It has taken long enough, but finally advertisers have had enough with at least one Fox show — crazy, deranged Glen Beck. Beck says the most outrageous nonsense — burns people with gasoline, calls Obama a racist, etc. There is NOTHING this guy won’t do or say to get ratings. Finally, 30 or more advertisers have dumped his show. Still, the financial entertainer Jim Cramer calls Beck “a nice guy” — Cramer is the person Jon Stewart called out for his outrageous recommendations leading up to the financial crisis.
More Advertisers Bolt Glenn Beck.
Yet, Fox News has the highest ratings. Granted, the numbers represent a very small portion of America population. And conservatives apparently watch more TV than liberals and progressives. This is because there is so little worth watching on political television. When was the last time that political television had somebody like Naomi Klein talking about shock capitalism?
News, thanks largely to Fox News, has been transformed into entertainment. Even the nightly news broadcasts have very little news and certainly nothing like the news of previous generations — people like Walter Crokrite to name just one.
Yet, Fox News, contrary to the ratings, does not reflect the views of America. But the nonsense of Fox News does have influence on people. Study after study shows that people who watch Fox News believe all sorts of factual nonsense, e.g. Saddam Hussein was behind 911. See the documentary Outfoxed for lots of other outrageous stuff people who watch Fox News believe.
America has the very government that the people elect. This is perhaps the saddest statement to be made about the state of America today. The disenfranchised do not vote and vast numbers of people cast ignorant ballots and/or they don’t hold their elected representatives to account when they are bought off by lobbyists and special interests. If they did, America would not have the elected leaders we have today who could care less about America. These elected people mostly — there are exceptions — care about their own interests and have sold out. They are morally despicable.
America is doomed.
I haven’t had a television for 16 years now. It has been the most joyous 16 years of my life. I’m glad that some other people are finally coming to the realization that television (including the news) has become “bread and circusus”. “Da Gubsamunts” fully understands the calming, hypnotic, and distracting effects that TV exerts on it’s victims. That is why they control the airwaves, refuse to relinquish control of them, and constantly allow additional channels (we will find something to dumb down everybody. Only on hte internet does anything get accomplished. I know that we are being heavily monitored but I’m really shocked that “Da Gubsamunts” hasn’t cracked down like their commrades in China. I think we are still in the information gathering and identification of trouble makers stage.