Showing posts with label Fox News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fox News. Show all posts

Sunday, January 28, 2007

But is it REALLY your space?

Sunday night rolls around and the red house dream team (i.e. Thomas, Hannah and I) are watching our Family Guy/American Dad power hour. Thomas and I are too slow to move and end up watching 10 minutes of Fox News...

The stories are standard. Bears fever has hit Chicago, a wicked fun viewer's poll--if the city of Chicago was throwing a super bowl party, would you go?--and just how people can get down to the Bears song, polka style. Then the news took a sad turn.

The next story was about some suburban deaths. I guess some teenagers were driving around, police suspect they were drag racing, and they ended up hitting a tree. Of the four in the accident the two in the backseat were killed, the driver was trapped in the car for a while and the passenger in the front seat walked away with minor injuries. By all accounts, this is a terrible story.

How did the story end? Fox News decides to show pictures from the myspace pages of the dead teens! MYSPACE PAGES! They didn't even show the pictures, they showed pictures of computer screens with the picture pages on them.

I understand that Fox news has limited value as a news source but how deeply has Myspace permeated the american psyche? President Myspace in 2008!

note: yes, of course I have a myspace. I'm a twenty something in the US aren't I? I was one of Myspace's later victims.