I remember the first time I visited America, I assumed that Glenn Beck was a liberal comedian doing a satirical impression of a conservatives nutcase. I was somewhat taken aback when the locals told me he was for real.
NO Thats Just ALex's personality he is not doing this to get ratings He actually tried to repoert what really is going on in the world and interviews insiders who know
I disagree. It's got far worse. Now there's OAN, a "news" broadcaster so unhinged and borderline fascist that it makes Fox look like a paragon of stable, nuanced reporting. It's genuinely hideous.
@@robashton8606 agreed. it's amazing what we're seeing from the president too. he's pushing conspiracy and propaganda touting OAN to his supporters on social media (thus driving up their revenues), encouraging his followers to buy Liz Wheeler's shit book and "give her great reviews," etc. etc.
British news has gotten far more dysmal, and in my view the BBC, where at once it could disguise its liberal bias, have brought in a young 'diverse' workforce that cares very little for impartiality
Bedrinonen Absolutely not. We have to pay for a TV licence for an unbiased news channel. For instance on of BBC's own Jimmy Saville was found out to be a kiddy-fiddler and BBC covered it. DO you think Fox would ever own up to and not try to cover up having a pedophile as a previous member of their staff? I think not. If you've never been to the UK or travelled out side of America I would certainly not judge the Media. You know the Invasion of Russia into the Ukraine? that wasn't even covered in American news! How warped is that?!
SophieCLRguART oh please, have you seen the bbc's coverage of scottish independence referendum? they are embarrassingly bias. just because someone is more prim and proper doesn't mean the stuff coming out of their mouth is any less bullshit.
ItsRuthiee Did you actually watch the video? Fox news has genuinely lost the plot, whereas the BBC at least tries to remain professional, even during a scandal within its own organization, they essentially criticize themselves :/
Indeed - and how is he unable to work out what it means from the context? It really makes you ponder the multi dimensional nature of intelligence, as that man has serious qualifications coming out of his ass... but it seems anger shuts down his critical thinking - or he has a great ability to retain and recite facts that fit his worldview, but lacks analytical intelligence
Gotta love when the far right wing media starts complaining that the media has too much liberal bias. I like the term Charlie Brooker used, "Hes angry with anything leaning left of Mussolini."
I'll never forget watching 'V for Vendetta' for the first time. The Voice of London seemed like it was a transplanted Glen Beck show. Great film. Beck isnt frightening. The hoards that find him convincing are.
Haha, that's the irony. If 1984, Brazil or V for Vendetta came to fruition it would happen in the UK, possibly why all 3 movies are based here. With our governments spying powers and the amount of surveilance we have your entire trek to work could be documented if need be because you are likely only out of CCTV reach for a minute or two.
@@krashd All of the scenarios in those films/books could happen _anywhere._ There is no irony, only possiblity. Right now, the United States looks to be reaching a point where _exactly_ that kind of nightmare could begin. People have begun to push back. Now we have to wait and see how hard _they_ will be pushed back and how violently. The UK is nowhere _near_ as close to unrest, or to the dangers that the US now faces. But that does not mean it could not happen here. CCTV cameras aren't the issue though. The issue is whether or not people start buying the bullshit the way many Americans have. A grip on reality, even if we don't particularly _like_ that reality, is what's important. The minute we start swallowing the bullshit without comment (or even with ecstatic cheers, à la the US) is when we'll be screwed.
Not to mention that Glen Beck claimed that the video game Watch Dogs teaches players how to hack in real life AND claimed that Call of Duty drove a young boy to suicide because of "violent images of soldiers being killed". Fucking hell, Glen Beck -_-
For the americans trying to claim "americans aren't like this" Rush limbaugh's show gets over 20 million listeners a day. Sean Hannity's over 10 million. Over 2 million people watch fox each day. Sure not all americans are like this but between 40-50% are and agree with this kind of stuff. They really do argue like this.
rbeck3200tb40 Really? Not being a jesus freak bitching about the potted up teens makes you a communist? Ask the people complaining about americans why this is wrong. This is fearmongering, yelling, opinionated crap. I'm not talking about left or right, because msnbc and the left does it too, but not nearly in the same scale or level as the right. If you want quality news with some right leanings go to stuff like the economist or business insider or the wall street journal, don't watch or listen to opinionated crap. He's not ripping on the wsj here, he's ripping on the yelling mental types.
rbeck3200tb40 Leftist communists? Are there another kind? What is wrong with agreeing with this stuff is that if you had any critical faculty you wouldn't be asking the question.
My grandmother loves Bill O'Reilly, but she was an English teacher in Texas. Every time she would try to convert me to his way of thinking, I would say something like; Isn't he using this logical fallacy, or this one, or this? She would get so mad. SO understand that people don't watch the Fox extremists because they have a sound reasoning, it is because they want to reassure their current school of thought.
It's not that it exists, but that people pay attention to it and don't react to Fox "News" programs with a resounding "Are you insane? Get the fuck out of my face" that worries me
+Gerry Berry Oh, I avoid it like the plague that it is, but it's still seriously disturbing and depressing to think that a lot Americans lap up this fear-mongering, persecution-complex bullshit with a spoon.
A look at the American news networks makes me love our German national TV news, even though they seem a bit dull and unentertaining, they are atleast on point and do their job properly.
What do you mean? It means they love the liberties and opportunities that they're afforded by their nation. Would you be confused it somebody said "I love my house", "I love my school" or "I love my town"?
I think it's cute that Brits find our news to be a novelty. This is every day life in the US and I think we Americans are just used to it now. It was probably ten times worse 5-10 years ago though.
