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It looks like most doesn't give a hoot about this conservative mouthpiece, except the Faux News fans here on C-D.
Actually, I don't care about him either. He was merely the "token conservative" and not much of a conservative. We feel about him the way ultra-liberals feel about Ron Williams or Allen Combs on FOX News.
The main reason the leftists claim Fox makes things up etc. is because they are one of the few outlets that actually holds the Obama administration to task. Oh, the horror! So yeah, they want to discredit it and marginalize it, obviously.
However, a few journalists with CNN and CBS have woken up. They may be next on the hit list.
Newsflash: Opinions CAN be facts, even if they flow from the mouths of panelists.
I realize that's hard to stomach in a world where MSNBC dominates your news intake. Might I recommend expanding your horizons?
I don't watch 24hr news channels, if it is a news channel and on tv, then it is probably political garbage that you shouldn't be watching to begin with.
Oh and opinions can also be incorrect or lies. Does Fox News come with a sensor that tells you when they are truthful and when they are lying or do you just assume everything they say is fact and truth?
There's really no dispute ... that FOX is a tabloid-style organization which either exaggerates news stories or just makes things up to pander to a base which seems uninterested in the full-range of information from which an intelligent decision can be made on the issues discussed. No doubting that the network is hugely popular with a certain group of people, its viewers. Watch FOX, don't watch FOX ... I don't really care. I view the network from time-to-time to see what's being said.
Though he oftentimes expresses a viewpoint I don't completely agree with, I've appreciated the commentary of George Will over at ABC. I respected William F. Buckley, also. Will is a Conservative in a way the Tea Party and the current extreme right-wing faction of the GOP want to wipe-out. Will offering his opinion in the "Lion's Den" of nutcases might help to balance some of the commentary on FOX. Will, now 72, is nearing the end of his journalistic career. I suspect he's not going to be happy at FOX, but he was a lone-wolf over at ABC ... so, for him, he'll be in friendlier territory. I wish him well.
Why not give us a few examples of misreporting at Fox News, and I'm not talking about opinion shows (Let's see, how long should that run to the internet take?) where they do express opinions. Then the rest of us can take turns relating misreporting and audiotape editing by MSNBC and the rest of NBC's "news" outlets.
Anyone who believes that ANY news organization is reporting the straight truth is uneducated. Some are better than others. Some have flat out bias (Fox, MSNBC). However, every news organization reconstructs the news, chooses what to leave in and take out and therefore regardless of intentions they color the truth, introduce bias, etc.
However, if you say Fox is biased, you're right. If you say MSNBC is biased, you're also right.
You need to be a discriminating viewer of the news, read several sources with different perspectives and make up your own mind. Anyone who repeats Rush, Hannity, Maddow or any of the others and takes it as full and informed fact is a fool.
Anyone who believes that ANY news organization is reporting the straight truth is uneducated. Some are better than others. Some have flat out bias (Fox, MSNBC). However, every news organization reconstructs the news, chooses what to leave in and take out and therefore regardless of intentions they color the truth, introduce bias, etc.
However, if you say Fox is biased, you're right. If you say MSNBC is biased, you're also right.
You need to be a discriminating viewer of the news, read several sources with different perspectives and make up your own mind. Anyone who repeats Rush, Hannity, Maddow or any of the others and takes it as full and informed fact is a fool.
Again, no examples, and an obvious acceptance of the mainstream news media as unbiased.
Now that's uneducated. And uninformed.
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