Fox News - Faux News - Fixed News

[B_Enough_for_Me]

Yes, absolutely the other networks were skewed to Obama but that doesn't negate the fact that Fox's coverage was biased against Obama while simultaneously claiming they weren't.

The point of the thread was that Fox is heavily conservative to the point of being "fake news". Fox was the most "real" of any news network out there and can't be said to be heavily anything. This thread should be about the real problem: network news. They are extremely biased. It's been shown year after year. Conversely, Fox was divided 50/50 last year and they will get no credit for it.

Additionally, McCain wasn't treated favorably, his coverage by Fox was mostly negative.

 

[D_Landrocke DeLonguepiece III]

The point of the thread was that Fox is heavily conservative to the point of being "fake news". Fox was the most "real" of any news network out there and can't be said to be heavily anything. This thread should be about the real problem: network news. They are extremely biased. It's been shown year after year. Conversely, Fox was divided 50/50 last year and they will get no credit for it.

Additionally, McCain wasn't treated favorably, his coverage by Fox was mostly negative.

I agree, as I was very upset of how McCain received such negative reporting from and fair and balanced network.

what is really bothering me now.......right now........is how all the other networks are in the tank for Obama.....except for FNC. And instead of letting there be a free press like our founding fathers intended, Obama starts to slam the one network who isn't in the tank for him. This should alarm all Americans. We need a network who is willing to step back and sometimes and challenge a candidate, even when the others won't. This is the exact opposite of what our founders intended, and the country needs to call him on his hypocrisy. I thought he was supposed to be the President for "everyone". He was going to bring people together. Oh, I guess that includes everyone except the people who like to watch FNC.

 

[dreamer20]

what is really bothering me now.......right now........is how all the other networks are in the tank for Obama.....except for FNC. And instead of letting there be a free press like our founding fathers intended, Obama starts to slam the one network who isn't in the tank for him. This should alarm all Americans.

When a news network broadcasts false information about him he, just like the prior administration or any individual, has a right to respond with the true facts and even chastise them. Note that such an action was never equivalent to "not letting there be a free press" by any means.

 

[D_Ireonsyd_Colonrinse]

Please watch this latest clip from Jon Stewart responding to Sean Hannity.

If you don't have time to watch it all, FF to 2 minutes in. It is like the perfect nightmarish version of Hannity and Fox News. It is like having a huge blurry throbbing-headache hangover as Oliver North gets outraged over the Fort Hood shooter, Nidal Hasan and his radical ties, then, weirdly, links him up with NAMBLA... then Sean brings up "massive shortages of H1N1 vaccine", and links it to Obama's failed healthcare reform.... as Michelle Malkin flips the conversation back to Hasan barking at you about his "citing Koranic chapter and verse for jihad" and "Wahhabi lobbyists".....


Watch from the 2 minute mark to the 4 minute mark. A Perfect Nightmare (yet absolutely ordinary episode) of Hannity's show:

Stewart Responds To Hannity's Apology: Nothing's Worth Sitting Through His Show (VIDEO)

 

[ZOS23xy]

I agree, as I was very upset of how McCain received such negative reporting from and fair and balanced network.

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It could have a lot to do with his inability to get 'on with it', his tension with his VP pick, forgetting how many homes he owned and losing track of what he initially started out to do. The Sarah Palin circus didn't help.

Fair and Biased network. I like it when they show shots of Democrats and run tickers about people going on murder sprees. Seen it more than once. I wonder if they do that know full well what they're trying to accomplish.

 

[ZOS23xy]

I get it. You actually believe Fox is a News organization and Glen beck is a Journalist. That's funny.

Amazon.com threw out my review wherein I requested answers about Glenn Back being dressed like a Nazi on his book cover....

 

[ZOS23xy]

Bill O'Reilly, Chris Matthews--why get angry at fictional characters?

A new habit. Judging from the recently PLAYBOY, with a spread and interview with Marge Simpson, you have to wonder what "content" and "reality" are to each other these days.

Most of the folks in the talk radio business are entertainers who very large egos. And very controlling. Rush Limbaugh did a few live TV shows and when he was booed, he cringed. (That was funny.) You have to phone these people and discuss what you want to say before they let you on the air.

Maybe they are growing into those roles: Bill O'Reilly discovered he could be an actual blowhard on the air, and it felt good.

 

[midlifebear]

I'm rather fond of the way I hear journalists refer to FOX Network News as The Cluster Fox. They make up stories. Get other news outlets to bite. Then they quote the other news outlets as primary sources. Whipping a news storm up about anything whenever they want to. It's so perfectly incestuous. Recently I heard that Sean Hannity is a major bottom and Colms was forced to leave their show because he didn't pack enough below the belt. That Hannity. Such a cutie.

 

[Jay1074]

Amazon.com threw out my review wherein I requested answers about Glenn Back being dressed like a Nazi on his book cover....

Perhaps that was a sign that you completely missed the point of the book cover and the contents in it? Good for Amazon! Apparently subtle humor and satire is lost on you.

 

[D_Ireonsyd_Colonrinse]

Ok. Again. Just - what? -last week Jon Stewart showed Sean Hannity using video of LARGER CROWDS to augment a Tea Party healthcare rally.

Now, Fox News....


