If you're fed up with the hypocrisy of America's least unbiased news network, then this site will surely make you smile. Oh, it's not much, and I don't have a great deal of time to devote to it, but I hope you find this stuff as laughable as the Fox "News" Channel itself.

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"Are you saying the Fox News Channel should shut down? Are you against the First Amendment or something?"
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Of course not! In fact, this site is an exercise in the First Amendment. Indeed, if you don't see the hypocrisy in screaming "freedom of speech!" in protest of someone else exercising his own freedom of speech, then you're probably a huge fan of glurge like FNC.

"We put the BS in BIAS"

News is about reporting facts, and as change is inherent to just about every aspect of life (evolution, societal growth, technological advances, thermodynamics, universal expansion, etc.), prudent coverage of these facts will naturally reflect an ever-changing world. As such it's no surprise extremely conservative minds occasionally confuse ongoing long-term news organizations as those who "embrace change."* Add a dose of confirmation bias, and the result is a group of right-wingers who think the news media is a bunch of left-leaning wackos.

However, if in our walk through this playground of reality we dismiss the notion that every modicum of life itself is black or white, it should be clear that conservatism and liberalism are not so much twins on a seesaw of "balance," but more like a merry-go-round's stop and go. And while no sensible person wants to ride an unrestrained merry-go-round, life does not stop.

Certainly, the ability to understand and appreciate liberal forces is required in order to stay in stride with the ever-changing world about which one might purport to report "factually." It's important that someone who professes to impartially report the news not only be able to identify specific changes and trends, but also those forces that precipitate change.

You cannot pretend to objectively describe an ever-changing world if you think that change is an alien force in a static world. If you're prone to knee-jerk at life's continuous stream of surprises, any claim you make of neutrality in news reporting is either egregious or just plain stupid.

Considering the money FNC's phoney baloney makes, I'd say egregious, thereby redirecting the stupidity allegation at the fan base.**

It's my opinion that a conservative bent and the reporting of news are akin to oil and water. News reporting must escape the throes of dogged cognitive misery -- conservatism in its purest form -- in order to remain relevant.

Otherwise, the separation will become too pronounced to constitute a union.

P.T.

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* - NPR is arguably the most balanced news network on the air. Day in and day out this organization neatly splits its percentage of politically charged stories right down the middle. Why is it, then, that so many popular conservative voices claim NPR leans left? Simple: confirmation bias. (Wanna confuse a rightie? Read him an NPR transcript in your best Hulk Hogan voice.)

** - Am I being an elitist? Not really. If a musician points out that the most popular music is not necessarily the best music, but in fact is typically quite bland and unoriginal, is she being a musical elitist? Please! Here's an applicable concept conservatives harped on during Clinton's most popular moments: popularity does not necessarily indicate virtue.

Fox is currently enjoying a wealth of popularity, but I submit to you that this is not because FNC is so much better a news organization than MSNBC, CNN, CSPAN or NPR. Fox is to real news networks what the WWE is to real sports, Yanni is to real jazz, and McDonald's is to real cuisine.

Anyone with just a smidgen of "intellectual honesty" (another superfluous term invented by the intellectually challenged right wing) will recognize that FNC is a 23-hour, 45-minute-a-day op-ed network... with 15 minutes per day of actual news. Indeed, if Lauren Green ever left FNC the resultant expression of the shift in this ratio could become as logically gratuitous as terms like "intellectual honesty."