Don’t homeschoolers entertain various perspectives?
You’ve lost me completely.
Olberman usually saves hyperbole for especially deserving people. Murdoch’s people seem to use it incessantly without realizing it, and usually inaccurately.
The real problem here is that we are increasingly becoming a country with two sets of “reality”. Fox followers will often accept only Fox as authoritative, and reject any source which may be critical of Fox out of hand. (As plentifully shown above.) If MSNBC or NBC or NPR make a mistake of fact in reporting, they know that they will be called out on it because they know their viewers use other sources of information, and other media (including Fox) will point out an error. But Murdoch knows most of his viewers wont go further than Rush Limbaugh to check his facts, so he needn’t be reality based. (Eg. He can tell people Obama is raising their taxes when he is actually cutting them. He can get people who are concerned about the deficit (now) to support tax cuts for the wealthy as if that wont make the deficit worse.And he can convince people that more wealth for the wealthy means more jobs for them when for the last 8 years it has mostly gone into inflating Wall Street Bubbles. The rest of course went overseas.)
How can a democracy function with multiple sets of “facts” and how can a consensus be reached on anything? What are we teaching the world about democracy and a free society?
What we have to accept is that one side speaks the truth and one side speaks lies. There are not “multiple sets of facts”. There is only one truth in every single political issue, and it is absurd to suggest anything otherwise.
Also, you said “Murdoch’s people” use hyperbole “incessantly”, usually “inaccurately”. If by “inaccurately” you mean “not necessarily agreeing with a left of center perspective”, than yes, “inaccurately”. Fox’s shows have more of a balance of conservatives to liberals than MSNBC, CNN, or what have you has of liberals to conservatives.
I can reference the recent election coverage: MSNBC had an all-star liberal line-up: O’Donnell, Olbermann, Robinson (who doesn’t even host a show and is still a lefty), Matthews and Maddow.
Fox kept it simple, with Megyn Kelly and Bret Baier, two unbiased news anchors.
The argument that there are two sets of facts is absurd, and it only makes sense if you are in the middle of the political spectrum, and can thus throw mud both left and right, and accomplish nothing.
