No. You are using a word without regard to its actual meaning in order to try to score a point by dismissing facts as “anecdotes.”
That no one defending Fox News has provided anything resembling facts that demonstrate that other news agencies lie on a routine basis or that the viewers of other networks are nearly as misinformed. If my points were merely confirmation bias, it would be easy to demonstrate that other networks behave in a fashion similar to Fox.
Actually, you have not provided a single “independent study” that is both “independent” and actually says what you claim it says. We’re still waiting for the evidence, for example, that more negative reports about Romney than Obama was the result of bias and not the simple reporting of actual events without regard to political leanings in the period surveyed. After his “47%” remarks came out, Romney seemed to lose the track during the campaign. It was actually Romney’s behavior that turned me from lukewarm support to active opposition, since I have not been impressed by Obama. The period of your linked study occurred in exactly that period of the campaign. With nothing but a percentage of negative reports, we have no way to judge whether the media (including Fox) was slanting the news toward Obama or whether Romney was simply making a hash of his campaign. Presuming the first without that evidence is meaningless.
Is Fox News bad? I don’t know but this clip doesn’t seem to help their case: - YouTube
Fox News takes a story about a muslim parent’s objection to a public school distributing flyers for an Easter Egg hunt at a local church and warps it into an attack on Easter itself instead of a simple separation of church and state issue.
The interview begins with the host badgering the guest.
“Why are you so hostile?" (when he doesn’t seem the least bit hostile.)
“Why are you so angry?”
“Why don’t you stop whining about it?”
“Why don’t you tell us why you’re complaining?”
“What’s the big deal?”
“I asked you. Tell us!”
And whenever the guest tries to answer he gets interrupted before he is allowed to finish a sentence with the host screaming at him:
“So what? So what?”
“You’re that outraged over a stupid Easter Egg hunt?”
"You’ve gotta be kidding me!”
I don’t have much time for cable news so I don’t know if this is a representative clip or not. I get most of my news from the Internet (BBC or NPR) and my local paper. I hate commercials and really hate watching people shriek at each other, though I understand the entertainment value, kind of like ultimate fighting with words.
Fox News is by far the worst in this study. As far as climate change stories, MSNBC reports misleading information 8% of the time, CNN reports misleading information 30% of the time, and Fox News reports misleading information a whopping 72% of the time.
I actually tried watching that clip. I couldn’t get through it all. I made a decision long ago to not watch the Fox Right-Wing Propaganda Machine. Watching even just those 2 or 3 minutes of Hannity certainly doesn’t change my mind on that count. (In fairness I don’t really watch the news much anymore at all - local, national, or cable [I get the vast majority of my news from - GASP! - the newspaper]. The current “journalistic atmosphere” has a great deal to do with that. I don’t disagree one bit that MSNBC is maybe as biased to the left as the FRWPM is to the right, but as has been stated [and shown] several times within this thread, MSNBC doesn’t seem to be NEARLY as underhanded with its techniques in trying to cater to its audience as the FRWPM is)
My first thought was that I would not actually hold Fox News responsible for Hannity’s editorial bullshit.
However, the little bug on the lower left corner constantly proclaiming it to be a Fox News broadcast makes that position difficult to defend. Hannity is clearly badgering his [del]victim[/del] guest, interrupting him without letting him actually make a case. Broadcasting that on an opinion show on Fox Network would be fine, but broadcasting it as part of Fox News makes it worse than the sort of shenanigans that appear on 60 Minutes, (which is, itself, a somewhat independent organization and not part of the daily CBS News broadcast department).
Not sure how accurate these sites are but if even 50% +/- you can see that these people are in Show Business. For the type of money they make they could probably just as easily take the opposite point of view of Fox on a different network.
Sad to think a tiny oil rich Arab monarchy (Qatar) can now, (Aljazeera) rival and offer a more balanced world view regarding international news broadcasting than I see from Fox or any other US networks.
This may not be as sad as you think. I get my news know from sources all over the world. I’ve read that Aljazeera America hired many Americans who were “let go” by traditional news organizations here in the U.S. Check out Aljazeera America On-Air staff and Correspondents. Note:Ray Suarez. Also, this listing does not include “Off-Air” staff.
Sorry, I only checked one source. Given he embraces the Fox mantra of demonizing the current President 24/7, and given Fox’s ratings, I find that the dollar amounts stated to be “credible”.
Checked. Thanks for that.
I have no way of validating US news channel authenticity given my limited access, but they appear slanted and self serving.
Aljazeera has not a hope of making it to mainstream US which is a pity.
Fox and the mantra of news as entertainment ensure that.
Moughini: Mr. Hannity, I just love how mainstream media puts a twist on a story. First of all you probably got the wrong fish in your audience if you’re trying to sit here and get a Muslim to come up in front of you and tell you how radical we are, you just picked the wrong Muslim.*
Hannity started the summary of the topic by saying the parent was outraged that his child was given a religious flyer in public school. I didn’t think it was Hannity’s attempt to portray his guest as a religious radical, but just a word he uses to portray guests who believe in separation of church and state as overreacting. Moughini would have done better to have just said, “I’m not outraged but I don’t believe that public schools should have religious material distributed to students…”
That said, from then on Hannity becomes an awful, rude, and insulting host. But like someone said, Hannity is just an entertainer. He’s playing to his audience who are probably saying, “yep, he sure told off that Christian-hater.”
Wow. I’m watching more of the video and it turned into Muslim bashing. The Beckel guy interrupts, I thought because he was going to steer it back to the issue of promoting of Easter in public schools but instead to claim that the majority of the Muslim community either supports terrorism or stays quiet about it due to cowardice.
They never got around to talking about the actual Easter Egg hunt. How is an Easter egg hunt not religious? O’Reilly gets mad when they take “Christ” out of Christmas and say “happy holidays,” but Hannity is implying that easter egg hunts have nothing to do with religion or the Easter holiday.
The job numbers were unexpectedly poor today, so Foxnews.com finally has room to report this as their top “Latest news” story. When the numbers are good (which they have been in recent months), this news is either spun as somehow poor or else it is nowhere to be found on their site.
Chris Hayes just played a clip of FNC’s live coverage of Obama’s recent press conference.
They broke away from it, and the [del]spokesmodel[/del] announcer explained that since the next questioner was from Germany, they didn’t expect the subject to be Benghazi. But, they said, they will resume coverage of the press conference if and when any more questions about Benghazi are asked.