From Mark Anderson, of SNS fame, as cited at BusinessWeek:
”The Net is for news. TV is for entertainment. Fox is for propoganda.”
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By · December 13, 2005 · ·
Uh. Fox by comparison with CNN, CBS News and the NY Times? Or BusinessWeek. To laugh.
The little hard research available has indicated that Fox’s coverage actually is quantitatively more balanced ideologically. Given the competition, that gives new meaning to ‘damning with faint praise.’
And CNN is for… ?
Yep, Fox invented blatant media bias. Didn’t exist before Rupert and Roger came along. Riiiiiiight.
i can’t tell if the BW bit is a joke. the items are either “realities” or “out-of-touch with realities”, not “predicions”.
re: fox – hopefully that was a joke for his corporate audience, most of whom could probably be sued if they disagreed.
if he really thinks fox is propaganda, then he is probably also out of touch with the state of news and politics on the web…(and the strong, pro-fox conservative undercurrent)
unless, of course, his comment reflects his guilty enjoyment of the one legitimate criticism of web news/politics, which is that people can go and find sites that reinforce what they already think.
either point, of course, makes me wonder why anyone would listen to him in the first place…(not that I do).
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anyway, just as he figures out something many of us have known for years, i would counter by saying that nothing on the web yet compares to the immediacy of breaking news live on TV.
(so…instead of reading this yokel, go read the DDO! my waldorph conference is TBA…)
There’s a typo here: “Fox is for propoganda.”
CNN was misspelled as F-o-x.