Greetings from your friendly, neighborhood, TERRORIST!

And Fox news has no respect for you, and less for journalistic ethics
than CBS does.

Does anyone with any sensibility watch Fox "news" - other than for amusement
of course?

Does anyone with any sensibility watch Fox "news" - other than for
amusement of course?

When given the choice between Dan Rather and Fox?

Dang, that's pretty much a toss-up...

I'll stick to NPR, thanks.
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In article MHT8d.190485$MQ5.15096@attbi_s52,
"Jay Honeck" wrote:

Does anyone with any sensibility watch Fox "news" - other than for
amusement of course?

When given the choice between Dan Rather and Fox?

Dang, that's pretty much a toss-up...

I'll stick to NPR, thanks.



Or a choice between ANY CBS "news" program and Fox Nesew?

"John Harlow" wrote

Does anyone with any sensibility watch Fox "news" - other than for amusement
of course?

Dunno whether my fairly infrequent posts to this NG have resulted in
folks labeling me "sensible", or otherwise. But my $0.02 says Fox
News is the only game in town for anyone looking for balanced coverage
from TV news.

I just watched "OutFoxed", a "documentary" video produced by
MoveOn.org whose subtitle is "Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism".
Their examples of right-wing bias at FNC were so pathetic as to render
me a bigger Fox News advocate than ever. Here are a few examples:

o They showed numerous clips of FNC's Sean Hannity saying "X days left
before Bush/Cheney are reelected". First off, Hannity is one half of a
Conservative/Liberal talk show patterned after CNN's "Crossfire". He's
SUPPOSED to be conservative. The liberal half of the show, Allan
Colmes, often declares "X days left before John Kerry becomes our new
president". Of course the video didn't show any of that.

o Much is made of Bill O'Reilly declaring he's only told guests to
"shut up" a couple of times, then showing maybe 10 clips of him
telling certain people to do just that. Problem is, most of the clips
OutFoxed came up were things like "why don't you just shut up about
your sexuality?". I.e. he wasn't actually telling them to shut up, but
suggesting as a general principle that they'd be better off keeping
quiet about certain private matters.

o The claim was made that FNC only has "weak" liberal guests. O'Reilly
regularly has Clinton's Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich, on as a
guest. I can't stand that S.O.B., but one thing he's not is stupid.
They also berated Allan Colmes for not being handsome enough, and
Susan Estridge (ran Michael Dukakis' presidential campaign) for being
too conservative!

Though I'm no Republican, I'll have to admit to taking a bit of
perverse joy at watching "the left" react in apoplectic fits to the
success of right-wing talk radio and the way-overdue emergence of a
broadcast news source that ISN'T left of center. It's nothing short of
hilarious given the current fiasco at CBS, and the longstanding
obvious left-wing bias at the other networks.

Anybody listen to Air America radio? That's the new left-wing talk
network bankrolled by billionaire George Soros. They've got Al Franken
and a bunch of other nobodies who just sit there and scream
(literally) about what a bunch of "liars" the Bush administration are.
A complete waste of time.

Bottom line: I think FNC is well worth watching, if for no other
reason than to momentarily remove one's head from the left-wing
cesspool that is the rest of broadcast news.

Jim Rosinski
Still undecided about who he'd rather see lose the Presidential
election.

Jim,

ut my $0.02 says Fox
News is the only game in town for anyone looking for balanced coverage
from TV news.


Bruhaha! OMG! You guys are hilarious.

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

On 6 Oct 2004 12:44:51 -0700, (Jim Rosinski) wrote:

Dunno whether my fairly infrequent posts to this NG have resulted in
folks labeling me "sensible", or otherwise. But my $0.02 says Fox
News is the only game in town for anyone looking for balanced coverage
from TV news.

That's because you have conservative leanings. To a liberal, Fox would
look right-wing.

To the same liberal, the major broadcast networks, CNN, and PBS all
look moderate, unbias, balanced. Like the New York Times! To a
conservative, they all seem liberal.

Where I start to worry is when people declare in all seriousness that
the broadcast networks are Republican-leaning! I haven't yet met
anyone who believes that Fox is a liberal conspiracy, but that's
probably because I live in a college town. I bet they're out there!
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