Why Hate Fox News?

I am in that camp as well. News seems to be more about editorial direction, than immediate facts. It is getting increasingly difficult to get to the facts these days. I take most everything with a “grain of salt”, and patience.

What I have found myself doing the last few years, is depending upon folks in those local communities where the “news” springs up. While getting to travel abroad somewhat during the past 10 years,….it is those folks that give me a better view of facts on the ground, or more local sources.

“I look at the Fox News website, but frankly it looks like a supermarket tabloid, especially below the headlines.”

…So you read CNN…?!

You think CNN is more tabloidy than Fox? I don’t see it. One thing that has infuriated me about finding a news website is the switchover to tablet format. I can’t stand tablet format. CNN has switched too, but I’m tired of changing news sites.

Well I pretty much never visit the Fox website so I don’t know how tabloidy it is, I just know that CNN used to be my source and I left it specifically because it became tabloidy.

I agree about Erin – but I do not find that there is another CNN anchor or reporter that I can say that about.

I can’t ever under any circumstances stomach MSNBC – EVER!

As for Fox – I despise the FOX website. News is hard to find – but doggoneit one can easily find what Miley Cyrus, Beyonce and Kim Kardashian are *not* wearing…I Never go there.

As for real news on FoxNews on I like Chris Wallace (Fox News Sunday), Brett Baer (Special Report) as they are the only real journalist anchors on Fox News. Other “hosts” are just commentators and there are some of those I like and some I do not – one must understand what they are – they are opinion commentators not journalists. Fox does have some good “field reporters” IMO, though – they usually appear on the shows mentioned above.

Yea, and when Jake Tapper is the only “voice of reason” over sensationalism – that makes the point that the Network is sensationalistic.

Dear Brother Pemberton: It seems like you would be an interesting person to engage in conversation. One of my strong points in my examine for becoming a school counselor in North Carolina was multiculturalism. However, my response, hopefully in the near future, will be couched in terms of a matter almost virtually unacceptable with most people today, namely, a conspiracy. And with that I will cease for the time being.

Yep. Pretty clear.

Those who desire a conservative slant to commentary have one option and one only in traditional media – FOXNews.

Those who desire liberal slant to commentary can choose between any of the rest of the cable networks, traditional networks, and almost all the major newspapers and news magazines.

The fact that many people “desire” ANY “slant” and corporations oblige shows me that journalism is nearly as dead as the brains of the consumers.

It’s like arguing over whether my lawyer can beat up yours. They’re still lawyers.

Did you notice I said commentary?

I came to realize a long time ago that there’s no such thing as simply reporting the news anymore – it always comes with commentary. It’s just the way it is.

Of course when I watch shows or read articles that are admittedly commentary – I certainly prefer conservative commentary. I admit that.

The answer to the folks who run things is found in Dan.2. The conspirators are the iron and the clay, whereas the stone cut out of the mountain without human hands represents what we preach, the Gospel of the Kingdom, the Good News of the visitation of our Lord and Savior which is actually going on now. Jesus of Nazareth said, “I am coming to you,” that is the present tense in John 14:3,18,23,28, which the KJV renders as future, probably due to the fact that the reference to our way of thinking and experiencing things is of that nature. However, the original could be stated in this manner, “I was coming to you, I am coming to you, I will come to you.” The present tense is linear, an ongoing, unending process. Every day His coming to us grows greater and more impressive, while the power of that coming becomes ever more significant for all of its invisibility and indiscernibility. Suddenly, overwhelmingly, His spiritual coming will become manifest, and the blows of it given to the forces of evil will be utterly devastating, reducing them to dust and chaff of the summer threshingfloors which the wind carries away. Then that stone cut out of the mountain without human hands will become and even now is surely becoming the great mountain which will fill the whole earth (Dan.2). That is why the persecuted church increases by the millions in China, and it will, indeed, already is occurring in Islam. Ravi Zacharias tells of one Moslem who dreamed of Jesus every night for several years (I don’t remember the exact time). He was advised by his mother to leave before his relatives found it out and killed him for converting. How many in those lands now dream of Jesus, of the Messiah of the Jews? How many have an experience like I had in my days of Atheism, an experience in which the Savior appears in a vision, knocking at the door of heart.

