This caught my attention..

TomServo · Post by **TomServo** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 3:25 am

http://laughingsquid.com/fox-news-makes ... n-suicide/

hoax or real? I could't find the actual video... I wouldn't put it past FOX news to be fucking assholes though.. If you find the actual video or transcript, please post it!

Post by **mdmf007** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 9:53 am

I see FOX took it down,m but it was real. i remember watching it, and thinking "How tasteless"

The host made the suicide sound like it was an inevitable event at BM"

comments like "What did you think was going to happen" and "Hippie, Drugs..." came up a lot.

He even went as far as to joke about the guy killing him self somewhere else and propogated the myth that there was someone doing excercises for hours near the dead body - thinking it was a dummy.

I wasnt impressed, I am sure its posted elsewhere though.

JezebelinHell · Post by **JezebelinHell** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 9:59 am

I saw it when it was still up as well. At this point are you really surprised by anything Fox News does?

TomServo · Post by **TomServo** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 1:58 pm

JezebelinHell wrote:I saw it when it was still up as well. At this point are you really surprised by anything Fox News does?

Sadly, No Im not surprised...It's sickening how callous and disrespectful a supposed NEWS channel can be. fuck em!!

Lassen Forge · Post by **Lassen Forge** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 2:11 pm

Hey, when you have a supposed news outlet run by a farking movie company, what do you expect? News? Facts?? ANything other than Fiction???

Give me a break, they're there to sell advertising, and get as many people watching their hyped and canned bullshit tabloid journalism as they can to jack up their ad rates. They set their per second rates by the number of people watching, what do you expect? You can get a Fuck if a lot morepeople in front of their TV's at home than you can get to go to a theater...

The more outlandish bullshit they concoct, the more people will watch them (even people who hate them tune in to see what bullshit they're starting and spreading), the more viewers, the more they can charge their advertisers, and the higher their profits go. It's why all the entertainment companies bought all the networks (or started their own)...

TomServo · Post by **TomServo** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 2:20 pm

Bay Bridge Sue wrote:Hey, when you have a supposed news outlet run by a farking movie company, what do you expect? News? Facts?? ANything other than Fiction???

Give me a break, they're there to sell advertising, and get as many people watching their hyped and canned bullshit tabloid journalism as they can to jack up their ad rates. They set their per second rates by the number of people watching, what do you expect? You can get a Fuck if a lot morepeople in front of their TV's at home than you can get to go to a theater...

The more outlandish bullshit they concoct, the more people will watch them (even people who hate them tune in to see what bullshit they're starting and spreading), the more viewers, the more they can charge their advertisers, and the higher their profits go. It's why all the entertainment companies bought all the networks (or started their own)...

duh! was a press operator for the Contra Costa Times..almost all of their profit was from ads. But to be publicly crude is a step...not a big one for FOX. If it were in print, I'd write them..but apparently was aired..and they hid it..fucking cowards

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 4:38 pm

Like you can trust any media. They all have bias and decide "what we should know, and, how we should think about it".........That's a paraphrase from Dan
Rather or one of those talking heads........

Someone here signature says it quite well, about not beleiving anything your read, etc, etc,.........

nope, not cynical about media at all....

Ygmir

TomServo · Post by **TomServo** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 4:52 pm

media bias is a given....and I accept that their full of shit, but to make humor from a young man's death? It's not the first time, nor will it be the last..but this particular shit piece hit home.

TomServo · Post by **TomServo** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 4:57 pm

and Im not relying on FOX, to know that a young man hung himself, last year. I heard the news while on the playa...good thing about having a ranger in your camp.