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Do liberals watch fox to get the other side of the story?

Do liberals watch fox to get the other side of the story?

  • Hells yeah!

    Votes: 7 29.2%
  • Are you frigid kidding me??

    Votes: 17 70.8%

  • Total voters
    24
For entertainment.. I watch Fox News..

For news I watch the Cobert Report and The Daily show..

Fox News to me has no value at all except as a mouth piece for christians and republicans.. I am glad they got rid of Beck Though.. But Fox News is sadly one of the problems of this nation.. The misinformaton it is spewing isn't doing anyone in the nation any good.. In some ways I feel that our nation will never get better and never move forward as long as there is a Fox News..
 
None of my news sources are television based, whether they are CNN, MSNBC or Fox. It is a needless waste of mental energy to sit there and actively sift through fact and agenda, only to have to go online and look up other sources anyway. I prefer to get my news from the internet and from many sources, including those outside of the United States.

I have a lot of respect for the BBC as their reporting seems to be the most centrist. They represent what news used to look like before corporate profit interests became the dominant factor in what gets reported.
 
For entertainment.. I watch Fox News..

For news I watch the Cobert Report and The Daily show..

Fox News to me has no value at all except as a mouth piece for christians and republicans.. I am glad they got rid of Beck Though.. But Fox News is sadly one of the problems of this nation.. The misinformaton it is spewing isn't doing anyone in the nation any good.. In some ways I feel that our nation will never get better and never move forward as long as there is a Fox News..

Case in point.
 
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FOX's "other side of the story" isn't even the from the same book. What a truly ridiculous news channel. MSNBC can be just as bad, too, that dummy Ed Schultz gets me riled up easier than that has-been Beck. Don't watch TV for news; read books, newspapers and magazines.

If I want to hear the real other side of the story from the RIght, I'll read David Frum or George Will or David Brooks. At least they usually manage to steer away from hysterics and hyperbole.

TV is entertainment, not news or reality.
 
“Do liberals watch fox to get the other side of the story?”

The choices are “Hells yeah!” or “Are you [friggin'] kidding me??” What do either those two options mean? Nothing to this liberal.

Where's the “I don't waste my time watching fake news and lyin' opinion programs” option?

All this poll shows is how weak another conservative's grasp of reality is.

I think you missed the point of what he was going for here.
 
Well, I'm only part liberal, if anything, and I haven't watched TV news in years.

However, the local news/talk radio station uses FOX news radio for its national and international coverage, so I suppose…

I probably get more of my news via posts here on DebatePolitics than anywhere else, actually…hmmmm.
 
"Story" is right.

Fox is not about "News". It's a daily GOP narrative telling far-right basers how to think and what to say.

The reason this poll is so moronic is because it assumes (like far-righties do) there are only two sides...

NEWS FLASH - Independents decide national elections. And Independents have started tuning out Fox...
 
"Story" is right.

Fox is not about "News". It's a daily GOP narrative telling far-right basers how to think and what to say.

The reason this poll is so moronic is because it assumes (like far-righties do) there are only two sides...

NEWS FLASH - Independents decide national elections. And Independents have started tuning out Fox...

Where's your documentation on that.
 
Where's your documentation on that.

This thread... for starters.

Failure of Beck.

Failure of Ailes to do anything but gin up the base.

No serious candidates have come forward to run against Obama.
 
Norly. D*O*C*U*M*E*N*T*A*T*I*O*N. Proof? Not just accusatory words. Where's your proof that independents are tuning out from Fox?
 
Liberal on some things, but I never like to miss Fox News Sunday, and I like Shepherd Smith. These are shows that I think are reasonably unbiased. Watch John King on CNN, seems like he has people on from every side on almost every show, and he lets them talk. You can learn from that. Also like Christianne Amanpour on Sunday mornings. All of the above include some sort of 'round table,' mostly with people with opposing views who seem to respect each other. I like that format a lot.
 
I don't watch Fox because their not willing to keep the pressure on and sucker up to the big guys when it comes to criticism.
I listen to the Savage Nation for the most part but I once saw a Liberal watching it not that all Liberals do. The only visible
signs I examined was his increase in excited behavior as he spoke to those in company with him about its "audacity" this and that.

They don't learn much except greater influence of their humor near it and skepticism.
 
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I appreciate the share, but it doesn't address his assertion that Fox is losing independent viewers.
 
Ehh, the hooting and hollering and fake outrage on FOX News doesn't really appeal to me. I do try to listen to conservative viewpoints, but I tend to do it more from sources that I consider more intelligent than FOX: National Review, Weekly Standard, Pajamas Media (in small doses), and various conservative op-ed columnists.
 
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Ehh, the hooting and hollering and fake outrage on FOX News doesn't really appeal to me. I do try to listen to conservative viewpoints, but I tend to do it more from sources that I consider more intelligent than FOX: National Review, Weekly Standard, Pajamas Media (in small doses), and various conservative op-ed columnists.

What is fun is those conservatives who read DU to get a view of what liberals think. Dunno why your post reminded me of them, but it did.
 
Ehh, the hooting and hollering and fake outrage on FOX News doesn't really appeal to me. I do try to listen to conservative viewpoints, but I tend to do it more from sources that I consider more intelligent than FOX: National Review, Weekly Standard, Pajamas Media (in small doses), and various conservative op-ed columnists.

Yeah, the fake outrage annoys me too.
 
The information about the world put out by FOX, MSNBC, CNN, ABCNews, etc. comprises only 3 - 5% of critical world news--the stuff you need to know.

The remaining 95 - 97% comes from reading scholarly journals, books, etc.
 
QUOTE=BDBoop;1059507016]I appreciate the share, but it doesn't address his assertion that Fox is losing independent viewers.[/QUOTE]


Why is Fox News losing viewers?

Why is Fox News losing viewers? - The Week

The No. 1 cable news channel suddenly faces the same problem as its competitors — a shrinking primetime audience. Is Fox's winning streak over?

The audience for cable news shrank in 2010, according to a Pew Research Center report, with viewership for the dominant Fox News declining by 11 percent, CNN plummeting by 37 percent, and MSNBC down 5 percent. "It's not that people are not watching cable," says Amy S. Mitchell, deputy director of the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism. "They're just not turning to news as much."

A number of years back a story in a Radio Trade Magazine said that Rush Limbaugh's audience was nearly 30% Democrats, The reason they stated was that they wanted to know what the enemy was saying.
 
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