On Juan Williams, Fox, and NPR…

I thought it was about time that I told somebody, anybody, why I started listening to or watching the Fox News Channel instead of CNN once we got cable. One day I was watching the Saturday morning Fox and Friends show and I heard somebody mention Jesus. They were not smirking or talking ugly about Him in any way. They were being very matter of fact in their speech, as if He really existed. That was the day that Fox became my favorite. Plus the fact that Kelly Wright from Hampton Roads now works for them! Cool!

Now I know that there are shows on Fox that are deliberately right wing and only present that point of view. However, on the other channels, there are deliberately left wing shows that only present that point of view. Everyone is free to flip the channels. I have heard so many friends of mine put down Fox, and some of them don’t even have cable. Some of those friends make a point of not watching news much at all! Yet some of my Christian friends put down this right wing network as if it is a pariah, and think that they will be considered totally uncool and socially unfit if they watch or listen to any conservative talk radio or Fox news.

I think what I search for when I want “news” or “information” is truth. Where is it? The elusive truth seems to be out there somewhere and we are all searching for a bit of it here and there from people we listen to for information about what is going on in our cities, our nation, and our world. If we don’t have some kind of balance in what we are hearing, we are not going to be able to rightly divide the word of truth in our secular world. There are so many opinions coming at us from people who have no clue what God wants them to do and who are not seeking His will for them, that those of us who are attempting to follow Him must seek Him all the more in this world of deceit, subterfuge, and folly. I don't think we're going to find God on any cable news network or radio station.

Fox is a good balance to network news and NPR. We should be careful not to get too exclusive with any of our news sources. Say what you will, NPR is not 100% down the middle. Any of you Fox haters won’t read this because of the source, but you can read of some of their bias here:

NPR Imbalance

I, for one, will hope that Juan Williams is seated right next to Charles Krauthammer at Fox each night at 6:45 p.m. so that I can hear both of their opinions on the day’s breaking stories because I like both of their analyses. I think they are both brilliant and I like to hear them both since they have differing takes on the same subjects because of their worldviews.

Just call me socially unfit, and totally uncool…