[DoughtyOne]

I always wondered how you could be fair and balanced with four or more other networks, probably 90% of the nations publication newspapers, and the majority of talking heads all pumping out leftist swill 24/7/365.

Wouldn’t a balanced presentation have to include an almost constant ultra-Conservative spin to balance out all the Leftist media advantage?

And yet FoxNews always had Leftist views, even sometimes predominantly, in their presentations.

Fair and Balanced?

More like Rarely Balanced.

[x]

Wouldn’t a balanced presentation have to include an almost constant ultra-Conservative spin to balance out all the Leftist media advantage?

That's your job. I mean, you can select your news sources to balance out prevailing media biases.

If Fox were going to provide an almost constant ultra-conservative spin, they couldn't claim to be "fair and balanced" and they wouldn't be taken seriously outside a very small group.

You can't expect them to throw away most of their audience just to make your media intake what you want it to be, when you can adjust it on your own as you see fit.

And yet FoxNews always had Leftist views, even sometimes predominantly, in their presentations.

Sure, there's always one person in a discussion to represent the other side, but to say FNC had predominantly Leftist views is going way too far. Even if you didn't like O'Reilly or Greta, there was always Hannity.

[donna]

Fair and Balanced = voluntary Fairness Doctrine = a doctrine to tell liberal lies and minimize traditional culture