DrLeftover said:
[quote name='Temerit']Do you really believe Fox news is a news channel at all? If so, I feel sorry for you.
I personally think that the American people are just haters
A. Fox News' ratings would seem to indicate otherwise when compared to MSNBC and the other cable news networks.
B. I really don't care how you feel.
C. That other statement just shows that you really are ignorant.
Now, pardon me while I go cling to my guns and religion.[/quote]
A question: Why did you omit the vast majority of my post and link together two completely unrelated pieces of information?
Ratings does not determine quality, not in the least. Fox News just portrays everything in a way that a conservative wants to hear it.
I'm curious as to what that other statement is.
But if you really think that Fox News is a news channel in any form or fashion.... you really need to re-think your views. I can understand someone being conservative, but damn dude, Fox is biased, no two ways about it. Watch the documentary for yourself.
Or read my blog article:
http://progressiveyouth.wordpress.com/2010/07/19/the-new-mass-media/#comments
John Stewart Debunking the Legitimacy of Megan Kelly's America Live as a legitimate news program:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-march-3-2010/anchor-management
The Project on Excellence in Journalism report in 2006 showed that 68 percent of Fox cable stories contained personal opinions, as compared to MSNBC at 27 percent and CNN at 4 percent. The “content analysis” portion of their 2005 report also concluded that “Fox was measurably more one-sided than the other networks, and Fox journalists were more opinionated on the air.”
A study by the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA), in the Winter 03-04 issue of Political Science Quarterly, reported that viewers of Fox News, the Fox Broadcasting Company, and local Fox affiliates were more likely than viewers of other news networks to hold three mis perceptions:
67% of Fox viewers believed that the “U.S. has found clear evidence in Iraq that Saddam Hussein was working closely with the al Qaeda terrorist organization” (Compared with 56% for CBS, 49% for NBC, 48% for CNN, 45% for ABC, 16% for NPR/PBS).
The belief that “The U.S. has found Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq” was held by 33% of Fox viewers and only 23% of CBS viewers, 19% for ABC, 20% for NBC, 20% for CNN and 11% for NPR/PBS
35% of Fox viewers believed that “the majority of people [in the world] favor the U.S. having gone to war” with Iraq. (Compared with 28% for CBS, 27% for ABC, 24% for CNN, 20% for NBC, 5% for NPR/PBS)
Fox also tends to jack up its ratings by cutting business deals with certain companies, so that the business will turn their T.V.s onto Fox News.
When you look at ratings that look simply at the number of viewers it is much more even between Fox, CNN, and MSNBC. Fox viewers simply sit and get brainwashed for a much longer period of time than CNN and MSNBC viewers.
And its great that you don't care how I feel, but if you don't care you could have disregarded that one sentence and focused on the rest of the information which wasn't opinion.
DrLeftover said:
What's Mr. Obama's opinion on the new Mosque?
He was for it before he was against it? maybe?
I haven't seen anything that would suggest that he was ever against it.
