Orson Scott Card: is he still an ass-clown?
If I were a political blogger, I might offer some kind of lengthy analysis or critique or 'fisk', as they call it. But I'm not. Really, the ass-clownery of this article of Card's speaks for itself. He falls all over himself to slobber upon the knob of Fox News. Now, either you already recognise the essential ass-clownery of this and don't particularly need my analysis, or you don't; if you don't, either you've never actually seen Fox News or read anything about it at all by any reasonable human being, or you're naive, or you're gullible, or you're actively a right-wing tool. If you've never seen it or read anything about it, there are better places to go than here, and that's what Google is for. If you're either naive or gullible, then I can help you, but due to obscure contractual matters I'll need a small cash deposit or the state will send someone round to set my computer on fire, and we can't have that. If you're a right-wing tool, like a ratchet or possibly a belt sander, then you're an inanimate artifact and incapable of reading a blog in any case, so why bother disillusioning you?
Basically, Card is a crotchety old man who bitches whenever he reads or hears something whose tone deviates microscopically from his own, and he comes across as a bit of an O'Reilly. The only bit of the article you really need to read is right around the end:
The fact remains that on Fox News, and only on Fox News, we get television reportage that gives us at least two sides of every important issue. On all the other TV news outlets--and "mainstream" newspapers--we mostly get coverage that is hopelessly biased. The madmen have taken over the asylum and now, dressed in white lab coats, they pronounce the rest of the world insane.
It really parodies itself. Much like Card.
Posted by aloysius at July 12, 2004 07:06 PM | TrackBack |