Now before my Calvinistic friends write and say Rev. 3:20 can’t be used as an evangelistic text (even Spurgeon had said as much, but he did make a reference to it as occurring in one of his sermons), permit me to call attention to a whole book of sermons on the text, evangelistic sermons no less, by the Puritan John Flavel. I also call attention to another Puritan who had an evangelistic sermon on Rev.3:20, one David Clarkson. His sermon ran to about 80 pages in close set print. There is at least two evangelistic sermon outlines on Rev.3:20 in the sermon notes of the Calvinist, Basil Manley, Sr., the founding father of Southern Seminary. And there is a reference to Boyce preaching an evangelistic sermon on Rev. 3:20 in Broadus’ biography of his friend. I do not have to tell you J.P. Boyce’s views as he left no doubt about them in his Abstract of Systematic Theology. I have preached five or six sermons on the text, and the text as to man’s inability and unwillingness to be converted is easily explained in Rev.3:17. That is why Boyce in his sermon is said to have described the door at which our Lord knocked as bound fast by years of disuse and overgrowth, bound so tightly that no mere human hand could open it.

In any case, the Great Awakening is coming upon us as it did in 1741 and again in 1801, allowing for a twenty year overlap either way and for it to continue in Southern states, producing the Bible belt. One catches the feeling that the thing is nearer and drawing nearer everyday. When I began praying for a Third Great Awakening, there were no large churches in downtown New York City. Now, I understand, there some five or six, all with blocks of each other. I know of only a couple, but have read and heard of others. Remember Ps.102:13-14, 22.

Might as well light a fire to the tail of the fox and set it loose in the fields of wickedness, using it for far better ends, the spiritual transformation of all the souls on earth in one generation and continuing for a total of a 1000 generations.

Well said, Dr. Willingham. I’ve been teaching through Tim Keller’s book, The Reason For God, at church on Wednesday evenings. He starts out the book talking about whether the camp of faithlessness or the camp of faithfulness is growing stronger these days. He points out that both are growing stronger. Even as we see the darkness rise to alarming heights throughout the world, we should know that the light is as strong. It’s simply not reported through the secular news channels. I’ve accompanied the lessons with the videos he has released for studies. At or near the end of each I noted that he touched on the gospel in some way and my observation to the class has been that that should be our method of talking to doubters. I explained a couple of simple philosophical concepts to them that inform people’s delusions about Christianity and explained that many doubters will have sophisticated philosophies that they don’t understand but will be persuaded by them to doubt Christ. Every errant philosophy is answered in the Bible and is culminated in the gospel.

But as for the rise in darkness we hear so much about, we have countless brothers and sisters in the Middle East hidden by the activities of Islam of late. Their numbers have grown as the power of Islam over the people has diminished rather than grown with the increase in violence. The same is true in most places in the world right now. The reason I know is because my church has contacts and is involved in activities all around the world. But we also have activities here at home. My wife is the Ministry Coordinator for the local CEF chapter that is hosted by our church. We are still working on getting Good News Clubs in all the elementary schools in five counties. But of the ones we have placed clubs in over the past five years approximately 900 children have professed new faith in Christ. Most of them don’t come from Christian homes. Also in the area is a group called Power Cross that works among the most at-risk children. They have impacted hundreds of other kids in the past few years of their ministry. Christians in the area have set up mentorship in the High Schools and have done crusades for and at each of the schools. I can’t tell you how many young people have come to Christ at those efforts. I’ve served as one of the sea of counselors at some of them. I can’t agree more that it seems like we are on the verge of a Third Great Awakening and I think the generation in the schools right now might be the first wave of it and that it might be accompanied by a similar one worldwide. Keep praying for it, brother.

Many will doubt the news that the gospel is making great strides in the world today. The reason is because we see how uncomfortable life is becoming for us here and now. This is hardly the first time life has been difficult for Christians and I dare say that we have been too comfortable for too long. The Christian life is not working hard through the week, paying the bills on time, going to church every Sunday, raising your kids to be winners in life, and saving wisely for retirement. If that’s our goal then we stopped growing spiritually after our conversion, if indeed we were converted, and have failed miserably in our sanctification. We can see that the ability to achieve that goal is slipping away from us in our present world. However, the working of the gospel in our lives following conversion is far greater than seeking our own comfort. Once we realize that then we can see the deadness of too comfort for what it is and find our place in building the kingdom as part of the Body of Christ, yet not the kingdom on Earth, for that will pass away. There will be no Great Awakening if our purpose is to use it to return to the vomit of our own comfort. We need to be jarred out of our slumber and I think the time is drawing near for that to happen.