Posted on 05/26/2015 1:30:05 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Yup, pretty much.
The point is that news isn’t fair or balanced. It’s just news.
Once Fox balances the news it’s not the news any more, it’s spin.
Liberals live in a fantasy world they made in their own heads—Fox lives in the real world.
A long time ago he could be described as such. No longer.
He’s not a fool, he knows darn well that they were democrats. It seems to be a recent trend where the media is basically saying he belonged to the Republicans.
“Liberals can’t wrap their pointy heads around the idea that at least half the people in America don’t want what they are selling.”
What libs can’t wrap their pointy heads around is Fox has more liberal viewers than CNN and MSNBC combined. My lib friends hate when I tell them that.
I agree. In fact FOX frequently provides a soap box for Liberals to promote their views, all under the rubric “Fair and Balanced.”
The reliably liberal Frank Rich appreciates better than most Fox's essential harmlessness. In a piece published last year in New York, he concluded that aside from infuriating liberals, Fox flexes little political power.Libs always miss the point -- they watch Fox because Fox is actually reporting the news. Fox lacks that party-line Demagogic Party drumbeat that passes for news on SeeBS, NoBrainsCollectively, and AlwaysBeenConfused, and that lack is what makes them angry. My straight-ticket lib relatives had that incoherent inchoate animus toward Fox -- the entire network, all shows, not just the news -- pretty much from day one, and now they hit it for the news, because they can find out what's going on in the minimum of time.
Fallows condenses the Bartlett message thusly: “When will Republicans who care about winning national elections, or actually governing, stop thinking of Fox as a help and start viewing it as a hindrance, and what will happen when they do?”
Whenever Liberals are on the ropes, taking one shot after another in lost elections, you can always count on them to lecture us on how to win elections.
It’s almost impossible to quantify how stupid Liberalism really is.
Rupert Murdoch would be happy with Hillary as president. He gave her money during the 2008 primaries. It's part of his plan not to put all his eggs in one party basket (hence his support for Tony Blair in Britain).
That's not to say that Fox News is liberal or that it's secretly working against conservatism, just that they're far from the big bad conservative machine liberals have nightmares about and/or want people to think is so awful.
That is true...jealousy...
I think it’s pretty clear Fox News is anti-conservative.
I quit watching Fox News years ago. I’m sick of the stupid slow scrolls. Do they think everyone reads at an 8 year old level?
And everything, and I mean everything, is “breaking news”?
BOR is a tool, Megyn Kelly just too over the top and Sean never shuts up. I can’t stand Shep Smith even doing the straight news.
Brett Baire for the first 30 minutes is straight news but I hate the panels in the last half hour. Way to wishy-washy GOPe types including Brit Hume. What a disappointment he turned out to be.
IMO, Fox is a liberal news outlet. The only reason the liberals complain is because it’s a little less liberal than the other radical left liberal news channels and Fox sometimes refuses to tow the line with the daily liberal talking points.
The scribbler of this piece naturally lets his own biases intrude by comparing the very tame and many time slightly right of center FOX news pieces to George Wallace.
Sucks when people stop paying you to lie to them.
What is it reporting?
It’s not sensationalistic garbage.
Yep when I saw this line I realized they jus can’t understand why we have’t fallen in lockstep with them and deeded our brains overbthe federal gubmint:
“According to chamber theorists, Fox “breeds extremism” within the Republican Party by (1) convincing viewers to reject other news feeds as biased and (2) to partake only of Fox content and like-minded conservative radio fodder.”
In other words they don’t understand why we reject “their” news feed while at the same time they’re rejecting ours which is most likely far more accurate and unbiased than theirs. The idiots can’t even see that!
Anything to the Right of NPR is extremism.
Pray America is waking
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