Fox Pulling Cable News To The Right *BARF ALERT*

The Hartford Courant ^ | 5-8-03 | Kevin Canfield, Courant Staff Writer

[nutmeg]

Perhaps the most obvious sign that the war on terrorism has changed the whole game for cable news networks was the recent decision by MSNBC to award a weekly talk show to a man named Michael Savage.

Savage, whose politics are as far to the right as any commentator this side of G. Gordon Liddy, runs the unfortunately named program "Savage Nation." Positioned at the center of a set that would embarrass the host of a public-access cable TV show, Savage gestures and grunts and mocks his opponents (Democrats, hated liberals, anyone who is ambivalent about the Bush administration's diplomatic and military policies) in schoolyard manner. In the spirit of a true talk-radio ideologue - that is, after all, how he got his start - Savage will link any pair of seemingly unrelated issues in the name of making a "point."

[Mr. Mojo]

Rooting for America to win the war on terrorism is "right wing" to these people.

[Mr. Mojo]

I didn't even take Olberman seriously when he was exclusively a sports news guy.

[Jim Robinson]

We cannot post full text from The Hartford Courant per our settlement agreement with the LAT/WP.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

At times during the war, I thought Fox was the only watchable news channel. Imus has also been criticizing Fox News. Lately he's been saying how great MSNBC is, but previously he said they were horrible.

[jwalsh07]

We cannot post full text from The Hartford Courant per our settlement agreement with the LAT/WP.

Well Jim, IMHO the posting of any text from the Courant leads to hives, crabs and brain damage.

[Jim Robinson]

That is correct. Repeated exposure can also cause blindness, high blood pressure and seizures, ie, fits of blind rage.

[tortoise]

The news stations respond to the market. They were all a bunch of commies, Fox experimented with a more conservative news channel since no one else was and made a killing. Now everyone else wants a piece of that action. It turns out that the market was a lot more conservative than the news agencies, and he who gives the market what they want makes the money. It is hard to fight economics.

All it required was someone doing something different in the market so that the market could decide for itself. Even some commies are smart enough to subordinate their ideology to the almight dollar when they see the writing on the wall.

[Grampa Dave]

Obviously this maggot left wing mediot is suffering from the virus which is more deadly than SARS. This selective Virus only hits the left wing maggots and those few on the far right who hate President Bush 24/7. They hate President Bush so much they want us to lose wars, suffer a massive economic depression, and any other hateful thing they can conjure up.

The deadly virus which destroys all mental capability, reasoning and common sense is the Blinding Bush Hatred Virus.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/908074/posts

Blinded by Bush-Hatred
The Washington Post ^ | 5/8/03 | Jonathan Chait


Posted on 05/08/2003 12:30 PM PDT by LdSentinal


In the lead-up to the war against Iraq, liberal doves all made pretty much the same point, with some variation: However successful the conflict itself might be, the long-term diplomatic costs of alienating much of the world would outweigh any benefits. This prediction, while questionable, at least had the benefit of playing out over such an extended period of time that it could not be conclusively disproved until its adherents were all long dead. Alas, after the campaign hit a snag, many doves were unable to resist the temptation to crow over the supposed overconfidence of the war plan -- and as a result looked silly a few days later when Saddam Hussein's regime collapsed, to the apparent delight of most Iraqis.

Now, it seems, war opponents are making a similar mistake. The present cause of their crowing is the failure (thus far) of the military to find solid evidence of weapons of mass destruction. Opponents of the war are starting to assert, or at least hint, that the entire rationale for the conflict has been undermined. The notion that Bush made the whole thing up about weapons of mass destruction has taken root on the left and is creeping ever closer to the liberal mainstream. My fellow liberals who have taken up this line are once again making a disastrous misjudgment.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/908074/posts

[Paleo Conservative]

Thanks for reminding me. I didn't realize that was one of the papers covered by that settlement.

[SuziQ]

But wait! How could FoxNews be pulling the media to the RIGHT if the media wasn't to the LEFT to begin with? And we all know, cause they've all been telling us for years that the media is not leftist! Kinda makes you wanna go Hmmmmm.....

[Always Right]

Don't recall them being too concerned that Donahue was too far to the left.

[Jorge]

At times during the war, I thought Fox was the only watchable news channel. Imus has also been criticizing Fox News. Lately he's been saying how great MSNBC is, but previously he said they were horrible.

Actually even though my TV stays on FOX most of the time, I found some of MSNBC's coverage of the war to be rather well done.

In any case, I take very little of the criticism from Imus very seriously...he pretty much seems to hate everybody, most of the time.

[Recovering_Democrat]

I agree. Fox is pulling news RIGHT back to the CENTER.

I will not buy the argument FOX is RIGHTWING and everyone else is "objective".

Horse shit. Fox is BALANCED in their presentation. The fact that they have conservatives on as much as liberals **enrages** the "journalistic" community and the media elites so much that they somehow have distorted their thinking to the exagerration that Fox is now cast as an arm of the Republican Party. What a crock.

BTW, did you notice all this was NOT SAID about Fox News Channel until they became #1 and held on to that spot for over a year.

[dancusa]

I get the Hartford Courant,it nothing but a left wing rag sheet.All the columnist with the exception of Laurence Cohen are liberals.The rest are all anti-Bush.They all identify with the West Hartford trust fund collecting elite,raising taxes to keep the state employees from paying market prices for their health insurance,the 'victacratic' dole collecting scum who don't want to work.Also the Trinity,Wesleyan,Yale and UConn student and professor leftists,teacher unions,gun control advocates,pro-choice advocates,the list goes on and on.Meanwhile the city of Hartford has turned into a welfare state where about half the residents are on some sort of government dependancy.Hartford is just an example of what government programs can do your city if you want the real elitist liberals to take over.I lived there when I was a kid(pre 1968).The LBJ'Great Society'has wrecked this city beyond fixing.Of course the Courant is pushing for regionalization of the greater Hartford area so the people in the suburbs could get taxed to death to throw more money into this bottemless pit.The real problem is 70% of the inner city kids have been abandoned by their fathers and the government is now their father.

[Dutchy]

FNC is pulling in big ratings and MSNBC and even CNN are taking notice and attempting to draw Conservative viewers, and it drives the Liberal media CRAZY!!!

[Sonny M]

Just remember, the people in charge at MSNBC are still liberal, the news casters are still liberal, and Keith Olberman is a read deal liberal elitist, funny thing though, they mention Bret Hume and O'Reilly, but the don't mention Chris Matthews who was practicially begging for a job as press secretay at the white house for clinton, or George steponarapevictimtogetelected working for ABC news. Things that make you go..hmmmm.

[dixiechick2000]

LOL! That's pretty bad...

[StarFan]

Thanks nutmeg. My note to them: "Thanks for the article regarding Fox News pulling cable to the right. From your lips to God's ear".

I also went on to commend MSNBC for Scarborough and Michael Savage which should guarantee a ratings boost.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[sorrisi]

"Fox is pulling everybody into expressing an ideological view," says Michael Wolff, media critic for New York magazine. "But even more important, they're pulling everybody into expressing a conservative view.

WOW! I knew I liked FOX News but never realized one small, new cable station had so much POWER that now everyone is FORCED into expressing a conservative view! It couldn't possibly be that they are resonating with and empowering the majority of people who have long held conservative views but felt they were the only ones oon the planet and it would be better to keep quiet.