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For Fox News and John Stossel this is going to be a career changer. Especially for John, I mean is anyone watching anybody but Fox these days?
Most of my news comes from either Fox or the Internet. Once in awhile I like to flip to MSNBC and CNN too see how they are reporting on the same story. Sometimes they aren’t even covering it. Most of the time they are talking about it and it just seems like Fox has about 200% more information on the story.
The best example of this; does anyone remember that story of the teenage highschool girls who made a pact to all get pregnant. Well I started off watching it on CNN I believe (could have been MSNBC), and they were interviewing the teenagers. The whole feel of the interview was basically, ‘Wow, look how cute this story is. Aren’t these kids so mature and grown up to make cute decisions like these. Wowwie! How did you guys feel all about this?’
The story CNN was portraying was all positive; which as time went by I started thinking. WTF? These are a bunch of teenage girls who can’t vote, can’t smoke, can’t drink, and can’t get into a contract with anyone. But, they should all decide to get preggers? That’s not cute and smart, that’s naive and stupid!
So I switched to Fox News and they were talking about the same story. I ended up getting a lot more information about the story that even though CNN had a live interview didn’t get to the bottom of the whole thing.
Fox was discussing how one or several of the girls had older men, twenty-something impregnate them. Now most of the girls did it with their underage boyfriends, but CNN wasn’t even talking about this; which happens to then be a CRIME!
Now the thing I like about FOX is they are Fair and Balanced. So they brought up the fact that these adult men should have been responsible enough to known they were committing a crime. Then, added in an opposing view that maybe the adult guys shouldn’t be prosecuted because the girls who intended to get pregnant were almost predators in this situation.
Why bring this up? Well, it’s becoming quite clear that nobody watches any of the other networks anymore. They put out the statistics on how many people are watching each network, and I’d like to think that the actual numbers are even lower. I have to consider that military offices and government buildings have TVs on displaying the news all day. Somehow they are always on CNN or MSNBC. So if they are basing these numbers on how many people are actively getting signal from those stations, considering how many TVs the government owns their are very very few actual citizens watching ABC, MSNBC, and CNN.
Why don’t they have FOX on you might ask? I asked the same thing to my First Sergeant and at the time his response was, “Their is no point in watching those who support us, you gotta watch your enemies!”
The problem that arises from FOX becoming the only news channel watched on TV is apparent from anyone who believes in the free market. Nobody watches CNN or MSNBC, then all of their advertisers pull out and they go bankrupt. No matter how much I like FOX, I don’t want them to have a monopoly.
Monopolies are very evil, especially in the world of news. *Cough Venezuela cough*
So while John Stossel improves FOX NEWS, I hope it also smacks MSNBC, CNN and ABC in the face and say, ‘Hey you better change your ways or you’ll be like GM, God forbid!’