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http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Fox-News-Declares-Lorax-Indoctrinating-Your-Children-29578.html
Just out of curiosity, who ACTUALLY watches Fox News?
Just out of curiosity, who ACTUALLY watches Fox News?
Just wanted to add something that I forgot about before. The Lorax is based on a Dr. Seuss book! Yes, a Dr. Seuss book! While every human being is inherently biased, I do not believe the author had any hidden intentions in this specific piece and certainly did not predict that the Obama Administration would assume power in 2009. :/ This is flat-out ridiculous.
During this time, Seuss also created posters for the American Treasury Department and the War Production Board. He joined the U.S. Army in 1943 and worked as the Commander of the Animation Department of the First Motion Picture Unit of the United States Army Air Forces. While with the military, Seuss would write Design for Death, a film for which he would win his 2nd Academy Award in 1947.
In his war cartoons, Seuss remained resolute in his position on the war, while lampooning the slow-to-act American political bureaucracy, organizations/politicians that were opposed to the war, and America’s enemies. On the home front, Seuss was especially critical of Charles Lindbergh (Lindbergh’s father was a progressive U.S. Congressman), the famous pilot, who was one of the more influential figures associated with the “America First!”, do-nothing, movement.
zeldahuman said:there was the "you mad bro" story
Koosholts said:This one news segment shouldn't represent the entire Fox News channel. Sure Fox News is supporting it by airing it on their television program, but this is the opinion of one man and it shouldn't represent the whole of Fox News.
Djinn said:Never knowing that the book was written a good twenty years before the towers were even built.
But FOX stretches truth or ignores the facts. Now obviously they're not the only ones but this still is over the top.
I'm going to assume you're talking about the segments that FOX News airs on their television station. If that is the case, then I highly disagree and I would like for you to give me some specific examples other than the one we're discussing in this OP. People like Glenn Beck and O'Reily, in my opinion, have some radical viewpoints but they never fail to support these viewpoints with fact.
Here's an example. The other day I was watching the O'Reily Factor with my dad who enjoys watching FOX News because he's rather conservative. I didn't watch the whole of it but there was one particular segment of the show that I found intriguing. He had two people come onto the show (I forget their names but they were both pro-Obama and liberal) to discuss the investment Obama made into two energey companies. Obama had guaranteed that this company was going to create thousands of permanent jobs for the American people. It ended up going bankrupt and several people got layed off. O'Reily had asked these two people if they could name any success story of one of Obama's government funded projects and they simply couldn't.
This might have gone a bit off topic but I'm just trying to prove that you can't generalize all of FOX News with just specific instances that happen with certain people FOX decides to support on their network. O'Reily was complaing that his tax dollars are rising and going nowhere and he supported those complaints with fax and evidence. He never "stretched the truth and ignored the facts" as you called it.
I'm going to assume you're talking about the segments that FOX News airs on their television station. If that is the case, then I highly disagree and I would like for you to give me some specific examples other than the one we're discussing in this OP. People like Glenn Beck and O'Reily, in my opinion, have some radical viewpoints but they never fail to support these viewpoints with fact.
Here's an example. The other day I was watching the O'Reily Factor with my dad who enjoys watching FOX News because he's rather conservative. I didn't watch the whole of it but there was one particular segment of the show that I found intriguing. He had two people come onto the show (I forget their names but they were both pro-Obama and liberal) to discuss the investment Obama made into two energey companies. Obama had guaranteed that this company was going to create thousands of permanent jobs for the American people. It ended up going bankrupt and several people got layed off. O'Reily had asked these two people if they could name any success story of one of Obama's government funded projects and they simply couldn't.
This might have gone a bit off topic but I'm just trying to prove that you can't generalize all of FOX News with just specific instances that happen with certain people FOX decides to support on their network. O'Reily was complaing that his tax dollars are rising and going nowhere and he supported those complaints with fax and evidence. He never "stretched the truth and ignored the facts" as you called it.