Fox News

[Pulp Fictionist]

Is Fox News Channel fair and balanced as it proclaims?

[Chewie]

The idea of "fair and balanced" is completely relative, but no, they are not.

[Hello]

No! All there is on that station is right wing conservatives. Now, I'm not saying any other station is fair but this one is horrible.

[Aelfric5578]

I only say no because no media is completely fair and balanced. Everyone has a bias.

[DCdisco]

Ok, I know you all were just waiting for me to respond...

My official stance is that, while I do enjoy Fox News above all others (it really is a quality operation....just watch it once....), I do know that it is slightly biased.


HOWEVER.

The common misconception of Fox News is that it is just a right-wing propaganda machine, which basically just puts the right-wing angle onto the same stories that all of the other networks are carrying.

THIS IS NOT TRUE.

When it comes to the actual news reporting, Fox News is one of the most neutral, yet informant networks I've ever seen.

YES, I do know that certain programs on the network, like The O'Reilly Factor, have hosts that have conservative beliefs themselves. Yet they merely serve as the interviewers. The blatant conservatism is definitely shown in segments like O'Reilly's responses to emails that he gets, but hey, the people watching are asking him for his opinion.


THAT DOES NOT, I repeat, NOT MEAN THAT THE NETWORK ITSELF REPORTS WITH A RIGHT-WING TENDENCY.


I think that the mainstream network viewers are used to seeing news reports like those on their local ABC, CBS, and NBC affiliates. It is quite a shock to some to see the conservative presence at all on a news show.

EXAMPLE: We have seen countless reports done on the War in Iraq. The stereotypical accompanying footage would show civilians all bloodied and US soldiers yelling at Iraqis by gunpoint........things like that. Yet we never see the other 90% of the story. We don't see any of the good in the situation.....Yeah, maybe when everything is all said and done and the US finally leaves Iraq, the major networks will finally start reporting that Iraq is a better place without Saddam Hussein and that the overall mission has been accomplished. But for now, we see none of that on the ABC's, MSNBC's and CNN's of the world.


And anyone that says that CNN doesn't have a blatant left-wing bias is blind and deaf. Use your analytical skills. If you've ever had to study something, you know that it needs to be done in an unbiased fashion.


My recommendation to all of you is, if you have access, to watch the Fox News network during a normal news broadcast. NOT during a debate-oriented show like O'Reilly or even Hannity and Colmes.


THEN

I want you to come back to this message board and tell me where you find anything other than some fantastic, sympathetic, quality news reporting.



/rant.

[Chewie]

Ok, I know you all were just waiting for me to respond...

Who are you again? Lisa something? I forget.

My official stance is that, while I do enjoy Fox News above all others (it really is a quality operation....just watch it once....), I do know that it is slightly biased.

You're stance, meaning, your opinion, is that it is something.

Opinions are not the same as facts, but you're trying hard, I can tell!

HOWEVER.

The common misconception of Fox News is that it is just a right-wing propaganda machine, which basically just puts the right-wing angle onto the same stories that all of the other networks are carrying.

I like how you create your own problem there, which no one else brought up, and then spend the rest of the post solving it.

THIS IS NOT TRUE.

When it comes to the actual news reporting, Fox News is one of the most neutral, yet informant networks I've ever seen.

YES, I do know that certain programs on the network, like The O'Reilly Factor, have hosts that have conservative beliefs themselves. Yet they merely serve as the interviewers. The blatant conservatism is definitely shown in segments like O'Reilly's responses to emails that he gets, but hey, the people watching are asking him for his opinion.

THAT DOES NOT, I repeat, NOT MEAN THAT THE NETWORK ITSELF REPORTS WITH A RIGHT-WING TENDENCY.

This final sentence is correct. +1 credibility for Laura.

I think that the mainstream network viewers are used to seeing news reports like those on their local ABC, CBS, and NBC affiliates. It is quite a shock to some to see the conservative presence at all on a news show.

Silly Tangent: When I was a kid, and I still had a "bedtime" at 10pm, I would always watch the news before I went to bed. Of course, local news is crap anyway (look at the cute kittens! Local boy wins state wrestling championship! *puke*), but it just happened to be FOX 4 NEWS WDAF KANSAS CITY! Because they were the only ones on at 9pm. Everyone else was on at 10.

But then I turned 11 and stopped watching the news until I started doing extemp.

EXAMPLE: We have seen countless reports done on the War in Iraq. The stereotypical accompanying footage would show civilians all bloodied and US soldiers yelling at Iraqis by gunpoint........things like that. Yet we never see the other 90% of the story.

I triple-dog-DARE you to justify that number in anyway. Anyway at all. TDD. Seriously.

We don't see any of the good in the situation.....Yeah, maybe when everything is all said and done and the US finally leaves Iraq, the major networks will finally start reporting that Iraq is a better place without Saddam Hussein and that the overall mission has been accomplished. But for now, we see none of that on the ABC's, MSNBC's and CNN's of the world.

Well, that's awfully pessismistic of you. It's almost as if the other stations wouldn't cover things like the Iraqi elections, Sadaam being ousted, and key members of Al Qaeda being captured. Of course, that's not what you're referring to.

And anyone that says that CNN doesn't have a blatant left-wing bias is blind and deaf. Use your analytical skills. If you've ever had to study something, you know that it needs to be done in an unbiased fashion.

Yes. This is correct. Studies do need be done in an unbiased fashion.

Just...just like the kind FOX NEWS PROVIDES, right Laura?

My official stance is that, while I do enjoy Fox News above all others (it really is a quality operation....just watch it once....), I do know that it is slightly biased.

But again, not what you were talking about. At least...not that paragraph.

My recommendation to all of you is, if you have access, to watch the Fox News network during a normal news broadcast. NOT during a debate-oriented show like O'Reilly or even Hannity and Colmes.

THEN


I want you to come back to this message board and tell me where you find anything other than some fantastic, sympathetic, quality news reporting.

Or just listen to former employees of FOX NEWS tell you themselves.

[Its Alive]

CONSERVATIVES WHO WORK FOR CNN
- Robert Novak (neocon)
- Tucker Carlson (neocon)
- Lou Dobbs (old-school)
- Larry King (old-school)
- Carlos Watson (neocon)
- ETC.

LIBERALS WHO WORK FOR FOX NEWS
- Greta Van Susteren (on-air impossibly late at night)
- Alan Colmes (designated as Hannity's "little *****")

[Chewie]

I thought Tucker Carlson got a show on MSNBC? I remember the trailer. He was cutely funny.

Edit: Yeah, see? http://tucker.msnbc.com

[DCdisco]

If you would please re-read what I'd posted, you would see that I am not saying that the interview/debate-type shows aren't biased. I know that some of them are.

But Fox News' actual news reporting is neutral and very in-depth. The difference between Fox News' broadcasts and those of CNN's, for example....is that Fox News doesn't let political bias shadow its reporting. But it is rather blatant within the reports given on CNN and such. Much more so than is deemed necessary; believe me, I was an intern for a local newspaper and worked as an editor on my high school's newspaper as well----I know bias when I see it.


In the news biz, that is called an angle. There are multiple angles to approach a story from. Some networks choose wisely. Others don't.

[Trey]

GRETA'S A LIBERAL??? I AM DEVASTATED!! :cry: