Why Do Liberals Hate Fox News?

1/1/04 | Eric

[E-squirrel]

I just visited Move On .org for some amusement, because it's always fun seeing deranged liberal TV ads, especially after the fact that they did absolutely nothing to change the outcome of the election. Anyways, I saw this ad on there "Who Runs Fox News" or something like that. I want to know, what's the deal with Fox News. Why do Liberals call it Republican News, Is it because CNN, MSNBC, CBS are very liberal and anything balanced is considered conservative because those Lib networks are supposed to be balanced? What's the deal here, I just want to know what your thought and input is, on Fox News and why it's hated.

[nmh]

Truth is mental torture to them. Liberals can't stand truth and reality.

[Darkwolf377]

Because the existence of a dissenting point of view completely trashes the concept of "objective" reporting. Anyone who reports on news brings his or her experience to the job--or else why not just have ANYONE report on a story?--and the Big Three networks have simply tiptoed around this fact for years--they all share the same bias, so it looks like "the objective truth" to someone who has no access to an alternative point of view.

Let's say for the sake of argument that FOX is biased--then how come its straight reporting agrees with that of the Big Three? Answer: Because the hard facts ("Mr. X was shot today") are not in dispute, its interpretation that is in dispute (ABC will lean toward Maxine Waters's interpretation of the killing, FOX toward a conservative politician's). What the Big Three have been shopping around has been biased coverage but it's like an experiment without a control--you can't SEE it's biased until you see a DIFFERENT bias to compare it to.

The liberals hate FOX because it knocks their legitimacy out from under them--a legitimacy built on tainted news getting to the public without any dissenting view. We think FOX is a big deal now, but years from now, when they can stand back and better see the media landscape before and after its arrival, people will see just HOW revolutionary FOX is.

[JennysCool]

Nice summation, Darkwolf!

[Jaysun]

Liberal nuts: "The fact that Fox is always pointing out that liberals have an adverse relationship with the truth is proof of their bias."

[Dutch Boy]

At the DU they seem to hate pretty much all news organizations. The key to liking a news organization seems to be not news accuracy but news that is politically aligned with their ideology. What I like about FOX is they challenge my beliefs with data. I'm a data driven guy and I've had to correct myself several times.

[weegee]

The hate Fox News for the same reason they hate Clear Channel; it is a belief that because they are commercially tied to some conservative hosts that they must be evil.

Clear Channel owns Rush Limbaugh's contract. That's it. That is all that they are upset about. They will tell you it is because CC owns the most stations in America (Viacom is #2 with Infinity Broadcasting, and they don't bitch about CBS-MTV-Viacommie). They will tell you that CC is "conservative" yet when they took over Houston's talk radio station (950KPRC), they fired the local hosts, brought in some loud mouthed carpetbaggers, and management told Dan Patrick (who was part owner and former manager) to "lay off the God talk" as well as no talk of pending legislation (bill numbers, etc.). I don't see CC as "conservative"; not even in upper management. Dan's on the air now at 700KSEV (independently owned) and although he was one of the first station managers to pick up Rush's syndicated show, he'll never be able to buy the program now.

An executive officer from Fox News' parent company endorsed John Kerry. You will find many FReepers who don't find Bill O'Reilly to be conservative on every issue. I know that there are some libs on Fox News (if only to cover the counterpoint) but many liberal news/talk programs have no such "balance".

Fox News is to the right of USA Today, CNN, and the New York Times but that isn't saying much.

[weegee]

What I like about FR is that we are not getting our news from "one source", rather we are getting our news from EVERY source and pointing out errors and editorializing in these articles (as well as links to omitted details).

We also keep a running account of fraud and hoaxes perpetuated by the Mainstream Media. It is one thing to say that they are "biased", it is quite another thing when they make up news stories altogether.

[MeekOneGOP]

Welcome to FreeRepublic.com.

The Libs hate FOX News because they DO give both sides of the issue.

That exposes them and the truth hurts!

Here's a little pic I put together last year.

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How to Make a Guerrilla Documentary
(Liberal Campaign to smear FOX News)

''Outfoxed'' has been made in secret. The film is an obsessively researched expose of the ways in which Fox News, as Greenwald sees it, distorts its coverage to serve the conservative political agenda of its owner, the media tycoon Rupert Murdoch. It features interviews with former Fox employees, leaked policy memos written by Fox executives and extensive footage from Fox News, which Greenwald is using without the network's permission. The result is an unwavering argument against Fox News that combines the leftist partisan vigor of a Michael Moore film with the sober tone and delivery of a PBS special. A large portion of the film's $300,000 budget came in the form of contributions in the range of $80,000 from both MoveOn and the Center for American Progress, the liberal policy organization founded by John Podesta, the former chief of staff for Bill Clinton; Greenwald, who is not looking to earn any money from the project, provided the rest.

[weegee]

A more important question is why do liberals love Al-Jazeera? I've actually seen the local Pacifica radio station sourcing news of an attack on Israelis from AJ (claiming that it was a gas leak, not a terrorist bombing).

Control Room made many libs' top 10 films of the year list.

Why the love affair? Because they hate America and share a common enemy.

[weegee]

Would anyone claim that the programming (Simpsons, slutty reality shows, nighttime soaps...) on Fox is "conservaive"?

[bilhosty]

They think that everybody should think like they do. They do not respect other views and do not believe in tolerance or diversity.

[MeekOneGOP]

I hardly ever watch FOX. I watch FOX News all the time.

The dumb Libs say it's Conservative, but it's really not. They DO show both sides of the issues.

To me they are TOO balanced, but when I look at the alternative news stattions, FOX News is far and above the best, imho.

[grellis]

I just am tired of liberals saying "Where did you hear that from, FOX NEWS? HA HA HA!!"

Whenever someone says that to you, give 'em your best poker face and reply "Why, no. I read it just an hour ago on Democratic Underground." They'll be so confused they should shut right up.

[E-squirrel]

ahahahah I'll try that one next time!

Thanks for all the insight everyone. I know this is probably an old discussion, but I just wanted to know everyone's thoughts on the issue.

[E-squirrel]

Wow, I just visited DU, what a hateful, idiotic website. MoveOn, DU, Air America Radio.com, so rediculous.
"The Al Franken Show, unfuriating liars - drug free!"
yeah you're real funny pal.

[E-squirrel]

*infuriating

[Pharmboy]

Welcome to FR, even though you violated a cardinal rule: posting a vanity on the day you signed up. You can only get better...

[bad company]

Welcome to FRee Republic.

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome. It's nice coming to forums to discuss politics, without being ridiculed.

If no one ever hacks on you here, you haven't said much.

[E-squirrel]

Well please tell me what rule I broke. I want to learn from my mistakes for future instances.

[weegee]

"...posting a vanity on the day you signed up."

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