The Daily Vitriol

[davidn]

I was pointed to this by someone else a couple of days ago. It's from a TV channel here that despite calling itself "Fox News" is really a 24-hour right wing propaganda machine, and I'm sorry to tarnish your browser history with the address but it's worth watching to see the level of politics around here.

College Skews Political Spectrum

Nothing wrong with that headline, is there? Yes there is, as e_to_the_ipi explains in the comments. But there's never been a country more afraid of words, or a party that is better at using them, and just by planting ideas into such a negative context they can hack at the minds of their gullible audience. You can put a bad spin on anything if you disagree with it, but this attempts to take the pure school bullying approach of making things like just being educated or having an awareness of the wider world into negative things.

A question - why aren't we out there screaming like the Party of Teabags or whatever they want to call themselves now, protesting that yes, we want America to take great steps forward among Western society and have healthcare available to all, or that people should be able to get married to each other as they choose and not as we choose based on what an unknown person wrote two thousand years ago? Because we're too quiet, and too reasonable, and it's only the loudest and most hateful voices that are heard. Don't send your children to college where it'll somehow erode their civic knowledge - let them turn into these people instead.

This is the reason why I'm honestly indifferent about Britain becoming conservative in the next general election (apart from the lack of any promise from Labour anyway) - no matter how much I may disagree with any of their ideas they are positively saints compared to the willful idiocy that so many people of this country take an immense amount of pride in exhibiting.

Besides, ours dig themselves holes so deep it becomes funny again.

Comments

[e-to-the-ipi.livejournal.com]

Framing the question affects thinking as much as the question that is framed. The big issue with things like Fox News is that they claim credibility and people accept their existence.

Accepting the existence of that which has no right, and making allowances for it is very easy, naturual, and a lot of the time wrong.

[kjorteo]

"Framing the question affects thinking as much as the question that is framed."

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2010/02/11/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry6198284.shtml