FOX news

[WriterDom]

kicks ass... more later

 

[Laurel]

What I like about FoxNews is their total lack of bias.

 

[GuyJD]

What I like about FoxNews is their total lack of bias.

What I like is it's total lack of XFL.

 

[bluntforcemama]

I don't own a TV... someone give me the scoop!

 

[MinkSoul]

I don't own a TV... someone give me the scoop!

me neather people look at me funny when i tell them that...

 

[Laurel]

FoxNews is owned by Rupert Murdoch, a conservative - as is every major news network. It's a very right-slanted news station that has gained great popularity among the Right wingers. Which is fine - everyone is entitled to their own take on things. However, they claim to be "Fair and Balanced". To take a slant is one thing. To present that slant as an objective look at the news is quite another.

Here's an article on Fox from the Columbia Journalism Review for y'all:
http://www.cjr.org/year/98/2/fox.asp

From the article:

...

The questions persist: Can a news network with executives and on-screen talent so conspicuously and so heavily right of center fulfill a promise of delivering "fair and balanced" news, information, and opinion? Does the oft-repeated slogan "We report. You decide" accurately describe how the network delivers news? In FNC's round-the-clock format -- unlike those of its competitors at CNN and MSNBC -- hard news, except for breaking stories, is mostly confined to a few minutes on the hour and half-hour, plus an hour-long newscast at 7 p.m. Most of the rest is chat shows, interviews -- discussions of trends, technology, health, entertainment, education, pets, as well as some old newsreels from the Fox Movietone archives.

...


Is the output of Fox News Channel, in its totality, truly "fair" and "balanced"? The answer is a qualified no. It's no more fair and balanced than the National Review or The Nation, which flaunt no such claims. In its patchwork quilt of talk shows, FNC is, inevitably, the product of its creators, interlocutors, and guests. That makes it unmistakably a bully pulpit for conservative sentiment in America -- and, consequently, robustly controversial, which, for better or worse, expands the boundaries of our national discourse. It's one more stone in what's becoming an avalanche of news and opinion hurtling at the public. But the antidote to controversial speech, as is regularly pointed out in journalistic circles, is more controversial speech -- not less.

 

[WriterDom]

oh please.. 85% of journalists are liberal.. didn't you watch election night?

 

[Todd]

The news media conservative or catering to the right wing? When in hades green acres did that begin?


You always calling me a right wing religious nut, and no ways in hades has the news ever been on my side of the supportive fence.

 

[Laurel]

oh please.. 85% of journalists are liberal.. didn't you watch election night?

Name your source, big guy. According to the Columbia Journalism Review:

"In a 1996 Freedom Forum/Roper Center survey of 139 Washington-based newspeople, 61 percent of the sample professed to being either "liberal" or "liberal to moderate," and a paltry 9 percent "conservative" or "moderate to conservative."

61%, though a majority, is not 85%. Either way, it's not the journalists but the owners of the networks - who are predominately Conservative - who make the decisions as to content and focus.

Either way, that doesn't change the fact that FoxNews is blatantly biased to the right. Which is fine - it makes people feel good to have news that caters to their viewpoints, I suppose. I personally watch news to get facts, not commentary. When a news source claims to be giving facts and is in fact spinning, that IMHO is dishonest.

When I read Salon, I'm aware that many of the . Do you watch FoxNews and truly believe it's unbiased? CNN, ABC, and the other news networks are more centrist. If you lie on the far right of the spectrum, the center may feel 'liberal' to you. It's all perspective.

 

[Laurel]

I hate how easy it is to make me break my promises.

Damn. Just...damn.

 

[Purple Haze]

99% of Rush Limbaugh's dittoheads believe they are better informed than the rest of us. This is a fact.

Meanwhile, Rush has been most masterful of figuring out how his listeners think, and telling them the things they like to hear. Equal time, Jackasses.

Unbiased newsreporting is hard to come by.

Real journalism was bought out by Procter and Gamble years ago.

 

[Laurel]

99% of Rush Limbaugh's dittoheads believe they are better informed than the rest of us.

Name your source.

 

[Pyper]

I would just like to say that in my area (which would be yours too, Laurel) Fox News is incredibly, incredibly dumb. I have never seen teasers more alarmist or just downright ridiculous.

"Is it possible to live forever in a cloned body? This crazed woman we pulled off the street says it is!"

or

"Mad Llama Disease. It's coming to San Diego. How to protect YOUR children."

or

"Better sex. How to achieve it using voodoo!"

I have only slightly altered these news stories to protect the idiots that wrote them. Thank you and goodnight.

 

[Lost Soul]

Fox News also has a style to it that CNN, MSN, and CNBC are lacking. Of course they have the money of sets and graphics.

The best looking women in news as well. This will get a response from some members here.

 

[Thumper]

So....

oh please.. 85% of journalists are liberal.. didn't you watch election night?

Maybe it is because almost 100% are educated.

90% of truckdrivers are conservative. Not too many post secondary educated among that group.

Could be a connection.

Intellectual stimulation+knowledge=open mind?

Intellectual stagnation+ignorance=closed mind/linear thinking/easily controlled

 

[WriterDom]

Re: So....

oh please.. 85% of journalists are liberal.. didn't you watch election night?

Maybe it is because almost 100% are educated.

90% of truckdrivers are conservative. Not too many post secondary educated among that group.

Could be a connection.

thinking/easily controlled

There is no data on truck drivers
that I'm aware off, but among
college educated voters Bush
won 51% to 45%.

Gore won the high school
dropout vote 59- 38%

guess there is a connection.

 

[Ally C]

Fox News = Animal Cruelty?

Here in England the most regular reference we seem to get to FoxNews in America is when it's parodied on 'The Simpsons'. We have our own 'fox news', so to speak, but this is the debate concerning fox hunting. This debate is played out in the context of a 'class' conflict, against a backdrop of countryside versus 'town', and raises questions about cruelty. I guess 'class', location and whether you are a victim or not seems to be a pre-requisite for all brands / breeds of Fox News the world over ...