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- pdaz, on 10/12/2007, -4/+82Too much BS and too boring. Same for CNN and the networks. I can spend 3 mins filling up on 30 stories on the web when each story on TV takes 3 mins.
- pseudojd, on 10/12/2007, -13/+80OMG FOX NEWS ALLLERT!!! I hate that incessant 'alert'
- Reformed, on 10/12/2007, -28/+79Yeah, so if they dropped the two highest rated shows they'd be more highly rated. Yeah, that makes sense.
- apurocks, on 10/12/2007, -9/+58i think jon stewart said it best "a whole network of anchors hired to do the press secretaries job"
after this i will have a nicer day, die fox die hehe - SteelChicken, on 10/12/2007, -26/+74Fox is terrible, even if you hate liberals and democrats
its so blatantly partisan and stupid it makes you gag - lava, on 10/12/2007, -12/+56Yeah, and they don't offer the OMG MOST AMAZING VIDEO EVER stories that we get on digg.
- byronm, on 10/12/2007, -50/+90If they got rid of Hanity and O'reilly and spent more time on news they wouldn't suck so bad
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -25/+64“nobody who has ever made this accusation to me has ever actually cited any evidence of bias in Fox News' hard reporting”
Fox News Admits Bias:
http://slate.com/id/2119864/
http://www.newshounds.us/2005/10/09/fox_news_admits_to_being_aligned_wrush_limbaugh_and_to_being_on_a_conservative_team_working_to_put_a_radical_conservative_on_the_supreme_court.php
More proof:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/steinreich8.html - lordkosc, on 10/12/2007, -9/+48I agree, that's why I watch the Daily Show on Comedy Central !
- treleung, on 10/12/2007, -18/+56Excactly. I had a staunch right wing professor who couldn't stand Fox News. If you're educated, you don't want Fox news. That's basically how it works.
- KyleRayner, on 10/12/2007, -12/+48"Your comment only goes to show how liberally saturated our culture has become."
Are you kidding? Do you realize how far right the US is compared to the rest of the world? - crossthread, on 10/12/2007, -24/+56Sure. If they dropped those two bozos, they'd attract viewers who avoid their network because of them.
- iceperson, on 10/12/2007, -13/+43FTA: "Insiders say that, even though Fox News remains No. 1,..."
- ChuckIT, on 10/12/2007, -6/+34if you're educated you don't watch network news.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+32Jaymoon:
>Fox News Watch is a show that reports on how the media reports. There are (usually), two "liberals", and two "conservatives" on the show on any given week.
False. When studied, the ratio of conservative commentators to non-conservative commentators was 50:6. "This was the finding of the media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), noted in a study taken across a 19 week period from June 2003 to December 2003. They found the ratio of conservative guests to liberals to be 50:6. [13]"
"A study by the Program on International Policy Attitudes, in the Winter 03-04 issue of Political Science Quarterly, reported that viewers of the Fox Network local affiliates or Fox News were more likely than viewers of other news networks to hold three views which the authors labeled as misperceptions [14] :
* 67% of Fox viewers believed that the "U.S. has found clear evidence in Iraq that Saddam Hussein was working closely with the al Qaeda terrorist organization"
* 33% of Fox viewers believed that the "U.S. has found Iraqi weapons of mass destruction" "since the war ended".
* 35% of Fox viewers believed that "the majority of people [in the world] favor the U.S. having gone to war" with Iraq.
* Fox viewers were unique in that those who paid greater attention to news were moderately more likely to have these misperceptions than those who paid less or no attention to news. - tigerdyr, on 10/12/2007, -5/+28"It shows the state of America when people think that getting real news from a comedy channel is OK."
Not really. The sad fact that americans have to turn to a freaking commedy channel for getting some news that actually question the powers in charge (as every media should, to some extend) is what's shown here. - phil.busch, on 10/12/2007, -4/+26While I too enjoy watching Olberman a lot (he's funny and informative), we need to stop depending on the networks for news. In the next decade, assuming net neutrality stays how it is, we need citizen journalists who aren't controlled by any company.
- ChicGeek, on 10/12/2007, -7/+29Fox New is to information as what KFC is to Chicken
Sensationalized crap. - Vermifax, on 10/12/2007, -14/+36Well, what do you expect when you whore yourself out as the Official Propaganda Mouthpiece of The Bush Cheney Energy Corporation.....?
- TriZz, on 10/12/2007, -18/+38Well said. I saw a documentary about Fox News, and they skew the truth to fit their own personal, right-wing agenda.
I mean, I guess we all have our biases. But IMHO, I think they take it too far. - StarManta, on 10/12/2007, -4/+23Actually, Fox News's whole "draw" was that it claimed to be "fair and balanced".
Not quite sure where you get this "at least they're honest about it" bit. - actorboy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+22"Hannity and Colmes is a pretty decent show, Hannity being the conservative and Colmes being the Liberal."
My impression of Colmes is that he's more of a moderate. Even as such, he seems to get less focus than Hannity. And it's somewhat suspicious that Fox only wants their opposing opinions to come from a guy who looks like Skeletor. - Corvidae, on 10/12/2007, -4/+22I think it's hilarious that the entire RNC is terrified of a comedian. That they would actually circulate an email to let everyone know to refuse to talk to the daily show is a truly sad sign.
He's a freakin comedian, he's not a laywer, he has no courtroom experience, no political training, no forieng relations experience. He's just a comedian that manages to terrify the people who are supposed to know what they're doing.
