Have It Their Way (News, That Is
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Obama thinks he gets to dictate what is shown on news shows and to define what is and is not news. Personally, I think that's beyond his pay grade. It's certainly not in his job description to decide what is reported. How can it even be contemplated...in our country...where we pride ourselves on having "freedom of the press."
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From Tim Graham, Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center:
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"I think even some journalists now have started suggesting that it's a bad idea for the Obama people to try to make Fox unpopular and try to say Fox isn't a legitimate news channel," he observes.
According to the media watchdog, the administration is being more than a bit hypocritical.
"You know, there's just nothing funnier than an Obama administration official coming out and saying things like [Fox News is] not a news channel because they come with a perspective," says Graham.
"We've just been through two years of the news people portraying Obama with a heavenly aura around his head -- and they're saying we don't like news with perspective? The Obama administration is insisting that news is defined by praising the president."
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Comments: 7
When did you become a long distance mind reader?
Therefore I did my own thinking and came to understand things much better than most. Of course the range of topics I understand is limited. (I don't "get" rock music and I have no artistic sensibility at all and it's easy for me to agree that I don't know things.) But in many subject areas I am really quite good.
When you couple this with being quite sane and rational, it leads to a boring (to most) and happy life with little stress and few emergencies. That makes me quite different, almost incomprehensible to many people.
So I would say that I became so strange in about the fourth grade, perhaps fifth.
Which is all much more than you wanted to know since you were probably only providing a "put down" for the guy who sees things differently. :-)