After all, what are the merits of a network that hires the likes of Bill O'Reilly (a former tabloid TV show host) and Geraldo Rivera?
2006-07-25 03:58:51 · 38 answers · asked by tangerine 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
trollhair: I suggest that you get your information (not propaganda) from REAL journalists and REAL news sources. Check out what's out there. Try BBC World News, for example.
2006-07-25 04:02:14 · update #1
julia4evert: Just because something is popular doesn't mean that it's good or right. For example, Hitler was VERY popular in Nazi Germany.
2006-07-25 04:04:39 · update #2
The people who rely on Fox "News" for their "information" are merely the choir that Fox is preaching to.
2006-07-25 04:06:00 · update #3
How are ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and BBC left-wing? After all, during the Monicagate Scandal, they talked more about Clinton's head job than they ever did about, say, the fact that Bush stole the election in 2000. Do you consider them left-wing simply because they don't present an overtly conservative bias like Fox does?
2006-07-25 04:11:00 · update #4
weeping_juni: It's interesting that you should bring up bogus news. In 2000, when the other news sources announced that Gore had won Florida, Fox announced that Bush was the winner. As most of us know, Gore actually got the majority of the popular vote, though I'm sure that you wouldn't agree with me on that.
2006-07-25 04:14:27 · update #5
Matt: I don't claim to be the most successful person in the world. However, I just can't help but think that Fox could have hired someone with a background in REAL journalism, instead of say, a former tabloid TV show host and a former daytime talk show host. But then again, Fox "News" isn't really about news at all. It's about propaganda, and I guess that they figured that the likes of Bill O'Reilly and Geraldo Rivera would appeal to the sort of people who go for sensationalism instead of real news.
2006-07-25 04:19:14 · update #6
Dr. Cheesehead: "Spoiled, tyrannical, and narrow-minded"? LOL!!! Gee, that sounds familiar!According to psychologists, people often unconsciously project their own undesirable qualities onto others. I guess that you, a conservative, have just PROJECTED your own traits onto us liberals. By the way, your screen name sounds appropriate! And my guess is that it's Swiss!
2006-07-25 04:24:10 · update #7
Mr. Scorpion: Who are you to criticize cashiers and Arkansas? Sure, Clinton may have come from Arkansas, but just remember the fact that Arkansas is a red state. Also, although I am a cashier, I am educated. I have a degree in Spanish with a minor in German, and I also read on a regular basis. Don't assume that just because a person is working class that he/she is uneducated. After all, there are plenty of people with degrees who work s**t jobs.
2006-07-25 04:29:02 · update #8
BTW, I am proud to be a blue dot in a red state!
2006-07-25 04:30:02 · update #9
okeydokeyartichokey.....here's the deal. Look at the National Enquirer - it is probably one of the most successful newspapers in the world - and what is it? a scandal sheet....rubbish, fish wrappers? Fox News is the equivalent to the Enquirer, attempting to educate the Desperate Housewives/GQ crowd. Self important, over inflated, pontificating blowhards. I'm thinking that this Fox News is just an adjunct to their network = if they could make the news a reality show, they would. They have to present it in a way that people under the influence of hairspray and self importance can take it in, around their enormous turbo egos. I think in this hit & run society, they have to have these outrageous talking heads who make the news be about themselves. That's my humble opinion, anyway!
2006-07-25 14:05:35 · answer #1 · answered by amuse4you 4 · 5⤊ 2⤋
Get over yourself - Fox News finally gives both sides of the story - something the lib crowd hates, because they don't even want to admit that there is more than one side to a story. Fox News is a great news organization, and not necessarily because of who their "on air" personalities are - they are just honest and above board - and if something is "editorial" in nature, they label it as such. Fox News is a genuine news outlet - and they do a great service in giving people another choice in where to get their information, instead of having to choke on all the regurgitated crap of the regular left leaning, Bush hating networks and newspapers.
2016-02-10 03:16:58 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get over yourself - Fox News finally gives both sides of the story - something the lib crowd hates, because they don't even want to admit that there is more than one side to a story. Fox News is a great news organization, and not necessarily because of who their "on air" personalities are - they are just honest and above board - and if something is "editorial" in nature, they label it as such. Fox News is a genuine news outlet - and they do a great service in giving people another choice in where to get their information, instead of having to choke on all the regurgitated crap of the regular left leaning, Bush hating networks and newspapers.
Liberals hate giving people options, unless it is an option to kill an unborn child. If people are given informed, educated choices, they have a way of finding their way to the truth, and liberals hate the truth, because it shows them to be what they are - spoiled, tyrannical, and narrow minded.
They also love using this forum as a way to try to push their platform-less agenda - liberals are all about being against everything - as they have no programs, no ideas, no agenda of their own. They think they can regain the forefron of American politics by being against everything that this country stands for - and that's why they've been relegated to the sidelines, and they hate that most of all. They just continue to sit there in their irrelevance, spewing hate and finding no one to listen to them.
2006-07-25 04:15:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only the stupid take Fox News seriously. They are simply a mouthpiece for the administration. The most recent press secretary hiring should make that obvious. The following are all true and verifiable facts, yet in a recent poll, most Fox news watchers thought the opposite:
There are no WMDs in Iraq
The pope, (dead one,) never supported the war.
Over 90% of scientists in the field support the global warming theory.
The bulk of the tax breaks went to the top 1%
2006-07-25 04:15:00 · answer #4 · answered by capu 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The same as any other network that hires Pat Oriley or Katie Couric...or any other new caster. Of all the networks out there...i take Fox news more seriously than any of the others.
I have seen comment of people saying Fox is conservatively biased. Maybe. There are just as many that liberally biased...none of them commented on THOSE stations. CNN ABC and CBS News as well as the BBC to name Just a few.
2006-07-25 04:03:14 · answer #5 · answered by akebhart 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The same reason people take other news stations seriously. The first thing that should be understood about the news is that none of its unbiased. Fox is conservative, most of the others are Liberal.
During the invasion of Iraq Fox news corespondants looked like they were having a fiesta, CNN looked like someone was clubbing seals in the studio.
By having multiple biased sources we can almost balance out the ridiculous lack of journalistic integrity in the news.
And thats why they take it seriously.
2006-07-25 04:02:25 · answer #6 · answered by azimaith 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because they are the best news service out there. Often people criticized them as being too conservative. However it is my opinion that the media namely television has been so far left for so long, that anything to the right of left is seen as radical conservatism. Fox news is actually very unbias as you often see two commentors from opposite sides. Unlike CNN or MSNBC where they only offer one opinion or two like opinions. You have to remember that Fox news was the first to break the Bush cocaine use story and the national gaurd story. Neither in his favor.
2006-07-25 04:02:49 · answer #7 · answered by redgralle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unlike say, the likes of Dan Rather who broadcast knowingly forged documents in a malicious effort to slander the President. You can't count on the other news outlets to deliver unbiased news, why should Fox be any different.
2006-07-25 04:02:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because "real" news is too boring for most people to watch. Unfortunately, since it has "News" in the title, most of its audience takes it as gospel. The rest of probably watch it for entertainment value--I do, anyway. Ironically, I get my "real" news from The Daily Show and The Colbert Report on Comedy Central...
2006-07-25 04:06:34 · answer #9 · answered by Nobody 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only the repuglicans take Faux News seriously, they happen to be the most mentally diminished of the population so while they are a danger to themselves and other people it at least keeps them occupied like a shiny object would.
2006-07-25 04:02:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