It’s midday Saturday, August 27, 2011, and Hurricane Irene has already come ashore in North Carolina. Fox Nation presently has this featured at the top of their page:
What’s interesting about that is that there isn’t one single update to follow on the web site. Not one story about Hurricane Irene today.
The Fox Nationalists do have a couple of stories from yesterday that are tangentially about the hurricane, but are more political than anything else. Both promote the typically cold-hearted perspective of Republican leaders. Here are the headlines:
Eric Cantor: Hurricane Relief Spending Means Cuts Need to Happen Elsewhere.
Ron Paul: No FEMA Response Necessary.
And that’s it. No updates. No alerts. No precautionary announcements. No guidance to assistance providers. Nothing but affirmation of the Randian philosophy that you’re on your own, pal – good luck.
I am a liberal and don’t watch FOX news so went to it to check out what they would be reporting and found them reporting about Hurricane Irene. Sorry to say but this report is inaccurate.
Reread my article. It is reporting on Fox Nation, the web site operated by Fox News. And what I reported is still accurate. At 5:00pm ET the web site still has not published a single article today about Irene.
I just checked the site, and then I did something you may not have done: I clicked on the line that said “Get the Latest Updates…”. And that provided me with links. No, they were not links to what Ron Paul said. Do you know how to navigate around a website, sir?
Actually, I did click on that article. It contains a few links to other sites and a bunch of dated info. Either way, there is no reason to follow Fox Nation because it is not updating anything. It is confirmation that you should follow some other sites.
Well, isnt this awful, they only had it on every damned hour, all last weekend long.
BORING.
Maybe b/c there was no looting?