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I used to work in an office that blared FOX news 24x7. What I noticed is whatever talking point Hannity or Beck would make that day, Conservatives on this board would regurgitate it almost verbatim within 15 minutes. It was almost scary, like a drone army awaiting instructions from the mothership.
I once had the audacity to change the channel to MSNBC, not because I preferred their coverage, but because after listening to the same loop for seven hours I was ready for anything else. You would have thought I had just ran through the office naked. One of my coworkers didn't talk to me for the rest of the week. Fortunately, our boss was a more moderate guy. After that episode we started hanging out together and I eventually got his recommendation for a promotion. His opinion of the FOX-BOTS (his term) was they were hard workers, but incapable of independent thought and lacked leadership abilities.
I no longer work in that office but occasionally I have to visit to give them directions. They REALLY love that, especially the senior guy who got passed over for promotion and was one of the worst Fox addicts.
The difference is that MSNBC is, for the most part, reality based. And Rachel Maddow has some very penetrating and well researched journalism on her program, without the bombast found on The Ed Show, or Politics Nation with Rev. Al Sharpton.
And Lawrence O'Donnell is good as well. Martin Bashir I find entirely reasonable. I don't see this reasonableness on FOX programming. Maybe Greta, I don't know.
Compared to your favorite channel, MSNBC is a freakin' National Geographic documentary.
I have to wonder how people can see things SO differently, but I guess we all wear rose-colored glasses at times... but seriously, even most of the Republicans I know scoff at FOX! Since you claim to know the difference between reality & fiction, though, I challenge you to prove MSNBC isn't fact-based and less biased than FOX. Go ahead, I'll wait.
When I first began paying attention to news when I was in college I wasn't aware of the terrible reputation that Fox News has for reporting false information. I naively chose to write a paper on one of Hannity's "facts" and, upon researching, realized that Hannity & co. are not in the business of news; they are in the business of arguing, and will distort and make-up facts that support their positions. Now, I'm not saying that Piers Morgan is any better, but I learned then that Fox "News" is merely the name that they gave themselves .
I figure a lot of you liberals watch Hannity oor FOX News for the same reasons I watch Piers Morgan and CNN....... to see what kind of nonsense the other side will come up with next.
I get my news from Jon Stewart because he is more accurate.
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