Apparently the brain trust over at Fox News has hit a new low, broadcasting taunts to war protestors on its animated news ticker on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan. Even worse, the messages weren’t particularly funny or clever, based on the ones quoted in the above article. “How do you keep a war protester in suspense? Ignore them.” Don’t they have any joke writers over at Fox? (Bill O’Reilly doesn’t count.)
“We report, you decide,” indeed.
Even right-wing people think Fox is biased!
I hope so, Miss A. Now we just have to remind everyone how small the viewership for cable news really is. Big fish in a small pond.
I was just told that those comments in Fox’s ticker were viewer comments from their web site and that Fox included comments from people who support anti-war protesters.
I can’t confirm this, but it would explain why those jokes were so bad. If it’s true, someone has been trying to discredit Fox — not that it needs any help.
Ratings of network and cable news, from the Metafilter thread.