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Fox News official position...

NonoBadDog said:
Fox has more viewers than any of the other news channels.
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More cable viewers. If you add the 2.7 million PBS NewsHour nightly viewership, nearly thirty-one million Americans watch a prime-time network news broadcast, compared to less than six million who watch Faux. And the gap is widening.

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tres borrachos said:
their sources are telling them Biden was expected to declare his candidacy. But I heard that on MSNBC and CNN too.
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Any links to that?

clownboy said:
The nightly news also made the same declaration.
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Biden said he was strongly considering running and was trying to gauge the support of unions, a source said. — "Biden Nears Decision Time," nbcnews.com, Oct 19, 2015​

>>It came from the Biden camp.

Did it? Ed Henry said he had "three solid sources." He let you know who they were, did he?

cpwill said:
Ed Henry, their WH Pool Reporter, was told that by several sources apparently close to Biden. :shrug: News Agencies.... try to report news.... first... so they can make money.
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Faux is a "peculiar" news agency. They don't report the news; they report the news their audience, with its heavy ideological bias, wants to hear.

Faux viewers want Clinton taken down. Strident, then salivating, finally breathless mania about an imminent Biden entry that will potentially destroy her candidacy is a popular item on their menu. They serve it up, and the hogs jam the trough.

Fox News host Andrea Tantaros is pretty sure that Vice President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday that he will not run for president as part of an administration-wide plan to cover up the Benghazi scandal. — "Fox Host: Biden Announced That He Won't Run Because... Benghazi!," Talking Points Memo, Oct 21, 2015​

Then she once again pulled her dress up over her head.
 
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Grim17 said:
I look at it another way...
If you don't post the facts, you're enabling them to continue pretending that those facts don't exist.
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:)
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Some people will deny that the facts exist no matter how many times you post them.

"Been there, done that."

:lol:
 
Middleground said:
Exactly. So why 'report' rumours, innuendo and guesses?
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Every member of the media report what people tell them. Why are you picking on Baier? Every one of them does it.
 
pbrauer said:
That Joe Biden will enter the race for president. Bret Baier said this at the beginning of show Special Report. Regardless of whether he's correct or not, why did Fox News make this declaration?
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Despite your disdain for the network and your belief that it's a GOP propaganda machine. Lots of Democrats appear on the channel, and even more talk to the pundits in private.
 
fmw said:
Every member of the media report what people tell them. Why are you picking on Baier? Every one of them does it.
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No. News networks/newspapers should not report gossip. Unless the source is confirmed, they should keep it to themselves.

Your standards are quite low.
 
ModerateGOP said:
your belief that it's a GOP propaganda machine.
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It's more than "a belief." The partisan/ideological bias is undeniable. That's why Faux is the "least trusted."

>>Lots of Democrats appear on the channel, and even more talk to the pundits in private.

That doesn't mean anything. Many of the Democrats they feature are "hand-picked." A lot of the regulars are what I'd call "former Democrats." Then there are the times a "real" Democrat appears, … so Handjob or Orally or some other right-wing schmuck can manipulate the appearance, talk over them, etc.

"I asked you a yes-or-no question; why won't you answer? 'Can there now be any remaining doubt that Obummer truly is the Antichrist?' OK, you won't answer, because you know the answer just like the American people do. Goodbye."​
 
rocket88 said:
Nothing is ever their "official position." Have you noticed that?
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Actually, no I haven't, but maybe I don't watch as much Fox News as you do. I do watch a lot more CNN and MSNBC than I watch Fox News, and I can't remember either of those networks saying "This is our official position!" after every single report. What shows do they do that on?
 
pbrauer said:
What part of "might be ruining or not running" do you not understand?
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What part of this didn't you understand? mmi asked for links, and that's what I gave him. Glad to clear it up for you.


US Rep Brendan Boyle
✔ ‎@RepBrendanBoyle
I have a very good source close to Joe that tells me VP Biden will run for Prez



or this:


Dana Bash
✔ ‎@DanaBashCNN
A source familiar with the process tells me Biden associates are setting up interviews for potential campaign staff positions

 
tres borrachos said:
Actually, no I haven't, but maybe I don't watch as much Fox News as you do. I do watch a lot more CNN and MSNBC than I watch Fox News, and I can't remember either of those networks saying "This is our official position!" after every single report. What shows do they do that on?
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Nice try, but not that nice. Typical retort line, someone ought to come up with a better one. It's gotten old.
 
