Can't sleep, clowns will eat me (RL, links)

[thistlechaser]

Blah. I'm in one of my not-sleeping periods. I hope this isn't a long one. I'm really tired, but my brain is wide awake and running a thousand miles a minute. Please don't let this be a months-long no sleeping period. zzzzz

Anyway, some links! Something to offend everyone!

This comic is simple but keeps making me giggle. Likely to offend: Religious people.

Yeah... You go on with your unbiased self. Irony at its finest, from Fox News. Likely to offend: Fox news fans?

Okay, I guess that's not everyone. If you weren't offended, you can line up for a refund or wait for more links tomorrow.

Ha ha, I reread the comic to try to judge if it would really offend anyone, and I giggled again. It's very silly and I'm very tired. :D Edit: I keep rereading it trying to judge because I don't want to really offend anyone, and the last panel just keeps catching me and making me giggle more. Both bits of dialog in it. Heehee. "Oh no!"

Comments

[quistie.livejournal.com]

There are...Fox News fans? I think that poll is more likely to offend common sense.

I don't have strong feelings about any of the news sources cited. About the only thing they have in common is that all of them are better than Fox News. Then again, I don't think that's saying very much.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah. There are people who want to get their news only from Fox News, who think Fox is the only unbiased one (which should tell them something)...

[naikitty.livejournal.com]

Not unbiased, just more biased toward conservative thought. ;3 Getting information and comparing it between multiple news sources (including Fox) is usually the best way to get a full picture, though~

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Getting
information and comparing it between multiple news sources (including
Fox) is usually the best way to get a full picture, though~

Yep, very true.

[barahir-ffxi.livejournal.com]

It's not that Fox news is unbiased, they are very biased. I just don't undestand why they get such ridicule though... ALL other news media is just as biased in the opposite direction. To say they aren't, is far more ignorant than the folks that believe Fox isn't.

So... if one network is biased to the right.. and a majority of the remainder are biased to the left... why does only Fox news get abused so much?

[voidmagus.livejournal.com]

Abused from who? Most of the foxnews abuse I hear and see is from the internet community, which is mostly liberal.

Not to say it isn't justified. Political bias aside, I can't tolerate the sheer quantity of bad reporting, particularly on technology (computers are magic boxes! with porn!), from all major media outlets.

[barahir-ffxi.livejournal.com]

Abused from who? Most of the foxnews abuse I hear and see is from the internet community, which is mostly liberal.

That's pretty much exactly who I was referring to.. as a fan of FoxNews, I simply like having news stories presented to me in a way that jives with my particular viewpoints. I think that's kind of why the liberals/progressives don't really notice bias in the mainstream media. All of it is being presented in a manner that is preferential to their viewpoints.

You are definitely right about the bad reporting though. News in general today is just done so horribly with so little objectivity... Most nightly news shows really should be called nightly opinion shows now...

[quistie.livejournal.com]

I think Fox News receives so much abuse because of the FOX brand name receives a lot of abuse, perhaps deservedly so.

For instance, I prefer the Fox Sports web site over the ESPN one, because I feel that it is slightly better. However, in the absence of a comparative product, I would *never* say that the Fox Sports web site is good, or even above average. Because it's not. (The editing is poor, some bad writers, etc.)

I feel exactly the same way about the Fox network. I love House, M.D. and I still think 24 is pretty good. However, I don't think much of the network as a whole.

If you have a brand name that stands for "decidedly mediocre," you're going to attract a fair amount of ridicule. It may not be fair; that's just how it is.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

as a fan of FoxNews,
I simply like having news stories presented to me in a way that jives
with my particular viewpoints. I think that's kind of why the
liberals/progressives don't really notice bias in the mainstream media.
All of it is being presented in a manner that is preferential to their
viewpoints.

That makes sense to me. When people say NPR is biased, I scratch my head and go 'Buh?'. Yet from what I hear from those on the other side, NPR is the most liberal of the news choices?

Off Topic

[barahir-ffxi.livejournal.com]

Not related to this, but I figured you would get a reply email so you would see it...

Wasn't sure you knew that there are hearings being held in Washington to re-evaluate the military's "don't ask don't tell" policy, today actually. Thought that would be something you would like to know that doesn't seem to be getting much media attn... from anyone, biased or nt ;)

Re: Off Topic

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yay! I heard a short news story (on NPR) about that this morning! Also they included mention of a poll done by CBS. They asked Americans if they were for or against openly gay people serving in the military. 70% of Americans were pro letting openly homosexual people serve. o.O That boggled me hard!

And unrelated: Typing NPR is very, very hard. My fingers want to make it NPC instead. :P