. I'm pretty conservative and I don't watch that stuff (to be fair and balanced, I do read some of the stuff that comes from conservative commentators).

If we keep in mind that the ultimate goal of the Hannity, Beck, O'Reilly, Limbaugh crowd is to make money, sensationalizing and editorializing seem to be effective ways to reach those goals.

There is limited choice of English language news programmes in Thailand.On the positive side it has opened my eyes to what can pass as news journalism in your country

The Sun and the Daily Mirror don't do home delivery in Thailand?

chang50 wrote:

thegreekdog wrote:

chang50 wrote:Fox News,Hannity is the worst recently,since Beck left.Their motto is 'fair and balanced',yet every slot is dominated by right-wingers,and the token left-wingers are regularly ridiculed and marginalised.Look at Bob Beckel on the Five,taking on 4 adversaries gamely,shouted down every episode.Or O'Reilly's recent haranguing of Alan Colmes.Disgraceful.

It boggles the mind why you would watch it. I'm pretty conservative and I don't watch that stuff (to be fair and balanced, I do read some of the stuff that comes from conservative commentators).

If we keep in mind that the ultimate goal of the Hannity, Beck, O'Reilly, Limbaugh crowd is to make money, sensationalizing and editorializing seem to be effective ways to reach those goals.

There is limited choice of English language news programmes in Thailand.On the positive side it has opened my eyes to what can pass as news journalism in your country,I only wish there were the saner alternatives available here to compare with.

crispybits wrote:Do they watch the Daily Show with the intention of getting their news from it, or do they watch no other news shows and find the Daily Show entertaining and therefore when asked to list the news shows they watch only give the Daily Show as an answer? I don't watch news too much (prefer to read it), but I like Mock the Week and Have I Got News For You. If asked which news related shows I watch I would only be able to list those two, but I don't watch them in order to stay up to date on current affairs.

thegreekdog wrote:

chang50 wrote:

thegreekdog wrote:

chang50 wrote:Fox News,Hannity is the worst recently,since Beck left.Their motto is 'fair and balanced',yet every slot is dominated by right-wingers,and the token left-wingers are regularly ridiculed and marginalised.Look at Bob Beckel on the Five,taking on 4 adversaries gamely,shouted down every episode.Or O'Reilly's recent haranguing of Alan Colmes.Disgraceful.

It boggles the mind why you would watch it. I'm pretty conservative and I don't watch that stuff (to be fair and balanced, I do read some of the stuff that comes from conservative commentators).

If we keep in mind that the ultimate goal of the Hannity, Beck, O'Reilly, Limbaugh crowd is to make money, sensationalizing and editorializing seem to be effective ways to reach those goals.

There is limited choice of English language news programmes in Thailand.On the positive side it has opened my eyes to what can pass as news journalism in your country,I only wish there were the saner alternatives available here to compare with.

I'm not sure I would call any of those shows "news journalism" no matter which country's definition you're using. They are more editorials than anything else. That being said, it is reasonable to assume that some people use those shows as their news (as another example - I thought I saw somewhere that 60-70% of college students watch The Daily Show to get their news; presumably after being indoctrinated by their professors).