Fox News
The outcome of the 2008 Presidential Election was the best thing that ever happened to Fox News. It's like the Discovery Channel got to run shark week for four years, and it's audience never gets tired of being scared of sharks ...
The Obama Administration: Fox News' Four Year Long Shark Week
This is why Discovery's Shark Week is their most highly rated week of the year. The Obama Administration has been a two year long Shark Week for Fox. He feeds on the fear of middle aged white people/ Fox News has learned to concentrate that fear, cut it with baking soda and sell it back to them at a discounted price. And business is good.
Cracked on Fox News
Fox News is a member of the media mafia. Roger Ailes built his empire on the business formula that being loud and outraged is greater than being factual (Loud*Outrage > Facts).
The Product
Fox News has product well known for its consistency. The visual ingestion is the most potent and common form of usage. Fox News Radio allows the customer to experience a milder experience while driving to and from their soon-to-be-outsourced-by-the-socialist-regime job.
The Customer
The primary user of Fox News' product is the news junkie. Levels of addiction range from six O'clock newsie to O'Reilly tweet-baser.
Daily Show with John Stewart. >>>> The Colbert Report >>>> CNN >>>> Chimpanzee With A Microphone >>>> Fox News.
ReplyFox News is fair and balanced look it up, their commentators arethe following: 4 lineral, 5 conservative, 1 independant (oreilly). THAT IS A FACT. THE ONLY PEOPLE THAT THINK FOX NEWS IS THE RIGHT ARM OF THE RNC ARE THE SAME PEOPLE THAT INTRODUCED THE FAIRNESS DOCTRINE. THEY KNOW PEOPLE DON'T BELIEVE THEIR LIBERAL CRAP (NBC, MSNBC and NEW YORK and LA TIMES among others)so they figure just get a law passed that makes any disagreeing orginization illigal. that is the only way that liberals can get their viewers back
ReplyAnyone else find it funny that BBC is better at doing American news than America is?
Reply Hide All See All 3 RepliesOh I totally agree. I just watch BBC World News now at eleven o'clock on BBCA if I want to hear what's happening in the U.S.
I would, except for the fact that their antisemitic bent is well known and documented: they even commissioned a report to address the charges that they were antisemitic, then went to court to stop the report from being published. A British PM wrote an article about them as well in the wake of the Itamar attack last year.
I dont watch Fox news. They're nuts. BBC has an objective view, but also,like looking down and discovering you've got tp stuck to your shoe, embarrassing.
It's a shame. I have always liked Dennis Miller but his post 9/11 transformation has been sad to watch. He's still funny sometimes though.
ReplyI agree I'm just left handed!
ReplySadly, I think the most "fair and balanced" world news you're going to hear is the 5-10 minutes of international news on your typical local news broadcast.
ReplyFox News is fair and balanced in the same way a brawl between a newborn and a tiger is.
ReplyIkr? That tiger is fucked.
News has gotten waaaay to politicized. Why can't I just get my news? I don't want to "hear two sides of the arguement by experts/politicians". Can't I think for myself?
Reply Hide All See All 6 RepliesI agree, and I'm a left wing extremist.
I agree and i am a left wing radical
I agree, and i eat chicken wings (rad!)
Or even (holy crap you'll never believe this) REPORTING THAT ISN'T BIASED TO EITHER SIDE AND JUST TELLS YOU THE GOD DAMN FACTS! How's that for an idea? Seriously, I'm tired of trying to watch news (not just fox news) and having crap shoved down my throat. Can't I just, you know, get NEWS? Like, factual stuff that is happening without f*****g spin?
It's called yellow journalism and it sells so NO.
Damn jdate, way to take someone's statement and triple the length.
If Democrats can have CNN And MSNBC, Republicans can Have Fox News
Reply Hide All See All 11 RepliesI am a democrat and I agree. Mudslinging at Fox News only furthers the partisan anger and fearmongering this article is condemning.
