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March 29, 2007
Autumn has come to Canberra --warmish days and cool nights. It was only a week or so ago that South Australia was still caught up in the summer heat. It was so dry and dusty along the coast when we went to Kings Beach to escape the heat.
Gary Sauer-Thompson, looking to the Bluff, 2007
I returned to my own images in despair after watching Fox News for several hours courtesy of Foxtel It's effect is to make me feel suicidal: the sound and images hurl themselves at me, overwhelming me. The effect is to pound you into submission, and then to lock you into the Republican mindset and to accept the issues and their framing by Fox News.
There is one world view--the nationalist/imperialist one of the highly politicized Fox News -- and everything else is bad. What is bad is aggressively attacked, denigrated and mocked relentlessly. The nation is Republican. Immigration from Latin America is a threat to the nation's cultural integrity from the perspective of Fox's nativist sentiment. Pound pound, pound goes the anti-immigration discourse.
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This is the American version, I trust?