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Has Your Opinion of Fox News Changed?

Has Your Opinion of Fox News Changed?

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Let me warm the hearts of you lefties. Rupert murcosh is 89 years old. His kida are orchestrating the changes, and is planning to eliminate conservative commentary and be some form of world wide news network powerhouse. He's wife is part of the Clinton Global Initiative, so we can look to her for where the company priorities may be.

So it's going to be run by his two offpring who are elite liberals. It remains to be seen if 20% of the family income is worth the gamble.

Michael Wolff: How Bill O'Reilly's Scandal Exposes a Murdoch Family Divide | Hollywood Reporter
 
I disliked their fake message (fair and balanced :lamo) then and I dislike them now. So nothing has changed in that respect.
 
chuckiechan said:
Let me warm the hearts of you lefties. Rupert murcosh is 89 years old. His kida are orchestrating the changes, and is planning to eliminate conservative commentary and be some form of world wide news network powerhouse. He's wife is part of the Clinton Global Initiative, so we can look to her for where the company priorities may be.

So it's going to be run by his two offpring who are elite liberals. It remains to be seen if 20% of the family income is worth the gamble.

Michael Wolff: How Bill O'Reilly's Scandal Exposes a Murdoch Family Divide | Hollywood Reporter
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So glad you posted this; I still had the page open but forgot to.
 
ModerateGOP said:
With the recent sexual assault scandals that have become public in the past year, has your opinion of the network changed? For me, I used to be a big Fox News fan, but not anymore.
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No, not one bit. But I don't watch political talk shows on Fox or any other network. My viewing habits during the day when I do watch the news is first tune to Fox, then when a commercial comes on, switch over to CNN until another commercial, then switch back to Fox and so on. If I hit it where both Fox and CNN has commercials at the same time, then I will go to MSNBC. Until a commercial and then back to Fox.

The big problem I have is that way too many people think these political talk shows are news. That fellows like O'Riely, Matthews, Maddow, Hannity etc. are reporters of the news and not political talk show host. Their job is to spread whichever political parties propaganda to the masses and try to make you believe them and it. People swear by these political talk show host and believe every word they say.

I do think one should keep in mind that if one watches Fox, they are getting news from a right wing slant, watch MSNBC, you get the news from a left wing slant along with CNN, but not as slanted as MSNBC. With cable news, there is no just reporting the news, the actual events and happenings. Just be aware.
 
AlbqOwl said:
On what basis do you call him a monster and a hypocrite? Do you know him personally? Or do you just dislike him and/or Fox News so much you will believe anything the leftwing media, who also hates him and Fox News, puts out there as absolute fact?
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Have you looked into Bill O'Reilly's divorce? Perhaps start there, before acting like you know what you're talking about.
 
ModerateGOP said:
With the recent sexual assault scandals that have become public in the past year, has your opinion of the network changed? For me, I used to be a big Fox News fan, but not anymore.
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I feel Fox caved to the media, protestors and advertisers .
 
ModerateGOP said:
Have you looked into Bill O'Reilly's divorce? Perhaps start there, before acting like you know what you're talking about.
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Look into the alogations of sexual harassment for the man. Saying to hey a black women "hey hot chocolate" is not sexual harassment if think it is then your part of the problem with this country.
 
jdog21 said:
Look into the alogations of sexual harassment for the man. Saying to hey a black women "hey hot chocolate" is not sexual harassment if think it is then your part of the problem with this country.
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I love how people act like it was just that one incident, but even so that constant "sexy talk" from a 67 year old man is creepy.
 
Bucky said:
Bill O'Reilly is a good man, but you can clearly tell the liberal media has a deep-seeded hatred towards him.

I was watching one of the far more liberal outlets today and one of the announcers was saying Bill O'Reilly was sexually harassing a woman for calling her a blonde.

I believe the dizzy broad's name was Kirsten Powers who ironically was once dating a pervert Democrat in Anthony Weiner.
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Partisan spin. Note the deeper details...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsten_Powers

Powers briefly dated former Congressman Anthony Weiner in 2002, and remained his close friend after their romantic relationship ended. After initially defending him when the story of Weiner's sexting scandal surfaced in May 2011, Powers later condemned his conduct and called for his resignation from Congress.
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Also note that she wrote a book entitled The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech. She's hardly a Dem shill, but the full story doesn't support your partisan hack world view, so you cherry-pick.
 
Socrates1 said:
I feel Fox caved to the media, protestors and advertisers .
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Is it unusual for tv to care about selling ad space? Seems like SOP to me.

In terms of O'Reilly? My Opinion of him hasn't changed.

Hell...look up videos of O'Reilly and Jeremey Glick to know exactly who you are dealing with.
 
ModerateGOP said:
With the recent sexual assault scandals that have become public in the past year, has your opinion of the network changed? For me, I used to be a big Fox News fan, but not anymore.
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Fox News is a windmill the left is instructed to tilt at. The ratings for many network series far exceeds the number of people who watch Fox News. Even further, the ratings for the Network news is 5 x's that of Fox.

