UnrepentantSinner
A post by Alan Smithee
I don't watch Fox News, but I had seen a promo for their "War on Christianity" segment they've been running this week. I like my local Fox affiliate and watch the 5:30pm news. Today they ran (I assume) part of the Fox News story.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,106455,00.html
The bias and the propaganda value was not surprising. First off the reporter gave the standard accomdationist arguments against seperation. This was in addition to the pro-accomodation talking heads. Just typical for the "We decide and report what we've decided" news channel.
What was more obvious (at least to me who knows better) was the effort to show how the Evil Atheist Conspiracy was responsible for waging war on America. Now here's where it gets so sneaky I have to give them credit. The primary gist of the story was about the Constitutional basis or lack thereof for seperation and the efforts in the courts of pro-seperationists. Yet they were showing all these atheist protestors waving signs throught the piece.
That's odd because Michael Newdow's case is the only major Church/State case to make it to the Supreme Court that I'm aware of. Every other (again, that I'm aware of) case going back to 1947 and Cantwell v. Connecticut up to the Doe vs. Santa Fe ISD case have been brought by theists who were in the minority (JWs, Mormons and Catholics for ex.) Even the infamous Madalyn Murray O'Hair case was actually consolidated in the a case by Unitarian Edward Schempp.
With this being the facts.. why is Fox deciding to report on all these atheists protesting?
The segment ended on my local channel with, again, atheist protesters, one carrying a "Atheism is American as Apple Pie" sign. I'm sure the fundies that Fox was catering to want ape poo poo when they saw that.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,106455,00.html
The bias and the propaganda value was not surprising. First off the reporter gave the standard accomdationist arguments against seperation. This was in addition to the pro-accomodation talking heads. Just typical for the "We decide and report what we've decided" news channel.
What was more obvious (at least to me who knows better) was the effort to show how the Evil Atheist Conspiracy was responsible for waging war on America. Now here's where it gets so sneaky I have to give them credit. The primary gist of the story was about the Constitutional basis or lack thereof for seperation and the efforts in the courts of pro-seperationists. Yet they were showing all these atheist protestors waving signs throught the piece.
That's odd because Michael Newdow's case is the only major Church/State case to make it to the Supreme Court that I'm aware of. Every other (again, that I'm aware of) case going back to 1947 and Cantwell v. Connecticut up to the Doe vs. Santa Fe ISD case have been brought by theists who were in the minority (JWs, Mormons and Catholics for ex.) Even the infamous Madalyn Murray O'Hair case was actually consolidated in the a case by Unitarian Edward Schempp.
With this being the facts.. why is Fox deciding to report on all these atheists protesting?
The segment ended on my local channel with, again, atheist protesters, one carrying a "Atheism is American as Apple Pie" sign. I'm sure the fundies that Fox was catering to want ape poo poo when they saw that.
