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A Foxy Mistake … Or Was It?

I am a “wannabe,” as I aspire to be a writer of fiction. With that in mind I am always attempting to improve my vocabulary. Just today I came across a word which I had vaguely heard, but was not confident that I knew what it meant.

That word is ‘chyron.’  I looked it up. A ‘chyron’ is “an electronically generated caption superimposed on a television or movie screen.” If one watches any cable news there are usually chyrons across the bottom of the screen. These chyrons are left on the screen for a minute or so, before being replaced by another chyron. In addition a chyron is often repeated or more typically alternates with a second chyron.

If a chyron is only shown once and for only less than thirty seconds … Hmmm!

But that’s what happened the other night on Fox News. At close to 9pm eastern time, Fox News had split screen. While the left side was showing Joe Biden speaking to some group at the White House, the right side of the screen was showing Donald Trump speaking to his supporters in New Jersey, after returning from his indictment proceedings in Miami. However that was far from the interesting part. The interesting part was the chyron on the bottom of the screen which read,:

“WANNABE DICTATOR SPEAKS AT THE WHITE HOUSE 

AFTER HAVING HIS POLITICAL RIVAL ARRESTED”

Wow! This chyron lasted less that thirty seconds (twenty-seven seconds to be exact), and was not repeated. Apparently heads rolled at Fox News, and many Democrats were apoplectic! However, there was one person who took full advantage of this possible malaprop, and that was Tucker Carlson. In his fourth Twitter soliloquy, he took full advantage in explaining what a dictator does and how a dictator acts. Over this thirteen minute clip Tucker Carlson compared Joe Biden’s policies to those of a dictator … eerily, many similarities! In addition, Carlson compared the special privileges bestowed by the media on the Biden family to those bestowed by the press in the country of a dictator … again, eerily many similarities. Initially this thirteen minute clip was poorly disguised as satire, but as it moved along it became very apparent that it was clearly not satire

BTW: I loved Carlson’s third Twitter monologue, but this most recent one is better … a real monster!

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6/16/23

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