Many people I'm sure by now have seen the viral video of a former New Trier graduate, Max Rice, on Fox and Friends. If not, I found it on this website. In the video, he's being interview by one of the hosts on Fox and Friends, however, things don't go exactly as planned. The interview was meant to give Americans a view on how a young, unemployed individual, like himself, has switched his vote from Obama to Romney, because of how bad things have become for people like him in this country.
However, instead of taking the interview seriously; he decided to give amusing, and not serious responses to the host, as you can see on the video. Later, it claims that in the text, he did this interview as a joke because of his hate for "Fox and Friends." He says, “I’ve always hated ‘Fox & Friends’ . . . It’s so horrible for this nation, it’s so clearly fake. Now I know firsthand."
One of my brother's friends, Nathan Rice, who is Max Rice's younger brother told my brother that in the situation, Fox gave his brother a script to read off of, so everything he said would've been planned and out of Fox's mouth... nothing Max said would've been his own thoughts and opinions. So when it came to the interview, instead of reading the script, he decided to throw it out and wing the whole thing, and give completely non-serious responses in an effort to try and embarrass the show. So when the host started to hear him say these unplanned things, they shut him off and didn't let him return back.
Do you think what he did was right? In class we've been discussing the limitation of civil liberties... Do you think this is a case where the freedom of speech was taken away?
We've also been discussing how to view the world in more of a critical manner... this makes me really question the things we see on the news, and how true and genuine things really are.
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