Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Media: Hymns on Fox

I saw a hymns CD commercial on Fox. Now let me say that I love hymns -- "It Is Well" is my favorite -- and I would be happy if hymns CDs were advertised on every channel on air. However, this hymns CD commercial seems to be exclusive to Fox, which implies that its makers deem no other station worthy of advertising to Christians, much less being watched by them.

Complicit in this fiction, Fox willingly wraps itself in the American flag and the cloak of righteousness, as if to imply that it stands uniquely as a "Christian" TV station. Nothing could be farther than the truth, however, if you look at all the immoral schlock that Fox has been notorious for carrying over the past decade. (Comedies regularly slap Fox for its low programming morals.) Rupert Murdoch cares only about profits, and that is his motivation for courting the conservatives with one hand, even as he culls profits from the mullet-and-weenie-wrap-recipe crowd with the other.

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