[Dane]

I would add, IMHO, that Fox's contention that it plays it down the middle on its news coverage and reserves opinion to the opinion shows, is something of a fable. Listen to the asides of virtually any of the hosts and reporters, and there is a significant conservative slant. That's fine with me, but to suggest FNC plays it straight down the middle is simply not so, IMHO. It is as slanted to the right as the MSM is to the left.

I have to disagree, somewhat. Fox presents plenty of liberal commentators(such as Juan Williams, Elenor Clift, Ellis Henican, Susan Estrich etc.etc). The reason they may seem to slant to the right is because Fox gives the true loony left base a voice, and doesn't sugarcoat it like the old MSM and the NYT.

When the average American sees the true loony face of the democrat left, they are repulsed.

That's not to say there are not loons on the right, there are, but IMO, the loons on the left outnumber the loons on the right by a ratio of 10 to 1.

[filly]

I posted this in another thread, but it bears repeating here.

FYI: a survey of donations to political campaigns showed some interesting things.

CNN donations 99% Kerry
CBS, NBC, ABC donations nearly 98 to 98% Kerry
FOX donations 80% Kerry 20% Bush

Most of the people of FOX are Democrats.

The thing that makes FOX so popular is not that it is pro-Bush, but that it is pro-American.

When Roger Ailes hired Chris Wallace for Fox News Sunday the only political question he asked Chris was "do you get up in the morning thinking that America is the cause of all the problems in the world?" Chis Wallace said no and he was hired.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

There are a fair number of liberal commentators on Fox. But I don't think there's any question that the the great majority of hosts and reporters express Republican/conservative attitudes.

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