Fox News: a business first, propaganda machine second, a news source...last

[Vigilante]

Of course that's BS as any viewer can check out their statements and see if they are right or not! You subversives just can't stand that they do so well, and actually give a FAIRER review of the news than PMSNBC, or the Clinton News Network!

Right now, you can look at the MSNBC file, which also includes NBC, and see how that network’s pundits and on-air talent stand. For instance, currently 45 percent of the claims we’ve checked from NBC and MSNBC pundits and on-air personalities have been rated Mostly False, False or Pants on Fire.

At Fox and Fox News Channel, that same number is now 58 percent. At CNN, it’s 22 percent.

Fact-checking Fox MSNBC and CNN PunditFact s network scorecards PunditFact

PunditFact is a project of the Tampa Bay Times and the Poynter Institute, The Tampa Bat Times is about as Liberal as you can get down in Florida!.... Laughing at you as you would laugh at me for posting FOX as a source!

Take their claim and discredit it.

I just did! They are liberal liars!

 

[OnePercenter]

I just did! They are liberal liars!

Prove it.

 

[Vigilante]

To repeat as you do, I DID!

 

[OnePercenter]

To repeat as you do, I DID!

Put up or shut up....

 

[Politico]

Ah, another lefty scumbag with a Fox rant thread.

If it didn't bother them they wouldn't be bitchin' about it yet again. Ditto for Rush, Hannity, et al.

Are any of the OP points inaccurate?

Funny how the protest is all emotion-based, innit?

Yes. That he thinks any of the news channels are worth a shit.

 

[initforme]

Fox is very good at getting hard working people who are barely scraping by to think against the programs that might help them survive. The talking heads must go behind the curtain and laugh at those people's expense.

 

[Iceweasel]

Fox is very good at getting hard working people who are barely scraping by to think against the programs that might help them survive. The talking heads must go behind the curtain and laugh at those people's expense.

They laugh about people like you on camera.

 

[initforme]

Yup they want me to believe that my social security and Medicare is going to "bankrupt" the country. Laughable. But some fall for it.

 

[whitehall]

Here's the deal, low information left wingers are so used to liberal news being the only game in town that they wouldn't know a fair and balanced story if someone read it to them. Cronkite once dominated the news and he was a hard core liberal. Dan Rather once tried to influence a presidential election with forged documents. The left wing media won'e even cover the Jonathan Gruber story and the radical left seems to depend on the comedy channel for it's news analysis.

 

[Iceweasel]

Here's the deal, low information left wingers are so used to liberal news being the only game in town that they wouldn't know a fair and balanced story if someone read it to them. Cronkite once dominated the news and he was a hard core liberal. Dan Rather once tried to influence a presidential election with forged documents. The left wing media won'e even cover the Jonathan Gruber story and the radical left seems to depend on the comedy channel for it's news analysis.

...and cartoons. The cartoons are always right on the money when they lampoon the right. Bong hits make it all crystal clear.

 

[Oldstyle]

To anyone who thinks that Fox News cares about honest reporting and integrity, I feel sorry for you.

I think first and foremost it is a business - a very good one I must admit. Roger Ailes and his lackies know how to pull an audience. They know how to pull in their die hard fans and be the number one in the ratings.

However, they are not #1 because they have integrity or care about factual driven analysis. They are number one for two reasons:

1) They appeal to the rightwing's emotions. See Rightwingers' politics are not driven by factual information and critical thinking. It is driven by emotionally charged, philosophical beliefs. Without stating many facts, puppets like Sean Hannity can simply rant about the "evils of big government and Obama's imperial agenda" and maintain good ratings.. The FN audience eats that shit up. They hate government so it isn't hard to get them watching by simply reaffirming crap they already believe. These viewers don't want to be inconvenienced by facts and analysis that may challenge their pre conceived notions. They just want to hear shit that they already salivate over. Fox caters to this.

2) Eye candy. Now what also pulls in viewers is the ridiculously attractive women and bright colors of the sets. See without really anything substantial going on, viewers are drawn to it. It's really easy on the eyes. It's a brilliant move on Roger's part. The man knows what he's doing.

See the downside of a very popular news network is that plenty of dumb people watch it. Let's be honest: dumb/average intelligent people outnumber smart people thus the huge popularity. Fox News appeals to dumb people like tea baggers who refuse to reason without passionate emotion. It makes for easy viewing.

