Speaking Ill of the Dead

Faux News has done it again. They've displayed their deep, not-so-hidden resentment for anyone with a brain that doesn't cater to the lowest common denominator like they do. The following report is an obituary, if you can believe it, for a human being who deserves the minimum respect a human being is due--that is, to not speak ill of them after their passing. But as always, courtesy and social mores are out the window when it comes to Faux news. Instead of reporting on Kurt Vonnegut's death in their true, fair and balanced manner, they portray the author as a failed writer, failed actor, and a person who failed at suicide. Summary: Kurt Vonnegut is a failure. By whose standards? Faux news? The insinuation in and of itself is absurd. What they don't like about him is that they KNOW he was talking about them and their ilk before half of them were born. He exposes their idiocy, their greed, and most of all, their banal mediocrity. What do they go and do with Vonnegut's obituary? They prove him right.

Fox News Faux Pas

The morally righteous and upstanding Fox News made yet another among a myriad of communication errors with a recent report on a serial killer--lest we forget that visual art and media are a form of visual COMMUNICATION. Just what is Fox News communicating with this video clip that is lambasted on The Daily Show? They usually offend me on a political level; now I am once again offended on a moral and aesthetic level. Could they have possibly showed a sketch of the suspected killer, pictures of the victims asking if anyone can identify them, crime scene shots of yellow tape, a written verbal description of the man or written, verbal instructions on how to avoid encountering him, or any other possibly related information to the subject at hand? Instead, Fox News chose to show the flesh fair that is Daytona Beach during spring break. I don't think I have to tell anyone the millions of things wrong with this. Someone should explain the concept of juxtaposition to their video editor. Thumbs way down, Fox News--you bastion of innacuracy and moral bankruptcy.

(incidentally, while Fox News pretends to come off morally righteous, they NEVER miss an opportunity to show flesh--it's the typical hypocrisy of the people who show you the flesh and then say, 'look! isn't this disgusting!' It is a ridiculous channel and barely above Star magazine, The National Enquirer, or Inside Edition in terms of being defined as news and possessing any truth whatsoever -- yellow journalism and the tackiest of aesthetics indeed)