Posted on 03/24/2013 6:43:20 AM PDT by Mozilla
Is Fox News going soft?
That is what a number of Tea Party activists are saying and they are organizing a boycott to protest the conservative station’s coverage, especially what they view as the network’s relative silence in investigating the attacks on a diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya.
“Particularly after the election, Fox keeps turning to the left,” said Stan Hjerlied, 75, of Fort Collins, Colo., and a participant in the boycott. He pointed to an interview Fox News CEO Roger Ailes gave after the election in which he said that the Republican Party and Fox News need to modernize, especially around immigration. “So we are really losing our only conservative network.”
The three-day boycott lasted Thursday morning through Sunday morning, and is the second time this group of activists have gone Fox-free in an effort to steer the coverage. Organizers say a two-day boycott earlier this month knocked 20 percent off of the network’s regular viewership. (A Daily Beast analysis of the same data showed that the boycott had little effect.)
A spokeswoman for Fox News did not respond to a request for comment.
A leader of the boycott, Kathy Amidon, of Nashville, declined an interview, instead directing The Daily Beast to a website, Benghazi-Truth. The website, a single-page, 23,000-word manifesto complete with multicolored fonts, supposedly incriminating videos of Fox News’s complicity in a coverup, and communist propaganda photographs, is kept by someone who identifies himself online as “Proe Graphique,” and who other members of boycott described as someone who works “in New York media.”
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Organizers then encourage would-be Fox News viewers to wait until the One America network, which is supposed to launch this summer as an alternative to Fox, goes on the air.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
I quite watching Fox News probably 2 or 3 years ago. I get my news from local and national radio and FR. Fox News is too far to the left for me...Fair and Balanced became barely just to the right of CBS
I don’t even have cable, and I don’t miss it.
Fox news, because there aren’t ENOUGH LEFT-WING NEWS GROUPS these days.
That damn Karl Rove is still on there and Bill O’Reilly is so full of himself. I can’t stand watching that station anymore.
Detox.
2-3 years ago is about right for a lot of folks....certainly during the 2011 GOP debate period....and I chronicle the cooling relationship between Fox and the conservative base in a couple of chapters here:
www.TokyoRove.com
Fox was really doing a decent job in covering the tea parties, border issues, grassroots concerns, etc.,... right up until right after the 2010 midterms. Then something happened. It dropped all that like a hot rock. It became entirely beltway-centric, and nothing much more than a mouthpiece for the GOP-Establishment crowd. “Karl Rove Central.” No more tea party acknowledgement. The treatment of Palin turned sour (didn’t air her key speeches while CNN and MSNBC did; spotlighted only the most negative polls, etc). It was all a very, very noticeable change.
I stopped watching at that point. Used to have FoxNews on all the time, like it were the default position on my tv-set. Nowadays, I might catch 30-minutes of it per month, at most.
The Pubbies were Left of center in 1980, in 2008 and now in 2013. If they hated Reagan then think of how much they hate him now.
Good news...people are finally figuring out Fox News is part of the liberal Media
Shame that some on here are still spinning for Fox News. Real Conservatives do not watch Fox News
I agree. Though Fox has been drifting left, there was a marked change at the 2010 midterms.
Agree with you completely. If Fox is now getting hate from both ends of the political spectrum, it just proves that they really are being “fair and balanced”.
Did Fox News Channel ever claim to be conservative? If they made such a claim I must have missed it.
Did Fox News Channel ever claim to be conservative? If they made such a claim I must have missed it.
Check this list from Conservpedia.com
Fox News Liberals
Talk to any Fox News-hating liberal and you’ll here the same old regurgitated talking point- “Fox is not Fair & Balanced,” “Rightwing propaganda.” One network, Fox News, has twice the number of opposing commentators than does all media sources combined. If you add up the major media properties; ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, PBS, New York Times, Washington Post, and Newsweek — you get a total of five so-called conservative personalities among hundreds of liberals. At the least, Fox News employs the following liberals;
Juan Williams
Alan Colmes
Kirsten Powers
Shepard Smith
Geraldo Rivera
Mara Liasson
Bill Schulz
Susan Estrich
Bob Beckel
Santita Jackson
Simon Rosenberg
A 2009 national survey showed that 46% of those who watch FOX News “just about every day” are Democrats or Independents
I am not boycotting FOX. I just don’t watch Fox News anymore.
The only thing good about FNN is the attractive women. Otherwise with jerks like dennis Kucenich, Juan williams, Geraldo, bill Kristol, Colmes, the assorted number of creeps that are fodder for O’Reilly,etc. FNN just is not worthing watching.
Dittos! I could count the times Fox, or ANY major news channel for that matter, has been on in my house on one hand.
The question isn’t why Tea Party people don’t watch Fox news. The question is why should they?
You've nailed it. Same as you, I catch maybe 30 minutes of Fox a month. I just don't pay any attention to it anymore.
They may be the lesser of the MSM evils in terms of covering "both sides," but the thing I hate the most is that since 2010 they now unfailingly represent the "right" with GOPe types like those detestable elitist jerks Bill Kristol and Karl Rove. If these guys represent the "right" in America, then I'm a money's uncle. I can't stand these GOPe types, and their perennial love for GOPe losers like John McCain, Lindsay Graham and Mittens.
But this being said, IMHO Fox has very poor actual "news" coverage. Seems like they're all US politics all the time, with little in the way of actual news reporting anymore, particularly at the international level. Sad to say, whenever something actually newsworthy happens in the world that doesn't have overt political overtones, CNN has far better coverage than Fox does.
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