[NU Sports] mostly off-topie political thread

[johnadeg at comcast.net]

If you take Hannity out of the equation I find Fox News does  pretty good job of providing multiple views,  Hannity won't shut up long enough to listen to anyone even someone who agrees with his view points.  Ailes is also bringing in more and more young reporters into the programs which is smart since they have different perspectives than a cranky old guy like me. The Fox Business channel is the best business channel around in my opinion. It has financially knowledgeable people doing the news.

John DeGroat
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From: Mike Nolan <nolan at romaine.tssi.com>
> Oh what the heck, NU basketball is boring (as usual) and there's a limit 
> to how much prognostication about the 2009 football season we can make 
> at this point.  (National Signing Day is only a few weeks away, though.)
> 
> I got the impression back in my days at NU (67-72) that Medill students 
> had to take 'background' courses in other areas so that they had some
> inkling of what it was they were writing about.  If that is no longer
> the case, I'm concerned.
> 
> Jay Leno never seems to run out of people to interview on the street 
> whose knowledge of either history or current events is dwarfed by that of 
> the nearest tree stump.  
> 
> BTW, I could only come up with six of the nine justices on the Supreme
> Court.   (I blanked on Souter, Breyer and Alito)
> 
> > Back when everyone bought a newspaper, there were many  voices in the press. 
> 
> There are still varied voices out there, they just aren't all in print, 
> which is not surprising because print is no longer the dominant medium,
> having been supplanted by radio, then by TV, and now by the Internet,
> though the line between TV and the Internet gets blurrier every day.
> 
> I think my older son treats both Comedy Central and the Food Network as 
> news channels.  I won't be surprised if Jon Stewart wins a Pulitzer for 
> his coverage of the election.  (Hell, he may even deserve it.)  
> 
> Fox News seems to have a very conservative right-wing orientation 
> (so much so that it is a target for satire), and of course talk 
> radio is largely dominated by Rush and his conservative brethren.  
> (Actually, I think too many 'conservatives' give 'conservatism' a
> bad name these days.) 
> 
> On PBS you have the McLaughlin Group, where the panel is almost always
> a bit right of center, some of them a bit right of Attilla the Hun.
> Then you have the (usually) token left-winger, Eleanor, who I think is 
> still wearing widows weeds over the death of the Hillary Clinton candidacy. 
> (I miss Jack Germond and Freddie 'the Beetle' Barnes as panelists, though.)
> 
> Doonesbury certainly had no love lost for the Bush administration, it'll
> be interesting to see how Obama fares there. 
> 
> In the Internet you have the Drudge Report.  I actually heard someone
> compare Matt Drudge to Drew Pearson, which IMHO is like comparing Tiny
> Tim to Frank Sinatra.  
> 
> Hollywood may be the biggest player of them all, as well as the sneakiest
> in terms of their way of slanting things.  I noticed the Golden Globes 
> falling all over HBO for their docudrama "Recount".  I know someone 
> who sat in on many of the official meetings on the 2000 election in 
> Florida, he tells a somewhat different picture about them than either 
> the left or right-wing media did.
> 
> The voices are there, and people still tend to drift to the voices they 
> prefer to hear.   
> --
> Mike Nolan
> 
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