I'm starting to think there is a change afoot in the Fox News reporting style.
This is a video of a report of how the Federal Government is manufacturing terrorist plots by enabling predisposed individuals to follow through with their threats.
In another news item there is what could be called sympathetic coverage of the Occupy Wall Street Protests. Including an accurate portrayal of why there is protests in the first place.
In America today, 400 people have more wealth than the bottom 150 million combined. That’s not because 150 million Americans are pathetically lazy or even unlucky. In fact, Americans have been working harder than ever -- productivity has risen in the last several decades. Big business profits and CEO bonuses have also gone up. Worker salaries, however, have declined.
Most of the Occupy Wall Street protesters aren’t opposed to free market capitalism. In fact, what they want is an end to the crony capitalist system now in place, that makes it easier for the rich and powerful to get even more rich and powerful while making it increasingly hard for the rest of us to get by. The protesters are not anti-American radicals. They are the defenders of the American Dream, the decision from the birth of our nation that success should be determined by hard work not royal bloodlines.
Sure, bank executives may work a lot harder than you and me or a mother of three doing checkout at a grocery store. Maybe the bankers work ten times harder. Maybe even a hundred times harder. But they’re compensated a thousand times more.
Is Fox seeing the writing on the wall?
Are they just trying to exploit sentiment?
Did an editor fall asleep or go on vacation?