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Fox News No Longer Fair and Balanced

Fearandloathing said:
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.
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Or at least, just don't watch cable news.

Most of the main newspaper sites will let you read X articles for free, more if you clear your cookies every time you close the browser.
 
Josie said:
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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This article was written over 22 years ago and shows just how powerful and pervasive the right wing media really was...even back then...



In the 25 years since Nixon started “pushing” this project, the conservatives have constructed a truly intimidating media machine. It ranges from nationwide radio talk shows by Rush Limbaugh and scores of Limbaugh-wannabes, to dozens of attack magazines, newspapers, newsletters and right-wing opinion columns, to national cable television networks propagating hard-line conservative values and viewpoints, to documentary producers who specialize in slick character assassination, to mega-buck publishing houses that add footnotes to white-supremacist theories anti a veneer of respectability to journalistic fabrications, and even to narrowly focused organizations that exist simply to hurt the surviving mainstream journalists who still won’t toe the line.

In the past two years alone, through constant repetition, the machine has focused public anger on welfare recipients, on ghetto residents, on immigrant populations and, most notably, on Bill and Hillary Clinton....

By the end of Clinton’s first year, the conservative media—particularly Rush Limbaugh, the Christian Broadcasting Network, Washington Times, American Spectator and the Wall Street Journal editorial page—had sparked what mounted to a press riot that was trampling Clinton’s presidency. Stories abounded about Clinton’s marital infidelity, the “mystery” around Foster’s death and the Clintons’ 14-year-old real estate investment called Whitewater. (At least the conservatives were smart enough to see that yesterday wasn’t really gone.)

Though Clinton’s dalliances and business deals did raise legitimate questions about his personal ethics, the stories were blown wildly out of proportion. Similar concerns about past business investments by Reagan and Bush—not to mention rumors of sexual liaisons—had prompted no comparable scrutiny after the two Republicans were in office. Indeed, no president in memory had undergone the intense personal scrutiny directed at Clinton....

Yet, despite the power of the right-wing media, conservatives still espouse the Nixonian notion that they are picked-upon victims, persecuted by some all-powerful “liberal” press. Indeed, for the past 25 years, this oft-repeated claim of a liberal media has been a catechism of conservative faith....

The Rise of the Right-Wing Media Machine | FAIR​



The big bad liberal media is largely a myth created by conservatives to portray themselves as 'victims" and they've been playing the victim while mercilessly victimizing the left ever since.
 
Mr Person said:
Or at least, just don't watch cable news.

Most of the main newspaper sites will let you read X articles for free, more if you clear your cookies every time you close the browser.
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Vancouver Sun, Vancouver Province, New York Times on Saturday, La Monde Sunday and the Guardian if there's a major story internationally. CBC Radio and BBC World News - short wave and satallite
is where I learn what's happening.

I have found by only listening to US news you get a very narrow view which I used to call "Americanization" but now see it as partisan bull****. It is astonishing the difference between items posted in here for any of the television outlets.

It's all over hyped, badly written with so man "bangles" (info on the edge of your screen) that even if the story was accurate you wouldn't know because of the distractions.
 
Whythink said:
Ironically, Hannity just ended his show with, "always fair and balanced"

Of all people, freakin crazy

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Yes, he is the least balanced person on Fox... The only way to balance out Hannity is to make him sit across the table from Al Sharpton... and I'm not certain that would do the trick.


WCH said:
Now it's "Most watched, Less fake"
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...Of course that also would be incorrect as it is neither...

Fox News losing out in primetime ratings race amid Trump turmoil - May. 17, 2017

In Trump era, Rachel Maddow starts beating Fox News - Apr. 24, 2017
 
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Carleen said:
You're right. But it does mean that they are no longer pretending they are.
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It's a slogan.
Like ' All the news that's fit to print"
which if honest would all the news that fits the left wing narrative that Democrats good-Republicans bad"
Fox's actually WAS honest . They attempted to balance out the overwhelming liberal bias that existed ( and still does ) in the legacy media.
 
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