A writer's Praxis part IV -or- Fox News - Fair and Balanced
Occasionally I watch Fox news. I admit it. I find it entertaining. It's not my source for news by any stretch of imagination. I just have fun watching it. Bill O'Reilly is my favorite. Yes, he does upset me. His show is great for getting out my aggression toward the world in general. I usually launch all five of my "virtual" foam bricks at the television at least a couple of times throughout the broadcast. (I reload during commercial breaks) It's like watching Rush Limbaugh or Howard Stern or even Don Imus. It's entertainment. Unfortunately, in my opinion, a lot of folks don't realize that. But I don't want to get into that other than to state the fact that Fox News far overshadows CNN in the ratings. A "news" item recently overheard on the Fox network dealing with the viewing of Uday and Qusay's bodies on worldwide television: [abstracted] "... and the ideas and ethics the Islamic people have are different than us."
Now I know that I'm not an example of "How to write well". (I'm continually learning.) One thing that I do know is that errors in grammar damage the integrity and credibility of, in this case, the Fox news program in general. (Big collective "Duh" I assume.)
Depending on my style in the piece I'm writing, I often use colloquial terminology (i.e. "Lemme splain to y'all...) and I at least partially understand the diachronic nature of the English language, but I will not and can not tolerate Fox's blatant ignorance of English grammar. While Fox is definitely not the exclusive offender, it's just the last one that I noticed.
The basic precept to news coverage is the "who", "what", "when" and "where". In this case, as is the case so often, Fox attempts a foray into the "why" as well. That's fine by me. As I've said, it's often entertainment versus real news. It's all just a joke.
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