Unfair&Unbalanced Fox News

[Legend]

I never hated a single network in my life like i hate fox news their journalist are so damn bias they should just change their logo to fox new home of the rich republican.What really pisses me off about them is they choose to ignore major stories like the fat cop beating the female bartender or the jena 6 case but yet can put on stories about joe francise the girls gone wild loser or dog the jobless bounty hunter who they tried to make look like a angel.

Another thing is there obvious alliance to the republican party how many times can they praise rudy "look what i did for new york"giuliani hell they even praise some guy from televesion who doesn't seem to know shit(just watch him in any debate)but praise him anyway because he is a good ole republican.I've seem so many anti obama and clinton stories you would think that channel is devoted to bashing those two candidates.

Fair and Balanced My Ass!


I've never wanted to punch these people more the anyone else in the world,

1.Bill Oreilly
2.Sean Hannity
3.Dick Morris
4.Neil Cavuto
5.Ann Coulter
6.Michelle Malkin

[Mr_Choc69]

FOX is the Worst and most Biased news in the world. What is even worse is that many people take their news as the Gospel!!

[Night Rider]

bill o'riley makes me laugh

..the rest are assholes

[loki]

Any one channel is biased. That's why i watch and read varied sources.

[trish]

Any one channel is biased. i whole-heartedly agree. but some sources are more biased than others and some are sooo biased they aren't worth reading or looking at. that's why i don't read the publications of the flat-earth society, the rosicrucians or watch fox news.

[loki]

Any one channel is biased. i whole-heartedly agree. but some sources are more biased than others and some are sooo biased they aren't worth reading or looking at. that's why i don't read the publications of the flat-earth society, the rosicrucians or watch fox news.Although i watch fox news i've never heard of the others you mentioned. Thanks for the info!

[Kriss]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6737097743434902428

[guyone]

It's only biased if you are a mindless bolshevik drone. Besides you can always change the channel.

Nov 3rd Prime Time:

FNC – 1,821,000 viewers
CNN – 837,000 viewers
MSNBC - 501,000 viewers
CNBC – 334,000 viewers
HLN – 439,000 viewers

[Oli]

It's only biased if you are a mindless bolshevik drone.

Good to see the layoff hasn't changed you!!

Welcome back.

[steelerfreak666]

It's been PROVEN in studies by many sources, the lastest being HARVARD, that Fox is the least biased of the major news outlets. If you want to bitch and moan about the media being biased, you should be bitching that they are too biased towards the left!

I do however commend the left on their brainwashing of this country. They do have the dumbest people in their pockets, and that makes up a majority of the populace.

[Oli]

It's been PROVEN in studies by many sources, the lastest being HARVARD, that Fox is the least biased of the major news outlets. If you want to bitch and moan about the media being biased, you should be bitching that they are too biased towards the left!

Provide a link to prove that, or your statement is irrelevant.

[Night Rider]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6737097743434902428

..good to see ya back kriss :)

[El Nino]

Fox is Nazi Propaganda-101

[NewYorker]

Any one channel is biased. i whole-heartedly agree. but some sources are more biased than others and some are sooo biased they aren't worth reading or looking at. that's why i don't read the publications of the flat-earth society, the rosicrucians or watch fox news.

You forgot about the paper that Linden LaRouche publishes.

[trish]

you're right New Yorker. there are just too many crazy organizations to name them all. fortunately they're generally pretty easy for the intellectually honest seeker to filter.

[casca82]

you leftist are all bunch cry babies. Taking about unfair and unbalanced, most of the media leans to the far left, and your taking about unfair and unbalanced. one network dosen't agree with your views and you attack it. Thats what you marxists do it dosent suprise me at all. :screwy

[thx1138]

Fox news is NOT a news channel. It is an infotainment channel. It is propaganda DISGUISED as news. It is owned by Rupert Murdoch who has ties to the Israeli elite in Tel Aviv. So if anyone thinks "Fox News" can be fair and balanced I have a bridge to sell you. You'll see guys pop up on this site taking issue with what I just wrote. Pay them no attention. These guys (and there are quite a few of them all over the internet) are offically designated "ideological commados" whose sole mission is to spin and lie. The idea for this bs was originally thought up by the criminal Rove. They are paid out of RNC funds, large corporate donors and, of course, the South American cocaine trade and the Afghanistan opium trade.

[guyone]

"Provide a link to prove that, or your statement is irrelevant."

[trish]

peace is a lie, there is only passion, through passion, I gain strength, through strength, I gain
power, through power, I gain victory, through victory, my chains are broken :screwy

[trish]

It's only biased if you are a mindless bolshevik drone. Besides you can always change the channel.

Nov 3rd Prime Time:

FNC – 1,821,000 viewers
CNN – 837,000 viewers
MSNBC - 501,000 viewers
CNBC – 334,000 viewers
HLN – 439,000 viewers

i think your buddy, casca82 answered this best when he said,

most people are just, not that bright.

