My latest piece at the Guardian today, as written under the auspices of the Commonweal Institute (where I am a Fellow),seems to have stirred up the Tea Baggery on both sides of the pond.
I always love the commenters on columns I do at the Guardian. My favorite exchange there so far this morning begins with commenter “Zounds” objecting to my points with: “Active discourse also requires a wider range of intellectual influences than all the American news channels offer.”
To which “jcpenny”, apparently an American, replied: “I’ve never seen British Tellie to provide the variety the American Tellie does. Perhaps our forebarers had a reason for leaving?”
To which “Zounds” replied hilariously in turn: “I believe the lack of variety on British TV was indeed the primary reason the Pilgrim Fathers gave.”
🙂 Add your own two cents and read the full column here…
Ah, Brad, you’ve brightened my day considerably (it’s evening already, gets late early around here and all that, so please take that figuratively) – the headline says it all: ‘Fox News’s Faux News’ I always knew that right if rigorous would win out in the end, as in, to paraphrase Messrs Strunk and White, “It’s a wise dog that scratches its own fleas, never Prince Charles’s.” But fear not, I will continue to enforce the standard. Just wanted to gloat a little.
How does one find your columns on a regular basis on the Guardian? I read the Guardian homepage daily, but my skills (tech) are woefully low.
No comment on Fox-Faux News…saving my gray cells.
(I don’t “do” tv.)
NYC – I don’t know, but if I were wanting to follow Brad there, I’d bookmark this page and look every so often. If yer on a Mac you can probably figure out how to make that an RSS feed bookmark so it will tell you when there’s a new piece. I imagine PCs have some similar capability by now and/or there are a lot of youngsters with the hang of the feeds readers thing who might jump in to explain to you how that’s done, but I usually just stick to bookmarking stuff and checking it when I’m up for it. Way easier on my gray cells too.
And, high five, on the tv thing. I drop kicked mine off the headlands and into the sea about twenty five years ago.
Who knew it would later come to take up so much cyberspace too! In an even more mortally inane way! Personally, I vote for everyone who still watches to just watch it and shut up, or, vastly better, to use their tv sets for target practice.
NYCartist – Yup, 99 offers the most direct way to find out when I’ve got a new piece up (by checking my profile page).
While today I think my piece was featured on the front of “Comment is Free”, it’s sometimes only linked via “CiF America”. When it’s run in the actual paper, I have no idea where to tell you to look! 🙂
So it’s not all that easy, and I usually (though not always) try to drop a link here for that reason. I don’t write for them all that much anymore, but that comes and goes with my mood and theirs.
So what do you think is better for diplomacy?
Obama bowing to the Jap emperor or Bush I puking on him?
Any “Limey Bastard” comments?
As my British husband would say – Bloody Hell Brad! You’re Spot On!
You had me at nattering nabobs of nincompoopery.
FOX, Newscorp, and Rupert Murdoch remain the only corporation to successfully argue in American courts that they are allowed to portray whatever they want as news because they own the stations. That our FCC guidelines are merely suggestions.
The ruling was handed down from the FL court of appeals on February 14 2003.
Sort of a St. Valentine’s Day Truth Massacre.
Look up Akre vs. Fox