I try to watch 3 news/analysis shows each day: PBS News Hour, Brit Hume on FOX, and Chris Matthews on MSNBC. I Tivo them so I can “speed watch”, and can usually get thru all three in about an hour. You can tell Brit is a bit biased, but he does make a point to have a pretty well balanced panel. I think many of the poster here would be shocked at how much criticism gets directed at Bush in that show. Shep Hume is actually quite good, from what I’ve seen. His reporting on Katrina was top notch. Now, that doesn’t make Hannity any better, or O’Reilly for that matter.
Has there ever been a huge brouhaha on the show between guests and host?
Also, has any person not to the rgith ben treated fairly and nicely?
I’m asking because I don’t watch it much (I switch around a lot) and would like to know. Also, has anyone come up to the window and done something that needed to be censored?
This is not an art program. It is supposed to be a news program. The “fair and balanced” thing to do would be to insert an “R” in the “old” video over the “D” come hell or high water – correct font or childish scrawl. Too bad if it looks like crap. At least it would be corrected information and in line with journalistic standards and ethics.
The difference is Fox, unlike CNN, was founded for the express purpose of voicing a political viewpoint. See post #27. Better yet, read the book cited.
Former TV guy here. O’Reilly’s show is done in what is called “live to tape” format. It is done on the fly just like a live show, only it’s recorded for later broadcast instead of being broadcast in real time.
It can get very complicated and time consuming to try to do one segment over again if there is a problem because of timing and other issues but it can be done to correct production or editorial errors.
Are you kidding? The question mark king? The one who now has a punctuation mark named after him? Cavuto is the king up putting up a damaging, untrue accusation against people he doesn’t like, then putting a question mark after it. That way, he can say he didn’t really say that, he was just asking a question. Examples include: “Have the Democrats Forgotten the Lessons of 9/11?”; “Is the Liberal Media Helping to Fuel Terrorism?”; and “The Best President?”
Of course moron Fox viewers will totally miss the question mark as they yell “Dern tootin’ he’s the best president!” at their screens.
I haven’t really watched Fox News since the morning of 9/11/2001. I was channel-surfing, trying to find new information, and when I came upon Fox News, they were showing talking-head “experts”. Specifically, Oliver North and Jerry Falwell. Sounds like they haven’t improved much.
Personally, I just watch the White House press briefings, because that’s the Fountain O’ Truth, right there. Heard Tony Snow refer to the text messages from Foley as (I think I heard this right) “communications between a grown man and a young man”. Hey, that doesn’t sound so bad. Why all the fuss?
It’s live-to-tape, yes. However, O’Reilly’s people often chop out the parts where the facts or the guests dispute what the “Culture Warrior” says. They tape more than enough to fill the time, so everything looks smooth, and you don’t see the part where O’R says, “Cut his mike. He’s done!”
