Fox News is not a news organization

[wadecool]

Realize it or not, but the fact that a thread exclusively dedicated to Fox News was created and seems to be very popular based on all the posts, says something about Fox's popularity in and of itself. When Rupert Murdock is brought up and his "evil" news organization, one seldom hears a "fair and balanced" conversation including Jeffery Immelt, GE owned NBC, and the vast left wing conspiracy.
When and if I do watch MSNBC, it is only to get a good laugh at Olbermann and his rants.

 

[Geo]

Shopper, I don't take issue with BB or O'Reilly. Hannity and Beck on the other hand...

 

[Arkiehawg]

Here's a classical example of why I'm not impressed with Faux News.

This evening around 22:30 hrs., CNN breaks in on Anderson Cooper with Breaking News about an abandoned U-Haul on the RFK bridge in NY. There was witnesses that the driver stopped and ran away from the vehicle and NYPD is on scene advising the strong smell of gasoline around the vehicle. Could be nothing, but in the light of what just happened in NY, truly news-worthy.

Now, I decide to flip over to Faux News to see what they have on the story. NOTHING.
Billy O'Reilly is on and talking to some blondie who wrote a book about smiles and they are looking at video of celebrities and discussing their facial expressions....now as I write this, Billy has Dennis Miller on talking about the jokes that the President did at the dinner the other night as well as video that the troops are dancing too from Lady Gaga!

Now tell me again, why I should watch Faux News since they are the #1 media outlet? Fair, Balanced and Blondes.....

 

[Minnie]

Goodwitch, I can't believe you would say that. With the internet - blogs, news web sites, opinion sites, grass roots political sites, and a plethora of cable news networks coming on to the scene in just the last ten years, you honestly feel news today is less balanced? I can't imagine you would prefer to go back to the days of three major nightly news casts and a couple national papers. (All of which were owned by large corporations, just as they are today.)

If some people get their news from only one of the above sources - nothing has changed for them except maybe the political slant of the source from which they get it. The rest of us have far more news sources to pull from than our parents did. I consider that a good thing.

Sometimes more is ......just more though. I think Jdarg summed it up best.

I think most are in the entertainment business not journalistic reporting.

 

[Jdarg]

Fox News is a lot like professional wrestling; some people believe it is real

Ya think?;-)

 

[GoodWitch58]

Ya think?;-)

Yeah, and no matter what one says to the believers, they still believe!

 

[Andy A]

Yeah, and no matter what one says to the believers, they still believe!

That definitely cuts both ways. And the believers are generally every bit as well educated and intelligent as the "others" and are quite capable of separating professional wrestling from prize fighting as well as news from opinion. But then, maybe some cannot accept that fact, either.

 

[Alicia Leonard]

Any station that refuses to run this ad may want to rethink "Fair and Balanced."

Fox refuses climate ad - Ben Smith - POLITICO.com

 

[Geo]

Andy, I'm glad you chimed in. You reminded me of a point I wanted to make.

I'm not afraid that bright folks like you prefer and watch Fox News because, as you said, you are able to discern between the wrestling and the prize fighting.

But America is full of Americans who quite frankly aren't very bright. I believe the combination of such programming and lack of intellect equates to a scary populace.

 

[30ashopper]

Shopper, I don't take issue with BB or O'Reilly. Hannity and Beck on the other hand...

Ok, but how are these shows any different from the myriad of other similar shows on cable, and why center on Fox News without mentioning the rest? This is the thing I find so funny, folks on the left seem to be blind when it comes to people like Stewart, Maher, Olberrman, Meadows, Shultz, Rather, Moyers, Mathews, ... the list is loooong.

... but Beck discredits an entire network apparently. OK, whateva!

Threads on SoWal like this one are all clearly biased toward left leaning views on the subject, and almost always get created by liberals on the board. Oh the irony of it all!