Breaking News - Fox News overrun by Drama Queens

Helvitorial.com ^ | November 4, 2007 | Alan Helvig

[epow]

I have practically stopped watching Fox News. The constant banging and crashing noise of what somebody at Fox apparently thinks is music is just too irritating, and the breathless announcements of "breaking news" every few minutes by empty headed dingbats wearing more makeup than a Ringling Circus clown are almost as bad.

It's too bad that there's not a news channel that isn't slanted to the left as CNN is, or as irritating and juvenile as Fox is. I would watch something like the PBS evening news programs if there was one that didn't report from such a very obviously left wing POV as all the public TV news programming does.

[late bloomer]

Or better yet !

“BEAVER NEWS”

[CodeToad]

My bigger complaint is that FoxNews has turned into the “Missing White Chick Channel”.

[hinckley buzzard]

Fox News has some time ago decided to pander to the lowest common denominator. Besides Brit Hume there's very little left worth watching.

[The Duke]

Can anyone say... "Free Republic News Network"?

I think it has a nice ring. :)

[epow]

to the extent that we are almost to the point of hyperbole in news reporting,

No "almost" about it. With the exception of Brit Hume's program, most of Fox News channel's "reporting" passed that point long ago.

[isthisnickcool]

I remember when I first got XM radio and turned it on FOX. The “breaking news” audio was so annoying I had to turn it off. They are way too Ckicken Little for me sometimes.

[dforest]

Don’t you really love those news flashes when they are outside the courthouse waiting for a glimpse of the latest “”skank brat queen” to emerge from the courthouse?

Geez, when they do this, I find it amazing they even consider it newsworthy. LOL

[hinckley buzzard]

Fox does nothing different then any other News Network yet the whiners continually come to Conservative websites to complain

Not amazing at all. It is exactly because Fox has had some semblance of fairness, and thereby earned our viewership, that we have higher expectations of them than their whorehouse competitors.

I haven't watched CNN since the first Gulf War so who cares what they do all day? I used to watch Fox reliably until the tabloid crapola began to outweigh the news value. Now there is no TV news outlet worthy of the name.

[Paige]

I am SO very glad someone is commenting on this, also. Moreover, Fox can “NEVER” discuss the over use of makeup, botox, and cosmetic surgeries and be taken seriously.

[Paige]

No, they are “NOT” all blondes.

[Paige]

Lis Wiehl

That is one of the ones I cannot deal with because she does get on my last nerve.

[BigAlPro]

Gee! You mean you weren’t glued to your sofa when Brit, Paris, Lindsay, Nicole and OJ were facing imminent peril at the hands of lunatic judges who expected them to do an insane amount of time for the crimes which they had committed? I’m shocked! (sarc)

Sorry, like our friends at Fox, I guess I just couldn't resist...

[DogBarkTree]

If any Fox News executives read this thread they may want to take notice. They are losing their base quicker than W did over the amnesty bill. I really cant stand to watch them anymore. Britt Hume and Chris Wallace are the only 2 on the whole network worth watching. The 3 idiots in the morning force me to watch CNN. I dont have time for the 3 Stooges and their stupid antics when Im getting ready to go to work. Their Breaking News bulletins mean nothing to me because Im not watching in the first place. Bill Oreilly usually loses me for the rest of the hour before his talking points are over. No doubt CNN is a lib bastion but at least they stick to the news in the early morning when people need/want to know what happened overnight. Fox is more of a bad entertainment network than a news network. Murdoch are you listening?

[Paige]

I am guilty of watching Fox from time to time but my problem with them came from them keeping GERALDO on their programming. Moreover, O’Reilly and others also use him as one of their sources and interview him?

They do “NOT” report the news anymore. Fox has graduated too hype, sensationalism, and ten-second news bytes. In addition, I do "NOT" care about Britney, Paris Hilton, or any of the Hollyweird weirdos. They should start another cable channel Hollywood Gossip,so, the news can be reported on Fox News.

Most of all, thank goodness for the Internet and Talk Radio.

[DogBarkTree]

“Can anyone say... “Free Republic News Network”?

I dare say you might be on to something there. Count me in as a subscriber if it ever happens. Drudge & FR are pretty much my main sources of news already.

[dforest]

I had to hurry up and get my shower over or I might miss Britney getting into her Mercedes hitting a couple cars, and running over someones’s foot.

That other stuff like wars, the economy, terrorism, what the President says...well it just isn’t news. /sarcasm

[Perdogg]

Then FNC would lose some it’s balance.

[longtermmemmory]

Fox and Friends is just hairstyles in the morning.
(with a heavy dose of Giuliani and Obama pimping)

The rest the news is dead blond stories and efforts to avoid real news by confusing “fair” with equal time.

The truth is never fair.

There is no “moral equivalency” in truth.