{"id":328,"date":"2007-01-22T18:46:25","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T01:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=328"},"modified":"2007-05-11T13:28:19","modified_gmt":"2007-05-11T20:28:19","slug":"fox-promo-not-the-usual-left-wing-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=328","title":{"rendered":"Fox Promo: Not The Usual Left Wing Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s happened. Fox has finally let the shroud fall revealing themselves for what we all know they are: A rabidly right-wing mouthpiece for Republican dogma. Over the weekend they broadcast this promo on their feculent air:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/Pix\/Fox_Bias_3.jpg\"\/><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The actual video can be seen at <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2007\/01\/20\/video-another-interesting-new-fox-news-promo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hot Air<\/a>, where they are moaning orgasmically at what they view as their pet network finally standing up for itself. In fact, one particularly comical comment has <em>ritethinker<\/em> opining:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0d00d0;\">&#8220;&#8230;If all you were ever fed was corn, and you were told that corn is only served on the cob, what would be your reaction to say a bowl of cream corn? [&#8230;] Could it not be possible that the people feeding you corn on the cob were misleading you? [&#8230;] Along comes this company offering cream corn. [&#8230;] That doesn&#8217;t mean Fox is slanted to the right, it just means you are getting the cream corn you were never offered before.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Putting aside the ironically apt use of corn as an analogy for what you see at Fox News, ritethinker correctly characterizes Fox as the purveyor of the processed and mashed variety of news as opposed to its natural state, on the cob. Fox viewers, no doubt, take comfort in the pre-masticated gruel they are being served.<\/p>\n<p>What on earth might have inspired Fox to throw the Wingnut Closet door open so wide? Why now?<\/p>\n<p>This is an obvious cry for help. They have been watching their ratings sink precipitously for the past 12 months. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?cat=6\" target=\"_blank\">Double digit declines<\/a>, month after month, have got to hurt. And in most cases they are being dragged down by their resident bloviating bully, Bill O&#8217;Reilly. Add to that the fact that the objects of their partisan affection in congress are either gone, or demoted. They no longer have the legislative safety net upon which which they have come to rely. To the contrary, what they have now is a congressional majority that has been a punching bag for Fox for the past decade. Oversight hearings anyone?<\/p>\n<p>This is the behavior of desperation. They are terrified of what the future holds. They can&#8217;t sit back and do nothing, but they have no clue what they should do. So they lash out hoping to incite their most loyal fans to renew their sycophantic idolation and somehow pull them from the brink of the abyss. To that end they have decided to abandon any hopes of being an impartial, international media outlet. Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2007\/01\/20\/video-fox-newss-interesting-new-promo\/\" target=\"_blank\">another promo<\/a> they ran this weekend:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/Pix\/Fox_Problems_2.jpg\"\/><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure that foreign news bureaus are going to find that to be a particularly professional journalistic posture. Fox is clinging to deadenders in the states to try to stave off the inevitable. Their ratings have been moving in tandem with the American populace. As Bush&#8217;s approval goes down, so does Fox viewership. With the public&#8217;s negative reaction to Bush&#8217;s latest Hail Maliki pass, Fox knows that the people are no longer hypnotized by the fear mongering of this administration, and of Fox itself. Consequently, they know that their prospects are as bleak as Bush&#8217;s. So they resort to this pathetic overreaching which only confirms that they have completely run out of ideas. <s>I almost feel sorry for them.<\/s> Ummm&#8230;..scratch that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s happened. Fox has finally let the shroud fall revealing themselves for what we all know they are: A rabidly right-wing mouthpiece for Republican dogma. Over the weekend they broadcast this promo on their feculent air: The actual video can be seen at Hot Air, where they are moaning orgasmically at what they view [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-propaganda","category-scandalous"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-5i","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10230,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10230","url_meta":{"origin":328,"position":0},"title":"Conservative Propaganda 101: Write Articles On 4th Grade Level","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/26\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Fox Nation vs. Reality is available now at Amazon.David Corn of Mother Jones Magazine has published another epic investigative report uncovering a super-secret right-wing cabal formed to shape public opinion via coordinated messaging and organized smear campaigns. 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