Editor’s Note: Whether one is regularly subjected to rantings from right or the left, perhaps it is important to consider how the steady diet of negativity served up by the infotainment industry is affecting us as individuals and as a community.
COMMENTARY
“Old white people are drowning in despair and rage. Here’s how my father lost his mind — thanks to his cable diet.”
EDWIN LYNGAR
Old, white, wrinkled and angry, they are slipping from polite society in alarming numbers. We’re losing much of a generation. They often sport hats or other clothing, some marking their status as veterans, Tea Partyers or “patriots” of some kind or another. They have yellow flags, bumper stickers and an unquenchable rage. They used to be the brave men and women who took on America’s challenges, tackling the ’60s, the Cold War and the Reagan years — but now many are terrified by the idea of slightly more affordable healthcare and a very moderate Democrat in the White House.
We’re losing people like my father to the despair of Fox News, and it’s all by design. (Before following the link to the SALON website, the readers should be informed that the author uses some words that were by no means necessary to make his point.) MORE…
Indian River Guardian 
This is rather ironic timing. I have a cousin living in Arizona who just had to have her mother committed to a mental health facility. My cousin and all of her sisters blame the comedy channel known as Fox News for this tragic turn of events.
I’ve heard MSNBC might be the opposite of FOX or maybe CNN – I don’t know. What I do know is a friend of mine in the county used to voice nothing but doom and gloom, thanks to sitting and watching FOX news all the time. I think one of her problems was isolating herself from the rest of the community – not being involved in social activities with her own age group (80-ish). There was a time when I sometimes watch one news channel or another. Have concluded a diet limited to just about anything is unhealthy for body or mind. Those who rant and rave on the media are not doing us any favors. I feel for this person whose youthful father (67, was it?) is already a victim of this type of mindless media. Chances are, I’ll always be a conservative – but could be called a conservative liberal sometimes and a liberal conservative at other times. I don’t mind at all, and I refuse to listen to anyone like Rush Limbaugh or any of his counterparts. Life can be stressful enough without voluntarily adding more to the mix.
A news alert published late this p.m. has identified that in Canada the public airwaves are not able to be polluted by the comedy channel known as Fox News. Apparently, the Canadian government has a higher standard than does the USA as to what constitutes as “news.”
It looks as though the Fox is certainly in the “hen house” but anyone with a mind could easily tell that more hens are born every day and never lay anything but rotten eggs. The “truth” is the nemesis of all of the media’s “spins” and yet always surfaces sooner than later! It is time this nation learned how to stand together instead of waiting for a 911 or a war to to wake us up. We certainly can do with out the bogus hype and false accusations made by the “far right” media that makes us forget who we really are, and that we are still the envy of every other nation in this world!