How different is perception

[pecunium]

I found this while wandering to and fro in the Blogospere.

It was about 7 or 8 years ago that I really became aware of it, as a full time situation. I was actually watching WWF, now WWE, wrestling on television mostly because of the fact that there was nothing else on during that particular time slot. It suddenly occurred to me that there were no longer any “good guys” on the show. Wraselers that were only good guys, that never cheated, that never hit from behind or hit women. They were no longer on the show. Everyone was a bad guy sooner or later. All of the big heroes, looking to hang on for more than the typical 3 years that Flim Flam McMahon usually gave his troops, were all changing from Good Guys to the old hit’em-from-behind gunslingers. It carried on the story lines for years longer than before and it made the WWE a literal ton of money. But it wasn’t exactly honest...

Imagine my surprise when I turned on CNN and saw the weekend FOX News female anchor doing their news! The dreaded and much maligned CNN channel was now the new home to yet ANOTHER Fox News anchor out to get a better gig. And of course, Fox News had not one little word about her departure. Much like CNN had not one little word about her arrival. Literally overnight, she went from big smiling Good Guy to hit’em-in-the-back Bad Girl without even a press conference to serve her credentials up. Fairly amazing, hardly balanced.


The mind reels.

Not that someone might be slagging the media... that happens all the time, and with varying degrees of validity, but to equate Fox, "Libby not guilty of lying to Congress," "Dem suprress knowledge of Mark Foley (D-Fla) predation", etc. with being the "Good Guys", and CNN (that distraction of dead white women over real news) with being "the Bad Guys".

Yeesh.

Comments

[bifemmefatale.livejournal.com]

Faux News is one of the main reasons I am glad I do not have TV.

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

Do keep in mind that we're talking about someone whose mind can equate "WWE" with "political journalism", and who pines for the good old days of "Good Guy vs. Bad Guy" black-and-white decision making.

-- Steve's wondering if said pundit would be glad or sad that Captain "NASCAR? What's NASCAR?" America walked into a bullet.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

I left out the middle part, where he was lamenting the good old days, when baseball players were loyal to their teams/owners.

The rest of the blog is much of a piece.

But still...

TK

[mesoterica.livejournal.com]

At first, I was actually chuckling ruefully at this, thinking, "Oh, man, this poor blogger must be so embarrassed by that slip-up, switching Fox News where clearly CNN was supposed to go and vice-versa. [...] Wait, that was intentional?" 'Cause... wow, that has not been my perception at ALL.

[qp4.livejournal.com]

I think the the poor misguided "liberals" need to smacked in the face...but this story is like WTF?!?!? Going from CNN to FOX is going to the "bad guys" right?