CNN is picking up a lot of viewers during this primary season for a lot of reasons as Eric explains:
Bottom line is that Fox News is in for a very rough 2008. And the umbrella reason for that is quite simple: Eight years ago the all-news cable channel went all-in on the presidency of George Bush and became a broadcast partner with the White House...read on
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McCain win in FL adds to the fire at Fox News
WEE!!!
Fascist is as Fascist does....
lmao...
well deserved.
What goes around comes around...or, as some put it, lay down with the dogs, get up with fleas.
Tough shit, Fox!
American can only take so much of the 24/7 version of "Inside Edition".
Well, you know what this means: shorter skirts and more cleavage.
good....it'll be interesting to watch Faux News go down.from a distance....
People are finally tiring of the bullshit. It's about time.
StirFry @ 5:
has anyone else noticed that all the republican women on FOX have evil-looking eyes? i'm dead serious, they look soul-less!
I'm not sure that CNN, as it is now, out pacing Fox is that great of news. In a way, CNN is more problematic as their right wing bias is less overt. Choosing Glenn Beck over Bill O'Reilly and Wolf Blitzer over Brit Hume is no great triumph of journalism over corporate right wing propaganda.
Snowball @ 9:
yes, CNN is a complete mess. I have now converted to MSNBC. not like its perfect or anything, but it is more light-headed and honest IMO.
i meant to say light-hearted...oops. subconcious?
Poor murdock....can't even buy peoples minds....awwwww
Ryan from Portland @ 8:
it's that damn plastic surgeon. I told him to make the eyes like angelina jolie. I think he got confused because brad pitt was also in the picture. who knew?
Falafal sale at Fox News! Home of the SEXUAL PREDATOR!
Ryan from Portland @ 11:
light-headed works and fits better. don't be hard on yourself.
CoIntelPro @ 13:
I was gonna say that their all alien beings from another planet....cloned to fit into our society.....and then................take over.
Fauk FOX... About time! Sometimes it takes a long time for what goes around, comes around, huh?! Way too long sometimes...
I can't wait to watch the Truth and Universal Laws bitch-slap Bill(shit) O'Reilly upside the head. Woohoo!!!!
Ryan from Portland @ 8:
because they are soulless... their souls bought and sold to the highest bidder. Sad and true. Let's see if ethics ever rings any bells for the infotainment speakers on these idiotic channels.
And it could not be happening to a nicer gang of pricks like the ones you will find at FOX.
Burn you mothers - burn!!
Faux News is going down with the sinking ship. I, for one, am not surprised or disappointed. If MSNBC added more news and progressive political programming, and less "Lock Up" or Chris Hansen specials, they could pick up viewers ahead of CNN.
chlorocardium @ 2:
Well said.
You watch: This network will change its tune when there's a dem government, attempting to gain favor ("We made a mistake; we're sorry").
This network single-handedly gave new meaning to fascist propaganda.
Karma.
Fuck you, Rupert.
People are getting tired of listening to the right wing talking machine. Who gets their news from the MSM anymore any way. The pendulum is swinging to the left. Let’s just see how far she goes.
Fox News must be waiting for Jeb Bush to enter the Presidential race to gain "relevency" again.....
Fox needn't worry about their bottom line since the purchase of the Wall Street Journal by Murdoch. He can lose money on Fox News and still get out ahead..It's now just a political tool and can blow with whatever windbag they put on it.
if you haven't yet figured it out, it's too late to bail out, this is the slippery slope we refered you to eight years ago....
Face it- Fox will always dominate because of their fair and balanced reporting. They dominated during clinton, They dominated during Bush, and they'll dominate right up to and through the '08 Republican presidency. It's indisputable.
Foxxy Moxie and Guli Looney can both fade back into the fairy tales they read and spout for all i care. They deserve each other and they desrve their fate: Obscurity.
RightOne @ 27:
If you like Fox i highly recommend this site.
