to improve the ratings, and make irrationality seem more popular than it is?
2007-11-27 01:37:06 · 28 answers · asked by . 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
To Fox viewers, the credibility of the source is not as important to them as the news matching preconceived notions of what they want to hear. The only one that consistantly delivers to that mindset is Faux News.
ps, I apologize for having had you confused with someone else in Y! answers, from a long time ago who had a "right arrow" (not sure it was red, now that I think about it), and he was a definite "righty". Now that i've read your q's and a's I see that you're NOT who I thought you were. I just added you as a contact and noticed we have a lot of contacts/fans in common. Had I known you were so bright and articulate i would have added you much earlier! ;o)
2007-11-27 14:38:23 · answer #1 · answered by TJTB 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, there was an in depth study by the center for liberal comfort that has proved beyond all doubt that every Republican in the country has a plasma TV in every room, including the bathrooms that has no capability to change the channel. All remotes are removed at the factory and the buttons on the set have been sealed by special request of the John Birch society. Each set is on continuously and broadcasting FOX news 24/7/365.
The census bureau is now reporting finding Republicans harbored in Liberal households so they can watch Family Guy.
2007-11-27 09:48:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
I'm not a republican, but I usually vote that way just to keep from voting for a liberal (I AM a conservative!). It gets harder and harder all the time to tell the difference.
I never watch FOX or CNN or MSNBC or CBS or NBC or ABC or any other "alphabet" news source. They are all nothing but "talking heads" spouting whatever propaganda their handlers tell, whether it be liberal or conservative.
I like to see NEWS, not propaganda, regardless of which way it leans. So news is rarely on my TV. I get my news from other sources. I DO watch History, Discovery (when it's not promoting globull warming), HGTV, TCM, ESPN, SCIFI and AMC.
To claim that republicans have a TV in every room tuned to FOX is like claiming that democrats have a TV in every room tuned to CNN. Simply stupid. Democrats wouldn't know how to operate that many things at once ...
2007-11-27 10:34:44 · answer #3 · answered by Big Jon 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Wow, still smarting from the fact that the liberal propaganda as manufactured by the main stream media has been summarily dismissed by a majority of the American public, huh? It seems you really hate it that we don't think and believe as you do. Typical little socialist. Well, don't worry. Hillary will be president soon and she'll appoint John Kerry to be Education Minister. After all, isn't he the one that said that re-education camps aren't so bad? That it's graduates go on to lead productive lives in communist Vietnam?
As a free thinking conservative, I find such ideas chilling, but more chilling is the apparent fact that you do not.
2007-11-27 10:45:05 · answer #4 · answered by The emperor has no clothes 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I am sorry but you do not seem to understand how the TV ratings system works. The only homes and TV's that count are part of the ratings system. They are hooked up to a counter and are paid for participation. A great deal of scientific research is involved to specifically select families that offer correct representation of all groups. It does not add any value to bias the numbers. The entire purpose of the ratings system is the sale of advertising. If advertisers loose faith in the numbers, the entire industry would collapse.
People just seem to like watching Fox News. That is that.
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2007-11-27 09:52:07 · answer #5 · answered by Jacob W 7 · 4⤊ 3⤋
Yes. As a Republican I do usually have Fox News on.
Do you have on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, and PBS on all the time?
Do you subscribe to The New York Times, LA Times, Washington Post and just about every other paper in the country where 89% of the journalists define themselves as "liberal"?
You whining little babies complaining about Fox News crack me up. You've had a stranglehold on the media for decades and you all can't handle one new outlet that leans right.
That's right. I'll admit Fox leans right. Can you admit that just about every other news outlet leans left?
2007-11-27 10:10:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
LOL, no. Most of us can't afford more than one TV. We're paying for too many TV's for Liberals on welfare, who use the money to watch Fox News instead of work.
2007-11-27 10:28:20 · answer #7 · answered by xenypoo 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Don't know if that's true but it certainly sounds plausible and fits with their modus operandi.
I saw an interview once on....I believe Anderson Cooper and the person spoke about Dick Cheney and his travel accommodations. Dick's rule is that Fox MUST always be on the TV when he arrives in his hotel room.
Well.....for whatever that's worth!
2007-11-27 09:47:15 · answer #8 · answered by jersey girl in exile 6 · 3⤊ 4⤋
Nope, I don't have a TV in every room, and the TVs we have are turned to History channel, Sci-fi, any number of sports channels.
We watch the news but we watch a few different channels, and yes one of them happens to be Fox.
and no there is no truth to that rumor, the only people pumping up numbers are the Paulites.
2007-11-27 09:45:35 · answer #9 · answered by Stone K 6 · 4⤊ 4⤋
It is true, but the point, sadly, is to promote and support Bush group think.
Interestingly former Fox host Tony Snow changed the channel when he was Press Secretary, but now he's gone, trying to recover from cancer.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/22/washington/22letter.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
2007-11-27 09:50:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