by Rob Kall

OpEdNews.com

The "Fair and Balanced" Fox network has blasted CBS for it's portrayal of Ronald Reagan in a Docudrama.

Fox uses talking heads to slam CBS, clearly suggesting to the Fox viewers that the solution to the "problem" of an other than mindlessly worshipful portrayal of a conservative president is to boycott the network. They say that CBS will be hurt by the 30% of conservatives who will respond to this horrific affront to conservatives by no longer watching the network.

Of course this makes me want to watch the CBS special. It makes me want to let other kindred spirits on the left know about this vicious, aggressive attempt by Fox to damage the viewership of CBS. I've long known that FOX is the most corrupted, in terms of partisanship, being, virtually, a propaganda arm of the far right, conservatism and the Bush administration. But i also see NBC and ABC as leaning more to the right and center. So it's come down to CBS being, while not being anything close to liberal, the most likely network to be fair and balanced, occasionally covering the right's perspective and sometimes the left's.

As I write this, monitoring Fox, the enemy, they have a piece in which they function as the culture police, stating that Eminem should be reviled. Frankly, I don't like Eminem's message. But my 13 year old loves his music and for a while played it incessantly. And it wasn't nearly as annoying as my older son's former proclivity towards heavy metal and punk. I actually came to enjoy the music from Eight Mile.

The point is, it seems, that if they could, FOX would BE the culture police, the arbiters of what would be acceptable, no, what would be ALLOWED.

Then there's the hypocrisy of FOX criticizing Hollywood and liberal actors. Arnold, with all his foibles, is given a pass, but FOX focuses on liberal actors like Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins, apparently, with the hopes of getting conservative dittohead types to boycott their films.

This is the standard profile of the conservative mind-set-- control other people so they act like you.

The report on the CBS that I saw was being presented by Bill O'Reilly, the Fox entertainer, propagandist, pundit-- certainly anything but a journalist. I should add that I don't consider myself a journalist. I am a pundit with a clear, declared partisan perspective. It is galling to see the Fox propagandists, like Brit Hume, spouting chapter and verse from conservative publications like the daily standard, yet pretending they are fair and balanced reporters, journalists.

Bottom line, watch the special on Reagan. Pull a Dixie Chicks on Fox's attack and show that their toxic form of media attacks actually help, not hurt their targets.

Rob Kall is editor of www.OpEdNews.Com a tough liberal news and opinion website. He also organizes the Futurehealth winter Brain, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology Meeting and the Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art, Science and Application of Story. This article is copyright by Rob Kall and  originally published by opednews.com but permission is granted for reprint in print, email, blog, or web media so long as this credit paragraph is attached.