Clonekiller said:
Father Time said:
Clonekiller said:
So, have any fact to back that up, or are you making like a talk show pundit and formulating a statement based on hearsay? I'm gonna guess the latter.
For starters
Right... That's what we call hearsay. Notice how the guy doesn't say who said what? What do you want to bet he was quoting the opinion shows? In addition, he was using politifact.com, which is about as reputable as Wikipedia. Try harder.
CarlMinez said:
Are you asking me whether I have a fact book to prove that Fox News is a news network of the most disgusting caliber?
No. I'm just wondering if you base your opinions on fact or fancy. You know, that thing that Fox News gets accused of all the time.
Father Time said:
Clonekiller said:
So, have any fact to back that up, or are you making like a talk show pundit and formulating a statement based on hearsay? I'm gonna guess the latter.
Oh, and as for fact, try this:
Full article here: http://www.journalism.org/node/8197
You'll notice that the quoted website is an independent organization, making is a viable information source for college level research papers.
The only way that shows that Fox News isn't biased in favor of conservatives is that they had less positive things to say about Republicans than Msnbc. They still have more negative things to say about Democrats and less positive, as well as less negative things about the Republicans than anyone else.
You'll also notice hey have a higher average of neutrals. (Except CNN with Democrats) Since the main slogan of Fox is "Fair and Balanced", I'd say their doing a better job than the other two.
I'm sorry but what's your final argument here? That Fox is an actually credible news source with reliable information?
Because that is just plain dumb.
Since O'Reilly, Fox has become notorious for pulling people on the air (usually of a conflicting viewpoint) to talk them down and interrupt them to espouse their point. This isn't even a matter of semantics, you let the other guy talk. And how many times do they portray false information? I don't have the time as of now to go search for multiple Fox articles to prove it, but when the issue of games receiving federal grants due to them being classified as an art form was introduced, Fox reported the story as "Should Call of Duty get a federal grant?"
That's not fair and balanced. That's taking a violent video game and placing it as the poster of ALL video games, even though it falls so far from what the guidelines dictated an art game was. As much as you may hate the "liberal media" and what not, I have never seen a radio station like National Public Radio pull this kind of crap. They get their facts. Today I listened to a report about a faulty counter-terrorism unit within the Mall of America and how the system there is not working. Know what they did? They brought in people accosted by this counter-terrorism group, explained their story, explained the origin of the CT group, and also got a quote from a spokesperson from Mall of America as well as John Cohen, the man who started the program there.
Point it, THAT's proper journalism. Not what Fox News does. It doesn't matter if they're conservative or liberal, they're not a reliable news source. For Christ's sake, watch Glen Beck's report on why he believes Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a bad president. I was appalled, as a US history student, to see so much false information about his policies displayed as "fact."
Believe whatever political philosophy you wish, it's your right, but at the end of the day you have to realize that Fox News is unreliable, untrustworthy, and run like a business. And right now, radical statements seem to make the most money.
