Pretty bold statement there, you sure you don’t want to give it a little wiggle room?
No, no, I like to stake out a bold position, come what may. 
The summation, from what I can tell having now read a few articles, is that a three year drought has taken a toll on the San Joaquin river valley. The farmers there (really corporate farms paying their employees to protest) are demanding that water be pumped in from the Sacramento/San Joaquin river delta.
Such pumping is restricted by federal regulations designed to potect some dwindlig populations of fish in the delta, primarily smelt which spawn in the delta and which are crucial to the fishing industry in that they are an important food for commercial fish.
Delta residents and fishing interests are, of course, opposed to easing those federal regulations. This is largely a battle for water resources between farming interest and fishing interests.
The government did not cut off anybody’s water. This is about demanding access to federally protected water.
You’re a wild man!
Covering the event has merit. Pushing the event? Not so much. Going to the event and rallying the crowd so that it would look more enthusiastic and energetic has no merit. It’s a lie.
So, it seems I was naive. I thought there were lines that people wouldn’t cross, the line between covering the news and being the news, reporting the news and inventing the news, filming a rally and rallying a rally.
This surprises you? Anytime there are lines people will cross them - even people on your side of the political aisle. This is human nature, has been for millenia, and I don’t see it miraculously changing just because someone revised an ethics handbook somewhere.
There are no other news networks doing this besides Fox.
Sure there is: to what degree can the actions of one young, relatively inexperienced associate producer be attributed to an entire network? The OP seems to think the answer is completely.
I say less than completely. As in non-ridculous. As in, if we have instances of others doing the same thing, then we might have a problem worth looking into.
Until then I’m going to use my time to figure out how many dozens of people from acorn have to be found guilty of a variety of shit for some to realize that the cancer stems from the organization itself.
Hey, everybody! Look over there! ACORN! ACORN!
If this was a one-off anomaly for FOX news, you would have a point. As is stands, it seems clear to me that FOX news is actually orchestrating and directing protests to the current administration, rather than reporting on them. The issue is not just ONE associate producer “cheerleading”. It is an entire news network producing, creating and then reporting on dissent, for the purposes of entertainment.
To my mind, this completely crosses the line between reporting on the news, and creating the news (or creating a “show”)
I’d say a great deal considering that network *sponsored and hosted a TeaParty * and ran it all night long with splashes and fanfares and country musicians being introduced by their anchors and a weeks worth of promos beforehand to tout it.
I’m sure that naive young associate producer didn’t even know about that shit when she went all bad apple on us.
Considering that the network advertised the events as “FNC Tax Day Tea Parties”, that has to be the presumption.
I would concede that point. There is no doubt that Fox News has a right wing slant.
There is also no doubt in my mind that those other stations have a left wing slant. I don’t know how to quantify that other than just citing my own observations while watching the news programs.
Yeah but it still doesn’t make me hate Liberals any less.
Yeah, just look how they covered Obama’s inaugaration, like it was a big deal, or something! Couple hundred people, they wildly inflated the numbers! OK, ten thousand. Tops!
So your post is your cite?
No, I meant to say that it isn’t possible to provide a cite as to how liberal/conservative a person or network is. It is purely a subjective judgement as evidenced by the variety of opinions in this thread.
As I see it we have:
Fox News - created, produced, sponsored and advertised an event whose purpose was to protest the current (left) administration policies. Then covered this event as “news”
Other networks - covered as news an address by the president outlining his plans for healthcare.
This does not mean that one network is “right -leaning” and the others are “left-leaning”. It means that one network manufactures shows and covers them as “news”, while the others cover events that ARE news.
You’re one of those people who believe in “moral relativism”, that there is no “right and wrong”, that we should all “do our own thing, man”. Well there is an objective truth. God sees all and will judge whether we break the 8th (7th if you’re a Papist) commandment not to lie. Fox routinely misstates the truth and they will burn in hell. That is not my opinion, it’s what God says in plain English in the Bible.
I would say that I have a cite for how pro-conservatives Fox News is. It’s in my OP.
This isn’t a gut feeling or a vague belief. It’s a video.