I was travelling around the small Central American country of Belize last month with my wife on our honeymoon. We noticed that many businesses had Fox News on their televisions. The locals, as well as many foreiners, watched it the way they would watch Jerry Springer: equally enthralled and disturbed all at once.

The view that they get from Americans based on this news channel proliferates anti-American sentiment. After travelling abroad for close to a month and carrying on great conversations with liberals and conservatives from all over the place, it was a bummer to see the beligerence on Fox News. There is no dialogue--only diatribes.

I understand that the media in and of itself is biased to some degree or another, and I am not trying to single out Fox. But when we wonder why people loathe us (and looking beyond our foreign policies), we should focus more attention on these outlets that taint the American image and, arguably, the American way.

 

That statement qualifies your lack of objectivity about as much as me calling the left a bunch of scum sucking, liberal America-haters (when in actuality only the extreme left are .

Are you trying to say that Fox news, the only large conservative-leaning news network is the main one people tune in overseas? That whole premise is ludicrous. I'd suggest they tune in CNN if they want the U.S. portrayed as a bunch of pantywaists.

I'd say MTV proliferates terrorism more than any other media. Even liberals regard rap music as torture.... you know that, right?

 

You just let MVWRX out of the bag on this one, didn't you?

These countries loath us but rely on our breaking coverage and news of the globe that nobody else can provide to them. These countries loath us but demand/expect charity when they're in need or distress. These countries loath us but just can't seem to drink enough Coca-Cola and eat enough McDonalds. It's all laughable in the end.

I agree with you but what are we to do it is the problem. I have a few suggestions much like my ideas regarding wartime journalism that you and I covered in a past thread. MVWRX will be around shortly to tell us about free speech rights and censorship measures in other parts of the globe.

 

I wish there was some substance here for me to post on, as Salty has requested so subversivly, but to be honest there is nothing to contribute to this. I don't think dub2w was saying we should censor our TV programs abroad though. I think he meant that we should pay more attention to requirements for truth (as opposed to opinion and heresay) on news programs.

 

News is news. You can talk about the lame *** comentators all you want, every channel has a set of biased talking heads. Ie. Katie Curic, Ron Reagan, Judy Woodruff, Christianne Amanpour, Chris Mathews etc.. Some aren't as blatently abrasive as O'rieley but everyone already knows he's self ritchous, arrogent and pompus.

Point is you Know what you're gonna get when you watch fox, nothing is hidden or disguised.