They'll "Report", You'll Go Broke
Sure, both FoxAttacks.com and Media Matters have never said anything really positive about the Fox News Media Empire, but that doesn't mean they've been incorrect in their assessments.
So, without further ado, here's Media Matter's take on the new Fox Business Network:
And here's what Fox Attacks had to say:
So to sum it up: you'll get neo-conservative propaganda disguised as business advice presented to you by sunny, attractive people (most likely blondes). And if the news can't be spun in a positive way for them, they just won't report it.
I have a feeling that alot of business neophytes are going to lose everything of material value because of this network. If there's a story in 5, 6 years about "the decline of small business man," you'll know why.
So, without further ado, here's Media Matter's take on the new Fox Business Network:
I'm attaching to this email an important research document from Media Matters for America that should help you more fully understand just what to expect from the Fox Business team: rampant falsehoods, uncritical praise for the Bush administration, suggestive questioning, and scantily clad women, as well as celebrities discussing the news of the day.
And here's what Fox Attacks had to say:
FBN’s economic news coverage reminds me of the way FOX Noise covers the Iraq war. For the first few years of it, FOX kept telling its viewers that everything was great in Iraq. The US was clearly “winning, there was gobs of “progress”, every school got at least three new coats of paint, Iraqis were delighted to have the US forcibly occupying their country, and any bad news (like the insurgency, civil war, failing reconstruction, non-existent political reconciliation, Abu Ghraib, Haditha, etc) was just the “liberal” media, democrats, and far-left wackos being a bunch of nitpicking Gloomy Guses who hate America. Until it turned out that all this “bad news” FOX was insulating its viewers from was exactly the kind of information its viewers needed to correctly understand why Iraq was becoming an intractable debacle. And when it became impossible for FOX to continue its rosy assessments of the Iraq war, it simply stopped covering it, which explains why FOX covers the war less than any real news channel.
So to sum it up: you'll get neo-conservative propaganda disguised as business advice presented to you by sunny, attractive people (most likely blondes). And if the news can't be spun in a positive way for them, they just won't report it.
I have a feeling that alot of business neophytes are going to lose everything of material value because of this network. If there's a story in 5, 6 years about "the decline of small business man," you'll know why.
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