Fox News again accused of airing misleading video

Thu Nov 19, 3:36 pm ET

For the second time in just over a week, Fox News is coming under fire for misusing old news footage. The latest flap is leading some people to charge that the cable news network is intentionally misleading its audience, while Fox claims a "production error."

Wednesday's incident occurred when Fox News host Gregg Jarrett mentioned that a Sarah Palin appearance and book signing in Grand Rapids, Michigan had a massive turnout. As footage rolled of a smiling and waving Palin amidst a throng of fans, Jarrett noted that the former Republican vice-presidential candidate is "continuing to draw huge crowds while she's promoting her brand-new book,'' adding that the images being shown were "some of the pictures just coming in to us.... The lines earlier had formed this morning."

However, the video used in the segment was from a 2008 McCain/Palin campaign rally. In response to the minor uproar that arose after clips of Jarrett's report hit the Internet, Fox senior vice-president of news Michael Clemente issued an initial statement saying, "This was a production error in which the copy editor changed a script and didn't alert the control room to update the video."

Fox News again accused of airing misleading video - Yahoo! News

 

[Industrialsize]

Fox News' year in apologies: fake videos, false info, cutting and pasting from GOP


Fox News' year in apologies

Fox News' year in apologies: fake videos, false info, cutting and pasting from GOP | Media Matters for America

 

[Sergeant_Torpedo]

I have never seen Fox news; these days I don't even trust the BBC (where newsreaders are celebs and a feel good factor of spin is perpetuated by the "luvies" on behalf of Brown, Cameron, and would be pretender to the Price-Presidency of the new Euroempire (that serpent Blair). You don't get government commisioner posts and knighthoods for telling the truth here. But people get the governments and the media they deserve. It is a sad reflection on a once proud people that debate is stifled in such a way that we are made to believe our views count. They don't, and anyone reading this who is a subservient member of any political party is selling the birthright of their children and grandchildren. Simpsons is funny, however there is now no demarcation between serious and ephemera. The buggers want it that way. Compared to our ancestors we are vermin. Honest John Lilburn and his wife, Elizabeth must be spinning in their desecrated graves.

 

[cruztbone]

Now, now, Sergeant Torpedo, dont whack such a broad swath with your drumsticks. We are not all vermin; we dont work as media whores for Fox or the other networks. and read your world history again. you dont have to look far to find vermin. They have existed in places of power and influence since prehistory. Forums like this exist and they are a good place for you and I to have our say.

 

[deleted15807]

I'm not a dumb blond. I just play one on TV.....


Video: Gretchen Carlson Dumbs Down | The Daily Show | Comedy Central

 

[deleted15807]

Most of the folks in the talk radio business are entertainers who very large egos. And very controlling.

That's why they call it 'infotainment'. Information + entertainment. Journalism isn't involved at all.

Main Entry: in·fo·tain·ment
Pronunciation: \ˌin-(&#716fō-ˈtān-mənt\
Function: noun
Etymology: information + entertainment
Date: 1980
: a television programhttp://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/2_bing.gif that presents information (as news) in a manner intended to be entertaining

infotainment - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
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Imagine an entire network that is pure infotainment and you have Fox. It's meant to be entertaining in it's bludgeoning of all things non-Christian, non-Conservative, non-WASP.

Case in point:

The Temple of Hume

 

[B_starinvestor]

That's why they call it 'infotainment'. Information + entertainment. Journalism isn't involved at all.

Main Entry: in·fo·tain·ment
Pronunciation: \ˌin-(&#716fō-ˈtān-mənt\
Function: noun
Etymology: information + entertainment
Date: 1980
: a television programhttp://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/2_bing.gif that presents information (as news) in a manner intended to be entertaining

infotainment - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
​

Imagine an entire network that is pure infotainment and you have Fox. It's meant to be entertaining in it's bludgeoning of all things non-Christian, non-Conservative, non-WASP.

Case in point:

The Temple of Hume

For someone who claims to despise Fox News, you sure do seem to watch a lot of it. Either that, or you are just making shit up.

 

[LambHair McNeil]

For someone who claims to despise Fox News, you sure do seem to watch a lot of it. Either that, or you are just making shit up.

Precisely. For example, I do not watch MSNBC as I can't stand it. If the anchors there all dressed up as Power Rangers, the only way I'd know about it is to see it talked about elsewhere.

Yet those who cannot stand Fox are mysteriously always in the know as to what indignation of the moment has occured there. Guess what - if you truly consider a news organization not worth the time of day, then not...giving...it..the...yea, you get the point.

 

[Bbucko]

Here's more proof that Bill O'Reilly's "truth" is not reality-based.

 

[conntom]

Precisely. For example, I do not watch MSNBC as I can't stand it. If the anchors there all dressed up as Power Rangers, the only way I'd know about it is to see it talked about elsewhere.

Yet those who cannot stand Fox are mysteriously always in the know as to what indignation of the moment has occured there. Guess what - if you truly consider a news organization not worth the time of day, then not...giving...it..the...yea, you get the point.

Well, I think it is because they are afraid of the other side getting their message out through the one outlet left that will air it. That being said, that puts a bullseye on Fox News and the left will stop at nothing to point out any problem real or perceived or created by the left. And now we will see more and more of that about the Tea Party.

"Want to know what the left fears? Watch what they attack." - Glenn Beck

 

[Bbucko]

Are you really defending your position with a quote from Glenn Beck?