Another Reason Not to Watch the Super Bowl this Year.
Fox news has decided to try and trivialize one of the most important elections in U.S. history. On Sunday, Fox will merge it’s coverage of the Super Bowl between two teams I don’t really care about (but maybe some of you do) with their coverage of Super Tuesday, the day that 22 states hold their primaries to nominate a candidate to run for the President of the United States in November.
Fox has already trivialized the democratic process. It was Fox News that first erroneously declared W the president in 2000. Most television news organizations followed suit, only to retract when they realized that it was still to close to call. The damage had already been done, and Bush sued his way into the White House.
But, I’m cynical. I’m sure Fox wont try to inject their bias politics into their coverage of the biggest annual television event.
My favorite part of this article is the discussion of the trend, noting how CNN will follow suit with “Ballot Bowl,” and how NBC has already “spiced up its football broadcasts with Keith Olbermann…who brought along the form, if not quite the ideological content, of his cable show.” Of course, Keith Olbermann was a sportscaster at ESPN before he came to MSNBC, but I’m sure that had nothing to do with NBC’s decision.