Is Fox News a Cult?
Once they gain political influence, they lose their cult status (imo).
Moot point though ... I don't watch anything on the Fox Network except The Simpsons, Family Guy, and American Dad.
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This is consistent with what any cult-member might say if he felt that his cult was being attacked.
All cable news networks are cults? I don't think that people who watch other news programming are anywhere near as cultish.
You want to see cultish behavior try MSNBC.
I have never come across anyone devoted to MSNBC.
I have and you act rather similar to that individual.
How does that individual act? And, is he as devoted to MSNBC as you are to Fox "News?"
Just for fun:
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/50818
This news is certainly no surprise to anyone on the right, but a new Pew study finds that MSNBC is far more biased than Fox News.
The Pew study, Winning The Media Campaign 2012, tracked the political coverage that President Obama and GOP nominee Mitt Romney received between the conventions and the final days of the campaign. The study of the media landscape (including social media) shows that Obama got a bit more positive coverage than Mitt Romney, but that his positive coverage took a nosedive after his miserable performance at the first debate.
But one of the more interesting aspects of the Pew study is the breakdown of bias from MSNBC and Fox News. This part of the study shows that MSNBC was far more biased against Romney than Fox was against Obama.
MSNBC featured 71 percent negative coverage of Mitt Romney whereas Fox coverage of Obama was only 46 percent unfavorable. What’s more, positive Romney stories on MSNBC reached all the way to a soaring three percent!
David Zurawik of the Baltimore Sun exactly pegs these results. Of MSNBC, Zurawik says, “That’s not a news channel.”
“That’s a propaganda machine, and owner Comcast should probably change [MSNBC President] Phil Griffin’s title from president to high minister of information, or something equally befitting the work of a party propaganist [sic] hack in a totalitarian regime. You wonder how mainstream news organizations allow their reporters and corrdespondents [sic] to appear in such a cauldron of bias.”
Why anyone considers commentators such as Chris “Tingles” Matthews, Ed Schultz, or Rachel Maddow anything other than complete propagandists is anyone guess, but this Pew study proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that there isn’t a single unbiased minute on MSNBC while Fox News appears to be far more balanced by comparison.
Another interesting part of the Pew study is that social media is even less forgiving than the Old Media establishment. This, of course, should also be no surprise. After all, social media is not expected to be unbiased. It is built on everyone’s opinion, not any even-handed coverage of the news.
The Pew study mentioned:
http://www.journalism.org/analysis_repo ... paign_2012
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The Canada Free Press has an ongoing Countdown until Obama leaves Office
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/About-us/
Klaus Rohrich...is currently working on his first book dealing with the toxicity of liberalism. His work has been featured on the Drudge Report, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News and Lucianne, among others.
Do Canadians really watch Faux News and MSNBC, and give a hoot about American politics?
The Canada Free Press would appear to be associated with the Fox News cult.
This is consistent with what any cult-member might say if he felt that his cult was being attacked.
It's gonna be awfully cold under that bridge this winter.....
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This is consistent with what any cult-member might say if he felt that his cult was being attacked.
It's gonna be awfully cold under that bridge this winter.....
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/About-us/
Klaus Rohrich...is currently working on his first book dealing with the toxicity of liberalism. His work has been featured on the Drudge Report, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News and Lucianne, among others.
Do Canadians really watch Faux News and MSNBC, and give a hoot about American politics?
The Canada Free Press would appear to be associated with the Fox News cult.
And the Pew study they're quoting? Look it up, it's all over the web, not just the conservative sites either.
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http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/About-us/
Klaus Rohrich...is currently working on his first book dealing with the toxicity of liberalism. His work has been featured on the Drudge Report, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News and Lucianne, among others.
Do Canadians really watch Faux News and MSNBC, and give a hoot about American politics?
The Canada Free Press would appear to be associated with the Fox News cult.
Toronto Life magazine reported that McLeod was harassing city councillor Betty Disero. McLeod had been driving past Disero's home, taking pictures. [9]
McLeod published the home address and photograph of Cathy Crowe, co-founder of the Toronto Disaster Relief Committee, in the CFP along with what Crowe's lawyer deemed defamatory statements. The lawyer alleged that McLeod was encouraging her readers to harass and even physically attack Crowe. [7] The paper also published the home address of "anti-poverty activist" John Clarke of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty along with a photograph of the house he was renting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judi_McLeod#Criticism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bountiful, ... h_Columbia
There's also a lot of Hutterite colonies in rural Manitoba.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/06/16 ... th-change/
Network marketing businesses operate as cults, as did Nazi Germany and the USSR
http://www.howcultswork.com/
A cult doesn't necessarily need to be an active religion to be called a cult.
An important feature of the cult is Information Control.
Just ask Inuyasha to read something from Media Matters. He has been thoroughly trained over his Cult's required response.
This is consistent with what any cult-member might say if he felt that his cult was being attacked.
It's gonna be awfully cold under that bridge this winter.....

At least now we know what you look like.
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All cable news networks are cults? I don't think that people who watch other news programming are anywhere near as cultish.
You want to see cultish behavior try MSNBC.
I have never come across anyone devoted to MSNBC.
Because they can tune into comedy central, bill maher, tune into NPR, or read the NYTimes and never miss a beat. You only have Fox News as the ONLY conservative outlet on cable. And that is why it blows MSNBC and CNN and ABC,CBS,NBC away, because you hear one of those, you've heard them all, but you can only hear conservative opinions on Fox.
For the record, I hate Fox. I've seen a few clips on the internet and I cannot stand 90% of the content I've seen, the exception being John Stossel, he always has some rational, fun pieces to report on, or when I catch up with Charles Krauthammer on RCP.
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I am amused but not surprised by the recent studies that show people who rely upon Fox News as their main or sole source of information about what's going on are LESS well informed than people who watch NO NEWS AT ALL! This was a local (statewide) study at first, but then they repeated the study nationwide with the same results.
The Daily Show on the Comedy Channel is a more reliable source of accurate information about what's going on than Fox News is.
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