Anyone who has seen the progams can easily see that it is full of right wing propaganda? What do you think? I really want to here from people who think this is a news station.
2007-06-22 08:10:29 · 23 answers · asked by Miami J 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
It is blatantly right wing. Extremist actually. I am amazed by the numbers who believe that it represents "fair and balanced" journalism. Rush Limbaugh has even criticized them for pretending to be balanced.
"...Rush Limbaugh in his first bestseller, Rush explicitly describes himself as a Conservative and freely admits that balance is not his goal. He has his views and wishes for others to adopt them through his persuasion. He does not pretend to be "fair to the other side" when presenting evidence, and was sharply critical of broadcasters in all media for making such claims when, as he described it, their bias was overwhelmingly evident."
If you are going to be biased don't pretend to be balanced. If you have a right wing point of view, be proud of it and stand up and admit that you are conservative. Why hide and lie about it? Fox News is just a big group of cowards.
Edit: Actually there is proof of Fox's inner memos by exec John Moody. These memos prove beyond a doubt that Fox reporters are directed to slant their reporting to favorable conservative positions:
http://mediamatters.org/items/200407140002
2007-06-22 08:32:32 · answer #1 · answered by David M 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I don't think anybody thinks Fox news is about anything other than money and unfortunately, they have that right to be about money. I am independant in my views, but right leaning. (in other words, my views are right, so you should accept them ;0) ). I hear people from all over the political spectrum criticizing Fox news, which is probably exactly what the Fox executives want. If everybody criticizes it, they get free advertising and people will want to watch to make up their own mind if its propaganda or not. Think about it. If the D-crats say its bad, who is going to watch? Repubs. If the Repubs also say its bad, who is going to watch? The D-crats. It is cleaver marketing to capture a larger market share. Bad press is better than no press sometimes because it gets people thinking about their show. Of coarse, in the process they are going to increase their regular viewership and ratings and be able to sell advertising at higher rates and the ends justifies the means. If people didn't watch the programs, they wouldn't air them. If the programs didn't create the stir that they do, like your question, they probably would search for programs that would. It's all about strategies to make money and it works. Either you have watched the shows more than once or you are just repeating rhetoric you thought made you sound "liberated" from mainstream media. Either way, they're making money off from you and laughing like the bully on the Simpsons "Heh heh" all day long.
2007-06-22 15:43:01 · answer #2 · answered by shrugger 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
All news media gets scrutinized to bring forth facts. So Fox News does not mis-interpret a story. Most of what Fox News channel is comprised of is commentators. A commentator is NOT a journalist, and can give you an opinion. Fox tries to balance it's commentators better than most other cable news networks. Conservative values perhaps outweigh those of the liberal yes. Much like CNN, MSNBC, Headline News, and comedy central do except they lean more left and are not as balanced politically with their commentators.
2007-06-22 15:59:27 · answer #3 · answered by mbush40 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well it is fair and balanced in that it allows liberals to appear and give their point of view also, whereas I was watching msnbc's hardball at work the other night (I had no choice lol) and chris matthews had all liberal people on his show and they were just ripping everything republican of course. On fox shows like hannity & colmes, and oreilly factor they always have plenty of liberals on their show, the only thing is if you libs have missed it they have a suttle way of bringing on the craziest of your kind or the most unattractive I mean just look at alan colmes why do you think he is on the show you have hannity the all-american boy sitting next to what looks a scarecrow lol. Bet you never thought of that did you lol. Anyway it is fair and balanced because it balances out the fact that all the other network's are liberal so you can just quit crying about because we conservatives love fox news and there is nothing you can do about it. Good day to you! lol....ohh btw you spell it hear not here.
2007-06-22 15:21:56 · answer #4 · answered by barrys 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I hate to say this but people who actually think any news station is not part of the same propaganda efforts in america is asleep .
It is nothing more then a moralistic agenda with ad space for sale .
Sex sells so its like this
Sex to sell, Drugs(from Viagra to beer ) ,Cars, Insurance, Investments , consumer goods .
All the shows almost have the same theme .(SEX )(MONEY)
Gorgeous women are involved with two kinds of men--- Rich or Very bad boys with hot bodies . You never see them with the average working stiff .If you do its a troubled marriage .
You always see a guy who is married and needs a lift home dropped of and his wife is slightly more then a few pounds overweight with a few kids toys scattered in the yard .
So we have no balance only shows that sell a theme based on america . The struggle to achieve the dream and the ups and downs of achieving it .
2007-06-22 15:27:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Actually, the really far right fringe of the right wing can find liberal bias on FOX news.
Bias is a funny thing. If you agree with it, it's invisible. Just like how the left can't see any bias in the MSM - and the fringe lefties see conservative bias there.
2007-06-22 15:16:34 · answer #6 · answered by B.Kevorkian 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Fox is the only channel that I feel is "fair and balanced" all the others but ther opionions in and there fore so distorted you don't get facts.
Look at the situation in Iraq...............they never show both sides.........they report on the killings and the negatives and you never hear what is really happening. You hear about the blood spilled and lives lost............but you know there's a human factors involved. Mistakes or made and lives or saved........but you don't hear it from the "so called media".
2007-06-22 16:17:17 · answer #7 · answered by John B 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Totally no... but far more so than the big broadcast network news programs or other cable networks either. The fact that they cover news items from more than one viewpoint makes them seem right wing when compared to the one sided reporting of the other networks.
2007-06-22 15:24:25 · answer #8 · answered by lordkelvin 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
You only hear what you want to hear. Your liberal stations are jealous that Fox is out-scooping and out-rating them, so they make up some useless diatribe to spoon feed you about it being biased. It's simply a media war and you're falling for it hook, line, and sinker.
Yeah, keep watching that CNN. The one who keeps telling you that Clinton was a good president, that his wife will do great things for the working man, that Michael Moore is a god and other similar fairy tales- who knows what might happen if you think for yourself and do the opposite of what they tell you to do.
2007-06-22 15:20:28 · answer #9 · answered by Karma 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
It isn't a news station, it only carries the people that run Democrats down, the ones that run around with those vibrators and the one Mr. Hannity that is the freak of all freaks.
One of Fox News smart mouths went to Fla, during 2000 with his smart mouth and was almost beat to death, I think his name was Sheppard. He was put in intensive care in Fla for quite awhile. His old Republican mouth was shut for awhile.
2007-06-22 15:23:02 · answer #10 · answered by Nicki 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