Maybe they will figure out that truth does matter.
xoites defends Constitution @ 29:
Although you may like C&L i was thinking more this site.
xoites defends Constitution @ 29:
Didn't we just have a thread on trolls? This is a classic example of what a troll is.
mudshark @ 32:
Without trolls politics would be humdrum, dry, tasteless, uninteresting and no fun. Without them who would i tease?
xoites defends Constitution @ 31:
lol.........nice touch X
RightOne @ 27:
Face it- Fox will always dominate because of their fair and balanced reporting. They dominated during clinton, They dominated during Bush, and they’ll dominate right up to and through the ‘08 Republican presidency. It’s indisputable.
If you like Fox i highly recommend this site.
Don't worry- these sites will never corrupt me- I like to come and see how the left thinks.
The fact of the matter is the majority of the country leans to the right- that's why outfits like FOX new works. That's why Rush will always be #1 and Hannity will aways be #2 (and I'll mention Glenn Beck being #3).
Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me. Fox's audience must be the most shamed sheeple in the universe.
RightOne @ 35:
No, they work because so many people can't figure out how to put their hate into words without losing their front teeth. Once you figure that out (and Rush did) then you can make millions dividing a nation.
Faux Nooz isn't news...it commentary an opinion based.Not dealing in facts..but you certainly are entitled to your opinion..........but that doesn't make you the Right One...in fact...it makes you the Wrong One.
RightOne @ 35:
Not in Florida.
Voters: 3.8 million registered Republicans, 4.1 million registered Democrats, 2.2 million registered other.
RightOne @ 35:
RightOne @ 27:
The fact of the matter is the majority of the country leans to the right- that’s why outfits like FOX new works. That’s why Rush will always be #1 and Hannity will aways be #2 (and I’ll mention Glenn Beck being #3).
Not in Florida.
Voters: 3.8 million registered Republicans, 4.1 million registered Democrats, 2.2 million registered other.
My post said "most of the country" Florida or New York, or California are not most of the country. The vast portion of the population is more conservative than liberal. That's why air america radio failed- that's why there is no dominant liberal voice on the radio-- what further proof do you need?
Was that a tear I just shed for fox news?
Nope. Eye booger. Carry on.
In the US
204 million eligible voters (age 18 or older)
63 million registered Democrats
47 million registered Republicans
32 million registered as independents or with minor party
62 million not registered
Any questions?
RightOne @ 40:
That just proves the right wants to be dominated (something i would not brag about if i were you.)
I do not watch Faux news. It's like listening to a pathological liar. After a while they just make you pull your hair out because they keep covering lies with lies. The only faux I get is on clips from sites like this one.
There you have it folks. A supporter of Fox news down to the bone. Maybe they will hire him. He has the rules down pat.
First make shit up and slam it down on the table as fact.
Second, if challenged misdirect.
Third, when shown to be wrong disapear,
I want to see the talking heads on Faux News explode. The fact McCain won must be tearing out their guts! After pushing Rudy, they failed. After adopting Romney, they failed. Now they have a so-called maverick? They are dust.
RightOne @ 35:
Hannity does remind me of #2. And make no mistake, Rush is definitely the #1 asshole on Earth. He could qualify for a Superfund toxic waste site all by himself.
Hey Right One
The US media is largely owned by 10 corporations who frequently push pro-conservative agendas to the American public.
Even Republican Pat Buchanan confessed, "For heaven sakes, we kid about the liberal media, but every Republican on earth does that." Neo-conservative pundit Bill Kristol also said, "I admit it: the liberal media were never that powerful, and the whole thing was often used as an excuse by conservatives for conservative failures."
