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Fox News Stands Out as "Too Critical" of Obama
Pew Research Center ^

Posted on 04/22/2009 4:09:30 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Fox News Stands Out as "Too Critical" of Obama No One Network Singled Out as Too Easy

Summary of Findings

When Americans are asked to assess television news coverage of Barack Obama, Fox News Channel stands out from other networks for being too critical of the president. Nearly three-in-ten (29%) select Fox when asked which of six broadcast and cable news networks have been too critical of the new Democratic president, a far greater share than any other network.

In contrast, no one TV network is singled out for being too easy on Obama. Each of five networks (CNN, MSNBC, NBC, ABC and CBS) was named by about one in six respondents in this regard. Again, the Fox News Network stands apart – just 5% named Fox as being too easy on the president.

The latest weekly News Interest Index survey, conducted April 17-20 by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, finds a substantial partisan divide in views of how TV news networks cover Obama. More than four-in-ten Democrats (44%) say Fox has been too critical of Obama, compared with 25% of independents and just 18% of Republicans. No other network comes close to Fox, though 11% overall – including 18% of Democrats – say CNN has been too critical of the president. Very few Americans cite the broadcast networks – ABC (4%), NBC (4%) or CBS (3%) – as too critical.

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To: rfp1234

Exactly! They’ve chosen to join an elite club alright.


21 posted on 04/22/2009 4:19:27 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Pres__ent Obama's own grandmother says he was born in Kenya. She was there.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Keep up the good work Fox!


22 posted on 04/22/2009 4:20:14 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: Sub-Driver

Too critical?

Compare with any of a series of nightly rants by Keith Olbermann on the subject of George W. Bush. And tell me when Fox gets around to juxaposing Barry Soetero with “Nazis” and “slavery”.


23 posted on 04/22/2009 4:21:04 PM PDT by alloysteel (When the chips are down - the buffalo is empty.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Nearly three-in-ten (29%) select

Did any of the 3 in 10 actually watch Fox?

Three in 10 equals approximately 60% of Democrats which would be the hard core. Forty percent of Dems evidently think Fox has it about right.

2012 should be a landslide for us. Just based on their no-doubt-phony polling.

24 posted on 04/22/2009 4:22:48 PM PDT by marron
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To: Paladin2
"What a useless set of statistics."

How many people think a screen door on a sub is a good idea?

Statistics on the obvious add nothing of value.

25 posted on 04/22/2009 4:22:52 PM PDT by Ben Mugged ("You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom".)
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To: PreciousLiberty
So, 30% of people think Fox is “Too Critical”. That means 70% of people think Fox has about the right amount of criticism, or not enough

Exactly.

26 posted on 04/22/2009 4:24:31 PM PDT by marron
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To: Sub-Driver
Without a more defined criteria, the survey lacks credibility. Unless all respondents spent the same number of hours viewing each of the news venues and the same ‘hosted’ programs, the results cannot be generalized as X being more lenient while Y was the harshest.

Otherwise, I doubt many of the respondents actually did watch the venue(s) they were most negative toward for more than a few minutes.

27 posted on 04/22/2009 4:30:00 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Sub-Driver

About 29% of Americans think the Bush Administration was complicit in the destruction of 9-11, or intentionally looked the other way.

Lotta moonbattery out there I’m sorry to say.


28 posted on 04/22/2009 4:32:29 PM PDT by Steely Tom (RKBA: last line of defense against vote fraud)
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To: Sub-Driver

FNC is closer to the truth than any of the others.

Truth is offensive to too many people in our country.


29 posted on 04/22/2009 4:52:57 PM PDT by Califreak (Obama is Swahili for "Death to America")
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To: Sub-Driver

ROTFLOL


30 posted on 04/22/2009 4:53:48 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: Sub-Driver

29% that have never watched FOX. Any criticism is too much for them.

Pray for America and Our Troops


31 posted on 04/22/2009 5:06:31 PM PDT by bray (Join the Rebel Republican Movement!)
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To: Sub-Driver
no one TV network is singled out for being too easy on Obama. Each of five networks (CNN, MSNBC, NBC, ABC and CBS) was named by about one in six respondents in this regard

That's easy to explain. Fox is the only one that takes Obama to task for his errors and poor policies. So when asked to spot the one hardest on Obama they have only one to choose from.

All five of the above are very easy on Obama, so when asked to select ONE that is easy on Obama, the response will be diluted among the five. Likely, a large percentage of the people checking any one of the five would have checked all five if given the chance. Thus the poll would have rated all five as heavily voted for being too easy on Obama.

32 posted on 04/22/2009 5:15:01 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: Sub-Driver

Did PUKE research do the same with CNN, PSNBMC, ABC, CBS, NBC and the other LAMESTREAM MEDIA when President Bush was in office?


34 posted on 04/22/2009 5:26:38 PM PDT by Paige ("All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing," Edmund Burke)
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To: Sub-Driver

Is BO getting his feelings hurt


35 posted on 04/22/2009 5:27:53 PM PDT by truthandlife ("Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God." (Ps 20:7))
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To: skeeter
Yeah and the rest of the scum in the media are too supportive of Obama.
37 posted on 04/22/2009 5:33:36 PM PDT by Sprite518
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To: Sub-Driver
Fox News Ratings Cheer News Corp. Investors

April 10, 2009

Three months after Barack Obama took the White House, Fox News is beating its rival cable news networks, MSNBC and CNN, in the ratings game. The channel had an average of 2.25 million primetime viewers, seven days a week, in the first quarter of 2009, per Nielsen. That is up 24% from last year. In all-day viewing, Fox News rose 26%.

38 posted on 04/22/2009 5:33:48 PM PDT by truthandlife ("Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God." (Ps 20:7))
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To: Sub-Driver

Hmmm... so what they’re saying is that they have a 5 way tie for the network is easiest on BO?

Seems about right, although on some days, one tries to break out of the pack to be the _very_ easiest on BO.


39 posted on 04/22/2009 5:45:03 PM PDT by bobwoodard
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To: Sub-Driver

CNN to critical for Dims ? The boys over at Pew must be losing their minds. Any complaint about Obama to ObamaBots is too many !


40 posted on 04/22/2009 6:00:27 PM PDT by dbrew2u
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