Take this, for example.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/24/fox-news-al-qaeda-is-causing-the-ca-wildires/
I'm just wondering, because I don't actually believe Fox News is serving conservatives with anything more than a vehicle to laugh at how riled up liberals tend to become about their fake stories.
Also, I'm not talking about CNN, CBS or MSNBC, so please refrain from red herring fallacies.
2007-10-25 03:46:39 · 19 answers · asked by Buying is Voting 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
One needs to always remember Fox, CNN, MSNBC, Rush Limbaugh, Ed Schultz, etc. are first in the entertainment business and make money saying what they say. If they did not make money saying what they say they would say something different that would make them money.
Just think for yourself.
2007-10-25 03:59:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
I guess the FBI was just lying. The only 'fact' that this story desputes is that California was not specifically named. Well, there's a smoking gun!
Like all news channels, Fox has it's entertainment side. Unlike many news channels, however, they do tend to be more balanced with qualified representatives from both sides.
What the liberals don't like and can't abide is that Fox does not tow the party line like so many of the other news channels. Consider CBS yesterday trying to get Gov. Schwarzenegger to confess to Bush's culpability in the California fires or Dan Rather's making up documents to undermine Bush.
Or, have you noticed that when the war was going badly, you heard nothing but war news on the other channels, all of them parroting the same liberal 'sky is falling' rhetoric. Now that the war is going well, you wouldn't even know there was a war going on. That should speak volumes to you.
Liberals hate Fox because Fox does not tow the party line and rather than refute fox, which they can't, they seek to undermine it by merely calling it 'unreliable', as though that alone is sufficient proof of their opinion.
2007-10-25 04:03:52 · answer #2 · answered by The emperor has no clothes 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
This was a collection of data from Program on International Policy at the University of Maryland and Knowledge Networks, concerning viewers who obtained the majority of their news from FOX News.
An in-depth analysis of a series of polls conducted June through September found 48% incorrectly believed that evidence of links between Iraq and al Qaeda have been found, 22% that weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq, and 25% that world public opinion favored the US going to war with Iraq. Overall 60% had at least one of these three misperceptions.
I rest my case.
2007-10-25 04:17:56 · answer #3 · answered by willie l 2 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Go ye and tell that fox (Lk 13:32):
BEHOLD (these three things):
- I cast out devils
- I do cures to-->day and to-->morrow
- the third [day] I will be perfected(graced)
2007-10-25 03:56:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I bet they'll have someone on within a few days who will claim to have seen Bin Laden running around in the woods with a gascan and a zippo.
2007-10-25 03:51:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 1⤋
Fox News is as reliable as the other news channels. There's no arguing that Fox News is conservatively biased. Which is a good thing when other news stations refuses to take an even handed look at things. The best thing to do is get news from both the liberal media and Fox News to get a balanced take on things. It's as naive to discount everything reported on Fox News as it is to discount all the other News channels.
2007-10-25 04:04:14 · answer #6 · answered by VoodooPunk 4 · 3⤊ 6⤋
Unfortunately, many will say it. That's the frightening realilty of Fox News.
If not for that, they would just be the Enquirer or the Star.
2007-10-25 03:52:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 1⤋
your fox news is like our TF1, a stupid channel which works for the governement... when i compare the news between TF1 and an "independant channel" (just a few in france) i can see how the same subject is differently dealed with
during the last elections (in 2002) in france everybody knows that TF1 helped to the reelction of chirac, it's hard to explain but they always spoke about violence, insecurity,... so french people thought that we live during a war...
2007-10-25 03:56:21 · answer #8 · answered by MOI 5 · 5⤊ 3⤋
Fox news should change its name to the "Bush Bullhorn" network. they lock step with the administration at every opportunity. editorializing and sensationalizing is what they do best.
i knew the cons were going to spin this before i even heard this breaking news. my answer to an asinine question yesterday as proof:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AodU9nfRW6vJc5Q3gS5_SNPty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20071024072527AAe8uTi&show=7#profile-info-UWN5eE7Baa
2007-10-25 04:28:28 · answer #9 · answered by Free Radical 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I don't even trust Fox's weather report.
2007-10-25 05:07:15 · answer #10 · answered by tiny Valkyrie 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