Posts
I used to watch Fox News a long time ago. At that time I don’t know if I was just too naive to notice how they were “reporting” the news or maybe it just was not as agenda driven as it has obviously become. Today Fox News is basically a publicity firm for the Republican party. There is nothing inherently wrong with the Republican party or the Democratic party for that matter. The parties were started off with good intentions and were just a way to generalized some different beliefs in how our government should govern, particularly in the foreign policy area. But over time, there have been constant changes and divergence of what it means to be Democrat or Republican and in the world today it would seem that the primary differences between the 2 parties are that Republicans generally feel that government should be less involved in our lives by having less regulation and government programs for the less fortunate, thus promoting the capitalist idea that each should “make” it on their own while assuming everyone in the US has an equal path to success whereas the Democrats seem to believe in a more socialist approach to assuring that all citizens are able to or at least given a better opportunity to achieve a better way of life for themselves and future generations of their family. Of course there will never be 100% equal distribution of wealth and power, but it should not be the other extreme either which is having a very small group of ultra wealthy and powerful families ruling over a very large percentage of working class families that, by the terms of our Constitution, should have the same rights and ability to prosper in our nation.
But what has happened is that there is a large group if individuals in this country that want to keep wealth and power to themselves in order to maintain that elite status over the populous working class. It’s human nature to want to do good for oneself, but greed is something that will lead some to perform some absolutely sinister acts. And unfortunately these groups of people have adopted the Republican party as their tool to try to sustain their agenda because the nature of the Republican supporters tend to be made up of individuals that lean towards the more selfish side when it comes to financial gain and overall class status.
And here is the beef I have with Fox News. It seems that their agenda is to strongly promote the Republican parties because that parties policies generally make it easier for the upper class to maintain their status and wealth accumulation at the expense of the average American citizen. All while purporting to be a real news agency and being “fair and balanced”. Fair and balanced is so far from the truth but it’s outright laughable when they say it with a straight face seconds after referring to the Republican party as “we” and “us”. They don’t even hide their bias that well.
So, is any “news” organization that has a strong political agenda really a valid source for news? I mean, after all do we American citizens want to be able to make up our own minds on issues and how this country should be run or do we want to be pawns for a for a few people’s game of have’s vs. have-not’s?
Now you may ask, why do I think Fox news is the one with an agenda and not “the other guys”? Well, we’ve all heard the saying “where there’s smoke, there’s fire” and that’s generally true. So if Fox News is always claiming that “the other guys” are just “liberal mainstream media” but 95% of the world is saying that Fox News is just trying to promote their political agenda, who would you tend to believe? Unless the other 95% of the world is in collusion against Fox News, then there is something seriously wrong with the claims by Fox. And I have never witnessed a group of news personalities so overtly make known their political agenda as the Fox News guys. So clearly not unbiased. So for me, I’ll get my news from multiple other sources and if any of them seem to be underhandedly promoting a self-serving agenda then I will not be tuning in, and nor should you.
Links worth visiting:
Fox News reports knowingly wrong information
No comments:
Post a Comment