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View Poll Results: Which News Channel Do you Prefer?
Channel 2 5 8.06%
4 8 12.90%
5 13 20.97%
7 20 32.26%
9 7 11.29%
11 7 11.29%
13 2 3.23%
Voters: 62. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 09-15-2008, 12:11 AM
 
Location: Northridge/Porter Ranch, Calif.
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No offense, but I avoid FOX because I prefer professional journalism.

Fox News: truth (?), half-truths, truth according to spin masters on the right..., I don't trust 'em for journalism science.
Come on now... Fox News isn't any more biased than CNN or MSNBC. Most likely, less biased because you see the liberal side presented along with the conservative side.
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Old 09-15-2008, 12:14 AM
 
Location: Northridge/Porter Ranch, Calif.
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Yeah, too bad about George, but he did have a long life.

I believe he had interviewed every president since Hoover (after he was out of office) up through the '90s except for Clinton.

I have many audio tapes I recorded of his show in the '90s (Talk Back, on KIEV, 870 AM). He was on that station from the early '70s up to around 2000.

One of the last pioneers of early TV.
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Old 09-15-2008, 10:08 AM
 
Location: In a room above Mr. Charrington's shop
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Default The corporate media won't report it...

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Come on now... Fox News isn't any more biased than CNN or MSNBC. Most likely, less biased because you see the liberal side presented along with the conservative side.
Agreed, which is the reason I avoid CNN and MSNBC along with FOX. I don't expect true journalism out of any of them. They are too corporate to be concerned about anything but ratings. Critical journalism -- one with analysis, that challenges assumptions and reports objectively -- is mostly dead and gone in the U.S. mainstream. It's turned into the "news" that won't rock the boat of big corporate interests and their cozy relationship with inside-beltway politicians.

Thank the Pentagon (and U.S. tax payers) for the Internet, where we (still) have access to international news sources "outside the bubble," as Harry Shrearer puts it, to find out what's really going on.
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Old 09-15-2008, 02:03 PM
 
Location: Living on the Coast in Oxnard CA
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I prefer the news shows with the best looking women anchors.

What I really dig is these news shows that have four liberal personalities and a single Conservative personality thrown in to get the "ballance" that news seems to lack today. So cool to watch any of the networks and many of the cable news shows for that "ballanced" news hour that they try to offer.
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Old 09-15-2008, 02:17 PM
 
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Channel 2 and 9 are owned by the same company. They seem the most genuine. Channel 11 is to much pizzaz and not alot of substance, even though a good weatherman. Channel 4 is too old for me, and Channel 5 seems kinda shallow for me. Channel 7 seems to prepared like channel 11.
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Old 09-15-2008, 03:18 PM
 
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I like Channel 7 and its anchor people. I like the Food Coach episodes. Then before I leave for work I watch some of Good Morning America.
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Old 09-16-2008, 10:15 AM
 
Location: Living on the Coast in Oxnard CA
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I just checked. My favorite is Jackie Johnson for the weather. She is beautifull. I also like Mia Lee, Suzie Suh and MaryBeth McDade. They are all at KCAL9, or on CBS2 the sister station. I also love how Julian looks on Good Day LA. There used to be another weather girl that I liked. Can't remember her name, she was also in a few movies I think.
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Old 09-17-2008, 01:35 AM
 
Location: Southern California
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KTLA 5.

However, it was substantially better when Hal Fishman and Larry McCormick were the anchors. Nowadays, it is merely okay......so, I rely on internet news sites now.
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Old 09-18-2008, 08:41 PM
 
Location: Mt Washington: NELA
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It's all pretty hideous, if you ask me (and you did). Paul Moyers is particularly annoying. I think Hal Fishman actually had some acumen as a real journalist. I liked Ralph Story (anyone remember him?) and Warren Olney who now hosts 'Which Way L.A." on KCRW. Story had a show on KCET about Los Angeles history that I enjoyed.

I get my news from BBC World Service, the LA Times (which has REALLY taken a slide- I would subscribe to the Washington Post if the Times gets much worse), and NPR. The local stuff on KPCC and KCRW is excellent. I support one or the other each year, largely because I abhor commercials.
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Old 09-18-2008, 08:53 PM
 
Location: Mt Washington: NELA
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About a year ago I happened upon a Fox 'report' on a shooting south of downtown. The guy (Hal Eisner, I think) reported live with the Blue Line train behind him. His opening line: "There are two things you can be sure of in South-Central Los Angeles: the Blue Line, and crime in the street." Then he proceeded to describe some shooting that took place far away from his photo-op with the train. Come again...?

Why is FOX equating rapid transit with crime? There was no connection, it was just bizarre, not to mention totally irresponsible. I doubt the other stations are much better, sorry to say.
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