My son and I love Fox News. It's fucking hilarious. God, I've even forgotten that American women don't swear.
Anyway, we only got cable TV a few weeks ago and definitely the funniest thing on it is Fox News. I know I know isn't it a tragedy for broadcast journalism... Well, not really, it's just a crass epitome. If I wasn't in the thought-numbing marking zone -- and no I didn't mean to send that last post twice, sorry, I'm all majordomo-illiterate at present - I might manage to be depressed by that. But at present I'd rather see it as cutting satire.
It just occured to me that any minute now I'm going to get the specialised Henwood you-have-sent-too-many-(or at least not sufficiently antologised)-posts post. God I've missed that.
In anticipation,
Catherine
----- Original Message ----- From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> Date: Wednesday, October 2, 2002 0:42 am Subject: Re: Tabloids and Taliqueers
> Daniel Davies wrote:
>
> >You realise that in the tabloid newspapers of The Greatest
> Newspaper Market
> >On Earth, that would be like just a normal day's editorial
> comment? I
> >swear, one day, someone is going to launch credible competition
> for Murdoch
> >and he won't be able to price them out of business. Then he is
> going to
> >give you guys a dose of real tabloid journalism and it will blow your
> >minds. The difference between British tabloids and American
> tabloids is
> >like the difference between crack cocaine and normal cocaine.
>
> Yeah, I know we have to make due with a diluted product here. But
> all
> you need to do is compare the NY Post with the Daily News to get a
> taste of Murdoch's genius.
>
> And now we have the Fox News Channel, too. It's politically vile -
> just last night, covering the Torricelli withdrawal, the only
> "expert" they interviewed was a lawyer for the Republican party.
> Not
> even a sympathetic lawyer, but someone actually drawing a paycheck
> from the party. And he flatly said that New Jersey law said the
> Dems
> couldn't come up with a replacement. Reading the (liberal) papers
> this morning, I learned that the law is more ambiguous than that.
> But
> not on FNC - it was an open and shut case. "We report, you
> decide,"
> indeed. But it's still entertaining as hell. I'd rather watch FNC
> than CNN anyday.
>
> Doug
>