YOUR MOST WATCHED NEWS CHANNEL

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when im asked if watched news on tv my answer is usually something like, 'um, no' or 'yes, if you count the daily show & colbert report' & for the most part thats actually true. however, when i DO find myself watching cable news, i think approx 75%+ of the time its fox news. this is not (usually) a 'haha bill oreilly what an idiot' thing - (sometimes yes it is but hannity for instance i just want to murder) i have a friend who says, 'you know, this would be pretty funny if half of the country didnt buy into lock stock & barrell). & the other excuse would be, 'yeah, i watch news but its only so i can keep a pulse on the finger of republican nation'. but thats also bs, fox news rarely if ever feeds me anything about the right i dont already know.

so, as i see it right now, if asked which news channel i watch most frequently & i had to answer honestly i would have to say fox news, & if asked why i would have to something like '...uhhh, because im bored, & theyre the most entertaining?' WHICH IS SORT OF EXACTLY THEIR STRATEGY.

i am feeding into murdoch's machine & i just feel so goddamn guilty.

― deeznuts, Friday, 6 April 2007 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

im just wondering how common this phenomenon is iis all.

― deeznuts, Friday, 6 April 2007 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

I watch a fair amount of Fox News.

Its important to know your enemy.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 6 April 2007 20:15 (eighteen years ago)

Fox News is not your enemy

― admrl, Friday, 6 April 2007 20:16 (eighteen years ago)

that's what they want you to think

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 6 April 2007 20:20 (eighteen years ago)

Actually, it is. It is the propaganda machine of the enemy, and thus an extension of the enemy itself.

xpost damn yr pithiness shakey mo

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 6 April 2007 20:21 (eighteen years ago)

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He is sad because he watched it all day once and they didn't report on any fox related current events or fox celebrity news whatsoever.

― nickalicious, Friday, 6 April 2007 20:22 (eighteen years ago)

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― nickalicious, Friday, 6 April 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

there's a lot of girls on fox news i want to f--- and probably none i want to marry

― modestmickey, Friday, 6 April 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

who is deeznuts

a) sean g/scg
b) wisconsin trife stan peter s/asdzxc/hugitriller or whatever
c) some other dude

― and what, Friday, 6 April 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

yeah but shakey thats part of my point, does fox news really give you a significant view into the psychology of the right? i mean superficially the answers an obviuos yes but how many times have you watched and said "omg so THATS how they REALLY think" or "wow THATS what they believe??"

this is actually one argument where i would love to be convinced that i am wrong.

xpost which ones mickey? i caught a glimpse of malkin the other day & she aint bad.

― deeznuts, Friday, 6 April 2007 20:29 (eighteen years ago)

xpost WTF dude

― deeznuts, Friday, 6 April 2007 20:29 (eighteen years ago)

ANSWER C NOW PLZ STOP SAYING THAT

― deeznuts, Friday, 6 April 2007 20:29 (eighteen years ago)

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― nickalicious, Friday, 6 April 2007 20:31 (eighteen years ago)

I can't recall a specific instance where Fox News surprised me, their basic assumptions and positions all seem fairly predictable to me

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 6 April 2007 20:32 (eighteen years ago)

i watch the news hour on pbs fairly regularly. it's my fave news show. and on friday i watch the other shows they have on sometimes. washington week, etc. i watch cnn. definite love/hate for cnn. sometimes i'll watch bbc news on cable. i DON'T watch democracy now anymore. i listen to npr. the news. the news shows. open source. (or as i and the host like to call it, Open Sores) i read the new york times everyday. i read the guardian sometimes on-line. i like the friday wall st. journal. i hear fox news when i clean hospital beds and the old people in the other bed are watching it. i read magazines. mostly not news magazines, but i get news and info from them. harper's. atlantic. new yorker. even gq and esquire! even rolling stone! but also news magazines. and business magazines. and US magazine. And Field & Stream. And science magazines. i read books. i consult the gods. i read the tides. i watch the moon. i think deep thoughts. i talk to people. i listen to punk rock records. i ask questions. i keep my own council. i feed my children. i love the dirt.

― scott seward, Friday, 6 April 2007 20:36 (eighteen years ago)

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― nickalicious, Friday, 6 April 2007 20:37 (eighteen years ago)

scott you truly sound like a wonderful man, assuming you are joking about field & stream.

― deeznuts, Friday, 6 April 2007 20:38 (eighteen years ago)

I like Field & Stream!

― nickalicious, Friday, 6 April 2007 20:41 (eighteen years ago)

shakey thats kind of my point, if thats the case how is it defensible to watch 'a fair amount' of it?

― deeznuts, Friday, 6 April 2007 21:02 (eighteen years ago)

alt assuming this thread goes nowhere, WHY THE FUCK DO YOU GUYS LIKE FIELD & STREAM??? admittedly my only experiece with it has been in dentists office, & i havent been to a dentist in 5 years.

― deeznuts, Friday, 6 April 2007 21:03 (eighteen years ago)

well I don't watch it for hours at a time or anything, but most times I'm more curious to see what they're saying than I am Anderson Cooper or Larry King. Maybe because watching Fox I take a kind of analytical interest in what's being presented (and how), whereas with CNN I'm just bored.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 6 April 2007 21:08 (eighteen years ago)

PBS. Of the nets, NBC. Except I really listen more than I watch. Don't watch any.cable news.

― gabbneb, Friday, 6 April 2007 21:09 (eighteen years ago)

yeah thats actually a really good point, i think that may kind of nail it as far as im concerned.

not that it makes it even slightly more redeemable or anything.

― deeznuts, Friday, 6 April 2007 21:11 (eighteen years ago)

field and stream can i have your email why because i think you interestin

― nickalicious, Friday, 6 April 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

ok so to gabb et al, network nightly news is actually worth watching, & why???

― deeznuts, Friday, 6 April 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

I don't watch it, I listen to it (on a radio), and only occasionally when I want to know how they're gonna play a story that interests me. They still reach a lotta people, even if they're all Bob Dole's age.

― gabbneb, Friday, 6 April 2007 21:15 (eighteen years ago)

there is a guy who works the day shift as custodian at the hospital (i work the night shift). he's been there for 30 years. he's got a chair in the back of the supply room where all his magazines are. i sit in it on my breaks sometimes. its a good place to hide. sometimes i read his Field & Streams and his gun magazines. It's another world! I like to keep an open mind. I mean, I eat meat. Plus, i learn stuff about bullets. I still don't get the trophy/trophy-photo thing though. I guess it's just a natural progression from the cave paintings of buffalos and stuff. and people like to show off to other people who shoot things. everyone likes to show off about things. but i still have problems with it.

probably the magazines that i read at work that are even harder to defend are the ones like Gotham and Town & Country. And fancy British fox-hunting mags. Those are weird too. I don't know why we have so many of those around.

― scott seward, Friday, 6 April 2007 21:19 (eighteen years ago)

i actually have three subscriptions to 'fancy' british fox-hunting magazines so you can leave this thread now scott.

― deeznuts, Friday, 6 April 2007 21:22 (eighteen years ago)

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