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Rupert decided about two months ago that his favorite color was green.  That was probably the color of the faces of some of his highly paid Foaminators. He reportedly decided it was good business. If it lets him run ads for green products it seems like an improvement.  I, however, have alternatives, poor though they be, so I don't watch Faux News.  I'll put on the hair shirt to read the Economist, but that is the upper limit of my gag reflex.

If sanity be culturally normative, then by the norms of this culture I claim insanity.
by ARGeezer (argeezer a in a circle yahoo dot com) on Mon Jul 7th, 2008 at 09:42:19 PM EST
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heh-

if i was living stateside, i wouldn't need to watch fox, it'd be happening right outside the window!

but i would read the economist, not because i think their mission is noble, but because they write the densest coverage.

dense both ways!

frothy fox or turgid economist, pretty much the same agenda...

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. Chinese Proverb.

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Tue Jul 8th, 2008 at 01:52:45 PM EST
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Yeah, Fox only qualifies as dense in one sense.  Your reasons are the same as mine for the Economist.  I hold my nose and read it for the diamonds in the dung hill.  I especially appreciate their international coverage.  Been reading it off and on since 1965, when I read all coverage from 1919 to 1924 on the "French Occupation of the Rhur" for a grad seminar.  Topic was Reaction of British Quality Press to.... So I also got familiar with the Nation, the Observer and others.  Certainly don't read it cause I agree with their views.

If sanity be culturally normative, then by the norms of this culture I claim insanity.
by ARGeezer (argeezer a in a circle yahoo dot com) on Tue Jul 8th, 2008 at 03:16:14 PM EST
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