Tabloids and Taliqueers

[Doug Henwood]

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:

>I'd rather not watch either, but what's so entertaining about FNC?

O'Reilly often has awful politics, but the guy knows how to do a TV 
show - it's lively and funny. And even though he has leftish types on 
mainly to make fun of them, at least they're on. Sometimes movement 
conservatives take the left more seriously than does the center (no 
one seems to read the Nation more closely than Russ "Mugger" Smith at 
NY Press). And Brit Hume is often annoying too - he reads the news 
like he's trying to hold a billiard ball in his ass, and he's pretty 
right wing - but he's coming from somehwere, and there's some 
entertainment value. It all comes back to Murdoch's genius - wretched 
politics, piggish business practices, but no one does the tabloid 
better.

Doug