By LaVern F. Isely
Monroe
To the editor:
I believe you become what you read, view on public television or talk radio. Public TV consists of cable, satellite and plain old-fashioned viewing from one's own antenna through the line of sight which is the cheapest way to receive your TV news.
Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox cable channel, who got in trouble over in England for manufacturing the news, is doing the same thing over here in the United States through his cable network, where he has already bought the Wall Street Journal and has attempted to buy Time-Warner but evidently has gotten rejected because he was accused of trying to create a monopoly in this country and that he's trying to make the news, rather than report the news.
If you think that wasn't so, all you'd have to do is listen to Sly Sylvester on WEKZ-FM from 3 to 6:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. The best part of his overall program is the segment he calls "Crazy Talk" where he records comments from various news sources such as Fox News cable channel. My wife and I rotate and participate in helping to select which person we think made the craziest comments and Sly picks some comments that definitely qualify as crazy talk. A lot of the comments are so bad, I'm glad I don't own cable and I'm saving money at the same time.
I'm getting my news from ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS and Channel 47 in Madison, all of which you pick up with a regular antenna. You'd have to listen to Sly's selections to figure out for yourself if Fox isn't trying to stockpile right-wing media hosts, who are trying to discredit everything a Democrat does and ignore everything that former president and vice president Bush and Cheney did, particularly in getting into the Iraq war.
I often think how much better off if Gen. Colin Powell could have been talked into running for president, which at the time had a high approval rating but he chose not to run. Gen. Powell told Bush-Cheney don't invade Iraq and said "If you break it, you own it." The problem was, rather than staying with just Afghanistan, Bush went into Iraq for the oil.
So, listen to Sly Sylvester. Call. Make your own statements.
Monroe
To the editor:
I believe you become what you read, view on public television or talk radio. Public TV consists of cable, satellite and plain old-fashioned viewing from one's own antenna through the line of sight which is the cheapest way to receive your TV news.
Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox cable channel, who got in trouble over in England for manufacturing the news, is doing the same thing over here in the United States through his cable network, where he has already bought the Wall Street Journal and has attempted to buy Time-Warner but evidently has gotten rejected because he was accused of trying to create a monopoly in this country and that he's trying to make the news, rather than report the news.
If you think that wasn't so, all you'd have to do is listen to Sly Sylvester on WEKZ-FM from 3 to 6:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. The best part of his overall program is the segment he calls "Crazy Talk" where he records comments from various news sources such as Fox News cable channel. My wife and I rotate and participate in helping to select which person we think made the craziest comments and Sly picks some comments that definitely qualify as crazy talk. A lot of the comments are so bad, I'm glad I don't own cable and I'm saving money at the same time.
I'm getting my news from ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS and Channel 47 in Madison, all of which you pick up with a regular antenna. You'd have to listen to Sly's selections to figure out for yourself if Fox isn't trying to stockpile right-wing media hosts, who are trying to discredit everything a Democrat does and ignore everything that former president and vice president Bush and Cheney did, particularly in getting into the Iraq war.
I often think how much better off if Gen. Colin Powell could have been talked into running for president, which at the time had a high approval rating but he chose not to run. Gen. Powell told Bush-Cheney don't invade Iraq and said "If you break it, you own it." The problem was, rather than staying with just Afghanistan, Bush went into Iraq for the oil.
So, listen to Sly Sylvester. Call. Make your own statements.
