Fox is making me Sick

The office building where I am currently studying Japanese has a small break room with a tv that is permanently tuned to Fox News - and it's driving me crazy. The news on Fox is presented in such a consistently biased spin that I would apply to it a description that was once used to describe the Greater Peavinean (newspaper). The Columbia Journalism Review described our state capital's newspaper as a newspaper in reverse - "it actually sucks the intelligence right out of the reader". Fox is the tv version of that. If Fox is all I watched I'd be very misinformed. If I really believed everything that spills forth from Fox I can see how I'd be shouting at public hearings and swaggering around with guns. Fortunately, I don't believe hardly anything that Fox News reports.

Triangulation is the only way to gather information in these times. I read and listen to a variety of news sources, both domestic and foreign, to get a better informed view of the world. My favorite news sources are PBS and NPR but I wouldn't want to limit my sources to them. Coming at information from several sources and viewpoints is the only way to function as a citizen in these times of spun, niche news.