For at least a few days now FoxNews.com has had a “Bias Alert” section on their front page. Now the top story is that Andrea Mitchell pushed Sununu on if he wanted to walk back his “lazy” and “not that bright” comments about Obama. Bizarrely, the next “bias” story is Gore’s lame altitude excuse for Obama’s debate performance. Has Gore made any claim to not being biased?
Chessic, you can’t make shit up and deliberately distort the truth and not be lying.
Fox New LIES.
Hell, they went to court to protect their right to lie.
Fox News’ standards at times are stunningly low for journalism regardless of political perspective:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8bPfzIF8Qg
For better or worse (depending on who you ask), Fox News has heavy slant toward Republican mainstream conservative views. Much of the time, it’s a megaphone for the GOP. There’s nothing intrinsically wrong with that from a free speech perspective, but it’s deceptive for FN to pose as a ‘fair and balanced’ news outlet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MoWJnvYFDg
Fox News will give plenty of airtime to the Democrat’s scandal (Anthony Weiner photos, Eric Holder alleged role in ‘fast % furious’ weapons trafficking), but not say a peep about some GOP scandals (John Ensign’s affair with his own staffer + hush money, David Vitter’s brothel visits, David Rivera’s shadow campaign fraud).
Fox News’ selective out-of-context editing of Acorn videos created completely false reporting on some incidents. As far as I know, FN never announced a correction or apology for these errors or any others for that matter.
Fox News seems much more aligned with the GOP establishment than the ring wing talk radio crowd who are far more critical of the Republican Party and DC insider establishment. The talk radio are more loyal to their declared conservative principals and ideas than the GOP party.
I don’t have much praise for the other domestic TV news outlets either. The rest are very monolithic it seems. There’s bias at all of them, but Fox takes it further.
They are consistently and intentionally dishonest. If they did as they claimed and made clear lines of distinction between opinon programs and objective fact based news, no problem. I believe we need honest intelligent conservative voices. That’s not what they do.
Their local affiliates are ok.
I’m actually surprised they didn’t use two cavuto marks after that one.
Here’s a recent one. Is this news or opinion?. What could even be the point of “reporting” the results of such a poll?
Well, they’re profitable, showing the American appetite for being spoonfed a well-purified blend of patriotism and outrage.
“What kind of TV programs do they play here?”
“Oh, BOTH kinds – patriotism AND outrage!”
TBCF, Newscorp did not “stand alone” on this issue. They had direct and/or tacit support from the other media giants. If you doubt this, go to the major news sites and search for “Jane Akre”, there is nothing. I mean really, the story does not exist.
“In a nice gooey Jesusy blend!”
When FOX news has liberal guests, they’ll shout them down instead of letting them speak their views. CNN generally lets their guests at least have their say. Also, FOX couches the news within conservative viewpoints such as the need for tax cuts or religion.
In any discussion like this you need to separate out Sheppard Smith from the talking heads. Smith is a straight up journalist, He does actual news, the rest is just opinion and spin.
Fox News doesn’t put a political spin on things - it outright lies about them. I can’t even tell you how many times I’ve been flipping channels and seen the following scenario:
“Today President Obama said he supports the bludgeoning of baby seals. The horror!”
*cut to video footage of Obama saying, “Bludgeoning baby seals is wrong. But we need to consider the following issues when addressing the problem…”
cut back to newscaster ‘‘Now why do you think Obama says he supports the bludgeoning of baby seals? Here to talk about why Obama supports the bludgeoning of baby seals is our special guest…’’
Just blatant, outright lies. I think Americans should file a class action suit against Fox News for undue pain and suffering.
Got a cite for that, or any good search terms? Thanks!
Regarding bias, try watching/listening all day to Fox News, and on another day, an NPR news station. Then see which of the following match:
A) Fox News
B) NPR news station
- fear and anger
- empathy and concern
Which do you think matches with which?
Is the stress on the emotion equal between the two?
The selective and out of context follows logically from the lack of follow ups or clarifications, IIRC most of the tapes were released, but it is clear that there is a lot that O’keefe and his gang “forgot” to tape.
IMHO this final release of the ACORN affair, besides putting a huge discredited vibe to what O’Keefe did, showed to me that it was very likely that other people reacted similarly to the “reporter” that came to ask for “advise” in other ACORN locations; unfortunately, other staffers were not clever enough to ad poison pills to their revelations like Ms. Kaelke did.
Except that particular scenario never actually happened. So in a way, you’re as bad as Fox News.
I’m a political moderate. That is to say I largely don’t give a shit about politics and try to make an informed vote for whichever candidate I feel has policies that are best for the nation. My problem with Fox News in particular and 24 hour network news in general is that it represents what passes for the political process in this country.
People seem to vote on how they think they are “supposed to vote”. Suburban white Middle America and rich businesspeople vote Republican. Minorities, intellectuals, urban young people and rich celebrities vote Democrat. Weirdos vote for third parties. Then they vigorously defend their position by demonizing the other party and discrediting their candidates.
Fox News exists by marketing to white Middle American conservatives by casting a bunch of anchors who look like grown up versions of he high school football captain and the vapid cheerleaders he bangs on the weekend, then having them prattle on abotu political issues 24 hours a day in the same manner that one would expect from…well…a couple of high school football players and their vapid cheerleader girlfriends..
No, it isn’t.
FOX is moderate. However, all the other media outlets are slanted so hard to the left that FOX’s being in the middle makes them look right-wing in comparison.
For example, other news networks ask “gotcha” questions like “What do you read?” and reports “data” like unemployment numbers. Only Fox un-slants things by asking if there’s a government-media conspiracy at work.
And, in other news from Lalaland, red is blue, green is yellow, yellow is orange, up is down, and 2 x 2 = 7.
ETA: Clothy, I think you have no clue what hard left really means.