don’t tell me it’s true that most of america gets their news from fox
April 19th, 2007 by Lawrence David
i will admit that i try and glance at the headlines on foxnews at least once a week. a solid chunk of america, i hear, gets their news there; making believe the website doesn’t exist won’t help me understand why half the country thinks the way it does. [and that's what i'd argue is going wrong with this country (and a bunch of the world) - no one wants to get inside each other's heads. it's a lot easier to scream, "you're an infidel/terrorist/hemophiliac" and dismiss someone than try to identify and resolve the root of deep conflicts.]
and now that climbed high atop my pedestal, i’m going to skip right off. foxnews is absolute rubbish. forget about the whole right-leaning nonsense – their headlines are insanely sensational; digesting the entire foxnews homepage is like trying to inhale an foot-long pixie stick in one breath. for instance, after reading this article today (granted it was written by the religion correspondent) i felt as if i had deprived my brain of oxygen for 90 seconds:
When unexplained violence takes center stage, we tend to turn to modern psychology to explain it.
But there is an alternative explanation, one that has been played out in film, stage and writings since the beginning of history.
Was Cho Seung-Hui schizophrenic … psychotic … manic-depressive? Or were the shooting deaths of 32 people, including Cho himself, at Virginia Tech University part of the ongoing struggle between God and Satan … good against evil … lightness and darkness?
Could Cho have been possessed by the Devil? Could that explain the massacre at Virginia Tech?
Hi, my own theory is that Cho was autistic; that his condition was unattended to and for the most part unrecognised. As such his schooling was inappropriate and mental illness resulted from his inability to cope with the social settings in which he found himself. I write more on my blog.
what is this “fox news”?
You know what always gets me? I always forget that a good portion of the population of the US actually lives between the coastal states
It’s always been like a “here be dragons” area to me