What is the appeal of Fox News?

Question

I have been watching Fox news on and off again for the last couple of years. I have found them to be missleading and on ocation to spead false hoods. I don't mean the standard Lib Con ideals bashing that happens. I mean realy factual errors. I accept that journalists are human and they on ocation make mistakes on stories. but the reporters (not calling them journlists because they just report they don't investigate) on Fox consistantly make mistakes. I don't want this to be a Fox bashing type of question. im serious. how can i trust a new channel that consistantly get the news worng?
Im not going to say if im a lib or con, a dem or rep. because it shouldn't matter. i want to decide what I think not be told what to think.
OK let the bashing against me begin

i didn't mean to imply that CNN and MSNBC don't get things wrong, mislead but i have found that Fox News does it considerably more often.

There little stuff too. You can easly check on your own. I have a porblem with the New media in jeneral. I think that they have all gotten Lazy.

Thats a myth, there isn't "two" sides to every issue there are sometimes hundreds. but I was talking about factual errors the can be check. Like stating that Valery Plame wasn't a covert agent, when it was the CIA who asked for the imvestigation because they classified her as a covert agent. I can give more examples. the Obama Madrassa thing.

I hate to do this and i know they're a liberal site but check out their sources indepenantly, like i did.
http://mediamatters.org/index

Answer 1

The appeal of fox news is that it tells people with fixed opinions and limited understanding of complex issues the black and white answer they want to hear.

I like it because it makes me so full of rage. If I were a boxer, I would watch it before going out for a fight.

Answer 2

I haven't noticed factual errors on Fox News, but then again, I don't watch a whole lot, although I am a fan.

As for Valerie Plame being a covert op, that's debatable. If she was legally a covert op under the law (as it is written), then why isn't Richard Armitage being prosecuted for breaking the law?

Go read the appropriate law. It has several conditions to be met before one is considered to have outed a covert op. The big one is having not been posted overseas for the last 5 years.

If you want to see glaring errors from all news organizations, look at Hurricane Katrina coverage. They were reporting all kinds of wild stuff, just on rumor. Murder and starvation going on in the superdome, hundreds or thousands dead, etc.

It ain't just Fox.

Answer 3

I am a liberal, and I watch Fox News quite often. I would say that about 50% of what they 'report' is accurate, and the other 50% is a lot of bull.
Now, let me tell you WHY I watch Fox.
I like to say to myself: "Now, THAT is a lot of crap", and then, a couple of days later, I have the pleasure of saying to O'Reilly, Hannity, Hume etc: "I told you so!"
What I also find interesting about Fox is the 'omission' of 'facts' in their 'reporting'. Or the way they (very skillfully) interrupt a guest when that person is about to say something that doesn't fit into their 'doctrine'. They are past masters at this kind of thing.
Fox keeps me alert.
I love Fox! (Possibly not for the 'right' reasons)
Also, Fox has by far the best way of 'presenting' news, and this appeals to people who care more about 'appearance' than 'substance'. If a well-dressed, good-looking person says something, it has to be true = the 'Hollywood' Syndrome.
I usually take a break from Fox when they start 'obsessing' about Imus, Paris Hilton, Anna Nicole Smith, or some other insignificant thing or person.

Answer 4

I wish you could provide an example of these facts being correct. I'm not going to say Fox News is 100% accurate nor thruthful, but the fact is we don't know whether what they tell us is true unless we are witness to the event. In that case, Fox could be correct and CNN or MSNBC could be the ones spreading lies.

How can you be so sure? How do you know if any of them get it right?

The appeal for Fox News viewers is that it's typically a conservative viewpoint, something that has been lacking on TV news for some time.

Answer 5

Check out the documentary 'Outfoxed'

It is focused at Fox News, but most of it really applies to all news stations.

I know exactly what youre talking about. I like to flip back and forth between CNN and Fox, but Fox gets old quickly when they constantly speculate on things that they have no info on (usually making it sound like they have the info and are reporting, when theyre just BSing) and when they make stupid errors constantly, Ive never seen so many botched highlights on the bottom of a screen in my life.

Answer 6

True a lot of news is wrong anymore, but Fox does seem to have more errors than the others and a definite bias. I'd say anymore it's hard to trust most news, which is sad. Plus Fox has Bill O'Reilly, who is not a nice man, I met a few people who used to work with him.

Answer 7

There's 27 percent of the population that wants to believe and wants to hear certain things. For them, Fox News is a godsend, because they can pretend that things are exactly the way they want them to be. Mistakes don't matter because "other networks do it tooooooooo!" All that matters is that they hear what they want to hear.

For everyone else, Fox is good for a laugh.

Answer 8

How is exhibiting the two factors of an argument enjoying to somebody's worry? How is exhibiting the solid issues going on in Iraq as properly via fact the undesirable enjoying to worry? Your question would not postpone under scrutiny, my chum.

Answer 9

Fox news is more likely to have both sides of the issues covered.

When was the last time anyone supporting the president was given a forum on 60 minutes?

Answer 10

I watch All news stations to see what is currently happening. Joe Wilson lied in his op-ed and Valerie Plame lied to Congress. She has told two different versions of her status. I watch the liberal news stations. If I hear opinions, on any station, I discount it as opinion. I saw valerie Plame lie to congress on cspan. There are two kinds of lies. Omission and co-mission. Your buddy Michael Moore lies by omission.
His movies are propaganda and he is now rich and he is still fat. I watch Oreilly less than I used to, but I cant stand Oberman. His show is always about bashing somebody. I want more news and less opinion. I think we all like to be told what we like to hear, but I get tired of left bashing and right bashing. Tell me what your solution is and cut the BS.

Answer 11

Hot chicks behind the news desk. Who wants to look at Matthews all day?