The Fox News Scheme

Yesterday I had the misfortune of being trapped in a  hospital waiting room for around six hours.
The room layout for this particular waiting room was akin to that of most waiting rooms, albeit it had a bit more of an  "open" floor plan then most, in that it was populated with a couple small tables, several chairs, two vending machines and an old cathode ray tube television set mounted to the wall.
This TV set was on one Chanel the entire time I was there:

Fox News.

At home, I never watch Fox News, I simply can't take the incessant blabbering.
Of course, I tried to read, (and eventually did,) but it's hard to read Tolstoy when a blowhard is going on about the "evils" of "Obamacare" and the "Wealth re-distribution" that is income tax.
But in spite of the blood boiling, mind numbing dribble, I actually learned three things, chiefly, that it's all a scam.

Read more, after the jump.

1: Fox News reporters only interview Republicans.

Everyone that was interviewed during the six hours was a Republican. absolutely no Democrats or independents where even mentioned, save when they were mentioned negatively.
Of course, the Fox News personalities are afraid to bring any one on their network who disagrees with them, because they know that their preposterous views cannot hold up in a debate.

2: Fox News pushes candidates of their choice.

Do you know who's running for the presidency of the United States in 2012? these guys:

Democratic Party:
Barrack Obama.

Republican Party:
Michele Bachmann
Newt Gringrich
Jon Huntsman, Jr.
Gary Johnson
Ron Paul
Rick Perry
Mitt Romney
Rick Santorum

Green Party:
Kent Mesplay
Jill Stien

Libertarian Party:
Bill Still
R. Lee Wrights

Prohibition Party
Jack Fellure
James Hedges

Socialist Party:
Stewart Alexander

Independent:
Roseanne Barr (probably not serious.)
Robert Burk
Terry Jones
Joe Shcriner (Yes, Joe the plumber.)

I understand entirely that they cannot cover every candidate, and most of these candidates are, at this point, seeking their party's nomination.
But in six hours Fox News only covered two candidates:

Newt Gringrich and Ron Paul.

They were showing stories about the two almost nonstop, and spoke nothing of them but praise, totally neglecting to discuss the Foreign or economic policy of either. It was as if they were praising them for the sake of praising them.


3: Fox News is a scheme.

Every half hour or so, Fox News would run a story about America's debt, Standard & Poor's degradation of America's credit rating, supposedly impending hyperinflation, or President Obama's supposedly
"Out of control welfare spending!"
Then, after a series of these stories, they would cut to a commercial break.

Cars, cellphones, insurance, coke, yada yada. But if the last story they aired before the commercial break was a story about any of the above topics, the first commercial would always be for a company that sells Gold over the phone or internet.


As a matter of fact, Goldline was  Glenn Beck's biggest sponsor when his show still aired on Fox News, and even now that Beck's time on the network is over, Goldline and similar companies continue to be the biggest sponsors of many of Fox News' most popular shows.

You don't have to be Noam Chomsky to see what's going on here.

In exchange for monetary compensation from the gold firms, Fox News is participating in a sort of propaganda, not in that it is promoting a certain ideology (Which it is, regardless,) but rather in that it is keeping viewers in a temporary state of fear and anxiety, presenting them with a hyperbolized problem and then immediately offer them a supposed solution.

But don't take my word for, think for yourself.
Brandon Montgomery