[lbo-talk] Rolling Stone: How Roger Ailes created Fox News starting in 1968

[Alan Rudy]

The last straw, for me'n NPR, was when they calmly accepted and promoted
their "reporter's" argument that the Greek people don't support the
protesters in Athens and across the country... because the Greek people
pretty much to a person accept and believe that the only route to recovery
is through much more draconian austerity measures.

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote:


> On Tue, 31 May 2011 14:53:55 -0400
> SA <s11131978 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > NPR's supine
> > centrism is of a much more right-wing shade in a world where Fox exists
> > than in an alternate universe where Fox doesn't exist.
>
> Doesn't the causal arrow point both ways? Can one not reverse
> this observation? Fox's right-wingery is much madder
> than in an alternate universe where NPR isn't... isn't...
> isn't what it is.
>
> "Supinely centrist" doesn't seem right to me. There's nothing
> supine about it. It's *actively* centrist, which is to say
> that it's always very energetically splitting the difference
> between Fox's latest enormity on the one hand, and whatever
> centrism was yesterday.
>
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Alan P. Rudy
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