Fox News suppresses freedom of speech

[lazs2]

skuzzy about summed it up but I would add that fox is at least fun to watch.... the others are pretty much aimed at the female kerrie voter and are depressing if you are male.

lazs

[capt. apathy]

Originally posted by ygsmilo
Sandy,

the problem is that the other 288 million don't watch anything but Fear Factor and Dukes of Hazard reruns

actually thats a plus.

  when it comes to people who watch FOX news, the studies have shown that the closer they follow the news and the more they watch, the more misinformed they become.

[Yeager]

I watch em all, more or less, and the people that come down on fox strike me as victimized and vindictive, trivialized and minoritized....angry (aka liberal).  Fox reports largely the same things but with a splash of colour the others dont (I have noticed MSNBC trying to be more colouful as of late) and fox definately spins conservative, which is indeed a nice and  refreashing treat in the post dan rather, peter jenning, tom brokaw world of news.

And as far as who has a more educated viewer base does not impress me.  I do not have a degree and I have spent 20 years working with people who do and by and large, I have not been any more or less impressed with the quality of the person with a degree as opposed to people without degrees.  In fact, degreed folks tend to have more maligned points of view and are less open minded about everyday aspects of life.....in my uneducated opinion.

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by Yeager
I watch em all, more or less, and the people that come down on fox strike me as victimized and vindictive, trivialized and minoritized....angry (aka liberal).  

Just had to add, I saw a bumper sticker a couple weeks ago, it said "Piss off a liberal...work hard and enjoy life"

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by mora
Hardly amazing, of course the average Joe chooses to see the kind of news he likes to see. He couldn't care less if the news are true or not, It's entertainment.

And what news is it that Fox news reported that wasnt true?

If Memory serves correct Dan Rather works for CBS and they (fox) has no affiliation to The New York times Or CNN

Fox may indeed lean slightly more to the right .But nowhere near  to the extent that the other networks lean to the left. (with the possible exeption of Bill ORiley)
So it would stand to reason that it would appeal to a wider audience then just the left.

After myself compairing the two for quite some time I have to say that I had to came to the conclusion that CNN leans so far left they should just rename themselves to DNN (Democrat news network)
They do not have exactly what anyone but a Democrat could call objective reporting.

Admittedly I havent watched a whole lot of CNBC but from what I have seen it just looks like a poormans CNN clone.

[Skuzzy]

Who cares which way they lean?  Sheesh.  It's not news.  Call it for what it is.  Exploitation, sensationalism, oppertunism, anything but the news.
Hard for me to believe that people actually put stock in what these hacks say.  Amazing.

[midnight Target]

Skuzzy has a point. It is hard to imagine how screwy the stories are until you are involved in one. There has been some factual error in every news story I have ever seen that I had first hand knowledge about. A 100% failure rate.

[Skuzzy]

Same here MT.  There was a local story here that was reported in 4 completely different manners.  3 were on television and the other was in the newspaper.
Turns out, none of them were even close and yet none of them made any effort to correct the errors.

Another story about a plane crash had the media reporting it was an asteroid impact.  Never corrected either.

It's all about ratings.  Just like any other television show, they take no responsibility for thier content.  Afterall, it is entertainment.

[AKS\/\/ulfe]

I r washer de dalee shoo. I r smerdist evar!
-SW

[mora]

Originally posted by DREDIOCK
And what news is it that Fox news reported that wasnt true?

My point was that the average Joe  doesn't care if the news are true or not, it wasn't directed at FOX.

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by Yeager

And as far as who has a more educated viewer base does not impress me.  I do not have a degree and I have spent 20 years working with people who do and by and large, I have not been any more or less impressed with the quality of the person with a degree as opposed to people without degrees.  In fact, degreed folks tend to have more maligned points of view and are less open minded about everyday aspects of life.....in my uneducated opinion.

In TOTAL agreement

I've met people with no more then a 7th grade education  that I've had great repect for and  have known college proffessors that outside of their particular subject of expertise are complete idiots

[Skuzzy]

Originally posted by AKS\/\/ulfe
I r washer de dalee shoo. I r smerdist evar!
-SW

The Daily Show is about as accurate as any other news station and he loudly proclaims it is a fake news show.

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by Skuzzy
Who cares which way they lean?  Sheesh.  It's not news.  Call it for what it is.  Exploitation, sensationalism, oppertunism, anything but the news.
Hard for me to believe that people actually put stock in what these hacks say.  Amazing.

Unfortunately thre are a great deal of people who beleive what they see on the news as though it were gospel

And there can be arguements made about the accuracy of the gospel but thats a subject for another thread LOL
(one I suggest you squelch immediately if you ever see it)

The problem with which way they lean is is something is said enough its beleived. "Bush lied" is a good example

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by Skuzzy
The Daily Show is about as accurate as any other news station and he loudly proclaims it is a fake news show.

Leans left


WAYYYYYY left

Funny show though

[AKS\/\/ulfe]

I know Skuzzy, it was funny because there was actually something about that a few months ago. Where a lot of people were getting their primary news from the Daily Show.

I can see why, atleast that show makes the BS funny and easy to digest.
-SW