I think my favourite is Ann Coulter - although as far as I know, she doesn't actually have a "news" show of her own, but just appears on as many right-wing new/talk shows as possible.
I will never forget the time that Bob McKeown interviewed her for The Fifth Estate and she kept insisting that Canada had formally entered the Vietnam War on the side of the US, no matter how many times McKeown said, as politely as possible, "I'm sorry, but you are completely wrong on that."
What actually scares me the most is that there is no longer even a pretense of providing documentation for the assertions that are passed off as news - the whole "talking points" theory of news - which assumes that if you get everyone to say the same thing over and over again, people will believe it (a somewhat more sophisticated version of the Big Lie) - seems to be winning out.
Which bring us so close to a version of Orwell's Newspeak that I don't even want to think about it. Except, of course, that I do.
The war is going well. The chocolate ration has been raised to 12 ounces from 15. All hail Big Brother.
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Date: 2007-07-02 07:47 pm (UTC)I will never forget the time that Bob McKeown interviewed her for The Fifth Estate and she kept insisting that Canada had formally entered the Vietnam War on the side of the US, no matter how many times McKeown said, as politely as possible, "I'm sorry, but you are completely wrong on that."
What actually scares me the most is that there is no longer even a pretense of providing documentation for the assertions that are passed off as news - the whole "talking points" theory of news - which assumes that if you get everyone to say the same thing over and over again, people will believe it (a somewhat more sophisticated version of the Big Lie) - seems to be winning out.
Which bring us so close to a version of Orwell's Newspeak that I don't even want to think about it. Except, of course, that I do.
The war is going well. The chocolate ration has been raised to 12 ounces from 15. All hail Big Brother.