The Big, Bad Fox News

Fox News is Greatly Outnumbered by Other Networks, so Why the Fear?

By Donna Hope, published Mar 16, 2008
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One woman recently wrote: I'm ashamed that people think that Fox News is a credible news source!

And so is the consensus of those who were comfortable, fat and happy as long as they had a monopoly on the media, and they still outnumber Fox News 7-1, so why are people so threatened? Isn't there room for different points of view?

On most networks, Liberals are not challenged and Conservatives are either non-existent or greatly outnumbered. At least Fox News provides balance by allowing both Liberal and Conservative opinions.

Not only that, but Fox News isn't even conservative, but moderate; it only looks conservative because of the alternatives. In fact, employees of Fox News donate 81% of their contributions to Democrats.

Fox News, like other networks, employ commentators and some of those commentators are Conservative but they identify themselves as such. Commentators on other networks oftentimes cloak their political identities under the guise of neutrality, which is misleading.

Could it be that those who attack Fox News as being biased are merely projecting? After all, Democrats have the partisan assistance of the main-stream media (MSM). In addition, those in the MSM vote Democrat 90% of the time. For example, in the election of 2006, 77% of news coverage was positive towards Democrat's while a scant 12% was positive towards Republicans. That goes to show that an equitable media is an absolute farce, but people still point fingers at Fox News.

The MSM, quite often, will spin the news so hard that they screw themselves into the ground. It's amazing that those who bash Fox News have been all too happy to have the majority of the media, entertainment industry and academia on their sides but God forbid that one network gives every side a chance to be heard.

Thanks to the internet, the MSM are no longer the sole proprietors of information and they are just squirming in their seats about no longer having the predominate authority they once had, which is why Fox News intimidates them so.

The Big, Bad Fox News
The Big, Bad Fox News

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Takeaways
  • If the Democrats can't talk to Fox News, how will they talk to our enemies?
  • Isn't there room for alternative news?
Did You Know?
Did Fox News create a 30 year old document to discredit a sitting president like CBS, fabricate a phoney draft scare like MTV, or make up a false munition dump scandal a week before a presidental election like the New York Times?
- Steve
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Most people who talk of "bias" have no idea what they're talking about. Fox News is not so much news as it is right leaning pundits and some sensationalist stories. Just because a story is negative against one party or another doesn't mean it is bias. Under the current right wing misrepresentation of bias, Woodward and Bernstein would have been biased against Nixon, even though they had him dead to rights with facts.

Posted on 06/30/2008 at 6:06:46 PM

 
Fox news is my the only news channel I watch. FNC gives you the news and lets you form your own opinion and take from it what you wish. The liberal news organizations much prefer Keith Olbermann forcefeeding their viewership news by shoving his wadded up pieces of paper down their throat. There's no need to form an opinion when it's given to you.

Posted on 03/30/2008 at 6:03:11 PM

 
I agree with you. We don't get Fox news, and when I've seen it at relatives' it seemed like such a breath of fresh air to me. I agree that it only seems conservative when put beside the MSM which are pretty undeniably liberal in bias.

Posted on 03/20/2008 at 9:03:52 AM

 
Here is a great review (http://www.christiancritic.com/mov2004/outfoxed.asp). Part of it states: What Greenwald fails to address in this 77 minute bludgeoning of the conservative news channel is the counter programming that exists on the other networks. Perhaps he didn't read Bias by Bernard Goldberg which exposes the leftist liberal leanings of CBS News and the other network news channels. Then again, perhaps he just didn't want to remind us of it. No matter. Whether we read the book or not, the liberal sentiments that exist and influence the reporting of the news on the other network stations are clear to see. Fox News Channel does lean (politically speaking) in the opposite direction. Perhaps that is why so many are attracted to it. If we are going to blast them for being biased to a particular ideology, we are going to have to blast all others.

Posted on 03/17/2008 at 6:03:25 PM

 
The source is in the references, and no, it wasn't put out there by Fox News. Nice insinuation, though. Furthermore, your comment here is exactly the kind of response I predicted; while pointing fingers at FOX and recommending a left-wing hit job like Outfoxed (no bias there!), you have made my point.

Posted on 03/17/2008 at 6:03:43 PM

 
Great article Donna. Amazing how the Libs can get away with their vitriol against FOX when the evidence is there for all to see.

Posted on 03/16/2008 at 7:03:58 AM

 
Well said. The proof is in the pudding.

Posted on 03/16/2008 at 7:03:58 AM

 
Good read !! We will always have biased news stations

Posted on 03/16/2008 at 1:03:30 AM

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