most tv sucks these days, but there are some shining examples of good writing, acting, camera work, etc... we call those Deadwood and Arrested Development. Family Guy sucks ass, though...
I've always found it valuable and necessary to get information from as many sources as possible in order to get past the spin and bias. Even if I usually disagreed with their ideology and often found their journalistic integrity to be lacking, I still occasionally tuned in.
No more. Fuck 'em. It has not a damned thing to do with ideology, either.
Read this piece, and not just the sensationalist headline.
Construed? Would comic book readers have heard of such a word? This storyline sounds as if it was written by an acolyte of the Obama administration.
The occasional big (for comic book readers) word and a left-wing plot are what make me think someone has hijacked Superman.
Seriously. They think it's okay to make some pretty nasty comments about the intelligence of comic book readers. Comic readers who, by and large, are either A) the kids who are actually interested in reading, or, more often, B) intelligent, geeky adults. And, I might add, of the people I know who regularly use the word "construed" correctly, I'd estimate about 90% of them are comic readers.
I'm not taking this personally. If they advocate calling me stupid, fuck 'em right in their assholes in a Minnesota airport bathroom. I have no desire to support any business that will publicly call me a dummy.
*--For behavior unbecoming anyone, perpetrated in real time over an extended--AH, FUCK IT! MORE MALIBU, BITCHES!!
god, why would you deliberately subject yourself to the drivel from foxnews anyway?
regardless, i love how this guy is irate about the direction the comic is taking without having apparently even read a comic in the past 40 years. he cites the old serial tv show, and also talks about "long lost" characters such as captain marvel, who has had multiple appearances in team books an his own series a couple times in the past decade. also, he brings up might mouse and captain planet.
anyway, without knowing what's going on in the comic that spurred this event, i think it's actually pretty dumb. but it might make sense in the context of the greater picture. also, did they raise such a stink when lex luthor was elected president? no? oh, it must have been because of the tax breaks on evil genius doomsday devices that will somehow help the 'average joe six pack' in a round-about illogical way.
Hey, my Supaman was born in Amurica, he weren't no illegal alien from Mexico or New Mexico! This funnybook was obviously written by a left-wing hippie commie pinko islamic anti-amurican idiot who doesn't know what supaman is really all about.
Yeah, I wasn't questioning his logic. I figured that was obvious to anyone who read it. Even if he were to just do basic research by tuning into the superhero cartoons currently on, Captain Marvel's showed up at least six times in two seasons of The Brave and the Bold, and Power of Shazam, if I'm not mistaken, won several awards (because everything Jeff Smith touches is gold--I don't know how he eats). He also has a strange view of illegal immigration, considering he's a Fox commentator and their standard, unwavering position is that immigrants are bad.
I've never watched Fox extensively. Their talking heads take up most of their schedule and range from ill-informed at best (O'Reilly--how sad is it that O'Reilly is now their "moderate"?) to batshit insane reptoid-fearing wackjobs at worst (Beck). I can watch some of the talking heads on the other channels, not because I more closely agree with them, but because they don't spend most of their time condemning everyone who disagrees with them (or at least they do it in a funny manner). (There are plenty of liberal commentators I can't stand for the same reasons I don't watch the Fox crew. Ed Schultz comes immediately to mind. I'd like to put him in a cage fight to the death with Beck, then conveniently lose the key to the cage so the winner can't get out and starves.)
And the actual news has to be taken with a grain of salt. The bias from Fox doesn't come, as new bias generally does, from what the editors choose to show and how the reporters report, generally being close to unnoticeable. It's decided at the top level and permeates everything. You can get unique stories and takes on things, but you have to wade through unnecessary commentary. (Really, regardless of bias, is there a single American national news organization aside from NPR/PBS that doesn't feel the need to comment on everything and simply gives facts so that the audience can make up their own minds?)
The bizarre, blind nationalism bothers me far more than the ideology. (I've never understood how something as minor as saying slavery was bad or that the current hatred of America from the Middle East is a result of a century of exploitative policies is "blaming America first." If a person makes a mistake, he's expected to recognize it and learn from it. Are nations not supposed to do that?)
This is sort of a "last straw" thing. I already knew they hate me (in an abstract sense). I tend to lean liberal on most social issues, so I'm anti-American. I went to college, so I'm an intellectual, and therefore anti-American. I studied Journalism and, though I didn't go into that field when I learned I'd have to eat, I hold journalists to high standards, so I'm contributing to the perpetuation of the liberal lamestream media. I have gay friends, and they're anti-American, so I consort with anti-Americans. I have friends who are atheists, Wiccans, and just about everything else, who are anti-American. I have friends who are Muslim, who are super-anti-American and so I'm a terrorist sympathizer. I recognize that simply kicking out all the currently illegal Mexicans in the US would cripple the economy further, so I'm in favor of drug cartels. I stay at home with two kids while my wife works outside the house, so I'm contributing to the emasculation of the American ideal and undermining family values. I live in California, so I'm anti-American. I try to be conscious of and limit the damage I do to the environment, so I'm a lousy treehugger. I favor taxing the super-rich and tend to be distrustful of mega-corporations, so I'm a communist and socialist (not sure how one can be both, but, eh). I think Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann are both far too intellectually under-qualified for any government job higher than answering phones at the DMV, so I'm a sexist hypocrite. I see a real problem with the oil companies getting government subsidies on top of their record profits while gas prices skyrocket in a crippled economy and think several things need to be done about it, so I'm anti-American. I think we should hold China, Saudi Arabia, and Israel to the same human rights standards we claim to hold Iraq or North Korea to, so I'm somehow even anti-American for that (never mind that logically it fits better into their borderline isolationist doctrine).
And now, because I like to read a particular medium--not even genre, but medium--I'm stupid and incapable of using simple two-syllable words? There's only so much abstract abuse one can take. It's ignorant of a news organization as big as Fox to not recognize in 2011 the stupidity of calling comic readers stupid. Who is there who can be described as even marginally-informed who doesn't know Watchmen was called one of the best novels by Time and has been on the bestseller lists for something like 20 years? Who doesn't know Maus won a Pulitzer? Who hasn't heard of Neil Gaiman? I don't think it's an exaggeration to say it's akin to saying all moviegoers are stupid because Hoodwinked Too is a bad movie geared toward small kids.
*--For behavior unbecoming anyone, perpetrated in real time over an extended--AH, FUCK IT! MORE MALIBU, BITCHES!!
