I just realized ...

[unixronin]

... This whole SciFi rebranding thing, and the comment about wanting to "distance the SciFi Channel from science fiction".

Well — maybe they were inspired by Fox and news.

Comments

[lebo-superman.livejournal.com]

I'm going to call you on that one - you're being totally unfair to Fox. Not that I like them, but they aren't any different than the other stations that cover "news" these days. None of them are unbiased. What you don't like is that the bias Fox has is different from yours.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I agree, I don't think any of the US news channels reports the news in an unbiased manner. Part of the problem, I think, is that they got into this idea of "news" not as accurate and objective reporting of important events that people need to be informed of, but as an infotainment product competing for viewer share against the other networks. "Our new studio set is shinier, our new theme music is more catchy, our new on-screen graphics are flashier, and by the way, check out our smokin' hawt new co-anchor." I picked Fox not because I approve more or less of their particular editorial bias, but because they've managed to acquire for themselves the satirical sobriquet of "Faux News" (a distinction the other news channel's have yet to achieve), and ... well ... because I had to pick some newsotainment channel or another. :) Fox/Faux was just the most obvious one (yes, I'll admit, it was the "easy target") at the top of the list. The whole comparison was only a sardonic/snarky comment in the first place; I wasn't trying for rigor.


These days, even the BBC's coverage is not always objective. But I remember when it used to be....


(Footnote: the googly-eyes is my "being really silly here" icon. ;)