This past weekend, I had the pleasure of watching "Outfoxed." I decided to watch "O'Reilly Factor" before I put in "Outfoxed" and also to see what all the "hoo-ha" was about. I never watched O'Reilly before. I was thinking to myself, "How bad can this show really be?" I gotta say this guy really upsets me. It was disturbing how blatantly biased it was. I always thought the "Colbert Report" was funny, but now I see that Colbert is a parody of O'Reilly. I though the "colbert report was outlandish and an exaggeration, but sadly it is not. O'Reilly is a conceited, self-promoting, lying spinner of the news. It's disturbing how O'Reilly lies and fabricates news. It amazes me that people actually watch this show. This show should be pulled from TV for it's poor quality.
Coincidentally, Chapter 5 of Thomas's memoirs(or should I say "hard-hitting manifesto on the precipitous decline" of modern day journalism)just happens to be called "Spinning the News." This old fox ambles on about the news-managing presidents of the last 50 years. I think it is to be expected that presidents and other people in power are going to attempt to spin the news. I don't think they should, but they're bound to do it. When somebody talks bad about the president, with all that power,of course he is going to try to shut those people up. But some presidents, especially George W. Bush, have crossed the line-big time. It seems to me that Fox news and other news outlets are appendages of the Bush administration. I think Thomas is right when she says that Bush has misled and deceived the country. Just because I agree with her on one point doesn't mean I have to like her, though. She is a better journalist than Bill O'Shady(if he can even be called a journalist).
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