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moreFox News chief Roger Ailes said he didn't get "too worked up" by a Pew study last month that showed that Fox has more Republican viewers than CNN or MSNBC and that his reporters and anchors insert their opinions into stories far more than competitors do. Numbers might have something to do with it: Fox is beating the combined audience of the other two.
Speaking at a media breakfast last week, Ailes at first said he couldn't think of a single thing that No. 2-rated CNN does better than Fox except get better press. CNN chief "Jonathan Klein is getting 50 great stories about what they are doing there, one of which is he thinks that there are not enough liberals in the newsroom ... 'need more progressives.' God, I hope he believes that," Ailes said.
What Klein told PBS' Charlie Rose on March 23 was that a "progressive" cable channel would not appeal to Fox's audience, which he described as "mostly angry white men ... who tend to like to have their points of view reinforced." Said CNN spokeswoman Christa Robinson: "In Fox's fantasy world, they like to think that's what the president of CNN goes around saying, but, unfortunately for them, it's just not true.")
Of MSNBC, the also-ran of cable news, Ailes said, "They've hired every blonde who hasn't worked for us, and it's not working. I'm not sure how they're going to get out of that ditch." (No comment from MSNBC.)
And so it went for an hour at the media forum featuring Ailes, an outspoken former Republican political operative turned cable-news superstar, fielding questions from New Yorker media writer Ken Auletta.
The Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism study found that in covering the Iraq war last year, 73% of Fox stories included opinion from anchors and reporters, compared with 29% on MSNBC and just 2% on CNN. But Ailes dismissed Pew as a "liberal lobbying organization." He said, "Most polls today are not taken to provide information to the public but to get press for the organization taking the polls. I took a poll of Pew, and 98% of my organization found that they were biased." The crowd of 300 roared.
The Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism study found that in covering the Iraq war last year, 73% of Fox stories included opinion from anchors and reporters, compared with 29% on MSNBC and just 2% on CNN.
BR-549 said:FOX tells it straight and if the reporter is making a comment it is obvious and not subvertively hidden..
BR-549 said:a brain watching CNN clearly can tell they are completely left, er socialist, biased.. The stories they report on are biased. Their reporting is biased. Their reporters are biased.. The reason Fox is kicking their collective (ahem pun intended) journalistic behinds is because Fox tells it straight and if the reporter is making a comment it is obvious and not subvertively hidden..
