How come the Republican Agenda Fox News gave Michael Moose's new film STUNNING reviews?

Question

I thought Fox News had a STRONG Republican bias, and that everything they reported on furthered the Republican Agenda.

And yet they gave Michael Moore's new movie "Sicko" a FANTASTIC review:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,273875,00.html

Last I heard, Moore was NOT a Republican. So, could it be that Fox News is REALLY unbiased, and maybe it is the LIBERAL news programs that paint them that way?

Or, do you think (and the Liberals are going to love this one) they are only doing it to trick us into believing they are unbiased? Those scoundrels!

Or maybe reality has a Conservative bias! I know this sounds dumb also, but I have heard Liberals use this as an excuse for MSNBC.

So, why is Fox News giving this movie such good reviews, if they are part of the Republican machine? No matter what, I will rent it when it comes out on video (no way I'm giving Moore $15). If Fox News likes it, it must be good.

Answer 1

Foxnews is an independent news organization. It is not under the control of the republican party or the Bush administration. If you actually watch Foxnews you will learn this.

Answer 2

It looks like you pretty much worked through the logic yourself.

The Democratic Secular Socialists are the ones who say Fox is biased, and these cretins are slightly left of Joe Stalin, so you can see how they believe Air America was moderate.

Fox is pretty much the only major media player that does not have a strong leftist bias, and according to research they really are pretty much right in the middle.

Answer 3

Fox said that Moore’s new movie is “brilliant” and “uplifting.” There must be an angle here somewhere. Moore is an excellent filmmaker but Fox has never acknowledged that in the past so I’m a little suspicious.

Answer 4

The Right to Lie in the "News"
If ever we needed to know why the biggest media consumers in the world are so badly informed, this pretty well tells it all. The Media Can Legally Lie.
According to Akre and Wilson, the station was initially very excited about the series. But within a week, Fox executives and their attorneys wanted the reporters to use statements from Monsanto representatives that the reporters knew were false and to make other revisions to the story that were in direct conflict with the facts.
Fox editors then tried to force Akre and Wilson to continue to produce the distorted story. When they refused and threatened to report Fox's actions to the FCC, they were both fired.
Akre and Wilson sued the Fox station and on August 18, 2000, a Florida jury unanimously decided that Akre was wrongfully fired by Fox Television when she refused to broadcast (in the jury's words) “a false, distorted or slanted story” about the widespread use of BGH in dairy cows.
[...] FOX appealed the case, and on February 14, 2003 the Florida Second District Court of Appeals unanimously overturned the settlement awarded to Akre. The Court held that Akre’s threat to report the station’s actions to the FCC did not deserve protection under Florida’s whistle blower statute, because Florida’s whistle blower law states that an employer must violate an adopted “law, rule, or regulation."
In a stunningly narrow interpretation of FCC rules, the Florida Appeals court claimed that the FCC policy against falsification of the news does not rise to the level of a "law, rule, or regulation," it was simply a "policy." Therefore, it is up to the station whether or not it wants to report honestly.
During their appeal, FOX asserted that there are no written rules against distorting news in the media. They argued that, under the First Amendment, broadcasters have the right to lie or deliberately distort news reports on public airwaves.
Fox attorneys did not dispute Akre’s claim that they pressured her to broadcast a false story, they simply maintained that it was their right to do so.
OK, pick your jaw up off the floor. That some court thinks they CAN is bad enough, that these people assert their right to do so pretty well kicks it all down the hole. And these guys wonder why their credibility is in the toilet and the net is burning them left right and centre.
Oh, and February 2003, 30 days before Iraq.

Answer 5

Good Job! kinda hard to argue that one.
I think people are to willing to believe that anyone but themselves are easy targets for brainwashing. (which ironically makes them easier targets) I never watched FOX before and I was conservative anyway. I will probably watch the movie too...lol

Answer 6

I don't know. this one blew me clean out of the water.

I still think they are biased. I've watched their other stories and read about how liberal people were fired.
maybe they are starting to come around. maybe the big bosses who try to make things bias and hire only cons are not as powerful... did any fox news bosses retire or get fired lately?

Answer 7

How much does Fox pay for these little promo-pieces? Maybe I'll write some.

Answer 8

Moore must have paid Murdock

Or his book is being published by one of Murdock's printing companies.

The one common dominate in Rupert Murdock's News Empire. Is his demand for editorial control. FOX could not push the book without Murdock's approval.

Go Team Red Go

Answer 9

Moore being praised by Fox is a rare example of Fox surfacing to sanity from the pool of hate and bias they immerse themselves in.

The media is conservative.
The media are being increasingly monopolized by parent corporations with pro-corporate or conservative agendas.
The U.S. media are rapidly being monopolized by a dwindling number of parent corporations, all of whom have conservative economic agendas. The media are also critically dependent upon corporations for advertising. As a result, the news almost completely ignores corporate crime, as well as pro-labor and pro-consumer issues. Surveys of journalists show that the majority were personally liberal in the 1980s, but today they are centrists, with more conservatives than liberals on economic issues. However, no study has proven that they give their personal bias to the news. On the other hand, the political spectrum of pundits -- who do engage in noisy editorializing -- leans heavily to the right. The most extreme example of this is talk radio, where liberals are almost nonexistent. The Fairness Doctrine was designed to prevent one-sided bias in the media by requiring broadcasters to air opposing views. It once enjoyed the broad support of both liberals and conservatives. But now that the media have become increasingly owned and controlled by corporations, conservatives defiantly oppose the Fairness Doctrine. This is probably the best proof that the media's bias is conservative, not liberal.

Answer 10

Fox News....they report, I decide



the spin stops here

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