New Yorker Finds Fox News Biased

IMDB.com ^ | 5-20-03

[Paul Atreides]

In advance of the May 26 publication of an article by New Yorker media writer Ken Auletta about Fox News Channel, the magazine on Monday released an interview with Auletta in which he cites recent research indicating that while CNN and Fox both attract about the same percentage of conservative viewers, Fox viewers stay tuned 70 percent longer than CNN viewers do and thereby account for the network's ratings success. Moreover, Auletta indicates, because Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes is regarded as an administration ally, he has enjoyed unprecedented government access -- something that may have helped Geraldo Rivera during the recent Iraq war. Auletta says that after the Pentagon yanked Rivera from his "embedded" position with U.S. troops for his infamous sand drawing, "Ailes called friends in the Bush administration" and Rivera was able to return to his position. Thus, "Geraldo and Fox were spared major embarrassment."

[Paul Atreides]

Yaaaaaaawwwwwwnnnnnn!

[ladyinred]

I find the New Yorker biased!
They probably will apologize to me by morning.

[Cicero]

The New Yorker got all the best ord'oeurvres at clinton's cocktail parties, and plenty of chilled chardonnay. Now their noses are out of joint.

[rimmont]

Since when are these a**holes concerned about bias?

[Commiewatcher]

"Fox viewers stay tuned 70 percent longer than CNN viewers do and thereby account for the network's ratings success."

And in the end, when all is said and done, this is all that matters. Money talk$ and BS walk$. Auletta's "views" don't matter because he doesn't matter.

[McGavin999]

The New Yorker? Isn't that where the NYT cast offs go? You know, the ones who can't lie as well?

[Paul Atreides]

The libs are all in a snit because all of the untouchables in flyover country now have a voice. The market decides that talk radio is successful, so it must be due to something evil in the air. The market decides that Fox is successful, so it must be due to something evil in the air. The market is able to get their news on the Internet, rather than four network socialists, so it must be due to something evil in the air.

Ah, the loss of liberal power is a lovely thing.

[Ed_in_NJ]

I'm getting a good laugh out of this -- I have (long ago) cancelled both New Yorker and CNN subscriptions, and phoned my local cable co. (more than once) to demand FNC, before they added it to their lineup.

[gaspar]

Ken Auletta: The reincarnation of Truman Capote.

[Doctor Raoul]

There's a reason why nobody knows Ken Auletta......

[Freee-dame]

There's a reason why nobody knows Ken Auletta......

Was it Ken Auletta that I heard say that Fox News has an unfair number of conservatives on their panels? The usual three liberals and one conservative on the alphabet channels must be his idea of "fair."

[Reactionary]

I like it. If liberals want to play the objectivity game, we can play. Bring it on.

[jagrmeister]

Liberals are especially deceitful when discussing media bias. They insist on discussing FoxNews despite the fact that it reaches less than 1/20th the audience of network news. That's 5%!! It's an anomaly, a spit in the ocen- compared to the liberal bias that pervades network news, the newspapers, and magazines. It's an attempt to argue by exception, intellectual dishonesty that is towering even for them.

[Paul Atreides]

What is truly bizarre is, at first, the left was saying that there is absolutely, positively, without a doubt, no liberal bias in the media. Then, along comes Albore, Obubba Been Laiden, and Her Thighness saying that there is a bias in the media, only that it is a right wing bias! That's right. ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, and especially FNC all tilt to the conservative point of view. Their whole worldview turns on a dime. First, President Bush was too stupid to even put on his socks in the morning. The next day, he was this brilliant mastermind who is ready to take over the world. The spirit of Doublethink and Doublespeak is alive and well in the world of liberalism.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

I have (long ago) cancelled both New Yorker and CNN subscriptions, and phoned my local cable co. (more than once) to demand FNC, before they added it to their lineup.

That is one little tidbit they forgot to mention. In many areas Fox is not available but CNN is a staple with all cable subscriptions.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Moreover, Auletta indicates, because Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes is regarded as an administration ally, he has enjoyed unprecedented government access...yeah, but he hasn't had to conceal and suppress news of assassinations, torture, and systematic murder to maintain his access the way CNN did to keep their in with Saddam......