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Don’t Vote Like a Sheep

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

I wrote in a recent post about how Fox News garners the largest share of the cable news audience by preaching to them. Americans watch Fox News because it’s fun to watch. A close friend of mine, who is a liberal Democrat, watches Glenn Beck every day because he is so outrageously over [...]

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I got some feedback from my recent article on Brit Hume’s proselytizing on Fox News Sunday in January.  Few were willing to put their opinions “on the air” however.  The feedback did not appear on my website for all to see, but came in the form of Facebook messages, which are (presumably) private, and emails.
Criticism ranged [...]

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Just when I was about to give Fox News another chance to live up to its “fair and balanced” slogan I learned that anchor emeritus Brit Hume, in a January 3rd airing of Fox News Sunday, urged Tiger Woods, the world’s best golfer and one of the world’s most accomplished ladies’ men, to give up [...]

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