Posted on 06/07/2006 5:55:04 AM PDT by Mike Bates
Says who?
They are supposed to be PROFITABLE and since when does "Fair and Balanced" equal being conservative?
Thank goodness they never show him cross and uncross his legs while being interrogated by police!
I'm sure you all remember that Fox News is supposed to be the conservative channel.
The wife still watches it when she goes in late because she's closing her store. I hardly ever watch it anymore. You're right about all that pandering to TV shows, though. Who cares?
And I NEVER watch F & F on weekends. Julian Phillips makes what little hair I have stand on end. I guess about the only show I watch on FNC is 'Special Report'. Then, either the TV is off, or, if the wife is home, it's on to various Law & Order reruns.
Much of the mainstream media. And have you been to a campus lately? FoxNews is right up there with Bush, Rumsfeld and Wal-Mart in terms of contempt.
I don't define Fox by its slogan, any more than I define CNN by its laughable slogan...I define them by their fairness and objectivity, and their RESEARCH!
Law & Order? Is that the show where the real bad guy is often a white, middle-aged businessman or a religious person?
Bingo! Just another pretty face with a bass voice. He is the quinatessence of that famous headline when Dizzy Dean was hit in the head by a baseball: "X-rays of Dean's head Show Nothing."
The shows on FNC have turned into such drivel it's just not worth the time.
If we could just have Brit do news updates every hour for five minutes that would be enough for me.
The rest of them are so predictable we could all say their dialogue before they even open their mouths.
Or the "bikini" muderer. They spent a fair amount of time on that this morning.
Who cares?
I changed the station and went to the History Channel.
I like the early morning documentaries on the history channel, especially those that discuss the history of the Old West. I wish I was back in that era sometimes, home on the da range, and all that.
Smith once chatted me up in a New York City gay piano bar, bought me drinks, and invited me back to his place. When I declined, he asked me to dinner the next night, another invitation I politely refused.
We sat at the bar chatting and drinking martinis until 3 a.m., our conversation interrupted only when he paused to belt out the lyrics to whatever showtune was being performed."
Yeah! But the acting is better than on most shows. I watch just to spend some time with her in the evening. And, no, she's no flaming Lib; she's as conservative as I am. She just likes to watch TV and doesn't enjoy reading.
Frankly, we find the various L & O series to be about the least objectionable fare on TV anymore. The prime time stuff is garbage, channels like History, A & E, Discovery, etc are either showing the same stuff over-and-over or it's biased, and I can only stand a very minuscule intake of dogs jumping through hoops, food being cooked that I won't eat, or shills for the wealthy showing off properties in the Catskills or Tahiti.
That's my take on TV.
I've been watching the Military Channel lately. They have a great series on Battleplans.
What? No Judy Garland?
I think Shep just wants to be loved by everyone.
The little creep.
Yeah, I stopped watching with any regularity back in March or so.
Smith never appealed to me. Too much makeup for one thing, and I usually listen, rather than watch on my 2.3" tv
next to the pc, any way. Still didn't help.
Then I read an interview he gave. He goes out of his way to edit out adverbs in his copy.
There are other little things that just add up.
Shep also let it hang out during Hurricane Katrina and his stint in New Orleans.
"Conservativism was a good choice because there was a large market for it. There still is, IMHO, but if Fox continues to dilute its point of view like it has been, its ratings will drop."
Two years ago FNS was taking heat because they were perceived, and rightly so, as NOT fair and balanced.
Such can not be said now. They do have a wide range of opinions and it would follow that we conservatives would not agree with all sides.
I see nothing wrong with that. Shep has been more outspokenly left for a year. It is costing him viewers. Could we say sacrificial lamb?
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