worst news network

[Dave Siff]

I'm referring specifically to the "broken government" series that CNN ran the week of the election. It was shameless, ridiculous, propaganda and an unpaid political add, what it wasn't was "News. Unless you call DNC press releases news. I don't ever recall CNN running "broken government" specials in 94 when a different party had control.

Oh.. Lou Dobbs. That might as well have run on Fox.

 

[BassGod]

Weird... no one has voted for ABC.

I'm glad that up here, CBC is pretty balanced, politically.

Graeme

 

[steamthief]

Easy answer. Fox is the worst.

 

[peaveyuser]

Weird... no one has voted for ABC.

I'm glad that up here, CBC is pretty balanced, politically.

Graeme

CBC is the best. Mansbridge might look like a robot but he's better than any report from the states i've seen. I don't know why but over here reporters don't seem as dramatic like they're putting on act or something. They just say what's happening, except CTV. Out of all the news we have here CTV just seems more dramatic.

And it is kinda wierd there is no vote for ABC yet

 

[Spector_Ray]

I really never thought this thread would go on this long.

It's funny how the anti-Fox views are so scathing. For years, the big 3 networks, CNN and PBS have been so one sided it wasn't even funny. Not to mention the New York Times, L.A. Times, Washington Post and other rags.
Then ONE network emerges that shows another point of view and everybody's up in arms over it.

I, too, voted for Fox - because their smugness, smirking, and argumentativeness consistently leads me to question their objectivity. Labeling Fox "News" violates basic tenets of "truth in advertising" in a most egregious way.

Hmm...that's pretty funny. I can actually say the same thing about CNN, Bryant Gumbel, Lou Dobbs, Wolf Blitzer, Keith Olbermann, etal and every other self-indulgent "journalist".
At the very least, Fox stirred the pot.

 

[burk48237]

I really never thought this thread would go on this long.

It's funny how the anti-Fox views are so scathing. For years, the big 3 networks, CNN and PBS have been so one sided it wasn't even funny. Not to mention the New York Times, L.A. Times, Washington Post and other rags.
Then ONE network emerges that shows another point of view and everybody's up in arms over it.



Hmm...that's pretty funny. I can actually say the same thing about CNN, Bryant Gumbel, Lou Dobbs, Wolf Blitzer, Keith Olbermann, etal and every other self-indulgent "journalist".
At the very least, Fox stirred the pot.

Very true, It's amazing. they've controlled the information for so long. And now with the internet, and Fox, all of the sudden their mad because they don't have a monopoly anymore. The funny thing is the networks still OWN TV news. It's only on Cable where fox really has an impact. If we had equal time their would be about a dozen more Fox networks.

 

[Dave Siff]

If we had equal time their would be about a dozen more Fox networks.

There already are. It's called right-wing talk radio. Fox News is the TV version.

 

[Diggler]

Now, where's my Glock? I haven't cleaned it in a while...

I found it... the government found a new use for them!

I keed, I keed!

 

[cowsgomoo]

Fox News... we get it in the UK on satellite tv (Mr Murdoch owns the satellite company, Sky)

when I first started watching it I assumed I was watching some kind of spoof news comedy kind of deal... a post-modern 'realism' deal like The Larry Sanders Show or something... some foaming Nazi called Bill O'Riley (or something) ranting away... I laughed when they kept flashing a slogan 'fair and balanced' (again, or something) directly following all the right-wing bias, I thought this has got to be a joke

then I realised it was real, and it was just depressing

I read somewhere that in the run up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, 80% of American citizens thought that Saddam Hussein was directly involved in the planning of the 9/11 attacks

I assumed it was another yank-bashing half-truth... but in the light of my viewing of Fox News and its shocking misrepresentation of events, I wouldn't be surprised if that figure was genuine

I switched it on again during the New Orleans Hurricane Katrina debacle, since every other channel was showing a government disaster relief ****-up of immense proportions... and Fox News led with some anodyne slogan like 'Katrina clean-up begins', when every other news source went with "Bush administration criticised for Katrina response"

shocking, disgraceful & unbelievable... if this is the highest quality news the most powerful nation on the planet can muster, this is very grave

 

[P. Aaron]

What's interesting and falls into that "conventional wisdom" category is that most folks who voted here who say they voted for FOX as the worst, also claim they don't watch TV news, or in particular, don't watch FOX.

After over 35 years of suffering most of the others claims of being "news", FOX is a welcome change.

Ask the print media news how they're all doing these days.

 

[P. Aaron]

There already are. It's called right-wing talk radio. Fox News is the TV version.

Dave,
you've demostrated that you haven't listened to talk radio, nor have you watched FOX, nor have you ever compared them to the other news offerings.

What's so interesting is that FOX news is hardly an answer to better journalism, yet you react as if the journalism being offered prior to FOX was sacrosanct and in no need of reform or competition. Yet it always is.