[Oli]

"Provide a link to prove that, or your statement is irrelevant."

For once we are in agreement...I don't believe Fox is "Fair and Balanced", I also don't believe CNN or MSNBC are either.

[thx1138]

I.C.: do your own research. Don't you tell me what is relevant ot irrelevent.

[guyone]

I can tell you whatever the hell I want.

[thx1138]

I hope HE won't be forgotten: file this under supporting our troops http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/11/15/wounded.marine/index.html

[thx1138]

File this under supporting our troops ABC News

What Happened to Sgt. Cassidy?
November 15, 2007 7:27 AM

When Senator Evan Bayh, Democrat of Indiana, gets his chance to question Army Secretary Pete Geren at Thursday's Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, his staff says the senator will ask the secretary to explain what happened to Indiana National Guardsman Sgt. Gerald Cassidy.

In the wake of the Walter Reed scandal, the Army established something called WARRIOR TRANSITION UNITS to help coordinate care for wounded soldiers and make their release into the community easier and smoother.

Indiana National Guardsman Sgt. Cassidy was assigned to a Warrior Transition Unit at Fort Knox when he came home from duty.

IN LATE SEPTEMBER Sgt. Cassidy's family tried to reach him.

They kept trying and trying.

They called Fort Knox officials repeatedly and finally someone went to his room.

HE WAS DEAD.


According to Bayh's staff "IT APPEARS HE MAY HAVE BEEN UNCONSCIOUS IN HIS ROOM FOR SEVERAL DAYS and DEAD FOR AT LEAST SEVERAL HOURS BEFORE BEING DISCOVERED."

Senator Bayh wants to know why, and more importantly, so does Sgt. Cassidy's family.

[thx1138]

bush photo op http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22730199-38198,00.html

[thx1138]

file under supporting our troops http://www.npr.org/about/press/2007/111507.zwerdling.html

[thx1138]

supporting our troops http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/11/13/stunning-cbs-news-disc_n_72417.html

[Falrune]

http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/Media-Bias-Is-Real-Finds-UCLA-6664.aspx

Media Bias Is Real, Finds UCLA Political Scientist
By
Meg Sullivan

| 12/14/2005 5:36:31 PM
While the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal is conservative, the newspaper's news pages are liberal, even more liberal than The New York Times. The Drudge Report may have a right-wing reputation, but it leans left. Coverage by public television and radio is conservative compared to the rest of the mainstream media. Meanwhile, almost all major media outlets tilt to the left.

These are just a few of the surprising findings from a UCLA-led study, which is believed to be the first successful attempt at objectively quantifying bias in a range of media outlets and ranking them accordingly.

"I suspected that many media outlets would tilt to the left because surveys have shown that reporters tend to vote more Democrat than Republican," said Tim Groseclose, a UCLA political scientist and the study's lead author. "But I was surprised at just how pronounced the distinctions are."

"Overall, the major media outlets are quite moderate compared to members of Congress, but even so, there is a quantifiable and significant bias in that nearly all of them lean to the left," said co?author Jeffrey Milyo, University of Missouri economist and public policy scholar.

The results appear in the latest issue of the Quarterly Journal of Economics, which will become available in mid-December.

Groseclose and Milyo based their research on a standard gauge of a lawmaker's support for liberal causes. Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) tracks the percentage of times that each lawmaker votes on the liberal side of an issue. Based on these votes, the ADA assigns a numerical score to each lawmaker, where "100" is the most liberal and "0" is the most conservative. After adjustments to compensate for disproportionate representation that the Senate gives to low?population states and the lack of representation for the District of Columbia, the average ADA score in Congress (50.1) was assumed to represent the political position of the average U.S. voter.

Groseclose and Milyo then directed 21 research assistants — most of them college students — to scour U.S. media coverage of the past 10 years. They tallied the number of times each media outlet referred to think tanks and policy groups, such as the left-leaning NAACP or the right-leaning Heritage Foundation.

Next, they did the same exercise with speeches of U.S. lawmakers. If a media outlet displayed a citation pattern similar to that of a lawmaker, then Groseclose and Milyo's method assigned both a similar ADA score.

"A media person would have never done this study," said Groseclose, a UCLA political science professor, whose research and teaching focuses on the U.S. Congress. "It takes a Congress scholar even to think of using ADA scores as a measure. And I don't think many media scholars would have considered comparing news stories to congressional speeches."

Of the 20 major media outlets studied, 18 scored left of center, with CBS' "Evening News," The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times ranking second, third and fourth most liberal behind the news pages of The Wall Street Journal.

Only Fox News' "Special Report With Brit Hume" and The Washington Times scored right of the average U.S. voter.

