Will the Fox Exploitation News Network ever become "fair and balanced"?

Question

Or will they forever remain the "right" hand of Bush and the neo-con agenda?

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Is it bad when you crack yourself up with your own outlandish questions?

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Answer 1

I don't get the problem with Fox. I've seen it and it looks just like CNN or MSNBC. I don't see a huge difference except, I think, more people watch it than the other two.

Answer 2

She is a COMMENTATOR!!!!! She is not doing the news. The news portion of FOX will continue to be fair and balanced. Much more so than CNN or MS-NBC. These networks also have commentators who speak their views which are extremely liberal. Why is it only the commentators on FOX that make you guys crazy. Don't like the network, don't turn it on. I do not turn on CNN or MS-NBC because I don't like their commentators, it works very well.

Answer 3

Would you really like to know why the Rightwing Extremists like Fox so much?
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“It seems that in late 1996, a reporter couple was hired by Fox to do an investigative journalism series. Their first story involved health risks from bovine growth hormone, or BGH, and the efforts of supermarket chains to cover up those risks.

As a condition of running the program, Fox demanded that they use statements from Monsanto—manufacturer of BGH—that the reporters knew to be false, and to make other changes in direct conflict with the facts as they had found them. When they refused to falsify the story, and threatened to contact the FCC, Fox fired them, and they sued.
Although the reporters won at the trial court level, the appeals court overturned the verdict. Why?

The reporters were claiming that their termination was wrongful because it violated a whistleblower protection law.

The appeals court accepted Fox’s argument that: 1) the law only protected people who were reporting ILLEGAL conduct; and 2) there are no laws against distorting the news.
Think about that. Fox’s lawyers argued in official court filings that, under the First Amendment, broadcasters have the right to lie, or deliberately distort news reported on the public airwaves. They didn’t argue that the reporters were wrong, or that their original story was unbalanced or incorrect. They argued that they had a legal right to lie to the public.
Now, as a matter of law, the First Amendment probably does protect them. And in a litigious society, we probably don’t want courts deciding matters of editorial judgment. So I can understand the court’s decision.

What I find amazing is that Fox would file pleadings that constituted a brazen admission that the network distorts the news.

What I find disheartening is that this case is from 2000, and people continue to watch—and presumably trust—Fox News. Or maybe they just trust Fox to reinforce their existing prejudices.

It really is a perfect place for someone like Bill O to work.”


http://www.bilerico.com/2007/08/the_worst_network_in_the_world.php

Answer 4

Rupert Murdock has been selling CheapTricks, Titillation and Sensationalism since he started playing in and with the media in Oz during the 50s.

I'm interested in whom he's backing in the 2008 USian presidentials - he's had an uncanny knack for picking winners.

Answer 5

I don't watch Fox News, I passed a couple of times it caused me to have to go to the emergency room and get my leg in a cast. I happen to stop one time , never again. I seen these ugly creatures with forked tails, I jumped over my coffee table trying to get my remote control to get it off I fell breaking my leg but I still crawled to get that monster off of my TV dragging my leg behind me. I think I seen a name that said either O'Reilly , Big John, Hannity and his partner and Greta, and some big old country looking man with big lips, never again. That is the Booger Man Channel, Whew!!!. I elect them for being the biggest liars and ugliest people on any channel

Answer 6

No. Never. Fox will never, ever, EVER be credible.


“In February 2003, a Florida Court of Appeals unanimously agreed with an assertion by FOX News that there is no rule against distorting or falsifying the news in the United States.”

http://www.projectcensored.org/publications/2005/11.html

Answer 7

HAHAHAHAHAHA......HAHAHAHAHAHA....
...HAHAHAHAHA.... OH! sorry I all most broke my H and A buttons....Faux "news" fair and balanced, WOW could of fooled me.
Wyco and COMMON SENSE, too bad you have no common sense. Funny how all you Reich wing fundies keep saying how us "libs" are so upset when you guy's think you win one. Last time I checked your conservative nut jobs have been in power for years now..in the congress, senate, administration as well as Supreme Court.
You keep on watching your "news" and being programmed like the good little Bush lover that you are and us Libs will still do what we can to bring this country up out of the enormous HOLE you've gotten us into!

Answer 8

I stay away from any news source that claims to be "fair and balanced", or non-partisan.
If they have to make those claims, chances are, they are not.
If they were truly "fair and balanced", or non-partisan, it would be obvious enough, where they wouldn't have to advertise it.

Rupert Murdoch, is a money making genius, he owns companies that lean to both sides for a reason. Its the equivalent to McDonald's selling steak burgers and veggie burgers at the same time. So they can get $$ out of both sides.

If you want a monopoly, are you going to ignore owning something that opposes your business, or will you set it up for your two companies to compete against themselves, like Ma Bell?

Answer 9

Don't think of Fox as a neocon mouth piece, think of them as the media scam that makes thier money off of neocons, so they can donate to Hillary's campaign, afterall, Ruport Murdoch owns FOX, makes money off FOX, and supports Hillary.
How's that for twist on things?
Every minute of watching FOX, and keeping their ratings up, is more support for Hillary!

Answer 10

Is your 12 year old son posting questions on your account?

Because sometimes your question are reasonably thought out & inttelegent, then WHAM! a pre-adolescent Q comes by!

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My answer isn't meant to defend Fox news. I'm just pointing out that your attempt at humor here sounds like a 12 yr old's.

Fox clearly does lean Right, but most of the other media leans left. As my aunt always says "the only thing 'fair & balanced' about Fox is that it's right-wing bias provides a balance to the left-wing bias in the rest of the media'."

And I think that is fair!

Answer 11

LOL... Sure! And Rupert Murdoch bought the Wall Street Journal because his integrity made him want to clean up that 'rag'. Sometimes, I crack myself up too. :-)