Name Game: Fighting Nonsense with More Nonsense

[Koeryn]

The thing about FOX is that they're not actually a new station any more, they're 'infotainment'. The problem with this is that a lot of people haven't realized this, and still honestly believe every word FOX speaks, regardless of how outlandish or obviously full of bullshit those words happen to be.

 

[Schmittler]

I can't make up my mind if I enjoyed the comic or the description more.

Thank you for that. Finally someone that hits the nail on the head about Fox News. I imagine that to a professional news reporter Fox News is an embarrassment and an insult.

 

[Saltyk]

Podi for president!

Took the words right out of my mouth.

 

[Ummeiko]

You know, there are parts of the channel that I watch and enjoy... mostly the actual news stuff and not the opinion programs. And the parts that I just roll my eyes at or avoid altogether.

This, however, was one of the worst so-called debates I have ever seen. We had better debates back in 9th grade speech class. While I don't always agree with the "Fox News is evil" bandwagon, I think this segment warranted most of the reaction it's getting.

 

[Logic 0]

It seems that asbury understands what podi is saying.

 

[AgentBJ09]

The comic wasn't that entertaining, and it's honestly getting to be very old hat to make fun of FOX News these days.

Next time something like this comes around, try making fun of Rupert Murdoch, the man who manages both FOX News and News Corp, which is the company that subsidizes FOX Entertainment and FOX News.

Or, better yet, why not do a backroom comic, written in the writer's room?

 

[Leels]

It makes me glad to see what I can only assume are quite a few Americans calling this disgusting news network the piece of shit that it is.

Its kind of sad, and I don't agree with this in any way, but the international image of Americans is hit VERY hard because of shit like Fox.

You know that, right?

Part of the reason why I'm moving to Canada for a bit... seriously.

 

[Leels]

Man the strip this week looks eeirly like ctrl alt del: http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20110523

I don't really read CAD so I didn't even see this until you posted it here.. That being said, I submit my stuff around the same time they posted this. I work on my comic for at least 2-3 days before I submit. So I couldn't have seen it coming..

Also given the nature of webcomics, this was bound to happen eventually.

 

[bushwhacker2k]

I gotta say, I was actually a little interested in what they were saying but it seemed like the second Asbury started talking he just went off on a tangent and I don't even have a clue what he's talking about.

It's just silly, considering Ambrozy just stated commercial games AREN'T given federal funding and then Asbury starts busting out ridiculous statements like 43 cents of every dollar is given to the video game industry and...

I mean I don't even know why I'm posting... can we get rid of Fox News now?

 

[mechanixis]

Oh god, that interview was hilarious. Ambrozy really held his ground well, I thought. That bald guy started at videogames and took it almost directly to "41 CENTS OFF OF EVERY DOLLAR! PAIN AND SUFFERING! MAYBE THERE IS NO TOMORROW!" I wish those weren't direct quotes.

It was all very obviously a pointless exercise in knee-jerk reactionary anti-gaming drivel, but Ambrozy managed to turn it on its head, at least as much as he could within the confines of their toxic punditry.

 

[Marmooset]

What's a "holocost?" Is that some kinda inside joke to which I'm not privy?

I'm guessing either:
A) The difference in price between a general run theater ticket and a 3-D one; or
B) A typo (but I think you already knew that).

 

[mechanixis]

I really couldn't care les about what FOX news says. They're a news channel in a country on the other side of the world that, based on the evidence I've been shown here on the Escapist, treat news as if it open to artistic license to make it more entertaining. They're basically the Onion, except at least the Onion doesn't try to hide the fact that its news is all satire. Why are you even giving them this kind of attention?

That would be great, if it was actually the case. The fact is that Fox News is really as awful and backwards as it appears on the surface, and about half the citizens of a global superpower dance to its tune. I think that makes it noteworthy.

It would be lovely to dismiss them as world-class trolls, but if you'd lived in the States for any length of time, you'd find they have a terrifying number of genuine supporters.

 

[grigjd3]

I believe you are being naive when you assume FoxNEWS is simply unaware that CoD can't receive NEA funding. I would not be at all surprised to learn they are actively keeping that information from the public.

 

[freaper]

I do like this comic, keep up the awesome work.

But I would have to agree with the core matter. Games should not get taxpayers money; neither should any other art form.

I agree, taxpayers money should only go towards things that directly benefit society.

Yes, like the trillions of dollars America spends on national security.
If they'd cut 1 missile, 1 single missile, out of their program, they could easily fund a handful of indies.

 

[Calbeck]

What I'm annoyed with is how they clearly didn't do any research at all.

1) You're referencing a talking-heads show. Crack open any newspaper, flip to the "Editorial" section, and you find the same uneducated opinionated blather. Why? Because it's COMMENTARY, not NEWS. No one in the actual news industry confuses "op-ed" for "news". Yet no one OUTSIDE the industry seems to remember there's any difference.

2) Take your pick of MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC --- all of them have the same talking-heads shows, with their various loads of ignorant gits, doing the same thing.

But pretending only one network does this...that's very much a hipster thing.

 

[The Lugz]

as i said in another thread, all news corps do is make up stuff to fill in when there are no wars, gang-rapes or other sensational news
because a 'there was no news today' banner on your channel / site / paper doesn't really attract viewers

so they hire over-sensitive and over-opinionated person a to shout down anything that perso / thing / issue b may possibly, plausibly be a tiny issue to a tiny number of people and back it up with
'the facts' ( ie, anything they could brainstorm 5 minutes before with some internet access )

nice strip tho, i liked the octopus but i'd have preferred hipno-toad, it's fox after all..
even though you have the whole bottom feeder thing going

 

[Legion]

I do like this comic, keep up the awesome work.

But I would have to agree with the core matter. Games should not get taxpayers money; neither should any other art form.

I agree, taxpayers money should only go towards things that directly benefit society.

Yes, like the trillions of dollars America spends on national security.
If they'd cut 1 missile, 1 single missile, out of their program, they could easily fund a handful of indies.

You won't get any argument from me, the amount of money countries spend on a single weapon is absolutely insane.

 

[JDKJ]

What's a "holocost?" Is that some kinda inside joke to which I'm not privy?

I'm guessing either:
A) The difference in price between a general run theater ticket and a 3-D one; or
B) A typo (but I think you already knew that).

I was thinking it was a set-up from a bad Abbott and Costello routine:

Costello: What's a "holocost?"

Abbot: About $9.99 plus tax.

*rimshot*

 

[TwistedEllipses]

Man the strip this week looks eeirly like ctrl alt del: http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20110523

I don't really read CAD so I didn't even see this until you posted it here.. That being said, I submit my stuff around the same time they posted this. I work on my comic for at least 2-3 days before I submit. So I couldn't have seen it coming..

Also given the nature of webcomics, this was bound to happen eventually.

Sorry, I phrased that badly. I meant that you both had simular ways of drawing the guests and host on fox, I wasn't trying to be a 'Simpsons did it!' jerk or worse accuse you of stealing.

 

[MeTheMe]

Whoa! I thought I was watching the real thing for a second until the squid fellow started making some good points. Fox News would never allow some reasonable arguments on their show!