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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Roy Greenslade

Living on a diet of right-wing media

Screenwriter Eric Williams resolved at new year to "give up objectivity for a week." So, for seven days, he took his news and opinion solely from "conservative sources" in the US, such as Fox News, the Washington Times, the New York Post and Rush Limbaugh. His diary makes for amusing reading.

Example: a 10-year-old girl calls Fox host Sean Hannity to say she doesn't like people calling the president names, and she doesn't like it being taught in schools. Williams writes: "I may be taking a controversial position here, but if fourth-graders are indeed being taught to call the president names in school, I am definitely opposed to this practice. Children should be taught to call the president names in their own homes or, as was traditional during the Clinton years, at their places of worship." (Via Huffingtonpost.com)

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