Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University--
"TV election news has been hardest on Hillary Clinton this fall, while Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee have been the biggest media favorites, according to a new study … . The study also found that Fox News Channel's evening news show provided more balanced coverage than its counterparts on the broadcast networks."
2007-12-26 23:04:53 · 20 answers · asked by charbatch 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
http://www.cmpa.com/releases/07_12_21_Election_Study.pdf
2007-12-26 23:12:27 · update #1
I posted a study from a non-profit liberal University.
If you are going to try to refute it, please provide a legitimate link- not a deceitful, leftist partisan link from Fair.
2007-12-26 23:22:45 · update #2
still not one legitimate link to any study refuting my facts.
wow.
2007-12-27 02:55:23 · update #3
Their only agenda is to report the news and let us decide,
not cook up phony documents like Dan Rather and See BS
news!
2007-12-26 23:09:56 · answer #1 · answered by realitycheck 3 · 7⤊ 9⤋
Fox is a 'propaganda organ' for the Republican Party. It never pretended to be anything else. 'Fair and Balanced' is meant in an almost ironic way. How can you be fair and balanced when you present only one side of every issue? If Fox really wanted to be fair and balanced, they'd present not just two sides but -multiple- sides to every story. They've never really even tried to do this. Whenever they have liberals or Democrats on, they pick really incompetent spokesmen, they interrupt and talk over them, and on some shows they end up just telling them to 'shut up'. Fox knows what it's audience wants. They certainly don't want 'fair and balanced'. They want news tuned to their own opinions. They don't want to be informed or edified or educated. They already know what they believe and they want their own unfortunate prejudices reinforced and encouraged. Why does Fox say the 'Fairness Doctrine' would destroy their right to free speech? Because requiring the network to present a range of views would destroy them. Their audiences would dwindle to nothing. As for Colbert, are you old enough to remember All in the Family? Part of that show's legendary success was that liberals saw Archie Bunker as a parody of conservatives at the time, while conservatives saw him as their spokesman. It shows you which side is more educated and open minded. 8^)
2016-04-11 02:47:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What???!
Since when? FOX News is the worst of a bad bunch. Don't you get it yet?? - ALL of the mainstream media is controlled and censored, and FOX is the most biased right-wing of them all.
The only way you will get anywhere near the TRUTH is to research for yourself on the web and then decide for yourself what fits and what does not.
BTW, it makes no real difference which mainstream party wins, or which mainstream candidate is elected - they all serve the same bosses.
This right vs left business was concocted to divide the People and to keep them busy fighting amongst themselves, rather than working to uphold the Constitution and demanding their rights!
2007-12-27 01:16:58 · answer #3 · answered by pstottmfc 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Fair & balanced is a slogan so people will remember to watch fox news, it doesn't actually mean that as is real, ask yourself would you say they are as fair as the Justice system, if you answered yes how confident would you feel if you were looking at the jury in a crime you did not commit but had no proof of your innocents and were sentenced to 1 year in jail.
would you still call it fair & Balanced.
fox news is interested in making money not friends so what ever they can sell you the better, because they know that people that thirst for hate will by into that type of news analyst of what was said how it will effect the brain cells and more analyst to analyzes what was just analyzed in the minute before, it television man just stupid television man
2007-12-26 23:41:12 · answer #4 · answered by man of ape 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Well, Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity aren't the only ones they have that do reporting. While their views are quite conservative, they have democrats on there as well to tell the story from both sides.
This is quite a contrast to the liberal news media anywhere else that is left view only.
2007-12-26 23:45:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
One aspect that people don't focus on is that much of the liberal media doesn't KNOW that it is biased. they consider their views "the way things should be" and any opposing views as just ignorant and not worthy of consideration.
The falling ratings for these networks is an indication of how isolated they are in their thinking.
2007-12-27 01:20:23 · answer #6 · answered by American citizen and taxpayer 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
www.fair.org/index.php?page=1067
www.fair.org/index.php?page=1187
www.slate.com/id/2119864
There's a few to start with. FOX News is the closest thing to state sponsored TV that I hope the US will ever go. The only thing 'fair and balanced' about FOX News is that you can be 'fairly' certain that the only 'balance' they broadcast is the far right utopia of Rupert Murdock.
2007-12-27 01:53:46 · answer #7 · answered by ndmagicman 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I'm not sure it's really fair and balanced. It is heavily right-leaning, which in turn "balances" out anything coming from the big 3 major networks, and CNN, MSNBC and the like...
2007-12-27 00:22:58 · answer #8 · answered by Just A Guy... 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
None are fair and balanced. For that you need to read independent media.
2007-12-27 00:02:51 · answer #9 · answered by ignorance_intolerant 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Fox News is the only news channel that treats Americans with respect rather than trying to feed them propaganda from the left. But still, I wish they would lean to the right just a little to balance out the other left-biased networks like CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC, MSNBC.
2007-12-26 23:26:26 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 5⤋
Maybe it's because they fall all over themselves pandering to the radical right
2007-12-27 00:42:41 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