Obama's war on Fox & half the country

[WillowTree]

On the one hand, we should celebrate the war between Fox News and the White House.

It is a good thing President Obama & Co. are angry with Fox. It means Fox is doing its job, you know, holding the Executive Branch accountable, like a real news organization. This is good news. Traditionally in America, the Fourth Estate's role has been to challenge those in power, challenge the assumptions, examine the assertions, and check for accuracy, all the while carrying both sides of the story.

A real news organization serves the people, acting as a check on power by informing people so they can make good decisions at the polls.

The fact that Fox is holding Obama's feet to the fire should cause rejoicing.

On the other hand, there are three bad news dimensions to all this: the rest of the media is content to lick Obama's boots, true to pattern Obama is glad to selfishly attack a private news organization (by the way, the most highly rated television news group in the nation), and the more Nero fiddles, the higher the flames.

Barack Obama is happy to fight a war on Fox.





He preaches unity with his mouth, but with his hands, he sows seeds of division.



American Thinker: Obama's war on Fox & half the country

 

[rayboyusmc]

Half the country does not listen to fox so once more you lied in your post's thread, Willow.

Fox is the mouthpiece for Rupert Murdock and the RNC. Funny how the talking points from Fox and the RNC are so often identical. Probably a miracle.

If George Soros had control of a media outlet like Murdock, your side would wet its pants complaining about how a commie was runing the news.

 

[rayboyusmc]

Data for digestion:

A new poll by Daily Kos/Research 2000 explores some interesting, but not entirely surprising, viewing patterns for the three top cable news networks. The poll’s most revealing results are those that break out party affiliation and regional viewing.

Overall, 25% of respondents watch Fox News at least once a week. That number includes 23% of Democrats and 14% of Independents. The obvious partisan standout is Republicans with 52% watching at least once a week. Similarly, regional viewing is heavily weighted to the south with 39% of southerners tuning in to Fox News. The rest of the nation is far less attracted to the right-wing network who draws significantly fewer viewers from the west (23%), the midwest (21%), and the northeast (13%). Also notable is the dismal performance of Fox amongst young voters (18-29) and minorities, at least 80% of whom report that they never watch Fox News. In fact, more than 50% of all of the groups of viewers (party, region, ethnicity, age) never watch Fox News, except for Republicans (38%).

Republicans and southerners are also the most sharply segmented groups in the survey when queried on viewing of CNN and MSNBC. An examination of the data shows that these two groups almost completely shut out any news source other than Fox News. To be sure, Democrats favor MSNBC and, to a lesser extent CNN, in greater numbers than other demographic breakouts, but the disparity is nowhere near as great as that for Republicans and southerners.

We become what we listen to.

 

[Mad Scientist]

We become what we listen to.

I rarely watch Fox News but I'm a conservative. Explain that one rayboy.

Also, please list for us your sources for news.

 

[Oddball]

Data for digestion:

A new poll by Daily Kos/Research 2000 explores some interesting, but not entirely surprising, viewing patterns for the three top cable news networks. The poll’s most revealing results are those that break out party affiliation and regional viewing.

Overall, 25% of respondents watch Fox News at least once a week. That number includes 23% of Democrats and 14% of Independents. The obvious partisan standout is Republicans with 52% watching at least once a week. Similarly, regional viewing is heavily weighted to the south with 39% of southerners tuning in to Fox News. The rest of the nation is far less attracted to the right-wing network who draws significantly fewer viewers from the west (23%), the midwest (21%), and the northeast (13%). Also notable is the dismal performance of Fox amongst young voters (18-29) and minorities, at least 80% of whom report that they never watch Fox News. In fact, more than 50% of all of the groups of viewers (party, region, ethnicity, age) never watch Fox News, except for Republicans (38%).

Republicans and southerners are also the most sharply segmented groups in the survey when queried on viewing of CNN and MSNBC. An examination of the data shows that these two groups almost completely shut out any news source other than Fox News. To be sure, Democrats favor MSNBC and, to a lesser extent CNN, in greater numbers than other demographic breakouts, but the disparity is nowhere near as great as that for Republicans and southerners.

We become what we listen to.

Nothing oozes credibility like a poll and analysis from one of the farthest left nutbar sites on the interwebs.

 

[WillowTree]

Data for digestion:

A new poll by Daily Kos/Research 2000 explores some interesting, but not entirely surprising, viewing patterns for the three top cable news networks. The poll’s most revealing results are those that break out party affiliation and regional viewing.

Overall, 25% of respondents watch Fox News at least once a week. That number includes 23% of Democrats and 14% of Independents. The obvious partisan standout is Republicans with 52% watching at least once a week. Similarly, regional viewing is heavily weighted to the south with 39% of southerners tuning in to Fox News. The rest of the nation is far less attracted to the right-wing network who draws significantly fewer viewers from the west (23%), the midwest (21%), and the northeast (13%). Also notable is the dismal performance of Fox amongst young voters (18-29) and minorities, at least 80% of whom report that they never watch Fox News. In fact, more than 50% of all of the groups of viewers (party, region, ethnicity, age) never watch Fox News, except for Republicans (38%).

