2013-04-21 07:12:50 -0400

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As often as I criticize Fox “news” for their intentional misinformation, such as identifying republicans caught in sex scandals as democrats, publishing charts of unemployment rates of past presidents while leaving out Ronald Reagan’s (which was higher than Obama’s), substituting photos while claiming they are from something they are not, manufacturing controversies where none exist, using the split screen to associate demonstrations and falling stock markets with democrats, editing video, or not even to bother showing video (such as Obama’s address to Congress about health care), it should be noted thathas taken a lot of much deserved heat this past week as well.A few month’s ago, Rupert Murdoch gave a compliment topresident Jeff Zucker by saying thathas ‘sharpened up in the last couple of months’. Given the fact thatrecently ran a chyron that read: ‘War On Religion’, Wolf Blitzer’s obsessive use of words “Ground Zero Mosque” and “Fiscal Cliff” , then got rid of Soledad O’Brien and then added on a new evening show with Erin Burnett, who seems to have an unhealthy fascination with Ted Nugent by having him on her show not once, but twice, one could see how Murdoch would approve of such things, as they are taken right out of Roger Ailes’ playbook of shoddy journalism.There was a study done recently published by Psychology Today that shows that conservatives relied more on a part of the brain that is thought to be associated with the body’s fear-based fight-or-flight system, while liberals use the part of the brain that is associated with self-awareness. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/caveman-politics/201302/why-politics-makes-your-head-hurt This would explain conservatives preference to watching Fox (besides the obvious reason of being told what theyto hear), but it may also explain howis going to go about ways of increasing their audience share: by scaring people….Cable news in this country is disgraceful. The 24 hour news cycle needs to be filled with something other than endless ads for Viagra and Vagisil. And most of it is shit…..