Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id RAA12800 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk); Fri, 21 Sep 2001 17:29:53 +0100 X-Originating-IP: [209.240.220.175] From: "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: US Tragedy Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 12:24:59 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: <F308VfreDpR80jPthju00017100@hotmail.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Sep 2001 16:24:59.0845 (UTC) FILETIME=[F582AF50:01C142B9] Sender: fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>From: "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>Subject: Re: US Tragedy
>Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 11:48:45 -0400
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>>From: Chris Taylor <Christopher.Taylor@man.ac.uk>
>>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>>To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>>Subject: Re: US Tragedy
>>Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 13:04:13 +0100
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>> > Over here we have "FoxNews" which I used to like at first, but it has
>>become
>> > a highly right wing slanted network IMO. If anybody has seen that early
>> > morning "memefest" called "Fox and Friends" they might concur. Anybody
>>into
>> > media studies should take a close look at that show and the subtle (or
>>not
>> > so subtle?) spin.
>>
>>You can't move for Rupert bloody Murdoch. Sky News (his effort in the
>>UK) is sensationalist, under-researched shite. The other day (pre all
>>this) they said that the American 'Anti-Terrorist Force' had been
>>involved in some internal security issue (militia-related I think). The
>>ATF is the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Fireamrms FFS. Idiots. We get a
>>feed from Fox News each day for a bit too, and that looks like it's
>>descending into the same vein (although he's had less time to fk them
>>up).
>>
>He has help from Roger Ailes who had some connection with Rush Limbaugh's
>TV
>show IIRC and with Bush Sr. and Nixon. I tried looking something
>substantive
>up on the web highlighting the leanings FoxNews may have, but all I could
>find were rants by left-wingers. Two wrongs don't make a right.
>
OK, I take that back. Last night I had done a google search focusing on the
keyword "Fox and Friends" to see if there were any sites which offered a
look at that particular show and could not come up with much. I just tried a
quick search using ["Fox News" "Roger Ailes" "Richard Nixon" "George Bush"
and "Rush Limbaugh"] as a string and there were more sites.
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