Republicans and southerners are also the most sharply segmented groups in the survey when queried on viewing of CNN and MSNBC. An examination of the data shows that these two groups almost completely shut out any news source other than Fox News. To be sure, Democrats favor MSNBC and, to a lesser extent CNN, in greater numbers than other demographic breakouts, but the disparity is nowhere near as great as that for Republicans and southerners.

We become what we listen to.

data for digestion from KOS? you gotta be fucking kidding me.

 

[WillowTree]

Data for digestion:

A new poll by Daily Kos/Research 2000 explores some interesting, but not entirely surprising, viewing patterns for the three top cable news networks. The poll’s most revealing results are those that break out party affiliation and regional viewing.

Overall, 25% of respondents watch Fox News at least once a week. That number includes 23% of Democrats and 14% of Independents. The obvious partisan standout is Republicans with 52% watching at least once a week. Similarly, regional viewing is heavily weighted to the south with 39% of southerners tuning in to Fox News. The rest of the nation is far less attracted to the right-wing network who draws significantly fewer viewers from the west (23%), the midwest (21%), and the northeast (13%). Also notable is the dismal performance of Fox amongst young voters (18-29) and minorities, at least 80% of whom report that they never watch Fox News. In fact, more than 50% of all of the groups of viewers (party, region, ethnicity, age) never watch Fox News, except for Republicans (38%).

Republicans and southerners are also the most sharply segmented groups in the survey when queried on viewing of CNN and MSNBC. An examination of the data shows that these two groups almost completely shut out any news source other than Fox News. To be sure, Democrats favor MSNBC and, to a lesser extent CNN, in greater numbers than other demographic breakouts, but the disparity is nowhere near as great as that for Republicans and southerners.

We become what we listen to.

no wonder you're so damned stupid. Thanks for the explanation. I've been quizzical for a long long time about why you turned out that way!

 

[CryGlennCry]

Data for digestion:

A new poll by Daily Kos/Research 2000 explores some interesting, but not entirely surprising, viewing patterns for the three top cable news networks. The poll’s most revealing results are those that break out party affiliation and regional viewing.

Overall, 25% of respondents watch Fox News at least once a week. That number includes 23% of Democrats and 14% of Independents. The obvious partisan standout is Republicans with 52% watching at least once a week. Similarly, regional viewing is heavily weighted to the south with 39% of southerners tuning in to Fox News. The rest of the nation is far less attracted to the right-wing network who draws significantly fewer viewers from the west (23%), the midwest (21%), and the northeast (13%). Also notable is the dismal performance of Fox amongst young voters (18-29) and minorities, at least 80% of whom report that they never watch Fox News. In fact, more than 50% of all of the groups of viewers (party, region, ethnicity, age) never watch Fox News, except for Republicans (38%).

Republicans and southerners are also the most sharply segmented groups in the survey when queried on viewing of CNN and MSNBC. An examination of the data shows that these two groups almost completely shut out any news source other than Fox News. To be sure, Democrats favor MSNBC and, to a lesser extent CNN, in greater numbers than other demographic breakouts, but the disparity is nowhere near as great as that for Republicans and southerners.

We become what we listen to.

data for digestion from KOS? you gotta be fucking kidding me.

Wow...I'm pretty liberal about most things, but I would never argue a point about FOX being biased with a Daily KOS story.
Just sayin...

 

[uptownlivin90]

All abyssmal failures:
War on Terror
War on Drugs
War on Poverty
War on Fox

When will these politicians figure out that these "wars" they fight make them look just plain stupid?

 

[midcan5]

"War" how is this a war? The problem with the Fox Republican spin channel is their so called news is distributed from an ideological position and not found or investigated. Calling biased reports news is either lying or ignorance, neither a positive for the nation. The least the Fox republican channel could do would be to stop repeating BS when they are called out for it, but then again this is propaganda and not news so I guess we need to consider the source and motive.


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[Oddball]

Thanks for sharing that with us, Herr Goebbles.

 

[chanel]

n Monday, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow were among several people who attended an off-the-record briefing with Pres. Obama at the White House. Sources tell us other attendees at the two-and-a-half hour chat included Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post, Maureen Dowd of the New York Times, Gwen Ifill of PBS and Gloria Borger of CNN. Perhaps not surprisingly, no one from Fox News was in the room.

...Update: The White House has sent TVNewser the complete list of those who attended the off-the-record briefing Monday: Eugene Robinson, E.J. Dionne, Ron Brownstein, John Dickerson, Rachel Maddow, Frank Rich, Jerry Seib, Maureen Dowd, Keith Olbermann, Bob Herbert, Gloria Borger, and Gwen Ifill. Several members of the staff also attended.

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Foot soldiers in the holy war?

 

[xsited1]

Obama's war on Fox & half the country

I guess he wants a civil war. Now who does that remind me of???

 

[Foxfyre]

It is really fun to watch the administration's hysteria when it comes to Fox News. When they commissioned "Color of Change" to desroy Glenn Beck, they drove him all the way down to #1 in his time slot and #3 in cable over all.

Fox News itself continues to thrive.