RachaelissoRawrsome1 Well the mainstream media has always been questionable but some of the American coverage is shocking. WTF is that Glenn Beck all about and how did he ever feature on a mainstream channel, the guy is a idiot that should be locked up and never allowed to speak again, the same would apply to Sean Hannity and Bill O'reilly. I have watched some of their shows and I was shocked at the distaste for minorities, liberals, women, anti war activists and anyone else who dare challenge the right wing POV. In Britain they would be challenged and hung out to dry, okay we have Sky News which is trash of the highest order but Fox News would do the Nazi's proud with their shallow, twisted view on life...
***** If you think the TV shows were nuts, there's a whole giant world of insanity called FOX talk radio you haven't discovered yet. Almost twelve hours of "what Obama did wrong today" with interchangeable show titles and hosts including Hannity. The last I've heard of Glen Beck, he was canned, turned into a martyr with his followers and now has an internet radio show.
@@s1050 They were in power before this. It began with Reagan and got steadily worse every time Republicans were elected (although, to be frank, the Democrats aren't totally wonderful either. They're just not as bad). Fanatical capitalists combined with right wing fundamentalist Christianity. Trump and Pence are the final distillation of the nightmare.
Watching Glenn Beck at the end acting badly trying to cry, I was thinking "ffs, what's he going to say next, 'oh God, I'm sorry I just love Amurica'?" Then he actually said "I just love my country". Wow, really wow. Exactly the same audience and idiocracy that means Trump is now president.
I love the country singer who goes on about how we'd all be speaking German under the flag of Japan (?) if it wasn't for the lord and "the man." I had no idea Glenn Beck's viewers were such fans of "the man." They must love Obama and his government, then. Oh, wait, "the man" isn't the black man. Got it. This is nuclear level stupidity, right here.
"You don't need any guns for this revolution, you just need to stand up and find your voice". Damn, that actually seems quite a reasonable stance nowadays.
+Salacious Candy - I'm surprised that people outside of America do not realize that these morons are not TV News anchors. We have actual TV News channels with real news, weather, etc. These creeps have late night TV shows meant strictly to shock everyone.. Americans think they are morons too. Those who watch them , do so for entertainment, and not because they actually believe them to be doing the actual news. These morons don't even believe what is coming out of their own mouths, they do these rants for money and ratings. No one should ever take them seriously.
No one should ever take them seriously, I agree. But I'm sorry, there are plenty of Fox News fans who completely and unquestioningly believe all the crap they spew out.
Thomas Frank (_What's the Matter with Kansas?_) dissects that same Glenn Beck segment in his book talk for _Pity the Billionaire_. This inversion of Glenn Beck taking a leftwing image (the angry anchor from _Network_ and twisting it into an insane rightwing version is nothing new. Ayn Rand did essentially the exact same with _Fountainhead_, which is an inverted (or perverted) version of early 20th century workers' novels. Similarly, fascists are trying to actually trying to "dispose" of the Nazi legacy by claiming (with a somewhat straight face even) that "National Socialists" were, you guessed it, "socialists" and therefore the political left is to blame for the Holocaust. There is no logical end to this tactic, except the rise of fascism which is exactly what we're seeing all over the Western world. One point of disagreement with Brooker though: Beck and his ilk are not insane, ridiculous or stupid. They are calculating, sophisticated and rotten to the core.
+Dr X No it wasn't, if it wasn't for Britain, Germany would have rolled over western Europe, there wouldn't even be a front for the US to fight from. Britain held the line with the French, then the US swept in for the final push and took the credit.
+Jack White Actually it's a lot more likely we'd be speaking Russian. The Red Army broke the Nazi forces, severely weakening them, and allowing a much easier Allied victory on the western front.
When we obliterated the French fleet at Mers-el-Kebir killing more than a thousand of our own allies rather than letting French battleships fall under German control the rest of the world took notice that even entirely alone we Brits wouldn't give the Nazis a sausage. Just the finger.
British news presenters tell the same lies but in a posh English accent compared to the U.S. It always sounds more convincing. Coming from a small English village US TV looks bloody cleesey to me.
thesignsoflife7 Us gamers have been proven to be the most intelligent people on earth. Certainly more intelligent than you and more rational. And it's not complex at all... the fact is more guns do NOT make you safer... if it did that would make the US the safest country on earth. Not a complex question at all... just rational and logical. Something you lack. Go polish your gun cletus 😉
I will be the first to admit it, I am a gamer. I will, however, never concede to being stupid. My point up there was satire, it wasn't clever or complicated satire, but it was still a satirical point. I didn't intend for people to take it seriously, however from your pretentious viewpoint I can see how you wouldn't notice that. Have a nice day!
Being a gamer is just an activity tons of different kinds of people can do. Different games for different amounts of time in between different other activities and careers aso. Wtf are you guys on about?
I drove myself almost crazy trying to find the music during the FOX segment. It's from "Romeo and Juliet" by Sergei Prokofiev called "Capulets and Montagues"
Brooker well points out the utter silliness of corporate media news. It's interesting to see Glenn Beck, in the US, in his early 'Tea Baggers" performances. Twas the beginning...
Keith Olbermann is the man! He's not so much a celebrity-obsessed tabloid journalist but a like the equivalent of a kooky kid run loose in a candy store. Despite his rather off-kilter nuttiness, he has plenty of sincerity, nuanced facts, and humor to back it up. He's the best quality out of all of America's "talking heads".
And yet, the longest-running anchor in history was Jean Enersen, a not-particularly-good-looking Norwegian-American from Poulsbo, Washington, who read the news in the most informative, non-biased way possible.
