Posted by
michael
on from the also-useful-for-making-popcorn dept.
KeyShark writes: "An article on FoxNews describes how front-line troops soon will be protected by battlefield lasers designed to shoot down rockets, artillery shells and even mortars."
More bias/social engineering from the hawks at FOX
by
Sleepy
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· Score: 4, Troll
This wasn't news, it was a *commercial*.
It's pretty simple:
1) a chunk of your tax dollars goes to pork-barrel arms projects (that don't work).
2) Said arms dealer profits.
3) Arms dealer "lobbies" for more congressional pork.
In the "old days" of the early 90's, #3 meant simply bribing the congressmen via his campaign "war chest". While that made effective lobbying, today we have Rupert Murdoch's lobbying group, "Fox" television. It's sad to have seen the name of a once-great US media company bought out by a "naturalized" foreigner whose intentions are simply to influence American politics.
In other words, this is a LOBBYING EFFORT to raise taxes for yet another military boondoggle. It's just pretend news.
Congress is already leery of "star wars" (the SDI kind), seeing how there is so much pressure to deploy the damn thing, when star wars misses 3 out of 6 targets in *lab* conditions.
Now they want the same unproven technology on the ground. Fox runs nothing but editorials against "government pork" and "big government" EXCEPT when it serves the war hawks or their stock portfolio.
Remember, these are the same maggots who ran "investigative reporting" how the USA supposedly never landed on the moon. Note this story ran JUST BEFORE renewed calls in Congress to both cut NASA funding (to make them less effective), AND to privatize NASA altogether.
George Orwell was wrong. In the future we will be controlled by mindless, hypnosis-inducing corporate-sponsored "information", news, etc.
Noam Chomsky: To keep the poor nations in control, you need new military systems.
Whats wrong with keeping the poor nations in control? The reason that most poor nations are poor is that they spend more time killing each other in their tribal-war-of-the-week than making stuff.
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Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
"FoxNews, The Most Biased Name in News" - FAIR.org
by
Kraft
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· Score: 4, Troll
Thank you thank you thank you for pointing that out.
I have a grudge with Fox, and this article didn't help either. I totally avoid it for any "War on Terror" news.
Recently Fair And Accuracy in Reporting wrote a special report titled: The Most Biased Name in News: Fox News Channel's extraordinary right-wing tilt (note that's it's written before sep.11).
Now that I am at it, CNN is no saint either, that's for sure. I feel like screaming BIASED! at the TV when I see Lou Dobbs et.al. wearing Stars and Stripes on their suit. All reporting is "WE need to fight this enemy...", "Protect OUR country...". So much for International.
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This wasn't news, it was a *commercial*.
It's pretty simple:
1) a chunk of your tax dollars goes to pork-barrel arms projects (that don't work).
2) Said arms dealer profits.
3) Arms dealer "lobbies" for more congressional pork.
In the "old days" of the early 90's, #3 meant simply bribing the congressmen via his campaign "war chest". While that made effective lobbying, today we have Rupert Murdoch's lobbying group, "Fox" television. It's sad to have seen the name of a once-great US media company bought out by a "naturalized" foreigner whose intentions are simply to influence American politics.
In other words, this is a LOBBYING EFFORT to raise taxes for yet another military boondoggle. It's just pretend news.
Congress is already leery of "star wars" (the SDI kind), seeing how there is so much pressure to deploy the damn thing, when star wars misses 3 out of 6 targets in *lab* conditions.
Now they want the same unproven technology on the ground. Fox runs nothing but editorials against "government pork" and "big government" EXCEPT when it serves the war hawks or their stock portfolio.
Remember, these are the same maggots who ran "investigative reporting" how the USA supposedly never landed on the moon. Note this story ran JUST BEFORE renewed calls in Congress to both cut NASA funding (to make them less effective), AND to privatize NASA altogether.
George Orwell was wrong. In the future we will be controlled by mindless, hypnosis-inducing corporate-sponsored "information", news, etc.
Noam Chomsky: To keep the poor nations in control, you need new military systems.
Whats wrong with keeping the poor nations in control? The reason that most poor nations are poor is that they spend more time killing each other in their tribal-war-of-the-week than making stuff.
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
Thank you thank you thank you for pointing that out.
I have a grudge with Fox, and this article didn't help either. I totally avoid it for any "War on Terror" news.
Recently Fair And Accuracy in Reporting wrote a special report titled:
The Most Biased Name in News: Fox News Channel's extraordinary right-wing tilt (note that's it's written before sep.11).
Now that I am at it, CNN is no saint either, that's for sure. I feel like screaming BIASED! at the TV when I see Lou Dobbs et.al. wearing Stars and Stripes on their suit. All reporting is "WE need to fight this enemy...", "Protect OUR country...". So much for International.
No thank you, I will stick with:
- guerrillanews
- mediachannel
- and for TV, EuroNews or even BBC
-Kraft
Live and let live