I’d like to know the relevance of Bill O Reilly to any conversation regarding political bias in Fox News.
MSNBC has Phil Donahue in the same type of position as O Reilly, are they extreme left wing? (Assuming you think O Reilly is right wing, which I don’t necessarily).
Tony Snow worked for Bush. Big deal.
Maybe Fox is right leaning. That still leaves CNN, NBC, ABC, and CBS for the left.
I’m hearing more and more about this and wondering if it’s an attempt to repeat it over and over so that it eventually becomes “fact”. Show me some proof that a news story on Foxnews was biased to justify this line of thinking.
And for what it’s worth, I think the rest of the media is so far left that even if a news station WAS pretty neutral, they’d look right wing in comparison. We’re used to left wing bullshit - any change from that is going to look right wing.
Not really. He rants and raves and calls them names for the majority of segement, then he gives them them like the last ten seconds to respond to all the ignorant bullshit he’s been spewing for the first four minutes. And then he STILL interrupts them half the time.
And Beef, Oblong, and anyone else who resorts to that canard about the networks being “liberal,” do you have any actual PROOF of this, or is this just what Rush Limbaugh told you to think.
No he hasn’t, at least not on his show. He constantly says that he is an independent (which is a joke of course). I don’t know how he manages to speak at all with his tongue so far up GWB’s asshole all the time.
Diogenes, It’s obvious how liberal all of the other Tv networks are, since none of them go around condemning homosexuality and other perverted behavior, which is what any truly neutral TV network would do.:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
I don’t think I’ve ever seen O’Reilly give a guest he’s ideologically opposed to (and boy, isn’t THAT hard to tell) the benefit of the last word. He sits there with that pissy look on his face, and in the last five seconds before commercial makes some assinine comment that the guest cannot even respond to.
Sometimes it reminds me of the Morton Downey Jr. Show without the “OOOO OOO OOO” s.
I used to watch O’Reilly, but have stopped. One reason is that my wife can’t stand him. A second is his habit of saying to some guest, “I’ll give you the last word,” but then interrupting the guest’s “last word” to reiterate his own POV.
Until John Ellis comes up with something a lot more substantial for evidence that Hume was joking, then he already was, which is less then nothing, then I might believe him. Until then, he (Ellis) can stick it.
Ellis said Hume wasn’t joking. Rather, Ellis said, Hume was saracastically making the point that FOX obviously does not have the power to determine the election.
I didn’t hear that interview. If you didn’t hear it either WSLer, what is your basis for rejecting Ellis’s POV?
That’s true. I thought you meant that he’d start on a rant about the person after they were off the show, not giving them a chance to respond, which generally isn’t the case.
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As much as you’ve shown proof that FNC is conservative.
As for actual proof, I don’t know. The subject doesn’t interest me that much, except where it intersects other interests. One of those media watch dog types did a study on gun control coverage, and came up with the national networks having 700 anti-gun slanted stories, 50 neutrals, and 7 pro, or something like that.
If you’re interested, I can look it up.
Btw, I’ve never listened to Rush Limbaugh in my adult life. To assert that I’m some blind conservative follower is pretty stupid. For the most part, it seems to me that most conservatives are authoritarian conservatives, and are almost as ideologically opposite to me as any authoritarian liberal.
Excuse me-- are you saying the New York Times is “extremist-left” filled with “liberal preachiness and disreputable fabrications”?
With regard to the OP, Fox News is a frigging joke as far as the amount of bias in their “reporting”, but misleading slogan aside, does anyone really not expect that? Fox News was set up to be the mouthpiece of Rupert Murdock’s conservative positions. This biased reporting as proven popular with those who dig Rush Limbaugh and other conservative commentators. So what-- let them have their fun.
The Fox News slogan’s accuracy to me is like a beer commerical’s accuracy-- shear fantasy that no one takes seriously.
BTW: not only does Coors Light actually taste like shit, wild parties attended by sex crazed supermodels do not magically appear when you pop the top on a can of this ghastly “beer”. Sorry.
Elf6c, the slogan has more import than simply being fantastical and blantantly untrue. It is a selling point to advertisers that Fox is “fair and balanced,” to the extent that there is a segment of viewers who buy the lies. (NY Times, yesterday.) And they still use this slogan, despite that no one of import takes it seriously!
Huh. Didn’t the Republicans say that they believe in the smart, perceptive, public citizen and the free-market? Bullshit. They believe in the stupid, frightened citizen that they can snow, and the old-boy network.
Al finally called them out by name: they’re a disgusting wing of the Republican Party – we need either a counterbalance or a return of the fairness doctrine, but I doubt either will happen anytime soon.