It's funny you mention Fox News. This is part of what is wrong with our Democracy. Free speech is being used to destroy the country. Free speech in the media worked well when, a couple of decades ago, media companies were divided between 200+ companies. However, now almost all of US media is owned by just 5 companies. These 5 companies are very rich and powerful and their agenda is set by very biased people at the top, one of which is Murdoch, who is a hyper rightwinger.
So today's "Free Speech" being propagated over the airwaves in the US is really the most powerful propaganda machine since the days of Hitler and Goebbels and their Nazi propaganda war. Fox News is the most egregious. I used to be a subscriber to the Wall Street Journal for decades, but cancelled my subscription as a result of the bias after Murdoch bought them. Now I mostly read the Financial Times and other foreign financial news rags.
So agree with you 100%. The media, including Limbaugh and others like him, are simply mouthpieces for a vile and vitriolic propaganda machine. You'd do well to simply not listen or read those media outlets. I don't. It's a waste of time if you are trying to get unbiased information. By the way, MSNBC is the equivalent on the leftwing side. Nowadays, if you want unbiased, you need to go to foreign news sources to read about what is really going on in the US, or go to bloggers who are unconstrained by biased owners. That's where I get my information. |
