Posted on 02/06/2012 4:28:36 AM PST by radioone
Over the last decade, conservatives have enjoyed Fox News, a national news network which has given conservatives a fair shake and which has been willing to expose the bigotry of the establishment media towards conservatism. Yet there is the chance that Fox News, when owner Rupert Murdoch dies, may drift towards the lockstep leftism so characteristic of other news networks.
Fortunately, for a couple of reasons, we need not fret too much if this does happen.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I got a newsflash for ya, Faux News has ALREADY failed us, and they began that process in 2008 when they started minimalizing and ignoring the only true Reagan Conservative in the GOP primary race, and that was former Congressman Duncan Hunter.
I unsubscribed from their blather then, and their left turn since then has validated my decision.
Faux News and that asswipe Rupert Murdoch can KMA. Got no use for ‘em.
Fox has already gone - it has happened. Was hoping Trump might start a new TV channel - coulda, shoulda but won’t.
Maybe Steve Forbes?
LLS
this “what happened” to Fox.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_International_phone_hacking_scandal
Fox Business
AMEN!
I didn't want to stir up a hornets nest, as I thought the last two sentences of the article asked and answered what we will do: "What happens if Fox News fails us? Using our wits, our moxie, and fidelity to truth, we will be just fine."
Why should we have to become communications guerrillas in our own country?
Why should we have to become communications guerrillas in our own country?
I dumped TV in 1997. I’ve always seen Fox as liberal - just not as liberal as the other channels.
Murdoch and Ailes made a conscious decision to swing left after the November 2008 election, and accelerated it after Tucson.
How about FBC (FreeRepublic Broadcasting Company)?
The only reason people watched Fox news was it offered a conservative view of the political universe. The socialist media was apalled that conservatives had a place to turn to away from CNN and the networks.
MSNBC was set up by the Socialist media to mock Fox (ala Alinsky). Fox incorrectly saw its competition as MSNBC instead of CNN and the networks. As a result, Fox has moved closer to being like MSNBC and away from real news.
The end of Fox as a useful alternative network came when it joined the other networks working to push a Presidential candidate down conservative throats.
Fox touts their viewership, but nobody I know watches Sheppard Smith, and fewer people are watching Bret Baier. Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity are self-promoting air heads.
Years ago Larry Ellison (Oracle) was giving a speech at a Communications Convention, and he said network news was going to be overtaken by the internet; people were foing to pick and choose where to get their news. After the speech, Dan Rather got in Larry’s face and said, “WE (the networks)determine whats news and whats not!”
The time of the internet has already come and thank God for places like FreeRepublic.
It has been suggested and would be great - but don’t know if we could raise the funds. We need a few millionaires on our side. Koch Brothers and Steve Forbes maybe?
Heck, the FReepathon has been competing for donations along with contributions to primary candidates.
The time of the internet has already come and thank God for places like FreeRepublic.
Before reading all the re’s I was thinking the same. I’m sixty eight years of age and have used the Internet for the past seven years. Had no training on using the Internet or P/C, learned on my own. So, I try encouraging all people of my age to connect with the Internet for news, and get rid of that d*mn TV !!!!!!
The easiest statistic to compile is viewers of cable TV programs because every single time a cable user changes channels it is recorded and logged.
The cable company knows how many of your TVs are on, and which one is watching which show.
So while nobody that you know watches Shep, there are on average 1.8 million people that do and Bret Baier's numbers are higher than ever, so your statements have some holes in them.
There is more liberal content on FOX than I would like to see, but it is the only network that has any semblance of balance.
FOX is country club Democrats. They feel like they have to move left.
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