Friday 25 September 2009
Fox News Morphs Into Propaganda Machine ☀
For instance, over the last 24-hours Fox has been frothing up its conservative readers over a single incident in a Burlington, New Jersey school where students were videotaped while singing a song praising President Obama. Fox fills in the details, “But Andrea Ciemnolonski, the parent of another one of the students in the video, said the song was part of a second-grade project on a variety of topics related to the month of February, such as Groundhog Day, Valentine’s Day and Presidents Day. They did songs about President Washington, Lincoln, and they did do one about President Obama,” Ciemnolonski said. “My daughter was in the class that did the songs about Obama. It was black history month. … It was something for the kids to celebrate.” Ciemnolonski said she “just can’t look at it as indoctrination,” though she added, “The comparisons made were a little exuberant.” But never mind the actual innocence of the event, the article was a willful attack and designed to infuriate conservatives.
