well, lets agree to disagree (or half-agree) on that
Im happy to be born in a country , and live in another one, where TV journalists may have biases (who doesn’t) but are a bit more subtle about them than Fox News, which is mostly a propaganda tool.
I like a media to give me the facts first and foremost, not (mainly) some spin on them
by the way I had to check the definition of Manchurian Candidate... here it is:
« A
Manchurian candidate is a person, especially a politician, being used as a puppet by an enemy power. The term is commonly used to indicate disloyalty or corruption, whether intentional or unintentional »
Are you sure it’s not better fitted to the current guy?!
Of course you have to be fair and recognize the differences with FOX and other networks. All those pundits you hate like Sean Hannity, Lou Dobbs, Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, etc., those are NOT journalists or reporters and don't purport to be, at least in their capacity on FOX. They are conservative political commentators and columnists and are paid (very well, too) to spout right-wing talking points. The actual journalists that FOX has, like Chris Wallace, Bret Baier, Harrison Faulkner, Martha MacCallum and, my favorite, Shannon Bream, are all extremely professional and unbiased reporters. Of course they're all fairly political and from both sides, but they're professional enough to separate that from work.
Contrast that with CNN, which in my opinion has become a fucking joke of a network, and its so-called "journalists" like Anderson Cooper, Chris Cuomo, Jim Acosta and the worst one of them all, Don Lemon, who go masquerading around as "journalists" but are nothing but left-wing activists and mouthpieces for the Democrat Party using their jobs to push an agenda. I mean, just watch that utterly shameless interview with Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo a couple days ago where Lemon is ranting about the electoral college and how "we" have to "blow it all up" when Democrats re-take the Senate, to the point where even Cuomo was trying to shut him down and remind him of how Constitutional Amendments work. Lemon continues ranting that "we" need to "stack the courts," an idea that RBG, herself, said was a horrible idea.
My other beef with CNN is that, not surprisingly, they cherry-pick what news stories they broadcast. Most recently, they flat-out refused to report both Trump's Nobel nomination and then the historic Middle-East peace treaty. I forgot where I saw the screen shot but a CNN reporter outside the Rose Garden during the signing of the treaty actually referred to it as "some sort of large gathering," and the only time the network ever recognized the Nobel nomination was a few days later in a scathing political op-ed ripping on Trump for bragging that he deserved it. And let's not forget all of the "peaceful protests" like the one last night where cops were getting shot. You simply cannot get a genuine news report from CNN anymore.
That's also why I give MSNBC credit, even though I never tune in. They don't even pretend to be journalists or reporters. Every single figure on MSNBC is a proud, loud, far-left radical activist, with unhinged lunatics like Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow and that demented Joe & Mika couple but I give them credit for being honest about what they are. They don't ever report news. They broadcast liberal and leftist outrage.
That's why when people ask me where I turn for news, I tell them: FOX NEWS. I know that they report EVERYTHING. It might be 30 minutes of actual news, followed by 4 hours of talking heads and biased ranting from their political commentators but that's why I watch the daily news broadcasts and then change the channel before the commentary programs begin.
I don't know if things have changed since then, but I remember being in Japan, probably around 2007-ish, sitting at our regular bar with a bunch of British teachers and watching a BBC documentary where a reporter was embedded with a unit of American soldiers or marines in an Afghani combat zone. I remember being astonished by his reporting, which was surprisingly objective and detailed and really focusing on the challenges and sacrifices that a lot of the young guys were facing and how committed they were to getting the job done and going home alive. This, at a time when any "reporting" from any American "reporter" (from CNN) with enough balls to step off the plane in Afghanistan would generally consist of anti-war hysterics, rants about GWB's warmongering for oil and smug gloating whenever news of casualties arrived. I remarked about that to a British drinking buddy and he replied: "Because we actually pride ourselves on telling the truth, unlike your news networks." Probably true.
Whatever the case, FOX remains, by far, the
most watched network in America and has been for years.
