| stof said: The hell? What makes you think I'm basing it all off this article? Fox News doesn't have a shred of credibility to their name. You know why I said "I'm suprised they didn't bring on Jack Thompson"? Because the day of the Virginia tech school shooting, they had Jach Thompson on as a "School Shooting Expert" And while he tiraded against video games stating that that was the most likely cause, not a single person thought to ask if there was any evidence the guy ever played videogames. Fox News is the most biased, sensationalistic, yellow journalism predisposed, popularist propagandist tool on the air. John Gibson, Bill O'reily, Sean Hannity and Ann Coulter shouldn't be allowed within 200 feet of a microphone let alone be given prominence. And it's even corrupted other stations, as CNN has let Lou Dobbs off his leash in an attempt to compete. There really is no way to defend that joke of a station. This ME story is just a small, lesser example of their lunacy. PS - I still lub you Sqrl... sort of. |
I was trying to point out how quickly people twist these topics to another issue. How rather than have a discussion about the topic they are twisted into Fox-bashing session regardless of what was actually said or happened and it quickly becomes a foaming rant on Fox news...again. And your responce to my pointing that out was to move further down that road, presumably in spite.
I honestly think that the only difference between your post and one that would get any member banned is a few interchangeable words from Fox to [console name]. In all Honesty the post seems like its coming from a completely different person.
@Thompson side issue: I am aware of what JT did on Fox news, and I think its beyond ridiculous. I also think it is beyond ridiculous that when a news outlet brings on a pundit they should instantly be attributed as sharing the views of that pundit. I'm sure all of the people you mentioned as "shouldn't be allowed within 200 feet of a microphone" have been on other major networks before...so by that logic we should condemn all of those networks and papers that allowed them to give their viewpoint also right? Or maybe we should just place responsibility for a person's statements on that person alone? That makes a helluva lot more sense to me. Aside from that, looking at this issue specifically I just don't see how pointing to a single whackjob that got on Fox a couple of times even begins to form a coherant argument to support your last post.
I will say they deserve to catch flack for allowing thompson to misrepresent himself, but given the last-second nature of the segment I have a hard time seeing that as anything but a less than minor issue at best.
As for the PS, I wasn't explicit but I was attempting to keep the mood light because I don't like politics effecting the overall gaming debates and I try to forget what people's politics are when discussing other topics with them. If thats not the case with you then let me know, so I know what to expect.
PS - For the record I wasn't looking for a fight here, although in retrospect I could've been far more diplomatic about it. But you'll have to excuse me if I am a bit annoyed that after I said that I trust Fox just as much as any other network you explicitly ratcheted up the attacks. I can't take that as anything but a personal attack. I knew you disagreed with me but the last thing I expected was for you to be outright insulting which you most certainly were. If I had posted a similarly insulting and disrespectful post in responce to you how would you have taken it? What would you have done?
 |
| To Each Man, Responsibility |
