[only1percent]

Fox is useless if it is not both objective and skeptical, of everyone. Conservatives in government need to be kept honest like every other politician -- isn't it better done by media who are editorially aligned with basic conservative goals, than by media who are harshly opposed? Any criticism which Fox can make, NPR can make ten times worse, and with far more dubious motives.

[PhiKapMom]

You are preaching to the choir so when you get flamed you will know one person is on your side -- me!

Fox is also having trouble with credibility sometimes in their news stories. They would do better to not try to beat everyone and get their facts straight!

During the day recently I have turned to MSNBC for news which pains me to say except half of MSNBC is now over on Fox!

[yonif]

I don't have Fox News at this college. In any event, I get 99% of my news online.

[sinkspur]

Both of you are nitpicking. Mom, you've still got a wedgie over Major Garrett's reporting last Thursday over the wimpy talk of some Republicans. He quoted Hatch, he quoted Santorum. No "context" was need for remarks that sounded defeatist. If this is your evidence of "getting their facts straight," why don't you ask the two Senators quoted why they said what they said? You may not like Garrett's quoting their caught-off-guard statements, but they did say what he quoted them as saying.

As for our "newbie" here, FOXNEWS is not a "conservative" channel. It is "fair and balanced," and is still heads and shoulders above the rest.

You, and Mom, are free, of course, to scrape the bottom of the barrel and watch CNN or MSNBC, if you wish.

[wingnuts'nbolts]

Yes, I sure did notice it and Mrs. chaney like the intellectual, educated refined lady she is handled it beautifully. I can't imagine what brought O'Reilly to behave in such a churlish manner with the VP's wife, who as far as I can tell has done nothing to warrant the pit bull approach. Hillary who has an attack coming in spades skates through all interviews. Go figure? It didn't make Bill look any larger.

[ForOurFuture]

I agree. What good is Fox if it doesn't habitually bend over and lick the feet of Saint Bush our God and conservatives everywhere? After all, we know that Fox isn't really supposed to be "fair and balanced"; that's just a facade to fool its liberal critics. We know that its real purpose is to pander to us depressed and underexposed conservatives. Damn good journalism and objectivity, just so long as it's not the liberal media.

On a more serious note, I consider Fox News nearly as bad and unwatchable as the liberal media. Just because I'm a conservative doesn't mean I'd rather watch news with a disgusting conservative bias than a disgusting liberal bias. And please don't deny to me that Fox has a conservative bias. I recognize it just as well as I recognize a liberal bias in everything else. I also hate its screen graphics, music, format, and many of its anchors/analysts.

[Freedom2specul8]

Just a nudder little ping..

[DensaMensa]

}Anybody else notice this?

Yes. Fox is become arrogant and overbearing. That have lost their focus and are trying to be the People Magazine of TV. O'Reilly is covering more and more crap designed for sweeps week. IMHO Fox News has peaked. It's all downhill from here.

[B-Chan]

"Magic"? What "Magic"? It's a CABLE TV CHANNEL, not some kind of TV morale ministry. Pull yourself together, friend!

(Better yet: why not turn off the TV and go outside every now and then -- you're sitting too close to the Tube. Those rays really will burn your eyes out...)

My only complaint with FNC is that they don't show that cute Patty Anne Browne enough.

[FOMTY]

I can't stand Fox news. The conservative bias thing bothers me a little bit, I guess, but mostly I don't like the production or the grating personalities of O'Reilly, Smith, or Hannity. I find Greta to be the most watchable. The Fox news "babes" everyone worships here have enough botox in their faces to launch some kind of terrorist attack. Also, I have no idea what the hell a g-block is.

[Rightproud]

faithincowboys signed up 2003-01-06

only1percent signed up 2003-02-11

Are your comments sincere or just disrupting?

Maybe Fox isn't perfect, but they sure as heck beat any of the competition.

[frosty snowman]

I watch FOXNews mostly because I like the H&C show. Brit Hume, Tony Snow, Hannity and their guests are the best thing about fox. O'Reilly has gone downhill and the foxnews live babes always get their facts wrong. Geraldo is a serious impediment to any news organization's credibilty. If it weren't for Hannity I would skip the news channel and just watch fox news sunday on the local affiliate.

[Cboldt]

Y'all have to keep in mind that the function of a newscast is to generate revenue. They claim to be accurate, objective, whatever it takes to get and keep viewers. They get feedback in the form of ratings, which tell them what works, and what doesn't. I believe that those of us who post on FR represent a tiny sliver of thier audience. Sure, they'll take criticism and apply it, but only for the purpose of improving or maintaining ratings. Most of the public doesn't have the time or inclination (probably doesn't have the ability) to look up facts and form accurate perceptions of the world. The function of the news media is emphatically NOT to present an accurate world-view, and anybody who has that expectation is destined for disappointment.

[LaGrone]

I believe the Fox cable news channel has really helped the Republicans with their message to the public through fair reporting.

Having said that, the constant alerts are becoming very annoying. Also some of the prime time shows are becoming tiring. But Britt is still the fairest analyst on any station, and the most informed IMHO. His interviews are equally tough on both Liberals and Conservatives.

[jbstrick]

How typical... If you don't like the show/reporting turn off the TV. For years, you people were complaining & whining about the bias of the other networks. Now that one comes along which is somewhat fair in reporting, we have to complain to their methods.

[pollywog]

In one word, YES!!!!!!! They are stooping to the level of CNN and MSNBC as far as I am concerned.

[Cold Heat]

The two that you mentioned are likely the worst that FOX has.IMHO!

I generally watch neither unless there is something of great interest.

[boltCutter]

Don't sweat it. A paradigm shift is occurring in this country right now. Popular education (read government schools) and the popular press, the primary engines of Marxist propaganda, are slowly being shifted back to center where they belong. Most rational adults, in the absence of propaganda, will be conservatives. That's why liberals are so afraid of Fox and the ever growing trend of home-schooling; they know this and this movement towards neutrality totally evaporates any means they may have to proselytize the masses.
Fox is just being neutral by giving both sides a fair shake. Don't fear neutrality, it always favors conservatives by huge margins.

[Porterville]

What are you from CNN or what??? Ted Turner go home.

[bethelgrad]

why does everyone think Oreily is conservative? He's no lib but definatly not conservative either.