November 2, 2011 8:11 AM

This just in: Steve Jobs is still dead...but his grip on reality lives on

“You’re blowing it with Fox News,” Jobs told him over dinner. “The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive, and you’ve cast your lot with the destructive people. Fox has become an incredibly destructive force in our society. You can be better, and this is going to be your legacy if you’re not careful.” Jobs said he thought Murdoch did not really like how far Fox had gone. “Rupert’s a builder, not a tearer-downer,” he said. “I’ve had some meetings with James, and I think he agrees with me. I can just tell.”

Steve Jobs feeling that Fox Noise Channel is a destructive force in American society isn’t exactly breaking new ground. FNC IS a destructive AND divisive force. Jobs telling Rupert Murdoch what he thinks about his propaganda network? Now that’s some sort of newsworthy.

Sadly, it doesn’t appear that Jobs’ words had any appreciable impact on Murdoch, who’s continued to use his cash cow as a propaganda-generation device. What truly tragic is that so many Americans continue to swallow what FNC continues forcing down their throats. With so many Americans conditioned to react rather than think, Right-wing propaganda has planted itself in fertile ground. Let’s face it, y’all…if you’re getting your news from Gretchen Carlson, Steve Doocy, Brian Kilmeade, and the rest of FNC’s stable of ideologue/journalists, you’re either lazy, stupid, or you just don’t care to think critically. Or all of the above.

Jobs may have had a touch of the egomaniacal in him, but he’d earned it with what he’d accomplished. The credibility that success brought him carried weight, which Jobs wasn’t above using when he felt the situation called for him. In the case of Fox Noise Channel, Jobs was spot on. It should defy credibility that a “news” network that presents itself as being “fair and balanced” can get away with being such a no-holds-barred apologist, enabler, and propaganda outlet for the Far Right wing.

Evidently, “fair and balanced” doesn’t mean quite what it used to.

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