Friday, September 9, 2011

If It's Good For Fox, It's Good Enough For The World.

Wouldn't ya just know it. Fox News has it's shorts all in an uproar. It seems that both NYC and Washington have made the ultimate blunder. At least in the eyes of Fox News.. They both had the unmitigated gall to exclude Evangelical ministers from their respective ceremonies commemorating the tenth anniversary of  9/11. Never mind that NYC's ceremony has never included ministers of any faith with the possible exception of the chaplains of the various divisions of first responders. As for Washington, My guess is that they flipped a coin. I wonder if Fox News realizes just how many different religious denominations and faiths there are in this country, or even just NYC or Washington? To include all would take up most of the day or perhaps several days. Unless of course Fox News is only interested in Baptists. I hear some weren't too happy that Washington's ceremony was to be held at the National Cathedral. It's Episcopal, ya know. They'll be relieved to learn that because of some damage to the Cathedral by an overturned crane, the ceremony has been moved to a synagogue. Now I understand how difficult it is to fill a "news" station 24/7 with something that will peak the interest of it's viewers, but when is it okay to manufacture news in order to fill and sell airtime. NYC's ceremony is unchanged from each of the other nine years. How come it's such a big problem right now. One of two answers comes to mind. Either Fox News is trying to manufacture some sort of outrage, or folks are getting to be just as bad as Congress in the way they act toward each other. I should point out that the Catholic Bishop in Washington and the head Rabbi, when asked about the slight, had no problem with the arrangements.

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