The problem is: News is not news any more, and all of it is people like Anderson Cooper and Glenn Beck (After all, why should one be better than the other? They're the same thing) destroying the minds of the masses with what can be equated to controlled lying. News should be the facts, and nothing more.
f**k all of those networks. Fox "news" is the absolute worst though.
I disagree. Fox News is actively turning it's viewers into conspiracy fearing morons. They're the people giving Republicans bad names, if anything they're exactly what the Republican party doesn't need. Personally I think we should abolish all the major news networks and have one central station that reports NEWS, not the biased opinions of retarded bigots like Glenn Beck. If not that, at the very least Fox should remove Bill O Reilly and Glenn Beck from their station.
bear, that won't work, we NEED multiple viewpoints.
Problem is they need to be expressed a lot better than they're being expressed now.
And really, all American news is insane. I live in Canada and watch both American and Canadian news, and the Canadian news is much more subdued (though still not perfect of course)
Unfortunately it's very difficult for any outlet to be unbiased so you have to either watch multiple channels or swallow the rubbish they chuck at you. Here in the UK we have to outlets that do a relatively good job- BBC news and the independent. Some left wingers say the BBC are biased to right wing and some right wingers say they're biased left wing.BBC is checked on by a watchdog so they're your best bet- the independent does a decent job also.
we have a non biased balanced new reporting organization, they are called the AP, but they are about to go out of business because the only people who read it are the heads of the news channels, and after reading it they change and manipulate the facts to fit their views
Associated Press is nowhere near out-of-business.
There's a difference. Msnbc tells the news from a left-wing viewpoint. Fox news makes s**t up to scare people (death panels).
MSNBC uses scare tactics, too. They just seem more logical if you laready agree with their side. As for BBC... It is a decent news outlet, but the government-controlled news and media have absolutely no place in a free society. I've been to Britain, and it seems the country is ok with greater restrictions and government control. Whatever floats your boat.
MSNBC presents a more liberal perspective, but you'll notice that they simply can't pull off that kind of clannishness. That's not the way liberals think. They can't pull anywhere near the numbers.
Look at PBS. They are committed to science and art and truth, and they get called liberal. What the hell is wrong with modern conservatives?
People forget that there's a difference between people like Bill O'Reilly and "news". Bill O'Reilly is a pundit, and not being able to separate his opinion from the news is dangerous.
Reply Hide All See All 3 RepliesIf you hate it so much DON'T WATCH IT!!!
^That is a pretty stupid statement. There is evil bullshit in this world that should not exist. When someone's preaching vitriolic bigotry and has an audience, THAT SHOULD f*****g STOP. So f**k your "oh you don't have to watch it" attitude; there are things in this world I am 100% against because I actually have ideals of my own, which, while I can't be sure, I'm gonna guess isn't true of you.
@XHAWK77X: I don't watch it. Mindless fucks that hang on every word of the lies, slander, falsities, and pages upon pages of hypocritical statements such as yourself do. And that's why its a problem
Fox news is a hemorrhoid full of iodine. No matter which way you look at it, you lose.
Replyim not an obama supporter but fox news is still bullshit
Reply Hide All See All 4 RepliesThat's like saying "I'm not a racist, But I hate Black People"
I'm not an Obama supporter (better him than ANY conservative though), I'm way more left wing than Obama, but yeah, Fox News I want to destroy, Obama I just want to turn into a libertarian socialist.
lol xhawk simile fail. also life
Libertarian socialist? Libertarianism is essentially social freedoms +, government intervention -. I don't understand what you're saying.
People treat Fox News like it's some propaganda organ. There is a right wing bias, but this is overshadowed by its primary characteristic: being a cheesy, tabloidy network.
Reply Hide All See All 4 RepliesIf by right wing bias you mean hating every non-christian, non-white, non-republican, then yes they are quite biased.
Non-white? Have you seen Fox? They aren't racist. Stop pretending they are because MSNBC says so. They all suck equally.
