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worst news network

worst news networks

  • fox

    Votes: 90 60.0%

  • cbs

    Votes: 11 7.3%

  • cnn

    Votes: 29 19.3%

  • nbc

    Votes: 10 6.7%

  • abc

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • pbs

    Votes: 10 6.7%
  • Total voters
    150
#144
My choice is obvious: C-SPAN!
With the busy lifestyle I lead, I don't have time for a network that shows me the workings of the government in real time, without someone telling me what 2 or 3 little details are important! And, I believe in common sense-- that's why I don't need a network trying to con me into believing things like global warming and evolution. That's for folks who rely on government handouts, and worship socialist icons like Bert & Ernie.
Also, my family and I would only watch a network that has our best interests at heart, not the interests of Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins! That's why my favorite network is FOX News. I can be sure that they love my president and country as much as I do [click] much as I do [click] much as I do [click] much as I do [click] much as I do [click] much as I do [click] much as I do [click] much as I do [click] much as I do [click] much as I do [click] much as I do [click] much as I do [click]...
 
#145
Bob Lee (QSC) said:
Unless you severely change the definition of "monopoly," you can't have one with three, five, or however many entities that are in competition with each other.

One network with no competition would be a monopoly; several in competition are not.
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Because the parrot each other and the NY Times constantly. It is rare occurrence when they don't lead in the nightly news with what the Times told them to think in the mourning. Never has their been a less original and more robotic group then "these entities which are in competition with each other". I'll never forget when the word "gravitas" was introduced in to the national lexicon when GWB selected Cheney for his VP candidate. What followed was an orgy of left wing journalist spouting their knowledge of the English vocabulary, all using the word "gravitas" which happened to come coincidentally from the DNC talking points earlier that week.:hmm:

Of course that isn't unusual, during the Clinton years it was almost hilarious to watch the Clintonista's out spouting their talking points and then the "independent journalist from these entities which were in competition with each other" tripping over each other to repeat them and try to sound intelligent to the American people. Funny how they call conservatives mind numbed robots. :rollno:

I'm out of the political part of this and shocked this thread is still standing. It's obvious I'm not going to convince anyone, but the mere fact, that so many here feel so threatened by Fox news is probably a sign of just how entitled liberals feel to the ownership of the news media.:scowl:
 
#146
Okay, so you didn't really mean "monopoly," just "burk's fantasy musings on how things work." ;)

Who's threatened by Fox News? I think it was a brilliant business move by the News Corp. They saw money to be made in polemic-driven news tailored to a certain ideological range, and they went for it. That's how the free market works.

I think the respective shareholders own the news media, don't they?
 
#147
Bob Lee (QSC) said:
I think the respective shareholders own the news media, don't they?
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Indeed they do.

gkbass13 said:
i can understand the back and forth bashing from conservatives to liberals and such, but i dont understand how anyone can deffend bush or iraq still...worst blunder in modern foreign policy history, and time will show, quite possibly the worst president atleast in the last 50 years if nto ever...what has he done that has at all positively affected this country??
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:eyebrow: Instead of posting on this forum, you need to go back into the history books and read up on the Carter administration for one. And while you're at it, look up the word "perspective" in the dictionary.
What has he done that has at all positively affected this country? His domestic economic policy is a good one. Lowering taxes and basically getting out of the working public's way is always good. Take a look at the economy and tell me it's not a good economy right now.

I don't entirely agree with the president, but he's hardly the worst one in the last 50 years. As I said earlier, if you're getting your information about the war and Bush's foreign policy solely from the media, you're doing yourself a huge disservice.
 
#148
burk48237 said:
I'm out of the political part of this and shocked this thread is still standing. It's obvious I'm not going to convince anyone, but the mere fact, that so many here feel so threatened by Fox news is probably a sign of just how entitled liberals feel to the ownership of the news media.:scowl:
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The majority of the news networks are neither liberal or conservative, but middle-of-the-road. From the left, one hears outcries that the mainstream media are a bunch of corporate harlots, shamelessly pimping the administration's agenda without questioning. From the right comes the constant railing against the "liberal media bias," etc. etc.

Bottom line: It all depends on one's perspective.

The mainstream media isn't particularly "liberal." The liberal media is to be found in Mother Jones, The Nation, Air America Radio, and the like.