The most centrist outlet proved to be the "NewsHour With Jim Lehrer." CNN's "NewsNight With Aaron Brown" and ABC's "Good Morning America" were a close second and third.

"Our estimates for these outlets, we feel, give particular credibility to our efforts, as three of the four moderators for the 2004 presidential and vice-presidential debates came from these three news outlets — Jim Lehrer, Charlie Gibson and Gwen Ifill," Groseclose said. "If these newscasters weren't centrist, staffers for one of the campaign teams would have objected and insisted on other moderators."

The fourth most centrist outlet was "Special Report With Brit Hume" on Fox News, which often is cited by liberals as an egregious example of a right-wing outlet. While this news program proved to be right of center, the study found ABC's "World News Tonight" and NBC's "Nightly News" to be left of center. All three outlets were approximately equidistant from the center, the report found.

"If viewers spent an equal amount of time watching Fox's 'Special Report' as ABC's 'World News' and NBC's 'Nightly News,' then they would receive a nearly perfectly balanced version of the news," said Milyo, an associate professor of economics and public affairs at the University of Missouri at Columbia.

Five news outlets — "NewsHour With Jim Lehrer," ABC's "Good Morning America," CNN's "NewsNight With Aaron Brown," Fox News' "Special Report With Brit Hume" and the Drudge Report — were in a statistical dead heat in the race for the most centrist news outlet. Of the print media, USA Today was the most centrist.

An additional feature of the study shows how each outlet compares in political orientation with actual lawmakers. The news pages of The Wall Street Journal scored a little to the left of the average American Democrat, as determined by the average ADA score of all Democrats in Congress (85 versus 84). With scores in the mid-70s, CBS' "Evening News" and The New York Times looked similar to Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., who has an ADA score of 74.

Most of the outlets were less liberal than Lieberman but more liberal than former Sen. John Breaux, D-La. Those media outlets included the Drudge Report, ABC's "World News Tonight," NBC's "Nightly News," USA Today, NBC's "Today Show," Time magazine, U.S. News & World Report, Newsweek, NPR's "Morning Edition," CBS' "Early Show" and The Washington Post.

Since Groseclose and Milyo were more concerned with bias in news reporting than opinion pieces, which are designed to stake a political position, they omitted editorials and Op?Eds from their tallies. This is one reason their study finds The Wall Street Journal more liberal than conventional wisdom asserts.

Another finding that contradicted conventional wisdom was that the Drudge Report was slightly left of center.

"One thing people should keep in mind is that our data for the Drudge Report was based almost entirely on the articles that the Drudge Report lists on other Web sites," said Groseclose. "Very little was based on the stories that Matt Drudge himself wrote. The fact that the Drudge Report appears left of center is merely a reflection of the overall bias of the media."

Yet another finding that contradicted conventional wisdom relates to National Public Radio, often cited by conservatives as an egregious example of a liberal news outlet. But according to the UCLA-University of Missouri study, it ranked eighth most liberal of the 20 that the study examined.

"By our estimate, NPR hardly differs from the average mainstream news outlet," Groseclose said. "Its score is approximately equal to those of Time, Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report and its score is slightly more conservative than The Washington Post's. If anything, government?funded outlets in our sample have a slightly lower average ADA score (61), than the private outlets in our sample (62.8)."

The researchers took numerous steps to safeguard against bias — or the appearance of same — in the work, which took close to three years to complete. They went to great lengths to ensure that as many research assistants supported Democratic candidate Al Gore in the 2000 election as supported President George Bush. They also sought no outside funding, a rarity in scholarly research.

"No matter the results, we feared our findings would've been suspect if we'd received support from any group that could be perceived as right- or left-leaning, so we consciously decided to fund this project only with our own salaries and research funds that our own universities provided," Groseclose said.

The results break new ground.

"Past researchers have been able to say whether an outlet is conservative or liberal, but no one has ever compared media outlets to lawmakers," Groseclose said. "Our work gives a precise characterization of the bias and relates it to known commodity — politicians."

-UCLA-

MS580

[thx1138]

Ok, And Fox News really IS fair and balanced: LOL What we should be looking at here is weather a statement is a fact or not. We realize facts can be spun. Fox news does this all the time. And I realize there are posters here who will never agree with me. Their egos, salaries and political agendas are too entwined with the criminal bush administration and its sycophants. So my comments are not directed at them.

[PghTGrlLvr]

loki said: "Any one channel is biased. That's why i watch and read varied sources."

Correct. Fox news is no more biased the CNN, the (Clinton News Network)

Personally, I feel the vast majority of network news channels have a much more liberal slant. Fox is very conservative & MSNBC has Pat Buchanan on one show. That's it for "the right".

[PghTGrlLvr]

I love Fox news for one main reason besides their reporting.

JANE SKINNER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :P
and I just found out she's married to NFL Commish, Roger Goodell. Damn, I was hopin' she was pineing away for me :wink: :(