Now beyond a business Fox News is a propaganda machine for the Republican Party. FN's uncompromising and predictable hate bashing of Obama makes this all too obvious. See networks like CNN, ABC, CBS, and even MSNBC will both praise and criticize Obama and attempt - at least some of the time - to offer a balanced analysis on his presidency. Fox on the other hand will deliberately and disengenously criticize anything and everything Obama does or says, much like the Republican Party.

Now I do understand MSNBC isn't much better when it comes to "fair and balanced" news, but even with their agenda their pundits have been know to deviate from their democratic views and speak frankly about Obama. This largely sets it apart from Fox.

The American electorate is slightly to the right of center...yet the main stream media outlets were becoming further and further to the left of center. Fox News simply met a demand for news that wasn't liberally biased.

And MSNBC only speaks "frankly" about Obama when he doesn't go as far left as they hoped he would...the rest of the time they do a great imitation of Pravda.

 

[whitehall]

Has anyone ever seen MSNBC or CBS or ABC or PBS hire a conservative journalist? The dirty little secret is that the liberal media actually depends on tax exempt Media Matters for out of context quotes so they can snipe at Fox. Comedians like Jon Stewart are quoted by low information lefties as if they are legitimate news sources. That's how out of touch the left is.

 

[Pogo]

Has anyone ever seen MSNBC or CBS or ABC or PBS hire a conservative journalist? The dirty little secret is that the liberal media actually depends on tax exempt Media Matters for out of context quotes so they can snipe at Fox. Comedians like Jon Stewart are quoted by low information lefties as if they are legitimate news sources. That's how out of touch the left is.

A journalist cannot be "liberal" or "conservative". A journalist has to be impartial. This is what bias-TV has done to your brain.

As far as non-journalists, I recall when Tucker Carlson had a show on MSNBC. Anne Coulter too, and John Gibson. And AFAIK Joe Scarborough is still doing the morning show, is he not?

 

[OnePercenter]

The American electorate is slightly to the right of center...yet the main stream media outlets were becoming further and further to the left of center. Fox News simply met a demand for news that wasn't liberally biased.

And MSNBC only speaks "frankly" about Obama when he doesn't go as far left as they hoped he would...the rest of the time they do a great imitation of Pravda.

And faux gets it wrong 85% of the time.

 

[OnePercenter]

Has anyone ever seen MSNBC or CBS or ABC or PBS hire a conservative journalist? The dirty little secret is that the liberal media actually depends on tax exempt Media Matters for out of context quotes so they can snipe at Fox. Comedians like Jon Stewart are quoted by low information lefties as if they are legitimate news sources. That's how out of touch the left is.

When Hannity mentions the Obama phone he cements his place in history as a deceitful-prick one-percenter.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Anyone know if Fox has bothered to mention the Benghazi Committee findings?

 

[OnePercenter]

Anyone know if Fox has bothered to mention the Benghazi Committee findings?

I doubt it. They haven't mentioned the Republican House $300M security budget cut prior to the attack.

 

[Oldstyle]

Anyone know if Fox has bothered to mention the Benghazi Committee findings?

I doubt it. They haven't mentioned the Republican House $300M security budget cut prior to the attack.

What total bullshit! That excuse that was floated by Democrats has been roundly discredited for years now. Right from the start, Charlene Lamb, the woman in charge of security for that area said that those budget cuts had ZERO to do with the level of security in Benghazi and that they had just as many security personnel in Libya as the State Department felt necessary. Hillary Clinton made the call to rely on "local security" instead of Americans because she didn't want it to appear that we didn't "trust" the locals.

 

[Oldstyle]

What you "Einsteins" can't seem to grasp is that the report you're so thrilled about doesn't do two things...excuse why the Obama White House continued to lie about events that took place that night LONG after they knew that it wasn't a spontaneous attack prompted by a Youtube video or excuse Hillary Clinton's responsibility for a lack of security on the ground or the lack of a military response once the attack began! We couldn't secure that burnt out facility for weeks because this Administration was more concerned about the political whitewash they were putting out to cover their asses before the coming election than they were about dead Americans.

 

[Oldstyle]

And it you will read the report it contains the crux of why the lies were told by the Obama White House and Susan Rice specifically. The email from Ben Rhodes sums up exactly what was going on in the Obama White House at that moment. The email advised Rice to "to underscore that these protests are rooted in an Internet video and not a broader failure of policy." Rhodes knew damn well that there was a broad failure of policy and it was made by them.