Tabloids and Taliqueers

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Oct 1 08:57:04 PDT 2002


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



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