Rapper Nas recently delivered a petition of over 600,000 signatures to the Fox News headquarters and demanded they "find a solution to hate-mongering before it hits the airwaves". You can read about it and watch a video here.
This is nothing more than a silly publicity stunt (which worked, I'll give him that). Fox News is a company, and honestly it's only obligation is to return a profit to its shareholders and investors. It does this quite well. You can complain about the "terroristic fist jab" all you want, but I, and scores of other viewers, thought it was a funny joke. Fox is obviously biased, and I doubt that anyone who isn't already conservative watches. Lots of people are outraged by their antics all the time, the people who matter- the people who enable the channel to exist by actually, you know, watching it- don't mind. In fact, they think it's funny. I'd even hazard a guess that they LIKE it when Fox makes off-color comments.
I would never give audience to Air America, and I doubt any of their listeners will be tuning into Fox anytime soon. Publicity stunts like this do absolutely nothing but give meaningless press coverage to the attention-hungry people who came up with them. If you really want to hit Fox where it hurts, organize a boycott. It's too bad no one who listens to Nas can have any impact on Fox by continuing to not watch. A petition might get you a better DJ at the school dance, but it isn't hurting Fox's feelings.
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Found you through Dan- I would argue that all news stations, except maybe the po-dunk local ones, are extremely biased. At least Fox News is clear about the conservative bias. CNN, NBC , and their ilk are all very liberally biased, but pretend to be neutral. Fox news has an agenda, and they admit it. But they also provide evidence, data and cite their sources religiously, so their opinions and biases are at least well founded. The same cannot be said about the others, not by any stretch of the imagination. Anybody who says otherwise doesn't actually watch any of the stations.
And I would agree with you. I think it's telling that people like Ann Coulter are regularly protested (and sometimes get pies thrown at them! Ha!) and yet conservatives who strongly disagree with liberal talking heads never protest. We don't feel we need to. We understand free speech and don't cry when someone hurts our feelings. And we certainly aren't showing up at Air America (or MSNBC, or the New York Times) with a silly petition.
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