I decided to start this blog in October 2003 in response to a conversation I had with my wife about Fox News(or as I have grown accustomed to calling it Faux News). I was ranting about how ridiculously conservative they are, and how you would have to be a drooling moron to think otherwise. I remember saying to my wife, "Why doesn't somebody do something about it?" Well, my little response to that was this blog. It is the best that I can do. I write this blog, I sign petitions, I write letters to my Congressmen and Senators, and I will vote for John Kerry in the Fall. So, i am somebody who is doing something about it.
However, I have also learned that this blog has helped turn me into a political junkie, which has not been good for me personally.
So, now here is my dilemma. I do not want to stop writing in this blog but.....I have to start to change the subject a bit. So, after this entry I am changing the platform of this weblog. Now, does that mean that I will be abandoning politics or political commentary? No. It just means that I am going to make a serious attempt to back up away from the filter of politics and write my blog from there.
This means that I will write about a range of different subjects that are important to me.
But before I make the final shift from the world of politics to the world of the ecclectic I felt I should really hand it to Faux News once more, to come full circle, if you will.
So, here is an interesting piece from a Pew Research Center survey that was performed on journalists across the country:
"Most national and local journalists do not believe any national news organization is 'especially liberal' in its news coverage…By contrast, solid majorities of both national and local journalists say there is an organization that they think is especially conservative—and for most the organization that comes to mind is Fox News Channel."
Faux News, Indeed.
Posted by Paul Hina at June 8, 2004 10:29 AM