Could one of you leftists provide us with an example of bias in an actual news story on Fox News?

Question

None of the vociferous bashers of Fox News has ever been able to do so. They'll trot out the usual links to supposed biases, yet these always involve commentary instead of news. It's a sad state of affairs when these cretins don't seem to know the difference.

Here's a hint: if it involves Bill O'Reilly or Sean Hannity, it's COMMENTARY, people...just as Keith Olbermann is a commentator. None of the three have ever purported to be journalists. Commentators comment. That's what they do.

So as I said, could any of you present us with a bias from an actual news story?

Even though I've explained this ad infinitum, I'm willing to bet three of four answers will involve commentary.

Neo: Annan's office shredded three year's worth of documents related to the scandal, his son admitted his role, and there are financial records which show beyond a doubt that Annan profited from the scam. What more would you like? If this had been Bush, the left would have been screaming for his head on a platter. Fox reported facts, uncomfortable as they might have been to the UN and the American left.

dlg: They're commentators. I don't care what their former profession was. They are not reporters, nor are they anchors, nor are they stringers. They are commentators. Try to follow along.

Nick: You might want to re-read my question. I don't believe I ever made that assertion. Why would you ask an unrelated question in response to my question unless you knew you had no valid answer?

Alessa: Thank you for proving my point. You are obviously one of those uneducated people who don't know the difference between news and commentary. Dismissed.

Neo: So now a media outlet is supposed to report on the polling company before they can report on the poll? I'm sure this will come as news to the New York Times et al. Further, I wasn't aware that ANY news outlet re-researches stories published by others. Ever heard of the AP or the UPI?

Why must the left constantly distort, lie, and twist?

Neo: One cannot prove a negative. I can't "prove" that the NYT does not NOT report on the polling company before it reports on the poll. Logic wasn't your high point in school, was it? You proved nothing. Your three "examples" are no more than opnions themselves. My God, you leftists are so full of lies you don't even realize when you pass them along anymore!

Answer 1

they know they can't.

Answer 2

In a way you party answered your own question. First anyone with 20/20 eyesight and halfway good hearing knows the Hannity is a bias Fox network radical. I have yet to hear him say anything good about a dem. Next, the so called no spin doctor Bill Oh'Really, has made his whole 60 min program, a bashing of Dems. All you have to do is look and listen. You can't put your head in the sand and deny this. Now, why are you stating that these are not newsmen??? Both are former newspaper workers and if they aren't news reporters, what are they???

Answer 3

-fox news is full of neoconservative propaganda.

you should get used to the word NEO-CONSERVATIVE, because there seems to be a lot of them in the government and in the media.

Rupert Murdoch, the owner of fox news and chairman of newscorp is notorious for printing propaganda.


He is also endorsed hillary clinton. Does that sound like a conservative to you?

here is part of a conversation of murdoch's that came out in the news recently:

At one point, while addressing O'Reilly and Hannity, Murdoch said, "Can you believe the sh** we get away with? Good thing our viewers are dumb as doorknobs or else we would be in trouble." To which, Hannity laughed and then replied, "Yeah, I heard that people who watch Fox News have to wear bibs to catch their drool so their sofas won't be stained by the tobacco juice, and that's just the women." O'Reilly, also laughing, then joined in by saying, "Hey, how many Fox viewers does it take to change a light bulb? None, they all refuse to change the bulb because they prefer living in the dark."

However, the unkindest cut of all that is sure to enrage Fox viewers came at the end of the conversation when Murdoch raised his glass in a toast and said, "God bless trailer park trash and idiots everywhere. Without them Fox News would be nothing and I would not be a billionaire."

The people of the NWO want to divide and conquer the people, by polarizing the country. Much easier to conquer a divided nation than a like-minded or compromising country.

Answer 4

purely one occasion? whilst there is lots to choose for between? ok then. not some time past, pretend (sorry, Fox) "information" ran a tale which mentioned that Nancy Pelosi had "demanded" a super protection tension jet, able to flying coast to coast without refueling, for her own use. As is straightforward with Fox "information", the story became thoroughly fake. Pelosi had on no account asked for this variety of component and mentioned she became, in actuality, somewhat chuffed to proceed flying advertisement. A Pentagon risk-free practices worker were inquiring no rely if Pelosi mandatory a extra look after potential of delivery, as she is 2d in line of succession to the Presidency and doubtless a super protection tension jet may well be a safer selection. Pelosi had not something to do with this inquiry and the Pentagon mentioned as lots. by some potential, the rocket scientists at pretend "information" morphed his inquiry right into a slur against Pelosi. universal. BTW, there is an considerable distinction between O'Reilly, Hannity, Limbaugh, etc. and Olbermann. Olbermann would not could hunch to lies and nil.5-truths to make his factors. He additionally would not could shout down people who disagree with him or to tutor off their microphones.

