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Originally Posted by Kal
I've come to accept that journalism nowdays is merely a product of capitalism that caters directly to a market, in the case of the original article, the millions(?) of astrologers that Australia has. You open up a newspaper, it has an astrology section, you open almost any womens mag, it has an astrology section. The same thing is happening to mainstream media as well, with FOX being a perfect example of biased media catering to a specific market - the right wing.
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+1 Andrew
Indifferent to both sides in this debate - can't get worked up as an 'astronomer' at a fluff piece of journalism, and can see the journo's point for tie-ing the alignment and astrology together to create said 'Fluff' (shame she dragged poor old Fred Watson along with it though!)...don't care - move on.
What I did find irksome, and which ties in with the OPs original point, was a member of the US 'media' berating another country's media for poor quality journalism! A case of physician heal thyself I think!!
Andrew's 'Fox' example is a frightening illustration of this.