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Posted on 08/07/2004 8:59:16 AM PDT by Che Chihuahua
Parsons Takes Shot at Fox
By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 8/6/2004 2:22:00 PM
Time Warner Inc. chairman Dick Parsons Friday described Fox News Channel as "crazy people exchanging views," telling a group of minority journalists in Washington he felt that the channel and his own Cable News Network are two different services.
When asked by Univision Anchor Jorge Ramos why CNN was losing the ratings battle with Fox, he was not ready to concede that. He said that Fox was more like talk radio on TV, which meant that its viewers stayed longer because people tended to "come and sit down for an hour or two and listen to crazy people exchange views." CNN actually draws more viewers, he said, but said they were grazers who didn't stay long.
Parsons said he did not feel CNN was liberal, but instead has a bias for the truth. He conceded that journalists are often perceived as liberal because they tend to challenge the establishment. He did not make an overt comparison with Fox, but he did say that his news operation "does not give a corporate slant to its journalism. We don't tell them how to report."
Sad, they can't understand we the listeners/viewers make the choice for what we want to see or hear..CNN doesn't seem to be able to deliver anymore. Even Microsoft wants rid of MSNBC ..gone will be the "M". Competition is healthy. They have to understand we have the freedom of choice.
Talk radio(the underground news source) was the only way the average Joe or Jane could have a voice. When our government and all our elected officials (for the people by the people)start listening, then we wouldn't rely on talk radio, the net and related sources to express our viewpoints and concerns.
And where's the other viewpoint of this story...on FR, that's where.
hahaha,,, I'm a grazer to CNN ! I watch Fox for a long time, then click over to CNN for 1 minute to see what they are up to,,, then wind up back at Fox...
my ass
CNN has been falling like a rock for some time,,,I cannot stand Judy Woodruff as one example. Had to laugh, about a year ago walked into the living room, my husband was "fuming" he said "Call for Satellite connection" if I have to look at CNN one more day for news I will explode.....he has not watched CNN since...
A perfect example of truth - and an immediate disqualifyer . . .
Still nostalgic for communism after all these years of being beaten in the ratings because that's the way they are.
Desperately, they are at the stage where any totalitarianism will do, no matter how barbaric, no matter how heinous, no matter how backward. Anything that will harm America and its founding principles.
How quickly he forgot that just a year ago CNN admitted their corporation deliberately required their staff to suppress the negative information about Saddam and human rights abuses in Iraq.
CNN not only has a political bias, it sacrifices human blood and lives for ratings.
"He conceded that journalists are often perceived as liberal because they tend to challenge conservatism."
Or perhaps:
"He conceded that journalists are often perceived as liberal because they tend to challenge the conservative part of the establishment."
Even before the President of News Corp was announced as backing Kerry, I have noticed a distinct slant towards Kerry reporting on Fox. Say what you like but they are changing and it isn't for the better.
After a decade of tearing up the airwaves, this Brooklyn native comes home to New York as one of the most powerful voices in talk radio. Listed in Talkers Magazine Heavy 100, Randi Rhodes brings her own brand of impeccably researched and infectiously humorous talk to Air America Radio.
"Infectiously humorous talk?" This must be what they mean by bio terrorism.
Or how about this gem?
Time to wake up, brush your teeth and stick it to The Man. Set your alarm to Morning Sedition and keep us on as you make your way to that charmingly decorated cubicle where you help rich people increase the disparity between their bank account and yours. We’ll give you the day’s headlines and political news, without that annoying, smiley, blow-dried double-talk the other media use to avoid offending anyone who might jeopardize their access to Sweet Lady Ad Revenues. Join radio veteran Mark Riley and comedian Marc Maron for morning news served up the way you like it: In context, with a healthy dollop of absurdity on top and a side order of subversion.
Totally childish and stupid to boot. Most left wingers I know tell me that they haven't changed their politics since they were 18 years old. It definitely shows as demonstrated by the above samples of truly sophomoric promo copy. Air Amerika is programming designed for a UC Berkeley college radio station in the late 1960s. Most of this radio "talent" will probably drift back to NPR (National Partisan Radio) or at least until PBS and its progeny goes (gasp!) commercial by 2006.
I prefer Laura Ingraham.
How quickly he forgot that just a year ago CNN admitted their corporation deliberately required their staff to suppress the negative information about Saddam and human rights abuses in Iraq.
Challenge the establishment?? Only if the 'establishment' has a Republican president. When there's a democRAT in, they lick his boots.
Well, so far, both Kasich and O'Reilly have denounced the Swift Boats Veterans for Truth ad as outrageous and call for the Bush campaign to denounce it. It doesn't seem to matter to them whether the claims in the ad are true or not. Those two, and possibly others, seem to be toeing the kerry line pretty well.
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