Blaming the grim economic situation, the obvious precursors of which the Fox fabricators have been denying for years whilst mocking the "Libs" for their warnings, Murdoch told the International Herald Tribune:
"While we anticipated a weakening, the downturn is more severe and likely longer-lasting than previously thought."Who could have foreseen that? Well I for one and other, better prognosticators heard only dimly through the angry roar of the Fox filibusterers. Remember when Fox claimed that the robust economy was being "talked down" by "the Liberal Media" and offered statistics showing the "proof" in the fact that there was more bad economic news than good?
"We are implementing rigorous cost-cutting across all operations and reducing head count where appropriate."said Murdoch, and of course I have a list of candidates for decapitation, but before we get to feeling smug, the bad news in the good news in the bad news, is that amidst the general Murdoch meltdown, Fox News itself reported income of $428 million, which is up $91 million from the previous year. Fox News increased its operating income by 32 percent. Is this also a reflection of a desperate America's increased thirst for lies, damn lies and hysterical hatred? I'm sure that when the statisticians stop chewing on the news, we'll find that alcohol consumption has risen by a similar amount.
In any event, I'm sure that the global meltdown will some day fade into redacted and ill remembered history, but I'm not so sure about the United States of America as we know it. America is failing, Fox News is why.
Et evasi ego solus ut nuntiarem tibi.
I used to watch Fox News from time to time to basically compare their angle with that of CNN, MSNBC, and PBS/BBC.
ReplyDeleteSince the election I have not even thought about comparing their angle to anything closely resembling reality.
I cannot help but note that EVERYTHING they say and or present is negative. Its all so depressive and focus on feeling good about ones ignorance by downgrading everyone else to a lower level.
Even if Obama was able to snap the economy back into shape and give us a surplus they would deny it and focus on something that makes him look ineffective.
They basically call themselves conservatives but reality is that conservatives today are just in the closet reactionary fascists.
Que se vayan todos!
ReplyDeleteNot even the most rabid conservative could argue with that (O)CT(O)PUS.
ReplyDeleteI may be out of my league. I hope Chief Nihilist Repsac doesn't think he made a mistake promoting me to full fledged Nihilist.
Oh yeah. The subject. FOX News. It sucks. I said it and I'm glad.
I'd be a nihilist too, but everything is so pointless.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I'm enough of one to think that democracy is impossible in our communications age because tearing down anything good is so easy and profitable and lies always taste better than truth.