Fox Offering More News Talk Than News (Sour Grapes Alert)

ContraCostaTime (Bay Area Rag) ^ | April 10, 2003 | Chuck Blarney

[SamAdams76]

AN AMERICAN flag logo adorns the upper left corner of the screen. Dramatic stand-up-and-salute drumbeats pound away under regularly scheduled updates. Gung-ho, self-aggrandizing commentators behave like cheerleaders sans the pompons. Dissenting viewpoints get summarily crushed with the verbal equivalent of bunker-busting bombs.

[MEG33]

Brit is the one! Shep has grown a bit.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Hi! I'm CP - I'm a war-a-holic, and have been dry on TV coverage for 8 hours only because I'm at work.

As a bonafide junkie who can watch even more this week because wy wife and kids are out of town for spring break, I can rate them as follows:

1. MSNBC - Pretty pro-American, and professional in presentation. Its like getting briefed in by a confident team. Plus, Nora O'Donnell is not hard to look at.

2. Fox - Has good things going for it. Laurie Dhue-Me, Heather Nauert, Jennifer Eccleston and Kiran Chetry always make me smile and wish I was there for a big group hug and hot tub party. The Fox imbedded reporters have been pretty good - but the good stuff ends there. They're bombastic and mighty quick on the trigger to announce rumors. Plus, most of what they say is less a regurgitation of the news, but patriotically spun conjecture. Still, I find myself turning to it a lot.

3. CNN - Only worthwhile if you like looking at the redheaded chick with the great blue eyes.

[isom35]

fair and balanced...brought to you by hot babes...

[angkor]

I'm still trying to figure out what "objective" news is.

It's the mantra of every mainstream journalist, it's taught in all the J-schools, yet it is epistemologically quite a tricky goal, since reporters are raised and educated in ways and environments that influence their Solon-like "objectivity."

So it seems like the true "objective" journalist is the one who reports "all sides" as equally valid regardless of the truth. Saddam's tyranny is "objectively" equivalent to the Patriot Act ... or something like that.

In the end I'll take biased news any day of the week. The myth and arrogance of "objective" news is just too difficult to sort out.

[GoreIsLove]

The network comes across as an exclusive pro-military, pro-administration club that caters to like-minded viewers while ridiculing any hint of contradictory ideology.

same thing CNN did during the Clinton years. where were these articles back then?

[steve-b]

Chuck Blarney

LOL!

[narby]

Fox News = America's News Network (the others are "internationalist" at best, anti-American at worst)

[WKB]

John 8:32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
Thank God for Fox News!

[SamAdams76]

I'm fairly new to watching FoxNews (during the past 10 years, I've mainly stayed away from the television). So when I mentioned here earlier that I think Greta Van Susteran is a fox, I was immediately jumped on by others here and was informed that Greta used to be on some other cable channel during the 1990s defending Bill Clinton. So she dropped a little in stature in my eyes. Still, she is not all that bad looking and her hair is neatly combed out. She also supports our troops and our current president.

[scouse]

And Fox and Friends is beginning to close in on the numbers of the CBS Early Show...

Add that to the fact that Rupert Murdoch has just purchased Direct-TV and Hughes' Electronics, then it's look out world

[ibme]

America has voted - you loose

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[Chancellor Palpatine]

A lot of guys here will hold any statement, no matter how old, no matter how flippantly uttered, against a media personality until the end of time. They refuse to believe people can change.

They're wrong.

[Mike Darancette]

I've watched coverage from all Cable Networks and I found CNN to just about to put me to sleep what with the dynamic Aaron Brown. CNN also had the most coverage of battle plan failures, supply shortages, friendly fire incidents, journalists being killed by US troops, Arab and Moslem hatred of America and general hand wringing about what is to follow.

MSNBC has been pretty good on it's coverage especially their embedded journalists.

[Kenno]

This is war covered like an Olympics and it's as if Fox News yearns to be the American equivalent of Al-Jazeera, the Arab all-news network

So it's OK to root for your country in the Olympics, but not a war? This POS needs to get his priorities straight.

[jern]

I agree the article is accurate and true, but that doesn't mean I will quit watcing FNC.

[4mycountry]

>>>fair and balanced...brought to you by hot babes...

*snicker* Good one!

[ewing]

The Asian chick on MSNBC is cute too..

[kallisti]

larry king barely beat south park????

[CholeraJoe]

I love the smell of liberal meltdown in the morning....

It smells like....victory.

[finnman69]

CABLE RACE
WEDS, APRIL 09, '03

O'REILLY 5.3 [RATING]
HANNITY/COLMES 4.1
GRETA 4.0
AARON BROWN 3.3
LARRY KING 2.9
SOUTH PARK 2.7
CNN 8 PM 2.6
MSNBC 9 PM 1.8
MSNBC 10 PM 1.6
MSNBC 8 PM 1.5

You have to laugh at South park beating MSNBC all night and CNN at *pm