"Right Wing Talk Radio" which seems so abhorrent to so many virtually saved AM radio in many, if not hundreds of metropolitan markets by offering an alternative to the dismal AM fare that most programmers offered. Yet the "progressive" talk radio has failed miserably even with private (& sometimes questionable) subsidies and exhorbitant amounts of free and fawning media attention.

Go figure that!

 

[burk48237]

Fox News... we get it in the UK on satellite tv (Mr Murdoch owns the satellite company, Sky)

when I first started watching it I assumed I was watching some kind of spoof news comedy kind of deal... a post-modern 'realism' deal like The Larry Sanders Show or something... some foaming Nazi called Bill O'Riley (or something) ranting away... I laughed when they kept flashing a slogan 'fair and balanced' (again, or something) directly following all the right-wing bias, I thought this has got to be a joke

then I realised it was real, and it was just depressing

I read somewhere that in the run up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, 80% of American citizens thought that Saddam Hussein was directly involved in the planning of the 9/11 attacks

I assumed it was another yank-bashing half-truth... but in the light of my viewing of Fox News and its shocking misrepresentation of events, I wouldn't be surprised if that figure was genuine

I switched it on again during the New Orleans Hurricane Katrina debacle, since every other channel was showing a government disaster relief ****-up of immense proportions... and Fox News led with some anodyne slogan like 'Katrina clean-up begins', when every other news source went with "Bush administration criticised for Katrina response"

shocking, disgraceful & unbelievable... if this is the highest quality news the most powerful nation on the planet can muster, this is very grave

What a unmitigated load of BS! Fox was extremely critical of the administration during the Katrina episode. As where many conservative commentators. I can only assume from this post that you have selective amnesia. And calling those you disagree with "Nazi's" only serves to show the lies that fill this post. It is a common argument used by the ignorant and uninformed.

 

[RWP]

This is a sad thread showing how polarized our nation has become. The situation with our war effort is the most distressing.
To me, is it so obvious how the networks are divided in as much as they report their own agenda. So much good is being done
in Iraq but you would never know it if you only watch the 'main stream' press. Good thing the press did not take this approach
during WWII or we would be speaking German today.

IMHO, nothing political here.

 

[Diggler]

This is a sad thread showing how polarized our nation has become. The situation with our war effort is the most distressing.
To me, is it so obvious how the networks are divided in as much as they report their own agenda. So much good is being done
in Iraq but you would never know it if you only watch the 'main stream' press. Good thing the press did not take this approach
during WWII or we would be speaking German today.

IMHO, nothing political here.

Sort of like how Cronkite turned Vietnam into a 'loss' when talking about "stalemates" and "we can't win this war" while reporting on the Tet Offensive that left 45,000 Vietcong/PAVN dead and only about 4300 US and allied troops killed.

Won every battle over there and the media still found a way to lose it at home. I wonder if there was a counterbalance to Cronkite and his ilk back then, if it would have ended differently.

 

[Kosko]

that left 45,000 Vietcong/PAVN dead and only about 4300 US and allied troops killed.

I thank every person whose ever had to sacrifice their lives for others freedom. But God, war is f'ing ********.

 

[cb56]

Why is it that liberals are so against any conservative thought being voiced on air? If you don't like Fox or rightwing talk radio, don't listen to it. God knows you have plenty of liberal alternatives to listen to. Of course all the conservative shows are kicking @ in the ratings wars. I wonder why?
btw how's Air Amerika/Al Franken doing these days?

 

[cowsgomoo]

What a unmitigated load of BS! Fox was extremely critical of the administration during the Katrina episode. As where many conservative commentators. I can only assume from this post that you have selective amnesia. And calling those you disagree with "Nazi's" only serves to show the lies that fill this post. It is a common argument used by the ignorant and uninformed.

ok, so what are the lies in the post then? care to point em out?

i'll wait

actually don't bother... i've just skimmed your previous posts and there's more about politics, religion and medical ethics than there is about bass playing and music...

i think you're on the wrong forum, buddy

 

[soulgeezer]

I found it... the government found a new use for them!

I keed, I keed!

Very nice! I always wanted a holster like that!

 

[Dave Siff]

Ask the print media news how they're all doing these days.

The print media's troubles have more to do with the easy availability of news on the Internet than anything else.

 

[Dave Siff]

Dave,
you've demostrated that you haven't listened to talk radio, nor have you watched FOX, nor have you ever compared them to the other news offerings.

Untrue. I watch a lot of Fox News every single day. Haven't listened to righty radio in a while because when I'm in the car I prefer to listen to music.

"progressive" talk radio has failed miserably even with private (& sometimes questionable) subsidies and exhorbitant amounts of free and fawning media attention.

Progressive talk radio will succeed on the day that liberals need their opinions spoon-fed to them. So far, that day hasn't arrived.
Speaking of which, I'm always amused at how Bill O'Reilly calls those he doesn't like "progressives". Umm, yeah.. I plead guilty to being progressive! I guess if you agree with O'Reilly, that makes you.. regressive?