Kafkaesque News Program: Fox News is not a News Program

I thought the news was about who, what, where and when? Isn’t that the dictum. That’s how we learn the truth. Reality.

So, I’m in KFC and as when I was at McDonald’s, I decide to sit near the tv that is displaying the news, or what looks like the news. What I see, and read on the screen is rather bizarre. Most recently, I noticed what really amazed and befuddled me, while sitting at KFC a few days ago. I saw the title for the current topic, and the topic read, “Why isn’t” such and such being discussed or happening. I thought the news was about who, what, where and when. That’s it. The truth! Reality! I think the current segment was about why President Obama wasn’t discussing or concerned about such and such.

Basically, this station was not telling us what was happening but what wasn’t happening… “This is what isn’t happening in your world.” How utterly and completely bizarre! So, what other stories was I seeing on this “News” program that had nothing to do with what was happening?

I call this posting Kafkaesque News, because as a existentialist, I enjoyed Franz Kafka and when I considered a local bizarre newspaper, a fictional publication, I thought I’d call it Kafkaesque News. This seemed to describe the one in three or so stories I was seeing as part of “Fox News.”

This was not what I was seeing on the local 6 o’clock news or CNN. We don’t have someone coming out at 6:20pm and saying, “And this is what life could be like if the weather was 20 degrees warmer today.”

When I turn on Saturday Night live, I expect to get some spoof, or humorous take on the news. I know that, but I don’t know what to make of “Fox News.” From roughly 11am to 4pm, based on my observations, they present a program that looks like what you might find on CNN, interspersed with these bizarre programs, topics, or “stories” that make one ask oneself, why is this “why is this being presented as a news story?” or, “I thought I was watching the news, what happened?”

I’m creative, but when I turn on the news I’m expecting to see facts. The Truth! Reality. Who, what, when and where… what happened, not might have happened or what didn’t happen.

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