With those facts in place, the foibles of one host, on one show, or even of Ailes, is likely not going to move the needle much, in terms of opinion of the network itself.

There are the ones instructed to hate it, and there are the ones who don't. That will probably stay the same, as the Poll in the OP indicates.
 
Fox News spreads propaganda for the GOP.That hasn't changed even a little bit.
 
ModerateGOP said:
I love how people act like it was just that one incident, but even so that constant "sexy talk" from a 67 year old man is creepy.
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You have to be patient with people who have been effectively living in a media bubble for well over a decade. Folks have invested too much faith in FOX News (and the party-line that has always come with it) to face the reality of what has been going on there for years.

If they accept that the people they respect are actually the cartoon villains most of us have always known them to be, they then have to confront their entire worldview. That's a lot to ask for viewers who are well into (or beyond) their middle-aged years.
 
jdog21 said:
Look into the alogations of sexual harassment for the man. Saying to hey a black women "hey hot chocolate" is not sexual harassment if think it is then your part of the problem with this country.
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If you think that is an appropriate way to address a woman in a professional environment, then you are absolutely the one with the problem.:roll:
 
ModerateGOP said:
With the recent sexual assault scandals that have become public in the past year, has your opinion of the network changed? For me, I used to be a big Fox News fan, but not anymore.
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lol...all one had to do was look at their shows from the Five to Fox and Friends to know that they were a sexist operation getting away with sexual innuendo bordering on sexual harassment every day, on live TV. lol...so, no. Fox is exactly who I thought they were.
 
ModerateGOP said:
With the recent sexual assault scandals that have become public in the past year, has your opinion of the network changed? For me, I used to be a big Fox News fan, but not anymore.
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Fox remains a sleazy leader in the modern day yellow dog press. It did not fire O'Reilly for sexually harassing countless women at Fox. They fired him because advertisers had the balls to do the right thing and severe their relationships with O'Reilly.

Fox hasn't changed. They have no integrity.
 
I occasionally watch Fox News Sunday to catch the conservative angle on topics, but that's about it. I never did care for Billo.

My appraisal of Fox remains the same ... heavily biased with an obscene business culture.
 
Risky Thicket said:
Fox remains a sleazy leader in the modern day yellow dog press. It did not fire O'Reilly for sexually harassing countless women at Fox. They fired him because advertisers had the balls to do the right thing and severe their relationships with O'Reilly.

Fox hasn't changed. They have no integrity.
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May have sexually harassed women. And he and the network may have paid them off simply because it was easier to make them go away. This happens all the time, including in bogus personal injury cases. There is some former beauty queen/attorney in California who is extremely litigious, and her specialty seems to be finding a puddle to "slip" in. One that I remember was a puddle in front of a bank. And that bank did indeed pay her off rather that expose itself to all the negative publicity.

Clichés become clichés because they're so often true. But O'Reilly is really pugilistic, and I will be very interested to see how many countersuits he brings. If he doesn't, that will certainly be an indication to me given his nature.
 
nota bene said:
Because of the Internet, balanced sources can be found without owning a TV.
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On the flip side, people can spend their entire day bouncing from one site that tells them what they want to hear to another that confirms it by also telling them what they want to hear. These people believe they have found truth, but have actually hidden themselves from it because they really don't want the truth.
 
upsideguy said:
On the flip side, people can spend their entire day bouncing from one site that tells them what they want to hear to another that confirms it by also telling them what they want to hear. These people believe they have found truth, but have actually hidden themselves from it because they really don't want the truth.
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Well, people like that are going to be that way irrespective of their news sources.
 
nota bene said:
May have sexually harassed women. And he and the network may have paid them off simply because it was easier to make them go away. This happens all the time, including in bogus personal injury cases. There is some former beauty queen/attorney in California who is extremely litigious, and her specialty seems to be finding a puddle to "slip" in. One that I remember was a puddle in front of a bank. And that bank did indeed pay her off rather that expose itself to all the negative publicity.

Clichés become clichés because they're so often true. But O'Reilly is really pugilistic, and I will be very interested to see how many countersuits he brings. If he doesn't, that will certainly be an indication to me given his nature.
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I think its fair to elevate your "may" to "likely"..... A corporation is not going to pay out $13M in settlements followed by a $25M employee buyout to settle 5 "frivolous" suits. You make 5 figure settlements to "make them go away". You go to 7 figures when you calculate the outcome to you would be much worse. Fox legal made the determination that the probable payout would be a great deal more (because their defense was weak), so they settled. They could have bought a ton of defense for a fraction of the cost if the plantiffs had holes in their respective cases.
 
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nota bene said:
Well, people like that are going to be that way irrespective of their news sources.
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I will only speculate here, but I would suggest that most people fall into that trap, which is one of the primary reasons that we have a fractured political climate.
 
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