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Fox News No Longer Fair and Balanced

Fletch said:
Fox is the only place a person can go to get news from a somewhat conservative perspective.
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SOMEWHAT, [emoji15]

HA HA

ALL the bias talk depends on news v opinion. Half (or more) of the example of liberal bias comes from opinion hosts/editorial page.

Most of the news, is fairly balanced. Unfortunately there is not a lot of news programming anymore.

I would guess that 75% of news programming is admittedly opinion based and is not meant to be "news".

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nota bene said:
The NY Times article I linked addresses this:

Some viewers may be surprised. Several Fox News personalities still toss the phrase “fair and balanced” into on-air conversation, though it no longer appears in graphics. Gabriel Sherman, longtime Fox News chronicler, reported on New York magazine’s website that the motto was gone for good. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/14/business/media/fox-news-fair-and-balanced.html?_r=0
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Seems like semantics to me if they are still using the slogan. :shrug:
 
Whythink said:
SOMEWHAT, [emoji15]

HA HA

ALL the bias talk depends on news v opinion. Half (or more) of the example of liberal bias comes from opinion hosts/editorial page.

Most of the news, is fairly balanced. Unfortunately there is not a lot of news programming anymore.

I would guess that 75% of news programming is admittedly opinion based and is not meant to be "news".

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ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN have always had a liberal bias. That is why FOX took off--it didn't
 
countryboy said:
Seems like semantics to me if they are still using the slogan. :shrug:
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A few individuals apparently are. But this is about rebranding, and it's a marketing thing.
 
nota bene said:
I was hoping somebody would begin a thread on this. Fox is rebranding, and it's felt that "fair and balanced" is too closely associated with Ailes. Read this yesterday:

On Wednesday, executives at Fox News played down the shedding of “Fair and Balanced,” saying that the move was strictly a marketing decision and that the network’s approach to news coverage had not changed.

One senior network official emphasized that the slogan was officially dropped last August and virtually no one had noticed. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/14/business/media/fox-news-fair-and-balanced.html?_r=0
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So, they are going to remain lying bastards?
 
Ironically, Hannity just ended his show with, "always fair and balanced"

Of all people, freakin crazy

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TheGoverness said:
It was never 'fair and balanced' in the first place, so whatever.
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Interestingly enough, taking away the slogan was the most fair and balanced thing they ever did.:lamo
 
year2late said:
Interestingly enough, taking away the slogan was the most fair and balanced thing they ever did.:lamo
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if they want to get more accurate they can also dump the word "news".
 
Curious topic. I heard the term used as recently as yesterday on Fox. The term refers to Fox's practice of putting people from both sides of an issue on air for a debate. They do it many times during the day. That is what is fair and balanced about it. You can call it whatever you like.
 
Fletch said:
Fox news IS the balance. Every other network news program has a liberal bias. Fox is the only place a person can go to get news from a somewhat conservative perspective.
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Bashing liberals is their bread and butter. They don't report the news...they revise it to fit their liberal hating agenda. No wonder this country is so divided and ****ed up.
 
Whythink said:
Ironically, Hannity just ended his show with, "always fair and balanced"

Of all people, freakin crazy

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Thats just proof that he's a liar in one sentence.
 
Fux News was never "fair and balanced" and we all know that.
 
Moot said:
Bashing liberals is their bread and butter. They don't report the news...they revise it to fit their liberal hating agenda. No wonder this country is so divided and ****ed up.
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Yet people think they are fair and balanced because they put up a token liberal to take the **** they pour out.
 
ModerateGOP said:
They literally scrapped that slogan:




Fox News no longer ?fair and balanced? as network sheds longtime slogan - Salon.com
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I have had a few occasions to compare Fox News to Canadian coverage where it's not about us, which usually means our press can be trusted to deliver the best balanced reporting, if not with an undertone of humor and awe for all things American Political.

In those instances I noticed that Fox will almost always lead their "show" with a positive spin on the daily Trump story, keeping it brief, and then will move in various analyses from Talking heads whose only credentials seem to be they are conservative. When the event of Benghazi happened, I noticed all the American station were far behind the European media, both "Le Monde" and London's "Guardian" were more than a day ahead of US press, and one of the first times CBC used European media sources instead of US.

In my book, if you want a balanced idea of what's going on, cancel your cable and get a couple of newspaper subscriptions.
 
Manc Skipper said:
Yet people think they are fair and balanced because they put up a token liberal to take the **** they pour out.
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No sooner was the Fairness Doctrine abolished that conservatives stopped being fair and balanced.

During the 1990s many conservative political pundits came to prominence and made a living bashing Clinton and his zipper problem. But after Bush was elected they had to reinvent themselves or become irrelevant. So they started bashing all liberals instead. As long as conservative pundits are getting rich dehumanizing liberals...the divide in this country is just going to get worse, not better.
 
Moot said:
No sooner was the Fairness Doctrine abolished that conservatives stopped being fair and balanced.

During the 1990s many conservative political pundits came to prominence and made a living bashing Clinton and his zipper problem. But after Bush was elected they had to reinvent themselves or become irrelevant. So they started bashing all liberals instead. As long as conservative pundits are getting rich dehumanizing liberals...the divide in this country is just going to get worse, not better.
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Do liberal pundits, bloggers, commentators, etc. get rich "dehumanizing" conservatives?
 
Josie said:
Do liberal pundits, bloggers, commentators, etc. get rich "dehumanizing" conservatives?
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Not to the extent that O'Reilly, Hannity, Limbaugh, Savage, Coulter, Beck, Levin, Breitbart, Newsmax, or Conservative think tanks have. Almost all them got rich and famous attacking Clinton almost exclusively. It wasn't until Bush was elected that they changed their act into attacking ALL liberals lest they become irrelevant.
 
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Moot said:
Not to the extent that O'Reilly, Hannity, Limbaugh, Savage, Coulter, Beck, Levin, Breitbart, Newsmax, or Conservative think tanks have.
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Really? How do you measure that?
 
Moot said:
By paying attention.
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That's not a measurement. What you're saying is that this is your perception, not necessarily reality.

In my opinion, liberal pundits and commentators are just as (if not more) impactful in demonizing conservatives then their counterparts. Conservatives rule the radio waves, for sure -- but liberal pundits rule the television and newsprint world (online and off) -- Paul Krugman, Arianna Huffington, Ezra Klein, Rachel Maddow, Samantha Bee, Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Daily Kos dude, Think Progress dude, Fareed Zakaria, David Axelrod, Sally Kohn, Van Jones, anyone on MSNBC and most people on CNN.
 
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Moot said:
Bashing liberals is their bread and butter. They don't report the news...they revise it to fit their liberal hating agenda. No wonder this country is so divided and ****ed up.
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This country is not divided and ****ed up because of Fox. And tell me, how much Fox news do you watch to draw the conclusions you do? Ill bet you are just aping the comments you heard on the conservative hating news you see on MSNBC.
 
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