Poll: Why all the hate?

[Wounded Melody]

I think FOX is, but then again, I've met some of their people one on one and they can be really scummy of screen. But I shouldn't let that change my idea of the station...or should I???

 

[nick_knack]

Obvious troll is Obvious. American news is pathetic, and Fox is the worst of the worst.

 

[Berserker119]

CTV is the best.

 

[ottenni]

Because from an outsiders perspective they are biased as hell. It really is shamefully so. I don't really care about the issues they are arguing about all that much because it doesn't affect me, but my god is the reporting bad.

 

[Chris^^]

moderately less biased British newscasting for the win!

 

[Valiance]

People don't realize that the Fox online news that everyone links to isn't the same as the Fox I get on TV. It's not the same people, the same articles, or the same idiots.

 

[rokkolpo]

CNN is the only one i receive in holland so i guess that one.

 

[WhamBamSam]

As little as I like Fox, I would still pick Fox above all the others you have on the poll there. I refuse to watch MSNBC anymore because of Maddow and Olbermann.

Maddow is not that bad. She is an opinion pundit, and she certainly is liberal, but she will debate like a civilized human being, which cannot be said for Beck, O'Reily, Hannity, or any of the things hosting Fox and Friends. Olbermann's vitriol would be a very suitable alternate opinion to O'Reily, but he bogs himself down over semantics. His hour-long special commentary on Health Care a while back was really, really good, it's just that after he finishes ranting about something that actually matters he starts scraping around for little trivialities again. Though, as others have said, the Daily Show/Colbert are the best news sources by a wide margin, partly because the world is too ridiculous to examine straight-faced.

Here is a good Daily Show clip that really does a great job of showing how the Faux News propaganda machine works. The stuff relevant to our topic at hand starts at about 3:30.

 

[rokkolpo]

Obvious troll is Obvious. American news is pathetic, and Fox is the worst of the worst.

look who's trolling now.

don't be a hypocrit.

 

[ModsDeleteThisAccountPlease]

Fox News earns my scorn for acts of bullshit committed through ignorance and a will to never learn about new technology. I'll give the Report on Anonymous, Bill O'Reilly vs Eminem and Mass Effect Scandal as 3 examples.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

CTV because I'm not American!

 

[Ph0t0n1c Ph34r]

I'm an American and I watch the BBC. Best coverage all around I've noticed.

 

[Mortons4ck]

NPR and PRI are my major news venues. Since BBC contributes, it gets my vote.

 

[cuddly_tomato]

No bbc? I would have thought that would be an option.

USA-centric poll. But yeah, the beeb've been scoring about as many credibility points as the Daily Mail recently...

Urgh. Did you see the story about the sexualization of children through the modern media the other day? The BBC news responded the only way they know how - by having a rolling news report featuring Shakira swinging around a poll every 15 minutes.

Idiots.

More on topic; Al Jazeera. I am serious, it is a mighty fine news station.

 

[Shock and Awe]

And I'm American.

 

[internetzealot1]

Same deal with the Reagan thread the other day.

Internet = Liberals

Fox News = Republican (or somewhere between that and not-completley-liberal-dominated on the political orientation scale.)

Also, Fox has a pretty bad history with video games, and considering we're on a video game website...

 

[escapistraptor]

American journalism is a joke. The punchline being its making more money than ever by actively and knowingly misleading it's viewers. FOX murdered journalism and revealed to everyone else the amount of money to be made from pissing on the corpse.

I'm also half tempted to report this as trolling, since I refuse to believe anyone could honestly believe the initial post.

Also, FOX news (and by extension, every 24 hour "news" channel) gets away with so much shit because the FCC doesn't regulate "cable" television. Not mentioning repeal of the fairness doctrine.

Yup, because any opinion that isn't yours is either stupid or trolling.

You ask for other peoples' views and then dismiss them since they aren't you own? Rather confusing.

I don't think the OP is dismissing other people's views, he's defending his own views from being called trolling. Because people have other viewpoints. Because we're all... like snowflakes.

 

[Orcus The Ultimate]

The BBC is the only news network that still has some neutrality and integrity.

 

[Lonan]

Only one third of the users on this site are American. Two thirds of us have not heard of the vast majority of those channels. I don't know if the U.S. gets BBC, (I assume from you're poll it does) but it is easily better than any American channel.

 

[katsa5]

Best place for news: Comedy Central.
Its true, CNN has been bashing video games lately. But unlike Fox News, it balances itself with different views. "Hooray for Nancy Grace!"