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Re: Is FOX News fair and balanced?
« Reply #40 on: July 27, 2014, 09:45:05 PM »
These headlines should end this debate.


Here are some recent headlines from Fox News:
  • What are the keys to a lasting cease-fire in Gaza?
  • Obama tells Netanyahu US worried about mounting civilian deaths
  • Netanyahu vows Israel will do 'whatever is necessary' in fight with Hamas
  • Israel clashes with Hamas in Gaza Strip

Now, here are some from CNN:
  • How can bloodshed end?
  • Israel military rejects blame for deaths at U.N. shelter
  • Reporter's notebook: Scenes from the ground in Gaza
  • U.N. shelter in Gaza hit, 16 dead
  • Is Hamas using human shields in Gaza? The answer is complicated
  • In Gaza, attack on hospital delivers devastation and grief

The Fox News headlines do not in any way show favoritism to one side, whereas the ones from CNN...
There's a good reason why CNN is in the toilet. Just keep showing wolf blitzer & his situation room, that'll help.

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Re: Is FOX News fair and balanced?
« Reply #41 on: July 27, 2014, 09:46:41 PM »
CNN isn't lying by claiming to be impartial?
Everyone has an agenda. Fox is balanced news like Atkins is a balanced diet. Something needs to balance everything out.

They don't have to claim to be impartial. Journalism is by definition supposed to be impartial. The job of a journalist is to get the facts and report it, not skew it in favor of personal beliefs.

Perhaps Fox believes they deserve the Fair and Balanced title, because they have some right-wing journalists, but also have center and left wing journalists, whereas no other network can seriously make the same claim.

Maybe relative to MSNBC they are conservative, but relative to the MSM they consider themselves far more balanced than the other networks.

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Re: Is FOX News fair and balanced?
« Reply #42 on: July 27, 2014, 09:49:04 PM »
the problem is if most of your news comes from one source. how can that be balanced out?

That's right buddy. So if you are getting your news from ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, NYT or Huffington Post, you need to find another source to balance it out...

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Re: Is FOX News fair and balanced?
« Reply #43 on: July 27, 2014, 09:49:37 PM »
These headlines should end this debate.
The Fox News headlines do not in any way show favoritism to one side, whereas the ones from CNN...
i think you missed the second headline.

'Dig Deep'
First lady Michelle Obama is complaining on the fundraising circuit about the evils of money in politics -- while also asking Democratic Party supporters to “write a big fat check” before the November elections.
Michelle Obama complains about money in politics, then asks for 'fat check'
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Re: Is FOX News fair and balanced?
« Reply #44 on: July 27, 2014, 09:52:03 PM »
That's right buddy. So if you are getting your news from ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, NYT or Huffington Post, you need to find another source to balance it out...
so if all these are one sided then you need FOX to be extremely one side the other way to be balanced it out or is this the new math you are using again?  :)
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Re: Is FOX News fair and balanced?
« Reply #45 on: July 27, 2014, 09:55:55 PM »
so if all these are one sided then you need FOX to be extremely one side the other way to be balanced it out or is this the new math you are using again?  :)

Who mentioned Fox? I don't believe Fox can balance out that much left-wing rhetoric and propaganda. This is why Obama won in 2008, and is most certainly why he won in 2012.

Maybe Breitbart or Drudge...

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Re: Is FOX News fair and balanced?
« Reply #46 on: July 27, 2014, 10:00:09 PM »
Maybe Breitbart or Drudge...
you think those two can counter all those powerful networks. you didn't mean FOX in your statement?
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Re: Is FOX News fair and balanced?
« Reply #47 on: July 27, 2014, 10:01:56 PM »
you think those two can counter all those powerful networks. you didn't mean FOX in your statement?
Drudge could counter anybody. He shapes the news.

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Re: Is FOX News fair and balanced?
« Reply #48 on: July 27, 2014, 10:05:14 PM »
i think you missed the second headline.

'Dig Deep'
First lady Michelle Obama is complaining on the fundraising circuit about the evils of money in politics -- while also asking Democratic Party supporters to “write a big fat check” before the November elections.
Michelle Obama complains about money in politics, then asks for 'fat check'

Not a problem, as long as they also have headlines like:

Gifts-for-favors trial set for ex-Virginia governor, wife (referring to GOP governor)

and

Obama tells Netanyahu US worried about mounting deaths

These are just what I found searching from Today's headlines. I've seen plenty of headlines in criticism of conservatives and the GOP.

