I think FOX needs to liven up their program a little more and I think they were too cautious about being too pro-Republican. Their coverage was not long enough at the end of the night and the feel of the graphics and set were not as good as MSNBC.
I think competition is good and if MSNBC keeps improving then I believe FOX will have to improve in order to not lose viewers. I hope FOX doesn't think they have conservatives in their hand and start saying we need to expand our audience by targeting moderates and independents. They will lose their audience to programs like Scarborough & Company as well as people just turning them off and going to the internet.
Last night when I saw that Fox chose NOT to air the speech by Tommy Franks- I switched to C-Span and watched the rest of the convention there.
Something has changed at FOX- guess the left wing's ridiculous charges of FOX bias have partially neutered them. The only show I try to catch now is the news with Brit Hume.
I think Matthews did our side a big service with his antics. He is like the protestors in that he puts a face on the opposition support that is not to pretty.
I was surprised to see that it seemed CNN had more commentary from our side. Maybe it was just timing in whenI surfed over.
At least one could enjoy watching Fox. I turned the others on a few times for a few minutes until I got ticked off with their inanity and negativity -- wound up about 99% on Fox.
For the most part, I thought their coverage was very good. My one gripe is that they (like too many in the MSM) spent way too much time focusing on the idiot protesters.
Brit was great, his panel always is interesting. I'm less than impressed with the caliber of Dem guests Fox & Friends has on in the morning (that Julie person always looks as though she's passing a kidney stone), but by and large, they seemed to get the "good" guests on both sides and mostly made them stay on issue.
The exception, of course, is the inexplicable free rein Terry McA always seems to get. Why does anyone bother to invite him on any show? (/rhetorical question)
I only caught some of MSNBC's coverage, mostly Scarborough Country and his and Ron Reagan Jr.'s panel discussions. They were okay, but seemed a little less professional than the guys at Fox to me.
O'Reilly is unwatchable in any season, setting or style.
I watched C-Span for nearly the whole convention.
Too much chatting on Fox. I wanted to hear the speeches and not the wornout pundits.
Fox needs some new blood but it would probably be liberal blood if they did update.
I was SCREAMING at Hannity to SHUT UP while Michael W. Smith was singing that phenomenal song, "She Stands." GOD, these people just never quit talking! I switched over to C-SPAN.
I watched Bush's speech on MSNBC. I don't know who the commentators were but afterwards they were positively gushing over his performance. Then they switched back to Brokaw, who was unruffled, and Russert, who looked like he had just swallowed sour milk.
Fox may have killed everyone else in ratings, but for those of us who like to watch without talking heads, it's CSpan.
I thought FOX did a fairly good job with the commentary, however, when I wanted to watch the convention I tuned to CSPAN. All of the major media outlets had too many people talking instead of listening, IMO, and a lot was missed by tuning to them. Again, JMO.
Fox has drifted left....
So what if Fox was "at" the convention! Most of the time, they ran with the ususal format with the convention on the background video behind the talking heads. When I wanted to watch the convention, I actually changed channels.
I switched between PBS and FOX....PBS has Brooks and Shields. PBS was actually good as far as watching speeches and coverage, they even had a great interview with Karl Rove on Wednesday night. Shields is a Democrat shill...typical old media. Brooks has no balls whatsoever and lets Shields get away with falsehoods and lies. Fox was good, good analsyts--Mort, kristol, etc.....Fox is the only good news channel.
That said, I was thrilled by Dubya's speech, which I had to watch on CNN.
Speeches like that make the thought of moving down to your fair nation more and more alluring.
MSNBC really did do a good job with the convention. I shouldn't be so shallow, but I like looking at the background and street scenes in NYC (I've never been there; it was very interesting to me). But they also seemed to have a good variety of conservatives to counter their liberal talk show hosts, and knew when it was appropriate to cut back to the convention and show whatever was going on in the hall. Fox really failed in that respect; we missed a lot of good speeches and entertainment because Fox decided to go with their regular show format.
I watched the speeches on C-Span and swithced between MSNBC and FOX after the President's speech. I couldn't tolerate Matthews, Mitchell and Ronnie. On Fox I lke Britt and his panel but everything else they had on the air this week was garbage. O'Reilly is in the bag for Kerry, I'm convinced. Hannitty and Colmes is unwatchable and Greta is obnoxious.
Jon Meacham is the Newsweek editor that was on w/Matthews.
I watched mainly Fox, but switched over to PMSNBC often because I got tired of Fox's stupid grahpics during the speeches. PMSNBC dumped the graphics druing the speeches which made it easier to see.
The one thing that I enjoyed on PMSNBC is that the GOP/Conservative commentators grew some and were not afraid to challenge the liberals. I think Chrissy's treatment of Michelle Malkin touched a nerve with conservative commentators and it was topped with Chrissy's treatment of Zell. Laura Ingrham took David Gergen to the woodshead for comparing Zell to Lester Maddox and Gergen looked like a scalded dog after Laura got done with him. Scarborugh, Ron Silver and JC Watts wouldn't let Ronnie or Chrissy get by with their nonsense that they get buy with the rest of the year.
Let's hope our side continues with this aggressive repudiation of the liberals/Rats unitl Nov 2 and then some.
FOX hand better coverage, MSNBC had better camera work.
Fox is really starting to suck.
I turned to C-Span and am seriously considering not watching Fox much in the future, where it used to be on 24/7.
During President Bush's speech, Fox ran a ticker at the bottom of the screen regarding the Prison Scandal, what was going on with it, who was to blame, etc. Fox also broke into the speeches to talk about the protestors, at one point, telling people what was on the sign that no one saw. When will these idiots get that they should SHUT UP?
Disgusting. As disgusting as Kerry campaigning during the convention. As disgusting as the media following the protests more than if followed the convention.
As disgusting as the condescending remarks after the speeches..... like that stupid cow Greta... I won't watch Fox anymore just on the off chance that I will have to hear or see her.
I usually like Fox the best, but it really aggravated me that they made an effort to interview EVERY democrat they could find. Perhaps if they would stop giving air time to the likes of Michael Moore they would shut up.