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Thread #121562   Message #3415332
Posted By: Stringsinger
06-Oct-12 - 08:19 AM
Thread Name: BS: Is Fox News a Terrorist Organization???
Subject: RE: BS: Is Fox News a Terrorist Organization???
I don't like Fox News and I think it's a propaganda forum for the GOP, but I don't think banning it would really help matters. The use of "terrorism" is too fashionable these days and I think it covers up the real issue, Fox News is being supported by ideologues in the GOP and is very one-sided in its reporting, often spreading falsehoods which can be "fact checked" easily. To ban the station from operating would by counter to the free speech clause in the Constitution.

The other side of the argument is: Are they yelling fire in a crowded theater?
I think that some of the editorializing that goes on with Fox News could be
held to account and much of it is on other alternative stations. Jon Stewart
skewers them from time to time with humor and has Bill O'Reilly as a guest
on his show.

No, there are real terrorists in the US, the offshoots of white supremacist groups
skinheads, the Nazi Party and certain fundamentalist religious organizations
that rival any Al Quaeda group in the Mid East. You only have to recall
Timothy McVeigh and the hazing of Matthew Shepherd to establish that point.
"Terrorism" is the new buzz word that has replaced "communism" to incite
violence. You heard it a lot under George W. Bush's administration.

What's needed is a response to Fox News and it's affiliates by:
1. Organizing a counter station that reflects Progressive values
2. Picketing Fox News and holding them to account for lies
3. Articles and broadcasts about their intransigence and falsehoods
4. Complain when health clubs or other institutions have it on
5. Drop the use of "terrorism" from your vocabulary. It's a catch-all
phrase that has lost its meaning through generalizations and overuse.
It is a propaganda term that is intended to manipulate a fear response,
a return to McCarthyism.