Faux Neus - Bigoted broadcaster?

[Fearless]

I was doing my random browsing of You Tube clips when I stumbled across a video on the well known American news broadcasting network.

I know we have passed christmyth and I don't normally watch this news provider but I was a bit flabbergasted to watch and listen to the bigoted reporting style to a point where I felt angry and frustrated that this could be broadcast the way it was... here have a look:

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I thought maybe it was an odd isolated Atheist bashing exercise but I have a feeling I am only just scratching at the surface. I then watched another segment as an interview with an Atheist who was trying to take on the use of religious reference from the Pledge of Allegiance. She demonstrated her bigotry quite openly, looking stupid in the process, but she still felt the need to use her advantage to try to belittle and drown him in her bigoted noise. He makes excellent points in his arguments and showed her up for poor research and lack of fact.

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With all these reporters see how aggressive their behaviour is, how threatened and scared they appear to be all for what? It's unbelievable.

Here is another display of contempt teamed with stupidity
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An Atheist getting his point across even though the reporter is doing just as the others have done.
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I am trying to find any obvious influence to this American broadcaster... not having much luck so far, but I did find this article written a month ago which seems to make a point of how bigoted they are, even towards other religions...


Fox News: Keeping the faith - by Simon Maloy
Religion is ... tough.

The collected spiritual teachings of the world's various deities, messiahs, prophets, monks, yogis, gurus, and shamans are so deeply ingrained in human culture and consciousness that they essentially tell the history of mankind. Their cosmological and philosophical differences have proved to be stubbornly intractable and provided the impetus for many of humanity's more brutal conflicts. The greatest minds of the ancient, medieval, and modern worlds have devoted entire lifetimes delving into the deepest questions that face mankind.

But for Fox News, religion is easy: Christianity is right and good and must be defended from its relentless persecutors, and other faiths are dangerous, inadequate, or funny.

Viewers of this past weekend's Fox News Sunday were treated to an especially stark example of the network's affection for Christendom when Fox News analyst and putative paragon of "straight news" Brit Hume counseled Tiger Woods to ditch Buddhism in favor of Christianity as his best hope for a "total recovery" from the scandal surrounding his marital infidelities. According to Hume: "I don't think that faith [Buddhism] offers the kind of forgiveness and redemption that is offered by the Christian faith." Hume appeared on The O'Reilly Factor the next day to deny that he was "proselytizing," explaining that Woods "needs something that Christianity especially provides and gives and offers, and that is redemption and forgiveness." To attempt to explain how that makes sense is way beyond my pay grade... (more here) (http://mediamatters.org/columns/201001050042)

More case in point for me as a demonstration of how 'corrupted' some organisations can become when religion takes hold.

I am sure there are plenty like it on Australian soil too. Concerning.

[atheist_angel]

I became an Atheist after I stopped watching television.

Glory. Glory. The Ratings Wars are everything to the content providers!
I really don't understand why Christians are offended by the word Atheist,
but not offended by Glorified Images that make Violence look so 'Pretty' and 'Enjoyable'.

[DavidB]

An analogy used when talking about the countless displays of religionism around our cities is that it is like watching cricket: if you don't like cricket then don't watch it.

Unfortunately, it is not so easy to 'not watch' religion if you don't like it because religion makes a point of permeating all aspects of our society, thus making it impossible to ignore. 'Religionists' go out of their way to instill their value systems on fast growing numbers of our society that don't subscribe to a belief in a god or the need for organized religion. My advice to 'religionists' who want to practice their religious faith peacefully is just get on with it and don't interfere with the lives of the rest of us who do not have the same beliefs.

But religionists don't want my advice. They go about brandishing religionism as though it is their weapon of choice - and let's face it, religion is exactly that: a weapon that they brandish against anyone that dares to challenge non-reason and nonsense. Religion is on bill-boards as well as buses, it's prominent in our news papers and magazines, its touted by biased and religious journalists in some of our most prominent news organizations. "Thank god you're here": you might know this comedy title on one of the Australian TV networks. And there are a million other examples of subliminal and not so subtle religious promotion on TV and in every day life.

Am I the only one getting cross here? Should I calm down a bit? :rolleyes:

[Fearless]

I understand you frustrations. I don't watch much mainstream TV anyway but my concerns are based around big organisations using their power to pedal the 'g' drug... And poo poo the other players in their way.

Slowly but surely I see more clearly why there are so many militant Atheists out there. I could become one if things get any worse.

The only immediate explanation that springs to mind is that religious groups know that the number of Atheists, Agnostics and general godless folk are rising and they now feel threatened, maybe even concerned that maybe they could be wrong... Hold on, scratch that last bit that'll never happen.

They better start praying that god will hurry up and set a date to sort us all out!

[Dane]

Is anyone else sick to the stomach when they see children reciting pledges of allegiance?

[atheist_angel]

Well that raises a good question...

How can "One Nation Under G-d" create "Liberty and Justice for All"???

[SchizoDeluxe]

It's fox news, what did you expect? They are notorious for their poor and ignorant news broadcasts

[Fearless]

Ok, well I can see why that is.

[gruber]

I think the seond best solution is to mock them.

WTF IS WRONG WITH THESE IDIOTS


If we stand by and let them we'll lose control, CHRISTIANITY will lose control


Enough said

[Caio]

My head hurts from watching that crap, they way they go on about it, they make it sound like atheists are coming to take over the world, although it is funny how they throw in the "I'm not that religious" or "i have atheist friends" line to cover their bigoted simple minded asses.

[eccles]

That is the United Christian States of America - a sick country with 90% of it's people thinking there is a "GOD". Those who don't had better get out.

[Fearless]

You would think with so much god in their culture they wouldn't be so prominent with their:

Obsession with war
Drugs and drug related crime
Violence and murder
Hate crimes
The list goes on...

But you know deep down they would relate the escalating social disorder to the number of people walking away from or defying god.

I guess Atheism is a great scape goat for passing the blame for the failings of their own god.

I am sure many of the gun toting folk thank god for their dinner every night.

I am not anti American by the way, I just think it is a shame that many seem to be a bit lost within themselves.

[jimdene]

I stopped watching Fox a while ago, I was a contributor to the O'reilly sucks forum, but they seem to have been "got at" of late. One reason I stopped was because they annoyed me so much with their bigoted Republican right wing bias. Whenever I switched on it was a discussion about anti American Liberal left wing sentiment. Do you remember whenever anybody spoke out about the Bush administrations involvement in Iraq, they were brandished as anti American or against their invasion troops.
Unfortunately I have also become a Yank basher according to my wife, because of their obsession with religion. I just can't help talking to the TV.
Good on Great Britain for the Iraq war enquiry. It will not solve anything, but it shows greater guts than those who took out their vengeance after the twin towers attack on 9/11 0r was it 11/9 or 7/11 12/24, what ever, a pathetic regime who couldn't fight back, under the pretense of Weapons of mass destruction

[jimdene]

Correction, not unfortunately, I am glad

[atheist_angel]

American Atheophobia...
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