I can remember well when the liberals were blasting the media for being so hard on Clinton, who liberals didn't feel was very liberal at all. The news media generally goes after whomever is in power -- they give the administration a brief chance to speak, then rip into them. Happened under Carter, Reagan, G.H.W. Bush, Clinton, and now G.W. Bush.
 
#149
BartmanPDX said:
The majority of the news networks are neither liberal or conservative, but middle-of-the-road. From the left, one hears outcries that the mainstream media are a bunch of corporate harlots, shamelessly pimping the administration's agenda without questioning. From the right comes the constant railing against the "liberal media bias," etc. etc.

Bottom line: It all depends on one's perspective.

The mainstream media isn't particularly "liberal." The liberal media is to be found in Mother Jones, The Nation, Air America Radio, and the like.

I can remember well when the liberals were blasting the media for being so hard on Clinton, who liberals didn't feel was very liberal at all. The news media generally goes after whomever is in power -- they give the administration a brief chance to speak, then rip into them. Happened under Carter, Reagan, G.H.W. Bush, Clinton, and now G.W. Bush.
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This is my favorite canard of the left. Just because Brian Williams isn't wearing his Che Guvera T-shirt out where you can see it. He's not a liberal. EVERY POLL of decision makers in the mass media has determined that 90% of them vote for the Dems. But there just moderates:eyebrow: When Bernard Goldberg was at CBS, he did not know one member of the news team (including himself) that voted for Reagan in 84 despite the fact that Reagan won 49 states! But there all moderates.:rollno:

I'm more then willing to admit that Fox has a conservative stance. But no one here admits that a media that votes 90% for one party perhaps lacks diversity and tilts to the left? Hard to argue with a blind man. And it has been proven time after time in study after study. For guys who claim to have such "scientific minds" when it comes to the question of ID vs. Evolution you guys are sure doing a great job of ignoring ALL of the evidence on this one. I'm out, and the earth is obviously about 6000 years old to most of you guys.:rolleyes:
 
#150
burk48237 said:
When Bernard Goldberg was at CBS, he did not know one member of the news team (including himself) that voted for Reagan in 84 despite the fact that Reagan won 49 states!
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I'm familiar with that phenomenon. I've had close co-workers who didn't know anyone who voted for Dukakis, Clinton, Kerry, et al. ;)
 
#153
bassybill said:
It was the same over here. Voting for Thatcher was like farting. Everybody denied it, but somebody had to do it for her to win 3 times.
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With the guys I worked with, they apparently just assumed everyone voted and saw things the same way they did. It's not uncommon for many folks to have an "of course any sensible person would vote like I do" mindset.
 
#155
burk48237 said:
Pretty typical. this ignores the rest of my post which alludes to multiple opinion polls amongst mass media journalist. I guess they were lying too. I have a new way to describe you guys, "Liberal media deniers":rollno: .
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Whatever. You already used "Jew haters" on some of us once, which my Jewish friends thought was hilarious when I told them.
 
#156
BassGod said:
This isn't about tilting to the left. Like I said before, Bush is being criticized by everyone not because they are Democrats, but simply because he is an idiot. He is doing a bad job, and everyone but FOX is calling them on it. Because FOX has found their niche in cashing in on you manifest destiny types.

Graeme
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That's a pretty bold statement saying he's being bashed by everyone. It seems the everyone you're talking about is in the beltway or the left coast. That leaves the "flyover" country. Everyone's entitled to their own opinion, but it holds much more weight if it's thoroughly researched.
Manifest destiny types...oh brother:rolleyes:
 
#159
id have to agree with this, i cant see hwo it makes news sources biased for beig critical of a president who either dosnt do his job or does it poorly.

when bush was new to the office and all of the iraq bs started and terror alerts were going crazy, the media didnt put an end to the fear control that the bush administration was plaign on the american people, they played into it, cnn reported orange terror alerts just as fox did. if there was an extreme liberal tilt in the media iraq wouldnt have happened, but all of the main news programs relayed the bs slung by the president and his buddies, helpign to distract the american public from the war on terror and allowing the war on iraq....not the same thing. the news shoudl eb more critical of every leader and present the costs and benefits of everythgin in the agenda universe so as to allwo the american people to think for themselves rather than takign in and obsorbing whatever is preached to them by their leaders. quite frankly, i am pretty disgusted by american politics and mainstream media in this country...the only reporters i really care for in main stream american news television are chris mathews and tim russert .
 

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