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What’s Up with Fox News?
American Thinker.com ^ | February 14, 2021 | Peter Barry Chowka

Posted on 02/14/2021 5:54:49 AM PST by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin

How do you call an anti-Trump organization a conservative news group. They have 3 or 4 pro-Trump commentators at most. OP is a Mitt Romney brand of Republican.


21 posted on 02/14/2021 6:08:42 AM PST by NY Cajun (I contributed to her pink slip this morning. )
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To: Agatsu77

Total propaganda to influence the fools. Paul Ryan approved that peice in an attempt to gain viewers. Who needs FOX now that NEWSMAX and OANN are on my tube. Instead of firing Dobbs and Perino over the law suit, they should have stood behind them and free speech.


22 posted on 02/14/2021 6:09:56 AM PST by mosaicwolf
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To: Kaslin

OK, I gave it a read and found it to be laughably wrong. A network that is ‘more conservative than it’s ever been’ wouldn’t fire its #1 host on Fox Business Network, would it? Lou Dobbs crushed the other programs on FBN but is now unemployed. That speaks volumes.

The fact that Chris Wallace has been allowed to voice increasingly hostile opposition to all things conservatives is another milestone in the leftward lurch of the network. Fox News Sunday would fit in perfectly on CNN or MSNBC.

In fairness, I get the dilemma Fox is in. Their ad-rates have cratered the last three years. Why? Blue-chip companies simply won’t buy ad-time on Fox. That drives down the ad-rate, bigley. The boycott of Fox has done a lot of damage to their bottom line. If not for the carrier transmission fees they get from the cable and satellite operators, Fox wouldn’t even be a going concern. Still, that doesn’t mean they haven’t moved left in response, as this author says. They have, clearly.


23 posted on 02/14/2021 6:10:19 AM PST by ScubaDiver (Reddit refugee.)
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To: Kaslin

By the way, it’s actually kind of a stretch to call Fox News “news“. As far as I’m aware there is no news program. There’s not a single show that is simply the news of the day. Everything is opinion, groups of people chatting about things, interviews, guests, anything ... except two anchors sitting at a desk giving you the news in about 30 minutes.

It’s just a curated reality show channel.


24 posted on 02/14/2021 6:10:34 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. .... )
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To: Texas Eagle

Don’t call me Surely.


25 posted on 02/14/2021 6:10:54 AM PST by HighSierra5
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To: Dr. Ursus

It was written by Capo Cavuto, Chris Wallace, Paul Ryan, and other Leftist fools.


26 posted on 02/14/2021 6:12:09 AM PST by chopperk ( )
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To: rrrod

In Florida Trump’s lead was double what it was in 2016. Yet they still wouldn’t call it. Exactly right.


27 posted on 02/14/2021 6:12:10 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. .... )
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bump


28 posted on 02/14/2021 6:12:38 AM PST by foreverfree
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To: HighSierra5

Heh, heh. This piece reads like a parody.


29 posted on 02/14/2021 6:12:55 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: Dr. Ursus

I think the writer was paid by Fox to write this.

Even if it’s his own opinion, I disagree with it, completely.


30 posted on 02/14/2021 6:13:24 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: Kaslin

Out of curiosity I began watching Al Jazeera. To my surprise, the reporting was more intelligently packaged, and the bias, compared to CNN and MSNBC, was like a breath of fresh air. I never appreciated how sophomoric the American left wing media was. Along with TV7 from Jerusalem, you at least feel like you’re being treated like an adult.


31 posted on 02/14/2021 6:13:39 AM PST by Spok (All free men are equal only in their freedom; everything else is up to them.)
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To: Kaslin
People like to live in their own echo chamber and a successful network will pander to their close mindedness. On CNN and MSNBC, alternate points of view are not tolerated and thus are not communicated. That's how their viewers want it and it works, ratings wise, for them. Fox made the mistake of thinking people wouldn't be intimidated by hearing the other side especially since they have people like Tucker, Hannity, Ingraham, Levin, etc. to argue against people like Brazille, Williams, Wallace, etc.

Both points of view presented? Balanced coverage? How naïve Fox was.

32 posted on 02/14/2021 6:13:56 AM PST by Sir_Humphrey (Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people -Socrates)
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To: Agatsu77

From your opinion doesn’t matter anymore American Thinker.


33 posted on 02/14/2021 6:14:51 AM PST by cp124 (The government is the enemy.)
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To: Williams

They got rid of Lou Dobbs. They have Paul Ryan, Donna Brazil, Juan Williams and Chris (turns my stomach) Wallik.


34 posted on 02/14/2021 6:16:22 AM PST by Vehmgericht (12)
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To: Kaslin

I agree with the author. When I first started watching FNC Shep Smith was on at least 3 hours a day, Hannity was Hannity and Colmes, and Bill O’Reilly reigned in prime time.

There was the Beltway Boys with Fred Barnes and Mort Kondrake.

Shep, O’Reilly and Kondrake are all gone, weeknights are solidly conservative from 7 pm - 1 am, or will be when Gutfeld’s new shows begins at 11 pm every day Mon-Fri.

There’s a new 7 pm show with (right now) a different conservative host, one week at a time. Eventually, Fox News is expected to assign a permanent host to the show. And they are saying it will be a conservative.

Weekday mornings are solidly conservative from 4 am-9 am.

Fox News had a dreadful, horrible, painful election night coverage. But that was only one night. A night that FNC is still paying for with plummeting ratings.

Still, for me, FNC is the easily the best news broadcast currently on TV.


35 posted on 02/14/2021 6:17:02 AM PST by be-baw
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To: Kaslin
I am a reader/fan of American Thinker. In response to most to the comments above, Americanism is not supported/promoted by fanaticism from the Left or the Right. I DO watch Fox and Friends, Tucker, Hannity and Laura if I do not first fall asleep! I encourage pragmatism rather than blind fanaticism
36 posted on 02/14/2021 6:17:32 AM PST by texican01
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To: ScubaDiver

Bingo! I want a network that employs Mike Wallace yet fires Lou Dobbs to fail. I will not so much as click on their channel for an instant as it would however slightly count as a viewership statistic which might add revenue to their enterprise.


37 posted on 02/14/2021 6:17:49 AM PST by PUGACHEV ( Ins’t coming out of their pri)
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To: Kaslin

Divide and conquer with Fox viewers being the target......that’s what the left does best and they are winning.


38 posted on 02/14/2021 6:19:37 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: mosaicwolf

Total propaganda to influence the fools.
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Precisely.


39 posted on 02/14/2021 6:19:46 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: DesertRhino

State and local GOP did a fantastic job. Street events, car and boat parades. And calls


40 posted on 02/14/2021 6:21:53 AM PST by rrrod (6)
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