Posted on 08/31/2004 11:08:49 AM PDT by ejdrapes
MMFA: FOX Gives 33 More Minutes to Republicans at RNC, Almost Twice the Time Given to Democrats at DNC; FOX News Channel Breaks Promise to Viewers for Equal Time of Both Conventions To: National Desk, Political and Media reporters Contact: Naomi Seligman, 202-390-0700; or Beth Kanter, 773-551-7044, both of Media Matters for America WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 /U.S. Newswire/ -- On the first day of the Republican National Convention, Media Matters for America found that FOX News Channel showed 74 total minutes of primetime speech coverage at the Republican National Convention -- 33 more minutes than was shown of the speeches at the first night of the Democratic National Convention. Following the announcements by FOX News Channel (FNC) hosts Bill O'Reilly and Cal Thomas that FNC will devote the same amount of coverage of live speeches at the Republican National Convention as it did at the Democratic National Convention, Media Matters for America (MMFA) found that on the first day of the Republican National Convention, FNC gave substantially more time to the speeches at the RNC than it did at the DNC. MMFA will monitor FOX News Channel's live speech coverage and will produce daily a chart comparing the coverage, holding FNC accountable for its hosts' comments and its motto of being "fair and balanced." The findings will be posted to http://www.mediamatters.org. During the Democratic National Convention, which took place between July 26 and July 29, MMFA monitored coverage by FOX News Channel, CNN, and MSNBC and calculated the amount of time each aired convention speeches live. FOX News Channel aired one hour and 16 minutes less of speeches from the convention live than did CNN and one hour and 47 minutes less than did MSNBC. "FNC hosts made a promise to their viewers at the DNC that there would be equal time given during both conventions," said David Brock, President and CEO of Media Matters for America. "FNC has broken that promise on the first night of the convention and we will continue to monitor to see how they progress. This certainly would not qualify as fair and balanced coverage."
That's because we have better speakers.
Exactly, Fox is a business and they program things they know people want to watch. There is a reason they are number 1 in ratings.
The cable news networks were horrible last night. I ended up watching CSpan thru the whole convention. Too many talking bobble heads chattering like chickens and too many commercials.
DUH! Guilliani's speech ran longer than anticipated. Should they have cut him off? This is just plain stupid. FNC aired all the major speeches at the DNC and they're going to air the major speeches at the RNC, regardless of how much time each individual speaker takes.
Consider the source. This is from David Brock's group.
It takes a lot of time to respond to flip-flops.
Okay fair enough. But what about all the rest of the media? Hmmm? How even and fair was their coverage?
Are such time-allotmnet conparisons done for the 3 major networks? How about positive vs. negative editorializing by their anchors?
Rudy went over.
These people are ludicrous. The major broadcast networks refused to carry the first night because they were literally afraid for the public to see McCain and Guilliani speak. These biased networks are trying to shape politics, not provide the service they should be providing. But...the "monitors' will miss this fact.
Fox should not be intimidated by these crybabies. I hope they will continue to broadcast these speeches in their entirety and not let the liberal monitors tell them what they can show us! This is STILL America. And it will continue to be America until the liberals in this country sell us out to the "Commies".
Best coverage by far!
Cspan-"we broadcast, you decide"
Fox covered Shrillary and Bill on night one of the DNC and McCain and Rudy on night one of the RNC.
These people need a hobby.
Me too...I turned on my TV and saw Chrissy Matthews and screamed, then hit the remote button and switched to CSpan. Scared hubby half to death, he came running into the room thinking I had fallen or something, LOL!
Dear US Newswire: Cry me a river.
*yawn*
Do ya'll hear something? I'm getting this buzzing in my ear.
Ok, someone correct me if I remember this wrong--but during the 'Rat convention, the "big three" networks devoted 2 hours per night to the 'Rat convention, for four nights. This convention gets 1 hour per night for three nights. Someone let me know if this isn't the way it happened--but if it is, should they be opening that particular door?
I noticed a big difference in spirit between the two conventions. The RATs were rather lame, no excitement. Even the balloon drop was a disaster. But last night, nothing but electricity in the air at Madison Square Garden. Amazing that none of the MSM have commented on it. Cover of the New Yorker today is funny, herd of terrified elephants coming over the bridge to Manhatten. More accurately, they should have been trumpeting wildly, stomping to victory. But we can't have that. No, we'll get nothing but spin for Kerry from the MSM until Nov. 3.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.