Barry Hufker wrote on Fri, 16 June 2006 10:06 |
Fox News: Hitler said it and Goebbels did it -- tell a big enough lie often enough and people will believe it. Why? As Hitler explained -- people are used to telling small lies but would never tell a big one for fear of being caught. So if you tell a big lie people believe no one else would ever do that for the very same reason, so the story must be true.
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Wow. Rather than seeing Fox as the "Big Bad Boogie Man" why not just realize that news - all news - is a business and Fox appeals to a certain perspective and another group of advertisers. That's smart business.
They no more lean to the right than the others lean to the left. If you disagree, you're just not listening close enough to the others.
To get the broader story, you have to be open enough to get your news from a variety of sources. I regularly bounce between CNN, NBC, and Fox.
Plenty of people would love to just see Fox and talk radio go away because they're more comfortable thinking the world sees it their way - and that would be the lie you keep telling yourself over and over.
Sounds like Fox is your Inconvenient Truth.