Posted on 03/16/2007 9:55:56 PM PDT by neverdem
In the history of capitalism has any company had more success with just a wink and a nod than the Fox News Channel? And can Democrats be successful in the 2008 campaign by refusing to wink or nod back?
Last week's decision by Nevada Democrats, under pressure from liberal activists, to drop Fox as the co-sponsor of a party presidential debate has the virtue of crystallizing the questions about the network's nature and its unique role in the modern media ecosystem.
Fox cloaks itself in the mantle of objectivity with the nudge-nudge insistence that it—and it alone—provides "fair and balanced" coverage of the news. Then it advances its financial and ideological interests by promoting lurid accusations from conservatives against Democrats, accusations that are routinely debunked later by the mainstream media. Many Fox reporters are fair. But overall the network—through its language, its news decisions and its hosts—generally functions more like a cog in the Republican message machine than as a conventional news organization that attempts to abide, however imperfectly, by the traditional standards of (yes) fairness and balance.
Fox's possible participation in the Nevada debate, one of several the state party is sponsoring before next January's presidential caucus, presented Democrats with a conundrum that may become increasingly common for both sides as they navigate a media landscape in which overtly partisan sources of information are proliferating.
Democrats, with justification, consider Fox tilted against them. Yet the network has a large audience, at least some of whom may be open to Democratic arguments (though exactly how many remains subject to spirited dispute). The question the party faced was whether access to Fox's viewers was worth the validation the network would receive from hosting a Democratic debate.
Initially, the Nevada Democratic leaders answered yes. Party officials said they had no illusions about...
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I have trouble watching Fox because they trot out every ugly Birkenstocker in North America to make the network seem impartial. For God's sake, they have Jerry Rivers on staff! I simply can't look.
A real journalist, when making such a substantial claim of repeated transgressions, would provide at least one, and correctly many, concrete examples of this outrageous behavior.
The fact that he provides exactly none reveals much about the charge and the typist who typed it.
Ron just doesn`t have a clue
>>Fox hounded - How the Democrats are turning on Fox News.<<
How can they turn against something they haven't ever liked in the first place?
He's never afraid of a prostate exam, the doctor looks in his ears.
Does this article qualify as a view that's so narrow they can look through a keyhole with both eyes? (that would be most libs)
This is a pure lie. I stopped reading at this point.
The opposition knows very well that the best defense is offense. They do this over and over and over.
Not only is it obvious, but the MSM admits itself in survey after survey that they support the Democrats and do not give the President a fair break. Rather than get into a debate about it which they cannot possibly win, they change the subject to a debate about FNC. Having done that, they make extreme,outrageous and also false but vague accusations like FNC being a 'cog in the Republican machine' that can be difficult to counter. That is no coincidence. That is part of the tactic. They are so, so good at this.
Ann Coulter recently pointed out that Fox News has more Liberal commentators than all the other networks combined have Conservative commentators.
Liberals aren't contented that they control most of the news media. What they want is no voice at all for conservative commentary, anywhere, ever.
The LA. Times is a liberal biased rag.
The marketing reps./distributors have difficulties with promoting their newspaper and with circulation in many regions of California.
Fox must be doing a decent job, if the MSM complains about them.
As callers to radio talk shows have pointed out, if the Democrats are afraid of Fox News what the hell will they do if defending the Nation becomes their responsibility?
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