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.
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“Did Fox News Channel ever claim to be conservative?”
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you are correct. Fox is interested in your eyeballs - not your politics. They gotta love the position they are in, and the other networks are playing catch-up.
Ailes puts out the eye candy (Fox babes M&F) and builds a story - the eyeballs will come.
Everything is about your eyeballs.... TV, internet, mags, etc.... the more dramatic the better. Wars, Politics, Celebs and disasters are it’s mother’s milk. World peace - ha.
I think Google made / makes the money on eyeballs....
I like Judge Jeanine Pirro on Sat. night. She’s staying on Bengazi.
Fox News may be doing more damage than we realize as it softens the conservative point of view and eliminates the news that is too right-wing for them. These practices tend to isolate and demonize the most controversial points of view.
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When Murdoch got in trouble in England for obtaining private emails (or something to that effect), there were rumors that he would also be in trouble in the US. The (conspiracy) theory goes that the Obama administration let him off the hook here in exchange for more liberals on Fox News and less criticism of the administration in general.
Just passing it along...
Very funny. It’s true. The New York Post has become more and more of a celebrity, gossip, and girlie rag, showing almost-naked women daily. If our mores were those of England, the women would actually be stark naked but they can’t get away with that here, yet.
Start watching Beck’s BlazeTV. It’s already on Dish. I’m dumping Comcast because they will never put it on their lineup and because of their recent ban on gun ads. Stream Blaze right now, but will watch it on Dish.
I agree. I watch no TV news as it is. It is the format - the arguing, the short-attention span, the lack of depth and lack of context and history that turns me off all TV news.
Shows like “Stossel” on FOX are a bit better than regular TV news, but not by that much.
ANYONE who boycotts FOX NEWS is one of the folks Andrew Breitbart talked about.....they are on the other side and only help the Progressive/Commi Liberal networks!
And that means....???
I hardly pay any attention to them anymore because they are so Left. Let their ratings be a reflection of that.
I stopped watching FNC because it’s just pretty faces and people talking loud over each other and flashy sets.
When I heard many FNC talking heads all singimg the same Libertarian tune, I knew they were no longer listening to their audience but to their denizens inside the Beltway and the other liberals in the MSM.
It seems that the Ron Paul speak had infested each member of their staff, so much so that I definitely refuse to even turn on Hannity, never tuned into O'Blather and lett Grrrrrreta to whatever murder case she was covering.
It means if you are viewing Fox *these days* as something right-of-center, you MIGHT just be a RINO.
I agree that FOX seems to be moving left. However, they are a business and the last election shows the Demographic is now largely composed leftist immigrants,”the youth,” Unions, American blacks etc. They probably feel they must attempt to gather in some of the aforementioned as viewers.
It's entertainment, not news.
Intelligent people have figured out where and how to find the things that are important and learn from trusted sources. In turn I hope that most are taking the time and making the effort to share truthful points with friends, co workers and low information voters.
I’m sick to death of “Fair and Balanced”. A network that was totally Conservative would barely provide “balance” to the communist propaganda being foisted on us as “news”.
Certainly if Beck can do it, someone who isn’t insane could start up a Conservative news network. Why isn’t CNN or MSNBC up for grabs?
Fox News is the work of Roger Ailes, who’s not such a bad guy.
He worked for RIchard NixOn, who was hated by the left-liberal media for going after Soviet spy Alger Hiss in Congress.
The liberal media and Nixon were at war with each other back around 1970 and the media got Nixon with Watergate.
The Nixon line was that news should be “fair and balanced” and now we have a news network that gives us the Nixon-Kissinger view of the world driving liberals nuts.
FNC is Nixon’s revenge, but its designed to draw in conservatives to support the GOP insiders.
Fox uses conservative comment shows as a means to draw in conservatives disgusted with the liberal media.
They also do stories on hot button issues like bias in education to draw conservatives in.
But then they give you the RINO spokesmen from Rove to other ex-Bush people on their panels and as guest experts.
Time for BNN (Beck News Network)?
Shemp must go, Whorealdo must go. That would be a start. I like Greta when I can stay up that late and Bret Baier which I try not to miss.
Sorry. There isnt a whole lot of differencebetween CNN and FOX.
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