FoxNews isn't blatantly racist. You can't get away with that these days. It can only use code words and fill their channel with blond white ladies.
look up Jon Stewart's speech on bias when he was on fox, he says the same thing about fox and about the 'liberal media'
You know, I really love Obamas jug ears. I think they are adorable.
ReplyAlso, f**k fox news.
“Often there's an echo effect... Those wrong pieces of information are repeated and repeated, and by the time it reaches me, I don't even know what the source is.” This is a tactic known as 'Source Amnesia', where a message is stored, yet the subject doesn't remember where they procured such information. Repeating the message over a significant period of time allows the message to move from short-term storage in the hippocampus, to long-term cortex storage, where its details are vaguer but the message is stronger, whether it was later found to be untrue or not. Repeating the headlines' information but in the opposite manner- “Obama a Muslim?” “Obama not a Muslim”- only compounds the problem. It would be more more effective if a corrective headline was 'Obama is Totally Christian'. Pictures are even more effective, and less easily remedied. After all, a picture is worth a thousand words, and the general population has neither the attention span to read such words or the memory capable of remembering them.
Reply“We weren't necessarily, as it was told to us, a news gathering organization so much as we were a proponent of a point of view.” “(Murdoch) wants all news to be opinion, because opinion can't be proven false.” By appealing to those who are more inclined to agree with Murdoch's point-of-view, Fox News finds very powerful supporters. When we read or hear things that agree with our point of view, our brain spikes in the 'reward' center, giving us a rush of pleasure, while deactivating activity in the reasoning area of the brain. By offering 'news' that caters to their viewer's opinions, Fox News may very well be getting watchers 'high' and irrational, while creating very strong fans.
This allows them to create an “You're either one of us or you're one of them” situation, discounting the other side and creating a situation devoid of open-mindedness, reasonableness, or free thought. Fox Nation could be considered, neurologically, drug-addicts.
I agree FOX news is very biased to the right but I don't understand why everyone picks on them so much because a channel like MSNBC is nothing more than a leftist 24 hr a day campaign channel. You want to look in to ownership, see what GE stands to make with green job money, energy grid, health records etc etc.. Jeffery Imelt is on Obama's board of advisers. Sure you can slam Fox accurately but why never look at MSNBC who is 20 times worse on the left?
Reply Hide All See All 5 RepliesFox has been around the longest it was the organization of its kind. MSNBC could be considered a reaction to Fox
Who has the motto "fair and balanced," Fox or MSNBC?
It's not the same... If you add up the amount of time Fox News spends criticizing Democrats and the amount of time MSNBC spends criticizing Republicans, it's not even close to the same, and you damn well know it... Honestly, you should be ashamed for even implying otherwise...
...not only isn't not the same, but there is a much more important point to raise re: your comment.
Repeat after me: "there. is. no. real. left. in. american. politics."
There, done. Trust me, there are *no* "leftist" major news outlets in the USA. I'm not saying it's a good thing, I'm not saying it's a bad thing. It's just a matter of getting your definitions straight.
Furthermore, you can't even describe Fox News as "the right" - it is mostly a mouthpiece for reactionary, populistic, unbalanced fear-mongers.
MSNBC does a lot of the same stuff. I watch both, and it seems MSNBC spends a lot more time discussing race politics and accusing the republican party of racism. They seem more effective at propagandizing; "Look, the other side is dividing America! They hate minorities! But not MSNBC."
Fox News Mission Statement
ReplyAsk a question. Any question. Who gives a s**t how retarded it is? Just ask it. Then you're not reporting news, you're not slandering somebody, you're simply asking a question and turning the conversation into what you want it to be, not what it should be. Horribly simple debate tactic. You don't have to be smart to do it, all you need to do is google a topic and bring up whatever monotonous bullshit you want that is completely irrelevant.
What's Faux News?
ReplyFaux=fake
don't think I've ever seen that Jenna chick when my parents are watching FOX but it would make watching those retards a little nicer.
ReplyI don't watch Fox News so I am blissfully ignorant of everything I just read
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