I remember the first time I tuned into Fox News...

It was right after the Election of 2000 while the whole thing was still up in the air...

I remember they had this big map of the US behind the anchor chair...

They colored the parts of the country by county that went for Bush with red and those counties that went for Gore blue...

Of course the vast majority of the map was red...

One of the news readers was talking about it was just a small part of the country that had voted for Gore...

They were playing tricks back then with the presentation of news, slanting it visually for the GOP...

I didn't know Fox from a hole in the ground but I knew right away that Fox was slanted...

Of course I had a college education that taught me critical thinking...

So I guess I had that over all the other people that can't see the bias...

During President Clinton's second term I noticed that the other news agencies
were working too hard to slime him.
I think the cons started this erosion under Reagan.
News men stopped calling the cons on their obvious lies.
No, it's foreign news and direct observations for me. Probably for life
I'm approaching 50, so domestic news outlets will not have time to earn my trust.

satellite tv in 2003. Just in time for the Iraq festivities, I watched in stunned disbelief, not even taking a nap for days at a time.

I don't know whom I watched the most, but there it was-cnn, farts nausea and msrnc, pumping and gasping.
I am a lousy juror, because I expect everyone to be honest. It just doesn't occur to me, unless there are some really glaring facets, that someone would be sitting there, making with the dead serious smoke signals and lieing their ass off without shame.

I'm so easy to persuade that I don't know what's going to happen on a Law & Order episode until the final minute--on a rerun.

Even gullible, Pollyanna me sensed something out of kilter going on. Not being familiar with satellite tv, I did not know what was normal, but anytime nobody asks any of the questions that arose, automatically. for me and they try so damned hard to sell me something, all of them saying and not saying the exact same things, I'm bound to get suspicious.

Then I discovered BBC and al-Jazerra and DU and impeachbush.org and firedoglake and democrats.com and KOS and plaidadder and then the truth sent me into catatonic Fux Nausea shock leading to sympathetic and impotent rage to a quiet anger that has propelled me ever since.

Wow that sounds pathetic. :puke:

I had heard of him but had no idea of the nature of Faux News or him. I don't know who he had on but it was an African-American male and he would not let the guy get in not one word. Just kept shouting him down and insulting him. I thought it was so absurd, I had never seen anything like it. Never watched Faux again.

it's usually followed with something like:

"was my only time ..."

or

"was why I swore off sex altogether ..."

was one of the Repugs' favorite tactics to attempt to justify Shrub and co.'s illegitimate "victory" in that election. It was like, well, if somehow we can blur the fact that * lost the popular vote and only "won" the Electoral College if all of the votes in FL aren't counted, by talking about how * won more land area, more counties, the votes of more rocks and coyotes, etc., then dammit- that's just what we'll have to do. I remember a particularly stupid e-mail that circulated after that election that included all of those statistics, along with the classic "Gore won more high-crime areas" (well, duh, crime tends to happen more in places where people actually live) statistic; that one annoyed the hell out of me shortly after that election.

I actually first remember FAUX News from around the spring of '99. They were giving their "Fair and Balanced" take on the Lewinsky Repug-sponsored-"scandal." I actually remember being slightly fascinated with the channel the first time I watched it, simply based on the bells and whistles of its presentation. It did seem to have the other cable channels beat in terms of being flashy, colorful, brash, and loud, etc. But after watching it a bit, the bias became quite clear. Since then, I've rarely watched it, although it's occasionally entertaining in a trainwreck sort of way. And it's an effective way to get yourself pissed off if you ever have a need to be pissed off.

Elian.