Fair & Balanced.
Tonight, my lovely friend Melanie (and her sweet Republican husband) joined up with a bunch of local Kerry supporters and watched "Outfoxed," a documentary about Rupert Murdoch's Fox News Channel.
Holy shit.
I think I have a foolish tendency to be quick to boycott. I found out early in my post-college surge of political interest that the Fox News channel was far from fair and far from balanced and not in Julia's favor. So of course, I stayed away, making sure my favorite right-wing pundits' pollution and the subtle choice of news stories stayed far from my brain.
This little boycott, however, has had an unintentional negative result: I wasn't outraged enough.
I'm completely fine with Fox News saying what they say, reporting what they report, arguing what they argue, effectively being a state-controlled media outlet, hollering "shut up" when someone disagrees, and using the most wussy liberal voices when they absolutely have to have a liberal on. I'm fine with that. Free speech. Just don't call it fair, and certainly don't call it balanced.
That dishonesty is fucking with the American people, and I'm not going to put up with it. Yes, I'm mad as hell.
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