More Fox Madness

The first video is a promo for a band called the Bastard Fairies. It stars a young actress and is directed, so they say, by an award winning documentary team.



The second video is Bill O'Reillys reaction to it, and a call for state child-raising and community mobs.



Brilliant.

Labels Could Sell Watermarked MP3s

Full story at Wired News.

Headlines

I know I go on about Fox all the time, but I genuinely find them fascinating. I struggle to understand how grown adults can be so deceitful, misleading and trivial when it comes to reportage, but I guess that shows off my naivity more than their callousness.

Anyway, look at this. It's my RSS news feeds, courtesy of a great site called NetVibes.


I draw your attention to the feeds for Reuters, BBC and Fox and ask you to compare their headlines. Here they are closer up:




Now, far be it from me to decide what the lead stories for various news organisations should be, but I do find it a little worrying that two of the most respected news sources in the world are running with Palestinian story and Fox have chosen to go with Angelina Jolie talking about kissing two slightly different people.

I know that Americans live sheltered lives when it comes to international news stories but, good grief, 5 out of 7 of their headlines are celebrity related...!

Happy Feet will Corrupt Your Children

I know that the 'Happy feet is liberal propaganda' story has been running for a while now, but here's the original Fox News video that kicked it off.



This makes me so mad, so infuriatingly hoppingly insane that I find it hard to form the words... they're not even trying to disguise it as news anymore, now they're just attacking anything - anything - that smacks of not agreeing with rampant consumerism, global corporate power and foreign policy. How absolutely paranoid do you have to be to fear an animated flick about dancing penguins and see it as an attack on your values and the American way of life...

I can't stand the fact that they disguise it as balanced opinion... before it was funny, now it makes me sick to my stomach. "An animated Inconvenient Truth" - "my kids were bouncing off the wall because it's so damned long" - "it presents man and big business as evil" - they write their opinions off as news, they claim promoting their agenda is discussion and bit by bit they are erroding logic and empathy from the minds of their audience.

Pastor resigns over homosexuality

"In a tearful videotaped message Sunday to his congregation, the senior pastor of a thriving evangelical megachurch in south metro Denver confessed to sexual relations with other men and announced he had voluntarily resigned his pulpit."

Full story here.

You know what I'd like to see, just once? A pastor come out and be allowed to keep his post, or at least fight to keep his post. So he's gay. Big fat hairy deal. I don't think that means his dedicated to the church has waivered. Wouldn't it be great if he didn't resign under the assumed knowledge that being gay is shameful and immoral, and sent a posititive message instead? Just once. It's not like this guy was the horrific homophobe and hypocrit that Ted Haggard was...