Many critics of the Obama administration's ongoing war against Fox News have cautioned that, if anything, calling out the network will only increase its ratings. News Corp COO Chase Carey echoed those sentiments Wednesday, telling a media summit that the White House's comments have been "PR and marketing we couldn't have bought."

The ratings seem to backup those claims.

For the week of October 12-18, amid MLB playoffs and "Monday Night Football" on ESPN, Fox News was the #4 cable network in primetime, averaging 2,098,000 total viewers — placing it behind only ESPN (3,767,000), TBS (2,994,000) and USA (2,868,000). This is down only slightly from the previous week, when it averaged 2,118,000 total viewers. Nick at Nite (1,748,000) rounded out the top five.

In total day, Fox News averaged1,255,000 total viewers, up from 1,194,000 the week before and enough to rank as the #6 network in cable for the week. This may have been a result of the "Balloon Boy" coverage, which Fox News — anchored by Shep Smith — won by a wide margin.

MSNBC ranked #27 in primetime with 696,000 total viewers, while CNN came in at #28 with 674,000. In total day, CNN ranked #25 with 511,000 total viewers, while MSNBC did not place in the top 30.

Read more at: Fox News Ratings Undamaged By White House War

If ONE cable news show is capable of having so much influence over public opinion, you would think smart people would be courting and coveting time on that news source instead of trying to isolate and destroy it.

Or maybe our fearless leadership isn't as smart as their other press would suggest? Do you suppose?

 

[Avatar4321]

All abyssmal failures:
War on Terror
War on Drugs
War on Poverty
War on Fox

When will these politicians figure out that these "wars" they fight make them look just plain stupid?

When you stop voting for them.

 

[HUGGY]

On the one hand, we should celebrate the war between Fox News and the White House.

It is a good thing President Obama & Co. are angry with Fox. It means Fox is doing its job, you know, holding the Executive Branch accountable, like a real news organization. This is good news. Traditionally in America, the Fourth Estate's role has been to challenge those in power, challenge the assumptions, examine the assertions, and check for accuracy, all the while carrying both sides of the story.

A real news organization serves the people, acting as a check on power by informing people so they can make good decisions at the polls.

The fact that Fox is holding Obama's feet to the fire should cause rejoicing.

On the other hand, there are three bad news dimensions to all this: the rest of the media is content to lick Obama's boots, true to pattern Obama is glad to selfishly attack a private news organization (by the way, the most highly rated television news group in the nation), and the more Nero fiddles, the higher the flames.

Barack Obama is happy to fight a war on Fox.





He preaches unity with his mouth, but with his hands, he sows seeds of division.



American Thinker: Obama's war on Fox & half the country

How many watch Fox?....a million or so? The population is over 300 million.That means that Fox's audience is a third of one per cent. You need to work on your math skills.

 

[Foxfyre]

How many watch Fox?....a million or so? The population is over 300 million.That means that Fox's audience is a third of one per cent. You need to work on your math skills.

Your math is actually off a bit, but if you are correct that Fox's audience is a tiny percentage of the total population, why do you think the Obama administration is so obsessed with them?

 

[crpravens]

How many watch Fox?....a million or so? The population is over 300 million.That means that Fox's audience is a third of one per cent. You need to work on your math skills.

Your math is actually off a bit, but if you are correct that Fox's audience is a tiny percentage of the total population, why do you think the Obama administration is so obsessed with them?

They are threatened by them. Same reason libs are obsessed with Sarah Palin.

 

[WillowTree]

On the one hand, we should celebrate the war between Fox News and the White House.

It is a good thing President Obama & Co. are angry with Fox. It means Fox is doing its job, you know, holding the Executive Branch accountable, like a real news organization. This is good news. Traditionally in America, the Fourth Estate's role has been to challenge those in power, challenge the assumptions, examine the assertions, and check for accuracy, all the while carrying both sides of the story.

A real news organization serves the people, acting as a check on power by informing people so they can make good decisions at the polls.

The fact that Fox is holding Obama's feet to the fire should cause rejoicing.

On the other hand, there are three bad news dimensions to all this: the rest of the media is content to lick Obama's boots, true to pattern Obama is glad to selfishly attack a private news organization (by the way, the most highly rated television news group in the nation), and the more Nero fiddles, the higher the flames.

Barack Obama is happy to fight a war on Fox.





He preaches unity with his mouth, but with his hands, he sows seeds of division.



American Thinker: Obama's war on Fox & half the country

How many watch Fox?....a million or so? The population is over 300 million.That means that Fox's audience is a third of one per cent. You need to work on your math skills.

 

[HUGGY]

How many watch Fox?....a million or so? The population is over 300 million.That means that Fox's audience is a third of one per cent. You need to work on your math skills.

Your math is actually off a bit, but if you are correct that Fox's audience is a tiny percentage of the total population, why do you think the Obama administration is so obsessed with them?

I have seen a couple of admin officials coment on questions relating to Fox. I know of no admin communication where they just came out and announced something relating to Fox.
I don't think answering a question with "we don't care" about Fox is obssessing. I think you trying to make a big deal of the amin ignoring Fox is obssessing.