Posted on 10/22/2008 5:34:14 PM PDT by mapmaker77
I gave up on network news channels back in the '80s. I enjoyed CNN at the start and thought that they did a credible job for several years. They really pi$$ed me off during the '94 campaign when their political guru Bob Franken called the Republican agenda,(the contract for America), The contract on America. That was pure political propaganda. It has gotten much worse since then.
I can not believe you haven’t been polled! I was being called at least once a day...with push polls, real polls, robocalls....in the last 3 federal elections, while I was in two different states, and had an unlisted phone number!
How do you get out of it?
Murdoch
Fox business could go the same way if they aren't careful....
they had some really good field reporters at the beginning of the war.....their names escape me.( Leventhal?)..but now it seems they rely on some basic twits and blonde haired women that practically look identical....
Fox seems to ignore any poll that shows McCain doing well for some reason.
I've been polled 3 times this year. I wasn't within the sample group they were looking for (age) in another, but my 20 something son was, so he took the poll. I was polled 4 years ago & I was also polled during the Clinton impeachment. My phone number must be in someones speed dial.
FOX seems to get more liberal as the day goes on. They peak at about 9 AM. Brit and his panel have all buried McCain, although Shep Smith did at least mention the tight AP poll on his 7 PM broadcast.
I think it’s a result of some kind of corporate directive to be nice to what they view will be the next administration. After all, Rupert Murdoch has been a big supporter of Hillary in the past.
What comes up on caller ID when its a pollster?
Well they have that phony retard BOR on plus some CNN rejects and in an attempt to seem fair and balanced they show the intelligent and cogent point of view of the McCain campaign with the drivel and lies of the Obamotons. Like equating Jesus with Satan...hey dummies we have correct and incorrect, you don’t report crap to seem fair. Problem with journalist in general, like lawyers they see shades of grey when it’s pitch black.
Fox started out fine, then degenerated into a tabloid network, obsessed with dead, missing or abused persons. Now Murdoch is covering himself, worried Obama will take the licenses of his broadcast stations.
Yes, E.D. Hill is very good, but I dodn’t see much of her anymore.
O’Reilly has been kissing Obama’s butt ever since he agreed to an interview.
I never get telemarketing, political, robo or polling calls. Why not? Vonage. Plus, for $31.00 a month I can call pretty much anyone on the planet 24/7. Best deal ever.
I’ve never been polled either...except by merchants...and once by someone asking what radio stations I listen to...paid me $2.00... ;-)
40 years as an adult and....nothing ....
whoops! ‘dodn’t’ = ‘don’t’
He kissed Lurch’s ass all through 04 and dissed the honorable Swift Boat Vets. BOR is a jerk.
“What comes up on caller ID when its a pollster?”
My wife’s caller ID says ‘Restricted’. Mine says ‘Bulls**tter’.
Unknown caller
Amen to Vonage! I have it too. Comcast (Ed Rendell’s favorite charity) can touch it.
I agree with these general sentiments. Brit and the “all stars” (pardon me, while I barf!) completely buried McCain and Palin - yet again - in spite of several polls showing the race tightening. Not even a mention of the poll disparities.
I think Fox has jumped the shark. Perhaps they need to be taught a lesson - a reminder, if you will, of how they got so successful in the first place. Namely, the huge conservative base in this country just turning off CNN and the MSM and viewing Fox as an alternative. As they spiral down into the MSM cesspool, the sound old Rupert’s going to hear is that of clickers around the country switching them off. Let’s see how Rupert enjoys having his potential wealth “spread around”.
Whoops again...I meant to say that Comcast CAN’T touch it.
worse...Fox is in the pretty business....pretty faces, young,hot mmmmmmmmmmmmm
sad part is this is freepin news not a cat walk
Fox is junk news. I stopped watching them long before they declared FR a “hate” site.
I watched a few minutes of Neil Cavuto this evening. He had Imus on and both were insisting John McCain was grumpy and grouchy this morning on Imus show.
I heard that show and McCain was laughing in Imus’ face and was really not letting him attack Sarah.
That Cavuto would go along with the big lie was sickening.
As far as I am concerned there is no fair or balanced media outlet in America.
Boy, you got that right. Unless there's some big breaking news, I don't watch them. If it's big new about government, I tend to go to CSpan & stop watching that after they start to take callers.
Now Murdoch is covering himself, worried Obama will take the licenses of his broadcast stations.
I agree.
“Amen to Vonage!”
I have it, but it often drops calls and I often have to reboot the modem after a thunderstorm.
What comes up on caller ID when its a pollster?
Unknown caller
I never answer those!
