Can I get some examples of bias in news coverage at FoxNews?

Question

I would like concrete examples of actual bias in news coverage. I'm not talking about opinion shows such as O'Reilly or Hannity & Colmes.

Answer 1

There are none, my friend. The left simply doesn't grasp the difference between news and commentary.

Answer 2

You first state which you settle that Fox information is impartial, and then advise that Fox information is an "purpose watchdog". that's it? while are you prepared to believe the Pakistani government anyhow? while it probably fits your political schedule? it rather is merely impressive the cognitive dissonance people have, and the undeniable fact that there are people accessible (conservatives even!) that could believe the be attentive to the Pakistani government over our own merely by way of fact they disagree with the guy interior the place of work of President. Then they have the audacity to declare that it rather is patriotism!

Answer 3

just look at the crew...Bill Kristol and Bret Hume on one side...the woman and the black guy on the other...the woman is not a liberal she is a moderate and the black man is just left of center...it is proposed as a balance, but it's a sham...and when they get into an argument, it seems the black man is always up against the Right side alone and he gets 1/4 of the comment time while the others attack him from both sides...and when he does get the moral high ground, they go to commercial...where do you think the swift boat crap came from? During that time Fox was non stop with it and other networks treated it as 2nd page news....

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Answer 4

They may lean towards the right in their opinions, but they report both sides of every issue. Not like the other news stations, such as CNN. I normally watch Fox but take a look at CNN from time to time. I just can't believe the one sided reporting they do there.

Answer 5

http://mediamatters.org

is a web site that collects and documents bias and misinformation on all major news outlets, not just Fox.

If you're specifically interested in Fox, there are filters and searches and such.

Filters and searches and stuff, oh, my!

Answer 6

"Reporting" that Barak Obama went to a Muslim school and was instructed in Islam. In reality, he went to a school in the Phillipines briefly before he went to live with his grandparents in Hawaii and attend an all-American apple pie kind of school. He was considered Muslim only because his stepfather was. He wasn't a practicing Muslim and he has said in his first book that his mother never pushed any religion on him. Rather, as an anthropologist, she exposed him to a variety of cultures and people to help him appreciate the differences in people and also recognize our similarities. He's now a Christian who attends a church with his family on Chicago's southside. They clearly either didn't check the facts before reporting or chose to ignore them. This was not on one of the opinion shows. It was broadcast as "news".

It's important, though, not to disregard the fact that many people take the opinion shows like O'Reilly Factor to be news and that these shows can present just as many problems by misrepresenting facts when explaining the premise for various opinions.

Answer 7

If you watch CNN and then turn it over to Fox news, they leave out the stories that are detrimental to Republicans. I do this all the time. It is very funny.

Answer 8

Watch this and others linked at the bottom. It shows up Faux for the biased BS it spews around like a loose fire hose.

Answer 9

One episode I watched last year, Brit Hume got very upset at a guest who said Rumsfailed should go.

Brit raised, partially, out of his seat, raised his voice and said: "Donald Rumsfeld is a good man! He is my friend! We spend time together! I've been to his home! Yada yada yada"

Fox has Bush and Cheney as guests moreso than all of the networks put together.

Fox hosts (other than the lib token Colmes) consistantly sides with the neo-guest against the Dem/liberal one.

Answer 10

You have 17 answers at this time and only ONE has any example of a precise bias reporting and it is not correct. Regarding Obama and Muslim school, here is supporting coverage:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::Boyhood Friend and Teacher Say Obama Was Muslim
The issue of Sen. Barack Obama’s Muslim past has surfaced again as his campaign steps back from its flat denial that he ever belonged to the Islamic faith.
Earlier this year several media outlets reported that Obama had attended a radical madrasa, or Islamic school, when he lived in Indonesia. At the time, Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs declared: “To be clear, Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim, and is a committed Christian who attends the United Church of Christ in Chicago.”
The report about the radical madrasa turned out to be false.
Now, in a statement to the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday, Gibbs amended that declaration, saying: “Obama has never been a practicing Muslim,” the key word being “practicing.”
But a boyhood friend of Obama in Indonesia, Zulfin Adi, told the Times: “His mother often went to the church, but Barry [Barack’s name at the time] was Muslim. He went to the mosque.”
The Times sent a reporter to Jakarta, capital of the Muslim nation, to delve into an issue that could have a serious impact on the Democratic presidential candidate’s White House aspiration, as voters “react to a candidate with an early exposure to Islam, a religion that remains foreign to many Americans,” the Times noted.
Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Barack Hussein Obama Sr., a Kenyan, and Kansas-born Ann Dunham. The couple separated when Barack was 2. They later divorced, and Dunham married Lolo Soetoro, a Muslim. In 1967, the family moved to Jakarta, where Obama was known as Barry Soetoro, and he remained there from age 6 to 10.
Obama attended first grade at a Catholic elementary school near his home, St. Francis of Assisi Foundation School, which accepted students of any religion.
His first-grade teacher Israella Dharmawan told the Times: “At that time, Barry was also praying in a Catholic way, but Barry was Muslim. He was registered as a Muslim because his father was Muslim.”
In the third grade, Obama transferred to a public school, where he was also registered as a Muslim.
Muslim students at the school attended weekly religion lessons about Islam, taught by a Muslim.
In his autobiography, “Dreams From My Father,” Obama mentions studying the Quran and describes the public school as “a Muslim school.”
Boyhood friend Adi said Obama occasionally went to Friday prayers at a local mosque.
“We prayed but not really seriously, just following actions done by older people in the mosque,” he told the Times.
Sometimes, when the call to prayer sounded, Barry and Lolo would walk to the mosque together, Adi added.
Obama’s half-sister Maya Soetoro, in a statement issued Wednesday by the Obama campaign, said the family attended the mosque only for “big communal events.”
New revelations about Obama’s Muslim past could provide ammunition for his critics — and political opponents.
One such critic is Chicago-based Internet journalist and broadcaster Andy Martin, a lawyer and consumer advocate who wrote earlier about Obama’s connection to Islam.
Reacting to the claim from Obama’s sister that the family went to the mosque only for “big communal events,” Martin wrote on Thursday: “Tens of millions of ‘Christians’ flock to churches for Easter and Christmas. And they would slap you down if you told them they were not Christians merely because they only appear twice a year for ‘big communal events.’”
He also wrote: “Obama no longer denies he was a Muslim. Now he says he wasn’t a ‘practicing’ Muslim.
“People in general will accept most anything from public officials as long as they don’t lie about it.”