A 2005 study in the Quarterly Journal of Economics found that "coverage by public television and radio is conservative compared to the rest of the mainstream media." Why? Partly because only four major corporate networks control American TV news-- up to 75% of the audience share. The "Big 10" media conglomerates who control the bulk of the entire US media are: AOL Time Warner, Disney, General Electric, News Corporation, Viacom, Vivendi, Sony, Bertelsmann, AT&T and Liberty Media. Yes, we have National Public Radio, but compare its public reach to that of Canada's CBC and the United Kingdom's BBC.
Eighty percent of all US newspapers are owned by corporate chains.
Liberals are virtually non-existent on talk radio stations nationwide. Not because they aren't popular- Democracy Now! is the most listened to radio program on public radio. Corporate owned media won't air content that is critical of corporations.
Conservatives are very well accomodated for across FOX News, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Times, the New York Post, the American Spectator, the Weekly Standard, the Drudge Report, the National Review, etc. Even so-called "bastions of liberalism," e.g. the NY Times, MSNBC, WashPost and NPR make a concerted effort to be "fair and balanced" by bringing in right-wing views like those of David Brooks, Joe Scarborough, Tucker Carlson, Charles Krauthammer and Cokie Roberts to have their say in these forums, respectively. This is in stark contrast to FOX News' claims to unbiased objectivity, which were easily demolished by Robert Greenwald in 2004.
Contrary to what some paranoid Republicans claim, most journalists are centrists, not liberals. A representative sample of 141 US journalists and bureau chiefs were asked in 1998, "On social issues, how would you characterize your political orientation?" Answers: Left 30%, Center 57%, Right 9%, Other 5% . Next question, same sample: "On economic issues, how would you characterize your political orientation? " Answers: Left 11%, Center 64%, Right 19%, Other 5%. Also, look at the total number of think tank citations in major newspapers, radio and TV transcripts: Conservative TTs: 7792, Centrist TTs: 6361, Liberal TTs: 1152.
Eric Alterman summarizes a 1999 research study from the academic journal Communications Research: "Four scholars examined the use of the 'liberal media' argument and discovered a fourfold increase in the number of Americans telling pollsters that they discerned a liberal bias in their news. But a review of the media's actual ideological content, collected and coded over a twelve-year period, offered no corroboration whatever for this view."
The Liberal Media is a myth. It does not exist. People who say it does know this.
Lollimom @ 21:
Lessons of 1992 By PAUL KRUGMAN
Has everyone forgotten what happened after the 1992 election?
Fox should have stuck with WMDs and fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them over here. I fear that anything else is a tad too sophisticated for them. Perhaps a war with Iran would help to lift them out of the dumps. They seem to do fear, death and destruction really well.
jace @ 51:
Yeah, the MSM in general loves them some good news makers. Who wants a boring peaceful president when they can have McPain?!
Don't feed the troll...Check out how many more Dems are registered than Repubs overall...
Someone at my work put a parental block on Fox on the lounge TV.
Everyone thought it was me.
It wasn't, and I said so.
Yet I felt honored.
great article on MM.
CoIntelPro @ 50:
Krugman speaks the truth (again).
John Amato @ 53:
I don't feed trolls.
I FEAST on them.
It is nice to hear that viewers of Fox are finally wising up even though it took them long enough. They might get more objective coverage of the republicans at CNN but they won't get fair coverage of the democratic race. Since I don't vote and can't support anyone, I can say from my Canadian perspective that CNN is so biased in favour of Obama and anti Hillary that it is a crime to say the least. Commentators are mostly pro Obama in their discussions yet the three that everyone knows supports Hillary have been banned for now. However there are 2 black spokesmen that should never hit the airwaves for a while either if that is the criteria. I watch CNN constantly and am very disappointed with the one sided and biased coverage.
canadian visitor @ 58:
You just did say it. Who says you can't express an opinion just because you live in Canada? We may be jealous of you but we are willing to hear what you have to say.
RightOne @ 40:
But....but.....but........what about the LIBERAL MEDIA the CONservatives have been wailing about all these years?!?! or is that just television media? yep, that would explain why Fox Noise's ratings are going down.
