Underdog Fox News wins war ratings race

Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | 03/30/03 | CAROLINE WILBERT

[nutmeg]

ping!

If you don't have FNC, badger your cable or satellite company to add FNC to their BASIC (cheapest) package!

Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my infrequent ping list.

[longtermmemmory]

CNN is useless. Its as if Clinton never left office over there. CNN has become worse since the war started and it has become more and more difficult to watch them.

Is it just me or does anyone get a WWII greatest generation feel about the goals of the USA when watching FOX?

I would suggest the reporters demand their money back from their journalism schools. They obviously were robbed by the schools. CNN is deluded if they are offering hard news. The hard thing they are offering lack of Gravitas.
(turnabout baby!) CNN is just an extended pablum of ABCCBSNBC there is no difference.

[Texasforever]

Here ya go

http://www.halifaxlive.com/article.php?sid=182&mode=&order=0&thold=0

[noutopia]

FOX is the best news network on thr Planet Earth.NONE BETTER.

[1 spark]

Way to go FOX!
Here's another thread discussing media bias of the lesser stations.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/879739/posts

Someday, somebody has to incorporate FOX news and Free Republic into that... "These are Some of My Favorite Things" song. (sorry if i don't have the name of it right.)

[patriciaruth]

We're all walking commercials for FOX News, every time there's an opportunity. And it's not because it has great news coverage, because it really is a grade C operation. But it's because it has been the only place on TV you could hear our side of the story.

I happen to know about biased reporting from personal experience. We had an accidental pesticide spraying of some farm workers in my area about 14 years ago. Plane sprayed the wrong field. The grower had a plan in place, had a doctor all ready picked out and a plan--they go home or whereever, wash, change clothes and go straight to the doc. Doc was out, but I was there, his colleague. We saw about 35 people very efficiently, nurses asking a list of questions, drawing blood test, and doc (me) going from room to room doing exams.

One of the things we checked was whether the women were pregnant, and test came back that one was, so she got special attention and followup from me, but she never had any symptoms or blood test abnormalities.

CBS reported the story about the poor farm worker who was sprayed with pesticide and was pregnant and hadn't even seen a doctor. I, an M.D., had seen her three times before this story came out. I was the one who had told her she was pregnant, which was news to her.

[Calvin Locke]

Historic, yes, for letting "Arrogant" Aaron be their face in the face of stiff competition and the in the faces of
potential viewers.

Historic, yes for replacing the relatively non-offensive Connie Chung with somebody that has high negatives.

[Eva]

Boy, you got that right. I just watched about five minutes of CNN, just to see how they were covering the war, and I couldn't believe what I was seeing and hearing. The commentator was asking leading questions of the journalist from Newsweek, Chris Dickey, regarding the lack of enthusiastic welcome from the Iraqi people. The journalist had that tight lipped hateful expression that leftists get when they talk about the Bush administration, as he spat out the words that the Iraqis saw this as a war of colonialism, not liberation. Then the commentator asked with a sly smile, if there was anything that the administration could have gone through the UN and tried to work things out. I turned the channel, that was all I could take.

[hotpotato]

"Critics snicker at the red-, white- and blue-festooned screen"

Fox Laughs Last

[L_Von_Mises]

Relatives of mine have Dish Network with the cheapest "America's 50" package. The only news network is CNN and CNBC (which is more financial news). Another friend only gets MSNBC on her "basic" cable package. FNC MUST get itself on those basic/cheapest cable and satellite packages, but I have no idea how to help them do it.

It is up to your local provider. In Northern Virginia we have it as part of our basic package. Of course it came about as a result of Fox playing hardball. Their local affiliate had Redskins football and refused to air the playoffs (couple of years ago) unless they added Fox news to their programming. Cox Cable lost a lot of customers to DirectTV and caved.

Get enough people to call and complain and you might get it.

[SAMWolf]

These are the same critics that deride honesty, integrity, and patriotism as being passe and out of step with modern times.

Screw them.

Amen! O'Reilly actually had some idiot professor on the other night complaining that Fox was to Patriotic and that it wasn't right.

[PeoplesRep_of_LA]

Craig Allen, coordinator of broadcast news at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University Man I knew I was in for an attack when I heard that label. If they called it the Walter Cronkite School of Jaundice and Mass Confusion at least they would be honest. When will everyone realize that Walter Cronkite is the hero of the modern liberal reporter because managed to take Leftist pot-shots daily while remaining completely immune of critisizm? (They all long to command that respect) That pretentious, condesending disgusting old limosine liberal is as much a reason we pulled out of Vietnam as the North Vietcong. Way to go FOX! I watch you every night and love it!

[Future Useless Eater]

Get cable.

Basic cable is $550 per year for FoxNews plus (60 channels of crap)

[mrsalty]

Thanks alot. All I could get was MSNBC and CBS

[nutmeg]

It is up to your local provider. In Northern Virginia we have it as part of our basic package. Of course it came about as a result of Fox playing hardball. Their local affiliate had Redskins football and refused to air the playoffs (couple of years ago) unless they added Fox news to their programming. Cox Cable lost a lot of customers to DirectTV and caved.

Interesting... thanks for that info. I threatened my cable company (Cox) numerous times that I would switch to satellite... they caved here in CT as well.

[noutopia]

Whats your problem ,cable is not free.

[sauropod]

"Do we have 50 Humvees in the field? No. Maybe you don't need 50 Humvees in the field," said Bill Shine, network executive producer. "Maybe you need good journalists on the air."

They DO have good journalists. CNN and Rostensteil can go suck eggs. Elitist pigs!

[nutmeg]

I just watched about five minutes of CNN, just to see how they were covering the war, and I couldn't believe what I was seeing and hearing.

Same here. Aaron Brown, Wesley Clark, Judy Woodruff, Christiane Amanpour... Gloom and Doom 24/7... yeesh! Back to being "locked on Fox" as they say!

[TheLion]

I think Fox is more-in-line with mainstream America. The other networks just shove their liberal puke down your throat, no matter what. You are basically listening to their agenda, not news.

Fox also makes you feel good, because they are of like mind and are not pushing a leftest agenda.

I happened to see a little of CBS and Dan Rather's 48 hours tonight, at a bar and read the closed captioning. There was not much positive. Mainly it was about suicide bombers, protesters, troops not getting enough to eat, etc. More doom and gloom. I think the left calls this "balanced reporting".

[sauropod]

Cable sux. I used to have it. Now, i have DirecTV.