Answer 5

Sure:http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1067
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/651633/posts
http://slate.msn.com/id/2119864/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_Channel_controversies_and_

EDIT: LOL If you read the articles, they also mentioned regular journalists like Brit Hume who really aren't typical of "commentary". And let's face it, if the majority of your programs and commentary is right wing, then , DUH, it is biased. Now who is uneducated? ;)
Can't get more right biased then hiring Rick Santorum as a "contributor" http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/television/rick_santorum
_joins_fox_news_54128.asp
EDIT:Fox has had trouble at times hiding the partisanship of its main news personalities. In 1996, while already a Fox anchor, Tony Snow endorsed Bob Dole for president in the Republican National Committee magazine Rising Tide (New York, 11/17/97). A former speech-writer for the elder Bush, Snow often guest-hosts the Rush Limbaugh show and wrote an unabashedly conservative weekly newspaper column until Fox management recently pressured him to drop it to avoid the appearance of bias (Washington Post, 5/29/01).
EDIT:Former CBS producer Don Dahler resigned from Fox after executive John Moody ordered him to change a story to play down statistics showing a lack of social progress among blacks. (Moody says the change was journalistically justified--New York, 11/17/97.) According to the Columbia Journalism Review (3-4/98), "several" former Fox employees "complained of 'management sticking their fingers' in the writing and editing of stories to cook the facts to make a story more palatable to right-of-center tastes." Said one: "I've worked at a lot of news organizations and never found that kind of manipulation."
EDIT:"In the D.C. bureau [at ABC], we always had to worry what the lead story would be in the New York Times, and God forbid if we didn't have that story. Now we don't care if we have that story." Stories favored by the journalistic establishment, Kim Hume says, are "all mushy, like AIDS, or all silly, like Head Start. They want to give publicity to people they think are doing good."
--New York magazine(11/17/97) quoting Kim Hume, Fox News Channel Washington bureau chief

Answer 6

BadaBOOM!

February 18, 2005
Media Matters: FOX Special Smears Kofi Annan

Media Matters: "A promotion for a FOX News special report titled Breaking Point: U.N. Blood Money: Kofi Annan Under Fire promised that the hour-long special would deliver "shocking new information" on corruption in the United Nations oil-for-food program. Instead, viewers were treated to a host of glaring omissions, dubious sources, falsehoods and distortions, smears, and innuendo.

As the title suggests, the report focused on U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. FOX chose to target Annan despite the fact that no specific allegations -- beyond the generic charges of "mismanagement" and "lax oversight" -- have surfaced to connect Annan to corruption in oil-for-food, let alone actual evidence."

Whatever. This report was before all that. It just shows Faux to be exactly what we have been saying all along. Liars. Here's another - I have lots more;

Fox News again hyped misleading poll about Iraq

On the February 27 edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom, anchor Bill Hemmer cited the results of a "new poll" by Public Opinion Strategies that 53 percent of voters say "victory in Iraq is still possible." Hemmer failed to acknowledge that, as noted by Media Matters for America (here and here), POS has described itself as a "Republican polling firm," and a Republican pollster has reportedly stated that the question Hemmer cited was worded in a "completely unprofessional" manner.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200702280007

Double slam bozo.

Please sir I'll give you another;

"Madrassa" redux? Gibson cited dubious tabloid article to smear Obama, Clinton

On the February 28 edition of Fox News' The Big Story, host John Gibson devoted two segments to a February 26 article in London's Daily Mail to claim that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) presented a false picture of his father, Barack Obama Sr., in his memoir Dreams From My Father (Crown, July 1995). According to Gibson, the article demonstrated that Obama falsely portrayed his father as "a ray of hope" and "a great man," and that Obama obscured the fact that his father was "a wife-beating alcoholic who didn't bother to get a divorce before marrying the next woman and having a few more kids." Gibson said the article "looks like it's been well researched," but offered no evidence to support the reliability of the tabloid newspaper's sources or the story itself.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200703010011

Triple body slam!

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Don't ever post this ridiculous question again, or I'll prove that not only fox is a liar, but you are too.

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I challenge you to prove the NYTimes does anything of the sort. As for the rest - a lie is still a lie when repeated. In fact it is far worse because it grows a lie. Fox does this type of thing regularly.

You asked for bias - I showed three different examples, none of which are commentary or opinion. I win - you lose. Suck it up.

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Answer 7

in this article notice how it mentions democrats as the ones who aren't following their promise to work harder than the last congress.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,242407,00.html

while.....

http://www.nypost.com/seven/01092007/news/nationalnews/grid_lock_in_d_c__nationalnews_geoff_earle.htm

the important section is:

But Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), the new minority leader, asked Democrats who control the schedule to postpone the votes until today so that members could attend last night's game.

Majority Leader Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) - who had ridiculed Republicans for keeping banker's hours and working a three-day week when they ran the House - agreed....

He said Democrats postponed votes until today "in the spirit of comity" and because "I want to accommodate my friend, Mr. Boehner."

Hmmmm.... Bias???

Theres always this interesting situation... A mistake, possibly...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eat-the-press/2006/10/04/oreilly-factor-labels-_e_30927.html

Theres this interesting article, although it too might be biased...

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1072


Its not hard to find Fox news Bias, I'm not even liberal, in fact, im pretty conservative, but it doesn't mean I cant acknowledge the fact that Fox News definitely has Biases.

Answer 8

"Fox News" is the name of an entertainment program, it has no more responsibilty to portray the news accurately than the Comedy Networks Daily Show. At least that's what thier lawyers say.

So don't confuse"""FOX NEWS""" with real news.

Answer 9

can you provide any proof that the "liberal" media actually exists?

Answer 10

no lefty could, because there arent any!!! GO FOX NEW!!! FAIR AND BALANCED ALL THE WAY!!