The Radio Tower

That title alone is enough to prompt a defensive statement on my behalf.  I’m not a liberal. I’m not a staunch conservative. I’m not your categorically defined and statistically solidified demographic that votes for x,y and depending on religion, z. I don’t hate all news outlets, and I’m only partially paranoid, for example I think it is safe to say that Obama is a citizen and 9/11 was not an inside job.

Moving right along. Fox News is obviously designed and developed, packaged and sealed, and hand-fed for those who consider themselves followers of at-least-more-than-a-few-of-the-beliefs of the Republican party. Deny it up and down, no one cares or will take you seriously. This is not a bad thing, if you like your news to reflect your opinions, generally speaking, then Fox News and MSNBC(for the liberal minded populous) can deliver your custom portions, daily.

I’d now like to turn your attention to a current issue that is being pumped into the mainstream media like so much shit into a sewer: Health Care. Specifically, we’re talking about Obama’s Health Care Plan(OHCP). I haven’t read the bill, but I’m not going to critique or praise it or anything like that. I want to talk about the bias being thrown around by certain media outlets and the potentially harmful, polarizing effect it could have.

In today’s world of Twitter trends and headline news, most people don’t really catch anything more than summations and opinionated blurbs. Fox News has been running headlines and featured stories on vastly opinionated fact-less, politically worded ideas. The journalistic caliber of these stories is comparable to the body of work produced by the Soviet Union during the Cold War known as propaganda.

The single, most chilling, effect of this behavior is that no matter who speaks up against OHCP, or any other issue that Fox defends, they are instantly and unfairly characterized as being a part of the Fox Nation.  That is to say that they are associated with all of the beliefs and opinions that Fox is toting, eventhough they may not share them. Obviously, this can be avoided if a news outlet stays unbiased, but Fox and others have decided to start waving their flags and showing their colors.

I guess its just as well. It won’t be long until all of these cable news dinosaurs die out in the meteoric fire of the Internet and its endless supply of innovative and democratic solutions.

Also, long live NPR.