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Re: Is FOX News fair and balanced?
« Reply #49 on: July 27, 2014, 10:06:15 PM »
you think those two can counter all those powerful networks. you didn't mean FOX in your statement?

Actually, NOBODY can counter all those powerful networks, thus my point.

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Re: Is FOX News fair and balanced?
« Reply #50 on: July 27, 2014, 10:07:05 PM »
Drudge could counter anybody. He shapes the news.
i wonder what percent of the country even heard of drudge? you believe he could counter the three big networks?
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Re: Is FOX News fair and balanced?
« Reply #51 on: July 27, 2014, 10:09:20 PM »
CNN isn't lying by claiming to be impartial?
Everyone has an agenda. Fox is balanced news like Atkins is a balanced diet. Something needs to balance everything out.

CNN does not run a fair and balanced slogen.
However they have their own reasons their ratings are down the drain.
The issue is Fox and they are clearly not a fair news org.
Clearly some here agreed they are not fair but its good because they balance out.... Whatever that means....
But the fair and balanced slogan is a clear lie.

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Re: Is FOX News fair and balanced?
« Reply #52 on: July 27, 2014, 10:10:55 PM »
But the fair and balanced slogan is a clear lie.
and that is the point of this thread.
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Re: Is FOX News fair and balanced?
« Reply #53 on: July 27, 2014, 10:33:38 PM »
Don't judge the whole channel bases on hannity.
No one really believes that fox is not at all biased as no media outlets these days are truly non partisan its just where In line you place them.
Maybe CNN is fair and balanced because there's nothing biased about plane crashes

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Re: Is FOX News fair and balanced?
« Reply #54 on: July 27, 2014, 10:35:12 PM »

Maybe CNN is fair and balanced because there's nothing biased about plane crashes

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Re: Is FOX News fair and balanced?
« Reply #55 on: July 27, 2014, 10:36:19 PM »
Don't judge the whole channel bases on hannity.
No one really believes that fox is not at all biased as no media outlets these days are truly non partisan its just where In line you place them.
Maybe CNN is fair and balanced because there's nothing biased about plane crashes
Are they still doing the plane simulator for the missing one ?

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Re: Is FOX News fair and balanced?
« Reply #56 on: July 27, 2014, 10:37:22 PM »
Are they still doing the plane simulator for the missing one ?
They are having a hard time keeping up with Ukraine Algeria and Taiwan

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Re: Is FOX News fair and balanced?
« Reply #57 on: July 27, 2014, 10:38:25 PM »
Maybe CNN is fair and balanced because there's nothing biased about plane crashes<img src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/tapatalk-emoji/emoji2.png" />
the problem is over the past few years that went from reporting the news to the talk show format that get ratings.
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Re: Is FOX News fair and balanced?
« Reply #58 on: July 27, 2014, 10:41:59 PM »
They are having a hard time keeping up with Ukraine Algeria and Taiwan
Blitzer could have 3 situation rooms.

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Re: Is FOX News fair and balanced?
« Reply #59 on: July 27, 2014, 10:45:11 PM »
CNN does not run a fair and balanced slogen.
However they have their own reasons their ratings are down the drain.
The issue is Fox and they are clearly not a fair news org.
Clearly some here agreed they are not fair but its good because they balance out.... Whatever that means....
But the fair and balanced slogan is a clear lie.

The problem is that the MSM has become so far left that just about anything reported on Fox News is now considered right wing or "Tea Party conspiracies".

The MSM virtually ignored the false reporting on Benghazi, the IRS fiasco, the Fast and Furious fiasco and the Sgt Berghdall swap. But you know what they DID report on? Trayvon Martin! Hours and hours and hours of airtime for Trayvon Martin.

When Fox actually investigates and reports this stuff, they are automatically labeled right-wing. If the MSM gave these stories even a fraction of the airtime that Fox gave them, you would have what to compare Fox against and decide if they are right-leaning, but when they are the ONLY ones reporting on this, how can their position be evaluated?

Now, when Obamacare passes (infuriating conservatives), Bill Oreilly goes on air explaining both sides of the debate, and then invites James Carville - a senior Democratic strategist, to explain the full Democratic point of view on Obamacare. Fox believes that this is considered Fair and Balanced.