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Old 12-14-2011, 01:44 PM
 
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Links have been provided several times before. So what if it covers only Sept-Oct? The numbers speak for themselves and show that Fox News is much more balanced than liberals will ever admit to and that MSNBC is about as unbalanced as "news" station can get!
So what????? It matters that YOU described the numbers as reflecting a much larger period of time than they did, and that the specific period of time had news events which affected the bias. If the study hadn't been pegged to October 29th, I would have thought it reflected an analysis of the entire campaign, and it didn't. Statistics are a way of describing the world. But the description it is making has to be honest and transparent in order to maintain its credibility. When statistics are used in a partisan matter to spin an issue, then how they are used makes them less reliable.

Fox News themselves have described themselves as a remedy to liberal bias. The source of the statistics YOU provided describe Fox News as the conservative mirror to MSNBC.

Fox News is actually working toward being less biased. The shedding of Beck, and the tilt of their news coverage has changed markedly since 2010.
I agree with you that Fox News is more balanced than many liberals will admit, and I would assert that the major three networks are more balanced than many conservatives will admit. Because all four news services are viewed through the particular lens of our personal biases.
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Old 12-14-2011, 01:58 PM
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Can you provide any "flat out lies" from Fox? Please? No one has ever been able to do it before. You could be the first!

They accused the President and First Lady of doing a "terrorist fist bump".

Any random 10 minutes of an episode of Glenn Beck's show would have at least one lie. FEMA camps anyone?
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Old 12-14-2011, 02:14 PM
 
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Rush needs a new prescription.
or a underaged Dominican prostitute!
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Old 12-14-2011, 02:23 PM
 
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
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Those videos are a joke and links to comedy central. Geez guys... Nice try but Fox is still the number one news station and is the most fair and balanced.

Get over it and get used to it.
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Old 12-14-2011, 02:25 PM
 
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Fox is still the number one news station and is the most fair and balanced.

Get over it and get used to it.
One has nothing to do with the other. Justin Bieber is at the top of the charts, not going to see me rush to buy his latest cd.
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Old 12-14-2011, 02:48 PM
 
Location: Texas
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Talking Limbaugh Declares Fox News and National Review to Be Un-Conservative

He wants to be the single source of "information" for his audience. Less competition, better ratings, and so forth. You know the drill.

And his dittoheads will eagerly slurp up whatever he serves them.
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Old 12-14-2011, 03:44 PM
 
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He wants to be the single source of "information" for his audience. Less competition, better ratings, and so forth. You know the drill.

And his dittoheads will eagerly slurp up whatever he serves them.
Absolutely, All he is saying is that I am the only one that is right so you should not be listening to anyone else but me. Translation, my ratings are dropping please help.
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