Professor Bainbridge...on law, politics, religion, culture & food

After the CNN/Youtube debacle of this year, shouldn’t there be a Republican boycott of CNN in 2012?  Seems like there are greater grounds for that boycott than the Fox one

They are certainly trying to delegitimate Fox as a fair and balanced station, but I don’t think that extends to an attempt to silence them or their viewers. You are stretching.

In the age of “gotcha” politics, it makes little sense to willingly appear as a politician before hostile people trained in the art of eliciting gotcha remarks, which is what Fox does.

I love watching the British Prime Minister face scathing reviews in the House of Commons on a weekly basis.  I have no idea where you learn to handle criticism like that, but I sure would like to sign up for the class.

But I guess I’m going to have to stop holding my breath for the US to import that idea. Apparently our President’s can’t be expected to confront people with opposing views because of the risk of less-than-flattering soundbites.

Most of the Republicans in my circle acknowledge that Fox is on their side.

Fox markets its news programs to the same audience that watch the NFL.  What offends the networks is that Fox has stolen both the news and the sports markets from them.

That being said, the quality of the dialogue on Fox is no better than that on the mainstream media.  The format of competitive talking heads gets old.  The “experts” are not always experts.  “News” is not always news.

Fox is the paid propaganda arm of the Republican National Committee. Democrats would do best to treat them as such, which means mostly not appearing. Every so often it probably wouldn’t hurt to show up for purposes of derision and scorn.

JC