Of course FOX is in trouble for going "all in" on W. But still, is Media Matters really the right site to point this out? MMFA pulled a heavy and early "all in" on Hillary Clinton and has lost more than a few hits as a result. While I love the Media Matters concept and it was a daily stop for me for quite a while, MMFA's increasingly blatant HRC bias, followed by its censorship of comments pointing out that bias, lost me as a regular visitor. I'm pretty sure I'm not alone.
It's all good! As FOX crashes the dumb fuck Murdoch will have to spend all his ill gotten gains trying to keep it alive. That will crush the dumb fuck and possibly give some stimilus to the US economy(at least as much as bushs lame bullshit).
Because it's FUX NEWS!
Must watch insHannity! baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
RightOne @ 40:
wrongone, are you slightly tarded or something?? fucks new and the bush admninistration have NEVER BEEN "conservative". They've ALWAYS been extremist right wing radicals. And that's why the country has always hated them. And the "vast portion of the population" has never been "more conservative then liberal" either! Nor the other way to either! It's always been American and that's why it will always crush pieces of shit like bush, limbaugh, o'liarly, etc, etc. All those scum bags will always end up in the dust bin of American history.
Florida chickenhawks want more war and with McCain they will get it. They hate McCain for his amnesty bill and his opposition to the Bush tax cuts but they will hold their nose and vote for him anyway. What a bunch of losers. Republicans are going to lose badly in November no matter who the nominate.
We owe allot to Mike Huckabee.
I am a Liberal and I thank Mike Huckabee. I disagree with his political positions but I can see how he gathered the social conservative populist vote and preaching a more middle-class type of conservatism that Hannity hated.
Huckabee was the only GOP candidate that I actually thought was cool guy to listen to when he went on talks shows.
The Radio Talk show host, Fox News and the Right Wing pundits were not amused that Mike Huckabee gained is early January momentum that captured the social conservative side of the Right for himself.
Fox News bringing down Huckabee and constantly bashing him caused many social conservative viewers to question the validity of their own favorite news outlet.
On the campaign, Mike Huckabee is greatly responsible for dismantling the Reagan Coalition .
Like at the GOP now, they are fractured and broken.
Thank you Mike Huckabee!
I think that Fox news, Rush Limbaugh etc, will always be with us because of the demographic they reach: gullible morons. What purveyor of snake oil, high interest credit cards or penis enlargement pills wouldn't love an audience of morons with money?
I wish I could say I don't watch anything from faux but I am a Simpsons junkie. However I offset my fandom by not watching it when it airs. I get it from other sources... sans commercials.
That was an excellent article. I loved the summing up of the New Hampshire faux debacle. Hilarity!
It is so satisfying to know that people are finally cluing in to just how horrible faux really is. Let's hope when the fit truly hits the shan [if it ever does] they are called to the carpet to stand shoulder to shoulder with the crooks and war mongering assholes they've been propping up with their propaganda.
Let's start a new fairness doctrine that specifically uses faux as the perennial 'bad example'.
Ray @ 67:
Not just gullible morons... gullible, hateful, morons. Because that's the hook baby. Got a hate on for something? Let faux fan those flames for you with their fact free, brain-not-necessary, pre-packed crap.
Looks like the chicken(hawks) have come home to roost.
There's this old Creole saying: "Bad company brings bad luck" that seems to apply to Faux News (finally)
If you really think that Fox is "done" because of anything they've done in the past then you haven't learned ANYTHING over the last 7 years. Fox will reinvent itself whenever needed to stay financially viable, and most of the public will quickly forget their past behavior.
Fox News may be infested with war-mongering psychopathic authoritarians who believe in disinformation and partisan distortion, but they are all driven, first and foremost by caaaash money.
Those of you who think they will stay rigidly attached to their truly preferred political positions at the expense of ratings and money over an extended period of time will be proven wrong. Fox News is like a mutating virus infecting the American populace. Maybe they'll eventually die off, but they'll find a way to stay around for a very long time.