I'm glad you wrote that. I was beginning to think I was living in Bizarro World. Fox News ALWAYS leads with and highlights the polls that show Obama furthest ahead.
On the other hand, Lou Dobbs just opened his show by stating that the polls are showing a much closer race. Why does Brit Hume ignore these polls? Seriously, what's wrong with the Fox News bunch lately?
IMO, CNN`s reporting of the Gulf War was the last straw for conservatives. It was a long five years until Fox News started broadcasting. All we had in between was Roger Ailes cable outlet, America’s Talking. The forerunner of msnbc.
People get way too upset about Fox News. Folks have to take the good with the bad. Half the time Fox News does a good job, 1/4 of the time they do an average job and the last 1/4 is sub-par. But 95% of the time FNC is better then CNN and 99% of the time better then msnbc.
Never had those issues. My ISP is incredibly reliable, so maybe that has something to do with it.
Threat of the Fairness Doctrine - orders from Murdoch.
Hume has no spine - what a waste.
I have been extensively involved in politics since the early 90’s. And I have never been polled, either. I think that is why polls have always been such a joke to me.
It’s the same thing that comes up for some of my family.
Couldn't sleep one nite and had the misfortune of being subjected to it..
They are all closet liberals. Or so it seems.
I've never been polled either btw.
“Seriously, what’s wrong with the Fox News bunch lately?”
They’ve obviously gone into the tank. I first noticed it 3-4 weeks ago.
Fox has jumped the shark.
FOX = MSM wannabe.
Threatened by Obama with the “fairness doctrine”, no doubt.
Y’all are late to the party. Fox hasn’t been worth watching for at least a year. Last one I gave up on was Brit. Hannity and lizardhead put me completely off at least three years ago (unless I heard that the skinny blonde conservobabalishious was going to be on).
I don’t listen to Hannity on the radio either. He needs to learn some other speaking method and decible level besides blasting rant. A little entertainment would be nice from time to time as well. Its funny really. Rush shows them all how to do it and they just don’t learn.
I have not been polled for this election either — and I live in NC now, which seems to be an on the fence state. I happy to be under the radar :-)
What many people don’t know is that Al Walid bin Talal, the Saudi prince worth 20 billion who financed Khalid Al Mansour and Obama’s education, bought a large stake in NewsCorp.
http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/10/billionaires08_Prince-Alwaleed-Bin-Talal-Alsaud_0RD0.html
Notice that nobody in the media will touch this guy. He is the one funding these Arab Student groups across the US colleges, including endowing 20 million to both Harvard and Georgetown for Islamic studies departments; and also the “Sharia in the USA” conference at Georgetown university [http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/5689].
Look at how violent the Obama supporters are. Geeze! If the pollster has the phone number, he very well may have the address too.
Welcome Newbie...
Now, he is as bad as Bill Press as far as bias goes.
Franken is a stool for the DNC (yes, a "stool", which is lower than a "tool", if you get my drift)....
The talking heads in all of the Washington and New York news rooms live in a bubble. They only talk to “insiders,” the anointed and each other. They have no perspective other than the “conventional wisdom” of the beltway/Wall Street axis. Plus, they are afraid of not getting invited to all of the “correct” cocktail parties. After all, that’s really where the true heart of our nation lies, or so they believe.
Washington must be emptied and restocked with real live Americans on a regular schedule. There should be a fixed time limit on anyones presence in that pest hole.
In a truly free market, Wall Street will clean out its own dead wood.
I caught about 10 minutes of he Fox round Table and decided to never watch again. I’m sick and damned tired of this crap. aathey reminded me tonight of their abyssmally bad performaqnce in 2004 when they were calling the race over in Kerry’s favor based on exit polls.
It’s past time for a nationwide movement to force these news organizations to at least try to be more balanced in their coverage - with the internet and imaging technology avilable now, it should be relatively easy to form a cadre of interested players - and on the internet it should be possible to assemble significant numbers - who could review the most outrageous instances of biased reporting, perhaps take an online vote on which was the outrage of the week, and then bombard the offending network or outlet with e-mails threatening to boycott all sponsors of the news or other out-of-bounds program - followed by a week of actual boycotts of the products for starters - just an ideal to maybe get people to start thinking, with more concrete followup after this election is over.........
Some of what’s said here is true, but Greta V.S. has been unfailingly fair to the McCain/Palin campaign. She is the shining light in this election morass.
” Brit and the “all stars” (pardon me, while I barf!) completely buried McCain and Palin - yet again - in spite of several polls showing the race tightening.”
Barnes, Krauthammer and sad to say, pretty much Hume, declared the race over tonight.
You’re right. Greta has been outstanding this year.
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