Crap American Journalism

[HansNZ]

I just had the misfortune of watching a Fox news broadcast on my cable TV. I can't believe the shit that passes for journalism in the US. It was EXACTLY the same sort of journalism I saw from Pravda and the old Soviet Tass news agency when I lived in the USSR 12 years ago.

No wonder there are people in the US who support Bush. This sad excuse for a journalist was interviewing Sen. John McCain and then Condaleeza Rice. While these people were talking, far from actually interviewing them he just let them make party political broadcasts. They were spinning all this bullshit and he was basically endorsing it. Instead of tearing into their flawed and weak arguments his questions basically reinforced their premises.

In democratic countries our journalists usually play devils advocate, picking holes in politicians' arguments and challenging what they say. It is then up to the politician to answer these criticisms.

George Orwell's predictions have come true. In corporatist countries like the US it is only the small independent papers or a foreign broadcast that will give you information that passes for accurate.

People like Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld, et al, look like fools when they have to answer to the UN or the foreign press. They are obviousy too used to their own lapdog media. This sort of junk journalism makes CNN, which is nauseatingly pro-American, actually look vaguely passable by comparison.

Blair is being torn to shreds by the British media in comparison, yet he's still being given an easy ride. I think the BBC has a lot to answer for, but these American politicians wouldn't survive five minutes if they were being scrutinised by a free press. I can understand why the British press has a reputation for being ruthless when you compare it to the American media.

 

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so it's only a good station if they are ripping bush and america, huh? ok. i understand.

you want 'fair and balanced'? go watch Meet The Press with Tim Russert. that guy gives everyone an equally hard time. i still dont know which way he votes.

then again, if you dont like what you see or hear, try changing the channel. maybe you can put NPR on and listen to a government funded network slam bush for 24 hours a day.

 

[HansNZ]

so it's only a good station if they are ripping bush and america, huh? ok. i understand.

No, it's only a good station when they are ripping into everyone equally.

you want 'fair and balanced'? go watch Meet The Press with Tim Russert. that guy gives everyone an equally hard time. i still dont know which way he votes.

then again, if you dont like what you see or hear, try changing the channel. maybe you can put NPR on and listen to a government funded network slam bush for 24 hours a day. [/B]

I hope what you are saying is right. I have seen a great deal of American journalism and so far none of it has been cutting like you say the above stations/journalists are.

I have actually had Americans tell me that CNN is hard hitting and critical of the US. That is so laughable. Much American journalism only appears to be "slamming" US policy with token criticisms because Americans don't have real information to compare it to.

You'd swear that France and Germany were being unreasonable if you watch the American media. It is the US which has the pathetic, weak, and totally transparent argument. You wouldn't have got that impression form the Fox journalist's interview with McCain and Rice. You'd think that France and Germany are spineless obstinate fools.