Wisely, Kathy had no interest in feeding the left-wing Tea Party destruction machine - I am unaware of any favorable reporting of or editorials about the Tea Party by Newsweek and the cover, above, speaks to their opinion of conservatives - so Kathy kept telling Freedlander at most she would do a written interview, not a telephone interview. But apparently he insisted on a telephone interview, and IMO in so doing hid from a process that would have produced a written record of what Kathy actually would have told him. Eventually he told her, according to Kathy, "This is your chance to be heard." Now considering that she was in the forefront of organizing approximately 700,000 Tea Party members to successfully Boycott the first time, and Newsweek has a mostly left-wing audience of just about only double that, it's hard to see how any Conservative would care less about being "heard" in Newsweek's, in my opinion, trashy, hate-filled pages.
.... He never did ask us anything on Twitter. IMO unimaginative at least - would have made for a big, engaging tech/human-interest story for a faded giant. Maybe David just didn't want to find himself in a venue where he did not have 100% control of the message. Anyway, we feel he had his chance to be heard. Anyone can talk as they please, but for our part here, we're no longer interested in speaking with Newsweek, telephone, written or smoke signals. Edit: Freelander says our boycott calculations are not correct. I guess we're supposed to take his word on that. If you scroll down a bit to March 11, we give you links/screenshots to the ratings and an online percentage calculator, and you can calculate the number dip for yourselves. I challenge David to prove his manifestly inaccurate statement by describing the process by which he claims to have disproved the fact that the 1st boycott March 8 -10 brought FOX down by 22%. When uber-left outfit Newsweek defends FOX NEWS numbers against the Tea Party, that should tell all conservatives that FOX really has moved to the wrong side of the fence for conservatives.
So instead of finding the Benghazi Witnesses, a liberal Newsweek bigwig chases us around wondering why the Tea Party is boycotting FOX NEWS, and defending FOX from the Tea Party. Curiouser and Curiouser.
I've been 'Fox free' since election night.
Fox lost me in 2001 when they hired Whorealdo. I turned off my TV and have never turned it back on.
I am at a loss as to what people expect of Fox. It was Fox that gave rise to the Tea Party and sent its hosts to cover and even host the first rallies on 4/15/09. But Fox is not the propaganda arm of the Right , the Tea Party or anything else. Ailes is responsible to make money for Newscorp not please all elements of the Right. Folks here complain abut BOR, but BOR pulls 3 million viewers a night . I don’t think many are Freepers or Tea Partiers. Ailes must keep those viewrs as well as Hannity’s. On the consultant side Ailes,unlike any other network, takes fair and balanced seriously. He has Rove, but he also has Erickson. He has Juan but he has Jonah Goldberg. Too often many conservatives are not accepting that people who share many but not all of their beliefs also consider themselves conservative. Fox isa welcome island in the swamp of truly left wing media. Maybe it doesn’t meet the needs of many here, but there is never going to be a net staffed by Jim Robinson and Kristin. Oh and on the news end Fox is by far the most objective.
Remember that FOX is owned by News Corp, which is in turn owned by Rupert Murdoch and his family. This means that much of what they do is in context with the British and its former empire.
Murdock likely favors the Conservative party in England, but their conservatives are our liberals, and they favor things such as internationalism, gun control, socialized medicine, and other abominations.
They also just overwhelmingly voted to eliminate the freedom of the press. So now, if you go down the American Bill of Rights, what they call “conservatives” in England despise most of them.
And this is what Murdock supports, and likely what FOX will eventually support.
Remember when Ted Turner created CNN? He proudly proclaimed himself a conservative, and the network really prospered. And while some say it was Jane Fonda who turned him into a leftist, I suspect he was one all the time, but was smart enough to realize that CNN would never amount to a hill of beans if it was as liberal as the other networks.
Something Al Gore was too stupid to realize with his Current TV channel.
In any event, as FOX continues its drift to the left, and it likely will, its ratings will start to decline, until it is just a shell, like CNN. And conservatives will be left with no conservative voice on television, as they were before FOX.
I am down to watching the last half hour of Special Report
Don’t lose track of the fact that FOX News is a business, not a non-profit PR firm for the TEA Party.
Yes, there are more leftists and RINOs than I would like but FOX is still light years better than anything else.
And I do get a certain satisfaction of shutting it off whenever I hear or see Whorealdo or Juan “Obama” Williams.
Fox news, because there aren’t ENOUGH LEFT-WING NEWS GROUPS these days.
That damn Karl Rove is still on there and Bill O’Reilly is so full of himself. I can’t stand watching that station anymore.
Fox was really doing a decent job in covering the tea parties, border issues, grassroots concerns, etc.,... right up until right after the 2010 midterms. Then something happened. It dropped all that like a hot rock. It became entirely beltway-centric, and nothing much more than a mouthpiece for the GOP-Establishment crowd. “Karl Rove Central.” No more tea party acknowledgement. The treatment of Palin turned sour (didn’t air her key speeches while CNN and MSNBC did; spotlighted only the most negative polls, etc). It was all a very, very noticeable change.
I stopped watching at that point. Used to have FoxNews on all the time, like it were the default position on my tv-set. Nowadays, I might catch 30-minutes of it per month, at most.
Good news...people are finally figuring out Fox News is part of the liberal Media
Shame that some on here are still spinning for Fox News. Real Conservatives do not watch Fox News
I am not boycotting FOX. I just don’t watch Fox News anymore.
The only thing good about FNN is the attractive women. Otherwise with jerks like dennis Kucenich, Juan williams, Geraldo, bill Kristol, Colmes, the assorted number of creeps that are fodder for O’Reilly,etc. FNN just is not worthing watching.
Fox News may be doing more damage than we realize as it softens the conservative point of view and eliminates the news that is too right-wing for them. These practices tend to isolate and demonize the most controversial points of view.
Tea Party
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Presidential identity fraud
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Start watching Beck’s BlazeTV. It’s already on Dish. I’m dumping Comcast because they will never put it on their lineup and because of their recent ban on gun ads. Stream Blaze right now, but will watch it on Dish.
I stopped watching FNC because it’s just pretty faces and people talking loud over each other and flashy sets.
I’m sick to death of “Fair and Balanced”. A network that was totally Conservative would barely provide “balance” to the communist propaganda being foisted on us as “news”.
Certainly if Beck can do it, someone who isn’t insane could start up a Conservative news network. Why isn’t CNN or MSNBC up for grabs?
Time for BNN (Beck News Network)?