Personaly I'd say Jon Stewarts greatest talent is managing to make RNC talking points look like the complete BS that they are. That he does it with a curteous smile just seems to make their heads explode. - lateralus, on 10/12/2007, -5/+23I can imagine Fox's response to the sagging numbers:
More Coulter panels
More 'hot white girl gets abducted by savage' reports
and maybe a week long piece on a coalition soldier befriending a crippled Iraqi kitten. - sautter, on 06/21/2008, -6/+23from Wikipedia:
"Roger Ailes is Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, and President, of FOX News. . . . Ailes is a member of the Church of Scientology and has attained the highest level, OT VIII."
Maybe Roger Ailes can get fellow Scientologist Tom Cruise to appear on Fox News to help out with the ratings. They are both OT VIII. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+25Livewire:
>http://youtube.com/watch?v=8yjG3gSVf5g
Wow, live! I've never seen that before, but that is the PERFECT example of Fox News and how evil it is. O'Reilly attacks the son of a 9/11 victim, and won't let him speak solely because he disagrees with him. Then O'Reilly has the balls to invoke the memory of the kid's father, exploiting his memory for his own purposes! Disgusting. - bmson, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20You should watch BBC news or other alternative news channels.
- pt4117, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17They do show those OMG videos. I can't tell you how many times I've seen them show the bear falling on the trampoline, or when a truck veered off into the next lane and crushed a car.
NBC is getting worse than the Cable channels. The Today show has been showing a ton of You Tube clips since their deal together. Even before that they always showed the hugely popular clips. - KyleRayner, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17You cant get a decent news channel as long as they are businesses out to make a buck. Thats why Digg and the blogosphere is gaining such popularity.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+20Maybe if they didn’t bash liberals for everything I would believe that
- kaytrio, on 10/12/2007, -8/+22As Bush's approval rating slowly dwindles, so does his channel's ratings...
- SenorBudd, on 10/12/2007, -10/+24My news shows are on Comedy Central Mon-Thurs. @11p. :D
FauxNews blows! - StarManta, on 10/12/2007, -5/+19Fox hired the smarmiest, most annoying liberal they could find to count as their token liberal.
I don't think that Hannity can be considered "trying" to be fair and balanced. It's more, trying to appear fair and balanced so your viewers will feel more secure that their ultraconservative viewpoint is rational and normal. - johndi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Maybe, it's because they say the same thing every single day. That's the problem with basing entertainment on news. The names may change, but people keep doing the same stupid things. I wish I could get just one decent news channel.
- Optimus, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16Gore counters with, "I'm a 10th level Vice President!"
- djmelon, on 10/12/2007, -32/+44about time people started seeing just how bad fox is
- cptspanky, on 10/12/2007, -7/+19fox does not "present" both sides, they bring in faux-"professionals" who are purposefully brought on TV so that they can be drowned out and made to look like complete idiots for having an opinion that is against the fox anchors.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+21CNN is not liberal, and Fox never tries to present both sides
- Livewire, on 10/12/2007, -9/+20I'm sure videos like this had nothing to do with the ratings...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8yjG3gSVf5g - exec721, on 10/12/2007, -11/+22Haha! I love John Stewart and his ability to simplify things in a hilarious but truthful manner.
- KyleRayner, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13We run the news on Digg.
- bocaJWho, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12C-SPAN FTW!!
- JQP123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I've gotten to the point where I don't watch TV news of any kind.
- hackwrench, on 10/12/2007, -5/+15No, O'Rielly doesn't argue with everybody. He argues with people cherry picked to be on to argue with him.
- Corvidae, on 10/12/2007, -7/+17Haliburtons stock ticker is HAL. Over 3000% gain since Cheney came to office, gee what a coincidence?
- dognose, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10less news, less reason to watch. CNN is down as well.
- MixedSpleens, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11It dropped 22% in its core demographic, it dropped 8% overall, there is a big diffrence there.
downward trends are scary things no matter what business your in, I would be intrested to see whether CNN and MSNBC were taking that market, or if people are just watching less news on cable TV. Regardless I see Fox's influnce going down as a good thing. - vhold, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Nobody seems to be asking the obvious question.. have the other networks gone up in overall viewers at all?
Are viewers switching, or are they just turning off the news? Heck, is it just a seasonal thing? How come this story doesn't even cite a source of information?
If you don't think of these things when you see these sorts of statistics you are being blindly lead to interpret reality to somebody's design. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -58/+67The ratings drop probably has to do with how many people turn to the Internet now for news. Even Murdoch has been saying the Internet is today's news revolution.
...as for Fox News being "biased" (I'm sure it will come up in the discussion), nobody who has ever made this accusation to me has ever actually cited any evidence of bias in Fox News' hard reporting. A UCLA/Stanford study found Brit Hume's program to be the most balanced, centrist news program on television. Personally, I think some people just do not like to see opposing viewpoints being aired on the same level as theirs (i.e., conservatives given the same amount of air-time that liberals usually get on CNN and CBS).
I just bring that up because I suspect the reason this story got Dugg is because of people who hate Fox News and like the idea of a ratings plummet. CNN and the other stations have been seeing much worse ratings drops for years (MSNBC has what, seven viewers)? It's a symptom of the Internet.
Regardless, Fox News is still the #1 cable news channel by a very, very large margin. I'm sure ratings will pick up again--these things ebb and flow. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+15Remember to blame liberals!
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