Fox News is WAY TOO LIBERAL!

[Nate Harris]

Wow, this is a new one on me. Fox must be a buncha COMMIES!! Can these right-wing extremists EVER be satisfied? Geez, it must be a tough life watching TV from the right-wing fringe.

The problem is, Fox News has become just a little too fair and balanced. Where else can you catch such luminaries of the left as Katrina vanden Heuvel, David Corn, and Eric Alterman on a regular basis? You don’t even see these people on CNN and MSNBC, yet Fox has apparently decided to give the entire staff of The Nation a platform to spew their anti-American invective. The more moderate Juan Williams, Mara Liasson, and the annoyingly plastic Flavia Colgan are also part of Fox's liberal stable of commentators. Indeed, every show has to have a liberal guest or two on the panel, lest Fox be accused (horror of horrors) of being conservative. But is Fox so busy trying to present "both sides" that they're neglecting their conservative fan base? After all, liberals still dominate the MSM and already have more than enough outlets for their talking points. Rather than providing a true alternative, Fox seems to be following suit.

In its daily news coverage, Fox News essentially presents the same stories as everyone else. While news is news, the media literally shapes our view of reality by deciding which events to focus on and what slant to give the coverage. As such, Fox does little to differentiate itself from the crowd. Often, they go so far as to give voice to the canards making the rounds of the liberal media. For instance, in the wake of the tsunami disaster when the UN's "stingy" comment was being repeated ad nauseum by all the other stations, Fox followed suit, wasting an entire week on what was essentially a non-story. And they do it all the time. Instead of simply reacting to the left's agenda, Fox News should be putting forward its own.

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While the house of cards known as the MSM has come crashing down in recent years, most notably in the fall of Dan Rather and CBS, many Americans still look to the media to help them navigate the world. And increasingly, they're turning off their televisions and turning on their computers to get that guidance. Rejecting the narrative of the MSM, Americans are cutting through the obsfucation and getting to the truth via the Internet. Websites and blogs are the new founts of knowledge, while television news is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Unless it wants to follow suit, Fox News will wise up and stop worrying about being "fair and balanced." While they're still the best of the bunch, they can do better, much better.

http://www.chronwatch.com/content/contentD events to focus on and what slant to give the coverage. As such, Fox does little to differentiate itself from the crowd. Often, they go so far as to give voice to the canards making the rounds of the liberal media. For instance, in the wake of the tsunami disaster when the UN's "stingy" comment was being repeated ad nauseum by all the other stations, Fox followed suit, wasting an entire week on what was essentially a non-story. And they do it all the time. Instead of simply reacting to the left's agenda, Fox News should be putting forward its own.

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While the house of cards known as the MSM has come crashing down in recent years, most notably in the fall of Dan Rather and CBS, many Americans still look to the media to help them navigate the world. And increasingly, they're turning off their televisions and turning on their computers to get that guidance. Rejecting the narrative of the MSM, Americans are cutting through the obsfucation and getting to the truth via the Internet. Websites and blogs are the new founts of knowledge, while television news is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Unless it wants to follow suit, Fox News will wise up and stop worrying about being "fair and balanced." While they're still the best of the bunch, they can do better, much better. [/quote]


http://www.chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=12567

 

[Pachydermatous]

Websites and blogs are the new founts of knowledge, while television news is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Unless it wants to follow suit, Fox News will wise up and stop worrying about being "fair and balanced." While they're still the best of the bunch, they can do better, much better.

Maybe we're just seeing the future and it works. The 'Net might be destined to unhorse and devour TV news. We'll know it's true when the big car companies pull their ads off TV and plant them on Drudge.

Fox does a lot of irritating things: trying to be more networky newsy than the networks, for one. Another is their round the clock coverage given the Scott Peterson trial, starring Gretta as she gnawed the meat off every little bone. Still another was the Bush inaugural parade on split screen, with the bands on one side and Cavuto on the other yammering about Social Security, etc.

Around the nation in 80 seconds (or whatever Fox calls it) is a diverting bit of fluff, but it does nothing to flesh out the public's woeful ignorance of international news. This has been my biggest gripe with all the networks, and the wire services, too, in recent years. And by foreign news, I don't mean a feature on some Greek shepherd with a three-headed sheep, or a titanic story du jour like Iraq which monopolizes the screen.

Our lack of in-depth foreign coverage is one reason stories like the Rwanda massacres and the Russian invasion of Afghanistan keep catching us completely off base. Sometimes you can get a much better picture of foreign news by turning to the 'Net and tuning in Reuters or the left-leaning BBC. Moscow TV's English language version does a far more complete job of covering the global scene.

I may be ignorant in international affairs but, by God, TV is going to sure I'm aware of every little kink in the Michael Jackson trial or the latest Hollywood adultery.

 

[bamabake]

I think it is a terrible idea to rid Fox of liberals. While The Nation is a liberal rag it has much more intellectually honest liberals than the national political figures. I dont agree with much that is written but enjoy it. Fox should keep the liberals for another reason, so people of reason can see and hear them. It would be a dangerous thing to forget how loony they can be. That is how they fool people into power.

 

[Crim De Le Crim]

Of course it is. You don't take them off the air ... put the wilder ones on . Fox has had great success in luring liberals of all sorts to their lair and taking strategic bodyshots when it counts while letting them ramble enough to feel comfortable ... thats when they do more damage to their own cause than anything someone on the Right could say