I had an amazing opportunity this past summer: I was an intern at the Fox News Channel for the Hannity show. I worked with some of the greatest people in the TV industry. That being said, it was amazing the reactions I got from some when I said I was an intern there. The way some of them acted, you’d think I had gone to work for Satan.
Before I left to move to the Big Apple for my internship, I had to give my two weeks’ notice at work. So I had figured I had better tell my co-workers where I was going. Some people were thrilled for me to have this opportunity, and others, well, they did not quite have the same reaction of excitement. When I had told one lady I worked with that I would be interning at Fox News she gave me this ugly scowl, as if I had just killed her cat or something. She then proceeded to say, “Fox News, oh they are just the worst.” My response, “Well I’m sorry you feel that way”. She then said to me, “I don’t know if you agree with their views, but if you don’t, I hope you do not change and start believing the lies they air.” I just walked away.
There was no point in trying to defend myself because I knew that she would not listen, no matter what I said. I knew that she was a liberal, because she told me how her husband lost his job because of Ronald Reagan, and that Reagan destroyed the unions and put her family in dire straits during the ’80s. She talked about President Reagan like he was the devil. I knew none of this was true…The President Reagan of my childhood was a great man who stood for individual liberty and freedom.
As my summer went on, I would meet people when I was out with friends, and sometimes they were fascinated by the fact that I worked at Fox News. They showed interest in what I did and whom I worked for. Other times, people looked at me like I had leprosy. I was appalled by some of their reactions. One guy I met said, “How could you work for them? They lie.” This became so typical that my response to these types of people became almost automatic. My response was, “As opposed to ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, and MSNBC?” He just stared at me and said nothing. He didn’t expect that I guess! I think he thought I’d try to defend my beliefs and views so he could then attack me further, as liberals typically do, by saying I’m a war-monger, racist, selfish, and well some other choice terms they use to describe us.
When I left Fox and moved back to Pittsburgh to finish my last semester at California University of Pennsylvania, I would go to a local Barnes & Noble a lot to work on papers for class and have a cup of coffee. As I was sitting there minding my own business (with headphones on), I had a lady come up to me who saw a sticker on the back of my laptop which said, “America’s Talking: Foxnews.com” She stopped and stared… Immediately, I thought oh no…here we go again! I took my headphones off…
And she said, “Fox News…I hate them!”
I responded, “Well that’s nice.” Again, it obviously was not what she wanted to hear from me at all. I continued to work on my research paper as she gave me the stare of death because of a sticker on the back of my laptop. Seriously?!?!? These people get this upset over a sticker! She eventually walked away, and continued to mumble under her breath how terrible I was for having the sticker of the “Devil News Channel” on the back of my laptop. It has gotten to the point where I just laugh at these people as they get bent out of shape over Fox News. So why do they actually hate Fox News? Maybe it’s because Fox actually does investigative journalism, unlike the MSNBC news guys. Or better yet, maybe it’s because they get really good ratings and the networks they watch don’t. No, it can’t be that!
Wait – I think I got it! It’s because Fox is the only news channel to hold the politicians and elites in D.C. accountable! That has to be the reason right?
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