Are Bill O'Reilly And Fox News Biased? I Report, You Decide!

Toogood Reports ^ | December 27, 2001 | Isaiah Flair

[X-USAF]

And Fair's point would be...?

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[Restorer]

First, why did “media watch” organizations like FAIR.org fail to lambaste the obvious pro-feminist left-wing bias of CNN, ABC, NBC, and CBS (as so brilliantly proven in Bernard Goldberg´s great new book, Bias)?

Actually, FAIR does criticize these organizations regularly for being biased. It's just that the bias they see is towards the conservative side. These organizations are owned by corporations, don't you know, and everybody knows corporations are all rabidly right wing.

[BlackElk]

I suppose that even FOX NEWS has to cater to some extent to brain-dead advertisers. Thus FOX NEWS is more liberal than it need be. Those who think of FOX NEWS as biased in favor of conservatism are those whose brains died years ago, having overdosed on Dan Blather, Tom Brokejaw, Petah, or even earlier on the likes of Walter (I guess you could describe me as an unreconstructed 1930s radical Look Magazine late 1968 or early 1969) Cronkite. The left thinks it has some sort of constitutional right to a monopoly on news and views.

[BlackElk]

Don't the Chicoms already control ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN???? Do they want ANOTHER network here????? What difference could it make? On the other hand, once the masses of Chinese men get a look at the major league babes on Fox News, they will have trouble identifying Chairman Mao!

[Eaker]

Please explain Whoraldo.

Eaker

[Illbay]

...boldly refusing to meekly carry...

Ha. Mr. Flair, meet Mr. Bulwer-Lytton.

[BlackElk]

I just knew that O'Reilly would get in trouble some day for believing in minor restraints on abortion.

[FreeTally]

Second, given that all of the broadcast networks news programs and CNN slant to the Left, what would be wrong with the Fox News Channel slanting to the right?

I have always had a problem with the word "slant". Either they are reporting news events or they are reporting lies. Bill O'Reilly isn't "the news", he is a political commentator. All political comentators tend to lean "left" or "right". The problem is that in the era of "news channels", people mistake actual "news" with the 20 hours a day worth of political opinions. Of course, many Americans are no longer smart enough to differentiate this themselves. They turn of Fox or CNN to see "news", but there is rarely news on the channels. They just assume "political opinions" are news.

[TADSLOS]

Fox News is abiding by that old capitalist tradition of finding a need (viewers tired of the liberal dominated network/CNNmedia) and filling it (balanced views). Judging by their ratings success and increasing viewership over the liberal biased stalwarts, I'd say they're business plan is working.

[Hagrid]

Leading the charge with this complaint is the media watch organization, FAIR.org. FAIR.org complains that Bill O´Reilly, host of the popular show The O´Reilly Factor and author of the books The No-Spin Zone and The O´Reilly Factor, is very conservative.

They also suggest that FNC CEO Roger Ailes has a conservative bias.

Do they give any examples of right-wing bias at FOX? Surely, it takes more than poliutical affiliation to prove bias because then the other networks are by definition overwhelmingly biased to the left. There are plenty of examples in Goldberg's book Bias about left-wing bias at CBS and other networks. What are the examples of FOX's biased reporting?

[MotleyGirl70]

Bill O'Reilly is hardly a conservative. At times, he sounds like a socialist

No, no, no, no, no. He votes for the best candidate as stated in his book The No Spin Zone.

He is a hard-hitting interviewer and takes no prisoners, especially towards the lefties (Sharpton, Susan Sarandon, George Cloony, Susan Estrich and all others). He exposes the corruptness of our government and the billions and billions of wasted taxpayer dollars (i.e., the millions and millions Clinton gave to Haiti.)

He is a great investigator and one of the few honest journalists looking out for hard working Americans.

[Leesylvanian]

FNC may not be perfect, but it is certainly the best news channel available today. My theory about Fox is that they are labeled right-wing or conservative because people have been spoon fed liberal pablum for so long that when something unbiased comes along, it appears to be right-wing.

Also, one does not have to be non-judgemental in order to be non-biased. In order to report fairly about Clinton, one would have to be critical. Not being critical of Clinton would be biased for the left because there is simply nothing positive or even neutral to say about a traitorous, murdering, rapist.

[SunStar]

FNC may not be perfect, but it is certainly the best news channel available today. My theory about Fox is that they are labeled right-wing or conservative because people have been spoon fed liberal pablum for so long that when something unbiased comes along, it appears to be right-wing.

Absolutely.

Plus, when the conservative viewpoint is available in equal proportions to the liberal one, the conservative one usually wins the argument. Common sense based on reason and logic usually does. Since NBC/CBS/ABC/CNN only feature the conservative viewpoint 5-10% of the time, they are biased.

[Timesink]

Actually, FAIR does criticize these organizations regularly for being biased. It's just that the bias they see is towards the conservative side. These organizations are owned by corporations, don't you know, and everybody knows corporations are all rabidly right wing.

FAIR hardly ever seems to criticize anyone for anything. I get oodles of hard data from the Media Research Center proving liberal media bias every single day, but all I ever get from FAIR is one press release every three weeks or so.