How can such a bastion of morality be attacked?
I've done further research on this, and apparently some people don't realize the efforts that the Fox network is taking to bring decency to the airwaves. Take this article, please (yet another communist writing). The writer's anti-Fox, anti-American diatribes are highlighted:
...Pete Coors, the beer magnate, who hails from a staunchly conservative and Republican family, lost in Colorado, a strongly Republican state. There were many causes for his loss, but one of the least noted was that morality voters who now dominate the Republican party view Coors, whose beer commercials are some of the most sexually explicit and exploitative on TV, as a phony and a hypocrite. You see, Pete, you can’t campaign on the need for morality and values, when your most famous contribution to the American pop culture is the Coors Beer twins....
I am glad that values-minded Americans chose not to give Pete Coors a pass. It is high time that we held individuals and corporations accountable for the sleaze they bring to our society and the corruption of our children, even when those corporations have an otherwise laudable record of promoting values and education.
A strong case in point is Rupert Murdoch’s global media company, NewsCorp. Conservative Americans like me are very grateful to Murdoch and Fox News for offering a welcome alternative to what we perceive to be the strong liberal bias in the media. We are tired of hearing Palestinian terrorists described as “militants” by CNN and the New York Times, and we are sickened by the media’s apologia for brutal dictators like Saddam Hussein. Fox News has become a runaway hit because it does not believe that journalism ought to include hushing up Saddam’s atrocities....Murdoch has financed outstanding conservative journals like The Weekly Standard so that there is some balance to the left-leaning media, like Slate and The Nation.
But there is another side of NewsCorp that conservatives and values-minded folks are guilty of overlooking. While the Fox News Channel is unafraid to offer a courageously values-based viewpoint, the Fox Television network led the way in airing the most offensive tabloid and sexually exploitative programming on TV.
Five years ago Fox launched the first reality show, Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire? and it’s been downhill ever since. Its strategy for cracking through the major networks seemed to be to outsleaze them in showing degrading programs like Temptation Island, which sought to pull couples apart by getting them to cheat with virtual strangers; Joe Millionaire, which portrayed women as shallow gold-diggers; and The Swan–-a truly disgusting show in which women have their bodies carved up to gain self-esteem....
Of course the major networks followed suit....CBS, one of the worst offenders, received a huge fine when Janet Jackson’s breast came popping out literally in middle of the Super Bowl. The difference is that I expect a lot more from Rupert Murdoch than I do from Michael Eisner of Disney, which owns ABC, and CBS’s Les Moonves. Murdoch really believes in conservative principles and has shown courage in upholding them. The others seem to care only about the bottom line.
But the Fox TV network in the U.S. is tame stuff compared to some of NewsCorp’s overseas newspapers, like The Sun, the largest selling paper in Britain, which, unbelievably, has a naked woman on page three every single day. Conservatives who, like me greatly admire the Fox News Channel, need to make their views known about the appearance of topless women in mainstream newspapers,. Indeed, now that he has built his empire into a significant, conservative voice, Rupert Murdoch can easily afford – and morally should feel obliged to–clean up his operation and make it function in accordance with his values....
Ann Coulter and Monica Crowley are two of the brightest and most persuasive conservative commentators on TV....But since they talk so much about family values shouldn’t they get married already? Is it really persuasive to rightly take Teresa Heinz Kerry to task for her criticism of motherhood as not being “a real job,” but then to delay motherhood as long as possible in order to do TV and radio commentary, because these are more glamorous jobs?
As America becomes more of a religious, and values-based society, it is incumbent especially upon on those who are advocating this important development to ensure that we don’t undermine it by acting inconsistently with our message.
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