You may have seen the post yesterday entitled "Rebranding Fox "News" Network - Responding To Propoganda, by Synchronicity. In it she began a campaign to educate people about Fox "News" and is asking for our help. She asked me to do a follow-up post to give additional people the opportunity to see what is going on and get in on the effort.

By way of background, There are many areas of the country where Fox News is the only "cable" news channel available.  And in many more, CNN and MSNBC are are available, but cost extra.

Miguelito (Piggy) let us know in his comments that Rupert Murdoch (owner of Fox News) also owns Direct T.V. one of the two satellite companies (he purchased it in 2003.) This is an alartming situation, in that many people across the country are getting a very slanted view of events in the country and the world, with little opportunity to hear an opposing view. Worse yet, many of those people  do not realize that Fox "News" is really entertainment, not "news."

Let's start a 'rebranding Fox News' effort as a sort of truth in advertising movement.

T-Shirts & Bumper Stickers, etc. with slogans pointing out to the public that they are being used. 

We have some brilliant minds here on TPM.  I think we could actually come up with a slogan or two that could actually be useful to support the general public that does not understand that Fox News is not a 'real' or 'fair and balanced' news channel but is instead a propaganda channel creating stories and suggesting how people should see and think about them, manipulating them.  

I would like to come up with a slogan that might make someone think, create some question or doubt in their mind... just create the possibility of a little opening in there that maybe, just maybe they are giving too much power to FNN.  My thinking is that while we could express our outrage and disgust via a slogan (go ahead and vent if you like), a more useful slogan would be simple (like 'Yes We Can') and thought provoking.  While I am not suggesting that we could sway all FNN viewers, I am thinking that there is a target audience of people who just don't realize that what they are hearing is very tainted...

I ask that you contribute both your ideas and your feedback on others ideas.  I also ask that you suggest, list, recommend all of the places and ways that this could be disseminated i.e. t-shirts, bumper stickers etc. (would you wear a shirt or have your dog wear one with your slogan on it or put it on your website,etc.?)  How could we spread the movement so that other groups picked it up?

If you are interested in helping, please contact Synchronicity at:  synchronicity@yeswecan.com  

We've been debating in great detail what is and isn't torture, did we torture, who authorized it, how harmful is it, etc., etc.

Well, come to find out all the torture did not occur on foreign soil. Those of us who stay away from Faux News were not subjected to it, but a large portion of the country was...

This video is hard to watch, but if you love your country, you owe it to yourself to see what is being done to your fellow countrymen (and women.)

There was some discussion on another thread yesterday about how in some areas of the country the only cable news available on basic cable is Faux. That would certainly explain why their ratings are so much higher than those of MSNBC. But I digress. The point is, this is what your fellow citizens are being subjected to. When you write your elected officials regarding torture, you may want to mention this, as well. If this is not considered torture, it should be. If I had to listen to this crap day after day after day, I would confess to anything to make it stop.