Anyone here watch FOX News?

[Alexander]

Hope not.
Besides being BLATANTLY biased toward the right in all issues (which they freely admit) - which is the opposite of what journalism is meant to be, it now comes out that their supposed "Military Expert" who they claimed served in Vietnam, won the Silver Star, etc, served a grand total of 44 days in the service - all in boot camp. Lieutenant Colonel? Try PFC!
Way to check your "experts" out, Fox! If I want in-depth investigative reporting, I think I'll turn to a network that doesn't even know who its "experts" are...
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/29/bu...ia/29HOAX.html

[Neb]

*sigh* The virtue of Honesty is long dead it seems, is it possible to get unbiased news ANYWHERE today? I wish it was so. But sadly enough it probably isn't.....

[khazadman]

Besides being BLATANTLY biased toward the right in all issues (which they freely admit) - which is the opposite of what journalism is meant to be, it now comes out that their supposed "Military Expert" who they claimed served in Vietnam, won the Silver Star, etc, served a grand total of 44 days in the service - all in boot camp. Lieutenant Colonel? Try PFC!

some guy lied about his military background.so what?i would rather watch fox and their "we report you decide" stance than listen to the out right lies spewed out by the leftist propaganda mills like cnn(the clinton news network).did you see that wonderful unbiased reporting by christiana amanpour?reporting on the le pen story?calling his win in the first round of the election frances national shame?yeah thats unbiased.but of course that's why fewer people watch cnn now.and the funny thing is,is that fox is on fewer cable systems than cnn.but i guess you would rather get your news from a slanted source that only serves as a mouth piece for the left.
i would not say that greta van susteren,juan williams,or brit hume are conservative.but they are honest.and fox does not claim they are biased to the right.they would never go out of their way to defend bush when something goes wrong.but cnn does it all the time.how else could larry "the softball" king stay on the air.he gets his ass kicked every night by greta van susteren,and before her,by paula zahn.

[Neb]

Originally posted by khazadman: some guy lied about his military background. so what? i would rather watch fox and their "we report you decide" stance than listen to the out right lies spewed out by the leftist propaganda mills like cnn(the clinton news network.

"We report, you decide"? What a laugh. More like: "We report what we want you to hear, so that you decide what we want you to decide." That's how ALL news are, some are just more strongly like that than others.

Originally posted by khazadman: did you see that wonderful unbiased reporting by christiana amanpour? reporting on the le pen story? calling his win in the first round of the election frances national shame? yeah thats unbiased. but of course that's why fewer people watch cnn now. and the funny thing is, is that fox is on fewer cable systems than cnn. but i guess you would rather get your news from a slanted source that only serves as a mouth piece for the left. zahn.

Ehm, I've heard quite a few french people agree with it being shameful. What wouldn't be shameful about voting for someone that's an obvious racist?

[Albromor]

You have GOT to be kidding about the NY Times, right??? They are one of the MOST biased of all newspapers in the nation! Read their editorials and overall reporting. They just don't lean to the left, they ARE left and they freely admit this.

[Ar-Cunin]

´Mayby you should try watching the BBC

I find their rapporting on the Middle East to be especilly good

[Azred]

I always flip around, obtaining news from multiple sources. If you do this, you can balance them out and (usually) be able to figure out what is really going on. I agree with Ar-Cunin, though--always get your news from the BBC when you can (especially if you are an American) because then you don't have to filter out any left/right slant. Many news-oriented AM stations carry the BBC beginning at midnight (local time).

The BBC? heh! a lot of bias is in their reporting too, though it's not as bad as our tabloids

I prefer Reuters as the source of news

[Talthyr Malkaviel]

The BBC are biased, but not as much as some of the papers here, and not mearly as much as American news.

[Alexander]

Originally posted by khazadman: some guy lied about his military background.so what?i would rather watch fox and their "we report you decide" stance than listen to the out right lies spewed out by the leftist propaganda mills like cnn(the clinton news network).did you see that wonderful unbiased reporting by christiana amanpour?reporting on the le pen story?calling his win in the first round of the election frances national shame?yeah thats unbiased.but of course that's why fewer people watch cnn now.and the funny thing is,is that fox is on fewer cable systems than cnn.but i guess you would rather get your news from a slanted source that only serves as a mouth piece for the left. i would not say that greta van susteren,juan williams,or brit hume are conservative.but they are honest.and fox does not claim they are biased to the right.they would never go out of their way to defend bush when something goes wrong.but cnn does it all the time.how else could larry "the softball" king stay on the air.he gets his ass kicked every night by greta van susteren,and before her,by paula zahn.

Don't give me that garbage, FOX News is so unbelievably biased towards the right it makes me sick. And they do admit this, by spewing lines like "We're just trying to negate the effects of the otherwise liberal media" and so on. Only a right-winger would believe that they are unbiased.

Before you go on and trash CNN, I must inform you that I don't watch CNN enough to be able to gauge how biased they are. Of course, you just had to assume that since I am not right-wing, I must be a victim of the "liberal media". I actually prefer MSNBC, Reuters, and the BBC when I can get it. However, it is not uncommon for a right-winger to bash any news station that doesn't always portray right-wingers in the best light as "biased".

FOX News, like CNN, will decline in popularity. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon. Soon the people who watch it will wake up and realize that it is anything but un-biased.

Regarding the "Colonel", most news stations check out people's credentials before they hire them. You'd think FOX News would do the same.

[ 05-06-2002, 02:36 PM: Message edited by: Alexander ]