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Fox holds focus groups with multiple demographics to figure out what keeps their target audience tuned in.There is always a market for confirming phantom fears and prejudices.I can't speak for any of the MSNBC and Mediamatters fans on the left...but I am a moderate lefty.How often do we hear that in here?
We post something from the Washington Times or through Drudge to the AP or from Fox because, well, the truth is -- the LSM won't.
They just won't.
Sure, they'll have it on their website as 'raw feed' from the wire services. Who doesn't? Every two-bit media outlet in the World that subscribes (a PAID service) to the AP, BBC, UPI, the Slimes, Reuters or whatever will have it somewhere on the website.
Sometimes -- The even (gasp!) print it in the viewspaper....... In section F, page 17, right below the article on how to shampoo your Poodle.
But when it comes to TV, nobody on the dim side EVER questions them.
By God, if it was on the Nightly Freaking News, then it's the BY GOD TRUTH and no amount of arguing, cajoling or fact-finding will change thier minds.
You wonder why dims are so wrong so often and so misled all the time.....?
It's their choice. They don't HAVE to get their views/news from the alphabet media and Comedy Central. They CHOOSE to.
So they, in effect, CHOOSE to be uninformed and stupid.
Here's your 'reliable source' dims
He’s Back! NBC Rats Out Brian Williams On 11 Lies…
Just call him the Rocket Man.
Via Inquisitr
A review of NBC anchorman Brian Williams’ journalistic exploits has put a number to his fibs. So far, the tally stands at 11 different occasions he fell short of telling the whole truth, and the investigation isn’t done.
In an interesting twist, it appears that the NBC News staff was aware of Williams’ fibbing — they even pointed out specific incidents for in-house investigators to look deeper into, the New York Times reported.
These include the lie that first unraveled Williams’ position as NBC anchorman and led to his suspension — a 2003 incident in Iraq in which Brian claimed he was in a helicopter damaged by rocket fire.
But now, the public can add these lies to their laundry list: a missile attack on a different helicopter in Iraq in 2006; the story about how he got a piece of the helicopter that crashed during the assassination of Osama bin Laden; and one during his reporting of the conflict between Israel and Lebanon in 2006.
That last lie also centered around a helicopter; Brian apparently told a student-run TV station in Connecticut that rockets passed “just beneath” one he was riding in during the conflict. However, he told a different account in a blog, the Washington Post added.
But the investigation has also turned up a brand-new fib, and this one involved his reports from Tahrir Square during the Arab Spring. By Williams’ account, which he told to Jon Stewart on The Daily Show in February of 2011, he was right in the thick of things. Turns out, he was most likely watching from a balcony overlooking the square.
As Brian’s on-air fabrication went, he was amid the violent clashes between protestors and a pro-government group, riding on horses and camels. He claimed he made eye contact with one of these men on a horse, and then said the man used a whip on protestors.
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The thing is this.....
You're right to an extent, if I understand your position, that lefties dismiss Fox, Breitbart, Rush, Drudge, and other righty news sources "out of hand"
I have done that too, but I'm resisting the urge to do that.
But what I see as "the problem" isn't what Fox News tells righties, or what MSNBC tells lefties...it what Fox News DOES NOT tell righties, and what MSNBC DOES NOT tell lefties.
These two media sources practice what I call "advocacy pseudo journalism"
If Watergate broke today, and it was Obama who orchestrated a cover up, you would never find a combination of journalists like Woodward and Bernstein...a conservative writer, and a liberal writer...working together for the same news source, to uncover a scandal that would bring down a Presidential administration. Fox won't hire journalists that would attempt to uncover a scandal of that proportion, nor would MSNBC in the reverse.
Going forward with this fact, one might ponder the idea that you'd hear the truth if you believed what Fox says about liberals, and what MSNBC says about conservatives. But we're not that lucky, in my opinion.
If you think Fox is telling you "the truth", there isn't much we have to talk about, and if you think they're dismissed by the left, I'd have to agree...but that doesn't mean we on the left are without good reason to do that
I also agree - to some extent. We have allowed our news system to be bought by foreign interests and it no longer serves the US.
Its fact that Fox is truthful in only 18% of their stories. Only a fool would continue to watch them for a source of news. Its very telling that, even knowing that Fox is not "fair and balanced", accurate and honest, many still watch them. Also telling is that, even though we have seen Brietbart, Limbaugh purposely lie, many still believe them.
MSNBC has very right wing journalists and guests who do hard news during the day. The liberal pundits are in the evening and, unlike Fox, they don't pretend to be anything but what they are.
A huge complaint I have with TV news is that they do a very few stories, over and over and over. If you want a more accurate and inclusive view, go to Al Jazeera and BBC.
We have also seen NBC and CBS lie. When you get exposed for forging or splicing news content like CBS did in the 2004 Elections and NBC did during George Zimmerman trials, you are deemed unreliable. When did Fox present forged documents as authentic or when did Fox splice up 911 George Zimmerman tapes so as to NOT tell the who story? You make these broad brush strokes about Fox, Breitbart, and Limbaugh. Where are your cases and incidents?
If any of ABC, NBC, CBS, NPR, PBS, CNN, and MSNBC did their job, there would be no market for Fox.
Then they produce material that reflects what they've found.
So Fox doesn't brainwash righties, it's product is telling righties what they want to hear, and righty politicians subsidize the product because the target audiences are the same.
As I've posted a gazillion times, the documentary Orwell Rolls In His Grave shows Murdoch and Ailes plotting how to get Americans to believe their lies. They are on camera, telling staff to use the phrase "fair and balanced" repeatedly, even though they say they are anything but. The right says they hate Muslims but its a Muslim who controls what they see on Fox.
