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reply posted on 19-2-2005 @ 07:28 PM by junglejake
Originally posted by James the Lesser
Who's cousin works at Fox News? GWB's cousin John Ellis.


Haven't played at this thread yet because...Well, fact is Fox News is biased. As is every other news medium out there. Fox just happens to have a conservative bias while the others have liberal biases and that drives many people nuts. Fair and balanced my patookus is right. That is just a catch phrase, though, like "The best a man can get" was for Gillette razors back in the day.

Now as to the family relations, that's a bunch of bs. Who cares? My mom is a senior officer at ABN Amro, my grandfater impeached Bill Clinton, and a cousin of mine owns the JimmyJohns franchise. Yeah, they're my family and I'd take a bullet for any one of them, but that doesn't mean I will agree with their ideology no matter what. You may have heard I broke my hand recently. It was not, as I've told most people, a ping pong accident. I was being rather unchristian and reacted to a family member's total disrespect for me violently. I didn't break my hand on his backbone while punching him in the chest, as I almost did, but rather
I fought the hutch and the hutch won.
I fought the hutch and the hutch won

Yet he's my family. I would still take a bullet for him. However, I would also take a bullet before I agreed with him. Just because someone is family, it doesn't mean you back them completely. I have never spouted the wonders of ABNAmro on this thread. Yet my mom works for them. She used to work for Pink Elephant as the director of North American operations, but since leaving them has no loyalty to them at all. I'm going to assume Cheney is the same way because I've seen it in my own life (totally off topic, but I thought I'd throw that in )

Just because a family member does something it doesn't mean you lose all credibility. That's the wonder of our culture. Many hold you personally accountable for your family member's actions. America does not, because we respect you as an individual. You are not your mother or father, you are you. You are accountable for you, and no one else.


reply posted on 19-2-2005 @ 08:02 PM by drfunk
Firstly, quite an interesting thread. From an opinion from an Australian who gets News TV from the US (CNN, NBC, FOX, CBS and ABC), UK (SKY NEWS) and Australia I can tell you from my point of view that the US media is largely centrist except for FOX who are to the right. What one must remember is that while many reporters have their own views they must also tow the corporate line, they work in a corporation and they must not do or say things that displeases their bosses.

The most fair and balanced TV station in Australia is run by the government, the state owned TV station ABC. They are fair and balanced because they are allowed to be independent because they are run and paid for by the australian people and not by corporations and corporate interests. Many ABC programs are usually always the first to expose scandal's in our country that other media stations won't touch because of varying corporate interests and they won't hop on the bandwagon until someone else reports the scandal and they (the entity in the scandal) are down on the ground and ripe for the kicking.

I believe this would be similar in Canada as well.

James The Lesser, if I had any more votes left i'd vote for you this month, it's a good topic .

As for Canada, Canada is an exemplary nation that is socially oriented, modern and a progressive society. Canada is an enviable country that shows what a 21st century society should be like and I am always saddened to see American's attack Canada because they are militarily weak and largely anti-war so the American mindset doesn't respect Canada and largely sees them as a leech on the side of the American torso.

On homosexuals, god loves all of his creations and I don't think our lord christ would take kindly to some of the statements said here that are full of anger and hatred. The bible is essentially full of contradictions and I personally take what is said in the old testament with a grain of salt at best. One must remember that the bible isn't the direct and true word of god, it is the word of prophets who are only human and distortions have occured. I feel a good christian loves his neighbour, loves his brother and loves his fellow man, I also believe a good christian never condones violence nor pre-emption but only would use force in a purely defensive role. If a homosexual couple love god and jesus, they will be forgiven and will be able to enter heaven. This is why god sacrificed his only son for us, because we humans aren't perfect and we all sin.

thanks,
drfunk

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