I was watching fox news today, probably for the first time ever, since I live in Britain, and what struck me were several very amateurish journalists and anchors. Here are some things I noticed:
1. The ferocity of claims. The news anchors took no shame in openly using ridicule to give credence to their arguments, made gross generalizations and generally used fierceness in what I can only imagine is an attempt to proliferate hysteria.
2. The incredulity of claims. There was very little in the newspeoples' claims, that I as a skeptical person, could substantiate. What I found was that the vast majority of the things said were slanderous without merit.
3. The manipulative aura. Quips and jibes at loosely related but contextually irrelevant materials were used to parenthesize otherwise empty assertions.
4. The newsreaders were openly racist, reductive and summarily, extremely unprofessional.
Is this the norm for American media?
1. The ferocity of claims. The news anchors took no shame in openly using ridicule to give credence to their arguments, made gross generalizations and generally used fierceness in what I can only imagine is an attempt to proliferate hysteria.
2. The incredulity of claims. There was very little in the newspeoples' claims, that I as a skeptical person, could substantiate. What I found was that the vast majority of the things said were slanderous without merit.
3. The manipulative aura. Quips and jibes at loosely related but contextually irrelevant materials were used to parenthesize otherwise empty assertions.
4. The newsreaders were openly racist, reductive and summarily, extremely unprofessional.
Is this the norm for American media?