I bet anyone that Fox News will still be No. 1 by Jan 1 2009. $5000 cash. Any serious takers?
Larry @ 73:
I won't take that bet. Fox has cornered the market on the NeoCon market. If there was only one other station that specialized in liberal issues, Fox may not be number one.
mudshark @ 38:
exactly
POLL: Time For Us To Label Fox?
by Cenk Uygur
Tue Jul 24, 2007 at 07:24:15 PM PDT
Fox calls itself a "news" channel. They labels themselves "fair and balanced."
But tonight, as CrooksandLiars.com shows, Fox continued to smear Daily Kos without shame, calling it a hate site akin to David Duke. After the 2006 elections, Fox reported without an iota of proof that terrorists were cheering for the Democrats. And we all know that Fox reported Barack Obama was schooled in a madrassa. The examples of propaganda go on and on to the point that it becomes maddeningly obvious that the labels Fox gives itself don’t fit.
• Cenk Uygur's diary :: ::
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Simply put, Fox is a Republican mouthpiece masquerading as fair and balanced news outlet. Even their so-called news anchors and reporters are thoroughly opinionated, slanted, and biased.
I will defend Fox’s right to exist to my dying breath. As much as I loathe their programming, I think it is important for a democracy to respect the freedom of speech and encourage different voices. But a little truth in advertising is also essential.
We label our food products, so you know what you’re eating. We label our movies, so you have a sense of their content. Even the Word Wrestling Federation, after many years of pretending the fights were real, finally succumbed to reality and changed their name to World Wrestling Entertainment (a little lawsuit from the World Wildlife Foundation also helped to nudge them in that direction).
We must also honestly label television and radio programming so the public is not misled. The labels Fox gives itself intentionally deceive--so much that some in the news industry and political world still treat Fox as if they are a real news operation with actual journalists.
So enough is enough. If Fox won’t label themselves honestly, it’s time for progressives to start doing it for them. Below is a poll asking whether you think institutions like Yearly Kos, the Democratic National Convention, and Democratic presidential campaigns should fire a shot across the bow by making Fox walk around with "opinion media" credentials instead of the standard "media" credentials given to other media outlets.
There are a lot of other things we can do as well. Continuing to ensure Fox gets no Democratic debates, fact checking them, and holding them accountable for their lies. But as an opening salvo, we can give Fox a choice: If you want to attend Democratic or progressive events, you will do so as "opinion media." Short and sweet.
There’s nothing wrong with opinion media. I work for Air America and we are opinion media. Unlike Fox, we don’t pretend our anchors and hosts are newsmen with no opinion. We never try to deceive the audience into thinking they are receiving neutral news when we are giving our opinion. There is truth in advertising. If we call Fox "opinion media," everyone will be clear on the network’s actual role.
I believe an excellent place to start this process is the Yearly Kos convention. If one convention passes out badges labeling Fox as "opinion media" as opposed to news media, it will encourage others to take this logical step. Eventually, the Democratic presidential campaigns and the Democratic convention in 2008 will follow suit. If Fox resists, they will just bring attention to our point about who they are.
What do you think: Should we label Fox "opinion media"? Tell your opinion below.
The Young Turks
Poll
Should institutions like Yearly Kos, the Democratic National Convention, and Democratic presidential campaigns give Fox "opinion media" credentials instead of the classic media credentials?
Yes
91% 2680 votes
No
9% 252 votes
2932 votes
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/7/24/221124/993
MargeAggedon @ 69:
That may be, but hate doesn't generally move pocket fisherman. All you need is dumb. Bill O proves that with his own personal line of merch, which, evidently, some schmucks are buying. Of course there is also that impulse that dumb asses all seem to share, the desire to flaunt their ignorance. What could be better than a BillO t-shirt or coffee cup?
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