Jesse Booth said:
How many news outlets have their reporters say "oh, and by the way, this is the official stance of the company that employs me..."
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None of them do. I just notice that in conland, everything said on another network is their real position, but the second the pendulum swings back to Fox it's the same old excuses.

Liberals should start using the same lines. See how long that's put up with.
 
rocket88 said:
None of them do. I just notice that in conland, everything said on another network is their real position, but the second the pendulum swings back to Fox it's the same old excuses.

Liberals should start using the same lines. See how long that's put up with.
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Probably for a long time. Both sides pander to the lowest common denominator for their political ideology, from everything I've seen.
 
pbrauer said:
That Joe Biden will enter the race for president. Bret Baier said this at the beginning of show Special Report. Regardless of whether he's correct or not, why did Fox News make this declaration?
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Got a Link? I'd love to put it on a screen in the Reagan libary...
 
rocket88 said:
None of them do. I just notice that in conland, everything said on another network is their real position, but the second the pendulum swings back to Fox it's the same old excuses.

Liberals should start using the same lines. See how long that's put up with.
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You're right, none of them do (including Fox). They all report things based on what their "sources" tell them. That goes for print journalists as well.

So what is the point of this thread? None.
 
rocket88 said:
Nice try, but not that nice. Typical retort line, someone ought to come up with a better one. It's gotten old.
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Typical retort line to say that nobody in journalism says "This is our official position"? Okay. :roll:
 
tres borrachos said:
Typical retort line to say that nobody in journalism says "This is our official position"? Okay. :roll:
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The whole "you must watch it a lot" line is basically a meme. It comes up every time someone criticizes Fox. Without fail people who "rarely watch" put themselves into convulsions defending it.

That's the whole reason I read these threads is to watch people start foaming at the mouth.
 
rocket88 said:
The whole "you must watch it a lot" line is basically a meme. It comes up every time someone criticizes Fox. Without fail people who "rarely watch" put themselves into convulsions defending it.

That's the whole reason I read these threads is to watch people start foaming at the mouth.
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The ones who criticize Fox News the most are the ones who watch it the most. That's a fact. Like pete. He posts about Fox at least once a week, usually more. You have to have an obsession to do that. Only 3 million people watch Fox's highest rated show. I'm guessing most of them are Liberals.

There actually wasn't anything to defend. Although the OP was a lie, as Bret Baier (who I do watch and admit to watching, really the only Fox show I do watch) never said "This is our official position". I called the OP out on that and he of course ignored it.
 
tres borrachos said:
The ones who criticize Fox News the most are the ones who watch it the most. That's a fact. Like pete. He posts about Fox at least once a week, usually more. You have to have an obsession to do that. Only 3 million people watch Fox's highest rated show. I'm guessing most of them are Liberals.

There actually wasn't anything to defend. Although the OP was a lie, as Bret Baier (who I do watch and admit to watching, really the only Fox show I do watch) never said "This is our official position". I called the OP out on that and he of course ignored it.
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Then there are a lot of conservatives here who watch a ton of MSNBC. They must never change the channel. Or is that different?
 
rocket88 said:
Then there are a lot of conservatives here who watch a ton of MSNBC. They must never change the channel. Or is that different?
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I watch MSNBC almost exclusively. I've posted that a few dozen times or so. But I don't start a thread every week about them. In fact, I don't think I've started an MSNBC thread more than once a year since I've been here. And I don't recall starting a thread that put words in Maddow's or Matthews' mouths that they never said (like the OP in this case did).
 
The irony is the ones who watch it the most are liebrals.
 
pbrauer said:
That Joe Biden will enter the race for president. Bret Baier said this at the beginning of show Special Report. Regardless of whether he's correct or not, why did Fox News make this declaration?
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Aug. 1, to be exact — the day renowned Hillary Clinton-critic Maureen Dowd published a column that marked a turning point in the presidential speculation.
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According to multiple sources, it was Biden himself who talked to her, painting a tragic portrait of a dying son, Beau’s face partially paralyzed, sitting his father down and trying to make him promise to run for president because "the White House should not revert to the Clintons and that the country would be better off with Biden values.”

It was no coincidence that the preliminary pieces around a prospective campaign started moving right after that column. People read Dowd and started reaching out, those around the vice president would say by way of defensive explanation. He was just answering the phone and listening.
But in truth, Biden had effectively placed an ad in The New York Times, asking them to call.
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Exclusive: Biden himself leaked word of his son's dying wish - POLITICO

So it seems crazy Uncle Joe may have been playing the media and others for suckers and not getting the credit ... to this day.
 
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