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FoxNews is to the right of CNN but then so are some articles in Pravda.
They don't do us any favors and some of the criticism of Fox comes from the same leftists who have been irate about Rupert Murdoch since the 1960s.
I pretty much stopped watching the nightly shows. Brit Hume is good, and Chris Wallace is the best interviewer in TV. But when they stopped covering our soldiers in Iraq in favor of endless coverage of the latest missing teenager, they pretty much lost me.
Since most of the media is owned or edited by liberals I don't waste much time with "mainstream" sources anymore. That includes the spinmasters and egoists at Fox "news" who want you to believe that presenting the views of deranged liberals along with those of a conservative bent somehow ends up with the dissemination of truth. All you get from this silly format is more confusion than ever.
These times require us to find out the truth for ourselves, because there are precious few in the 'news' business who care about facts, honesty and integrity. It's about pretty faces, neat hair, big egos and scripted, sanitized 'reporting'.
I do not watch television news, period. The problem I have with it, is that it is too easy to be manipulated by images.
Negative, spectacular and titillating sells, and they have a vested interest in selling, so they pander to the worst in us in order to get ratings. This in turn slant the news towards the negative (Iraq/Afghanistan are good examples)
They can take a 10 minute interview with someone and strategically clip a five second sound bite to give the unaware a certain perspective.
Most consumers of MSM news do not realize that much thought goes into how the news is presented. Nothing happens by accident or chance...
Fox News is just boring. I also hate how their story-of-the-week manages to infect every single one of their shows, even their business shows.
If the author is not intelligent enough to "filter" any news reporting he should not be allowed to have a tv.
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Today I joined you.
At 7:09 pm I turned Fox News off.
Fox has been a constant in my house since prior to the 2000 elections. If I was in the house, Fox was on. Not anymore.
I listened all evening to story after story about how Pres. Bush had admitted responsibility for the "Katrina Fiasco". And after hearing Shepard (he of the hysterical heiny) go on about it, I just couldn't listen any more. Not when all he had to do was walk over that overpass and carry a case of water back to those people he went on an on about.
Both he and Geraldo knew those trucks were over there. They had to pass them to get in to the city. But they never mentioned them. They continued to incite panic and tried to incite riots. And if they didn't know, all the worse. They are not much of a reporter, then, are they?
They must think that makes for good TV.
I turned O'Reilly off almost 2 years ago. I can no longer stomach the weekend crew, or Juan Williams for that matter. I lose IQ everytime they appear on the screen. And after listening to a Bill Crystal interview this morning about how everyone on that show just really admired each other, I about barfed.
Well, that's my rant. Thanks for listening. I just thought you'd want to know you weren't alone.
Becki
TV news gives me gas and most of it is lies anyway.
to a certain extent, I completely understand.