I have watched various news programs. Fox allows the Democratic POV to be spoken, more often than the Democratic controlled stations, allow the Republican POV to be spoken. This is why there are considered fair and balanced and is also why their market share is highest among those who seek information. I am independent I want to hear both sides, at the same time, in one place, instead of having to jump between two bigots stations.
No it doesn’t. I watch Fox News too. Fox News misrepresents the Democratic point of view in its carefully scripted programming. Russian state controlled media and Fox News have a lot in common. They use the same tactics.
The only ones who think Fox News is in anyway "fair and balanced" are people like you, the consumers of Fox News. Even Fox News insiders don’t believe Fox News is “fair and balanced” because they know it isn't. Keith Olberman had a segment of his program every evening where he pointed out the lies in O’Riely told every evening. Olberman never lacked material for that segment and it was always entertaining and amazing at how far O'Riley would go.
News flash Wellwisher, the truth isn’t controlled by Democrats. Just because the truth isn’t consistent with Republican memes, it doesn’t mean the truth is controlled by Democrats. It just means it is the truth. Unfortunately, the truth has become a very big problem for Republicans and that is why they push the meme, you can't believe anyone else because they are liberal. Fox News doesn't want you hearing the truth from anyone else as you might begin to as questions and think for yourself - God forbid. That would be the worst thing for Fox News.
I wish Republicans and Fox News could be as proud of their veracity as they are of their ratings. When O’Riley and Fox News were recently confronted on their lies, they didn’t try to deny their obvious lies, they went right to their ratings as if their ratings as if they justified their lies and deceptions.
As an example, if you look at Benghazi and the killing of the Ambassador and 3 others, the liberals stations favored the inference that a book induced the attack. If we assume this was all done honestly to their best of their ability to process information in a honest way, their conclusion, showed they were all incompetent morons from top to bottom, since they all got it wrong, even with the best access to information. Not a single reporter in all those stations got it right.
Thanks for demonstrating my point. Those “liberal stations” correctly reported that initial reports indicated the disturbance in Benghazi was related to a film, not a book. You have demonstrated how well misinformed informed Fox News viewers are. There have been academic studies after study which has consistently show Fox News viewers to be more misinformed than people who watch no news at all.
Here is the genius of Fox News and Russian state controlled media, they scapegoat those news outlets who honestly report the news. It’s a convenient way to explain away their many errors of fact and misrepresentations. As long as Fox News can keep their viewers angered and feeling oppressed, they can keep their audiences distracted and misinformed with the "you can't believe "dem" people because they are nasty "liberals". And who is a liberal? A liberal is anyone who says something inconsistent with Fox News propaganda. Hitler, Putin, and Fox News need a bad guy to explain away their deceptions and keep their followers from the realization that they are being played.
This may be due to free market forces. FOX is at the top and therefore makes the most profit. This allows FOX to buy the best team. The liberal stations get the leftovers, who are far less competent. They showed this with Benghazi, when not a single station or even member of any liberal station was able to hit the ball; no hitter. With FOX looked like the Yankees in the days of Babe Ruth.
FOX was out of the loop, due to slanting Republican. Even with less access to the president and all his people, they got it right, yet were portrayed as being way off base, by the same morons who did not have a clue in 20/20 hindsight. One has to be careful about the clueless accusing others of bias. They are competing for market share.
Mitt Romney got it right in less than 24 hours, but was accused by the clueless of being biased and political. The clueless don't understand good judgement and honesty. This is why they are at the bottom of the league.
LOL, except as demonstrated by your post, they got it wrong – one of “dem” minor details again. And Romney didn’t get it “right” either. Romney was biased and political too. More than that both he flip flopped by the hour just as his predecessor, McCain, did. Because, thanks to Fox News the truth known to most Americans isn't consistent with the fiction Fox News is telling Republicans. And that is why we don’t have a President McCain or President Romney. Romney and McCain flip flopped so much they lost all credibility in the minds of most Americans. Only the ditto head faction, the Fox News faction, which is most of the Republican Party, remained loyal to Romney and McCain. But that was not enough to get them elected Fox News ratings or not.
Remember in the waning days of 2008 election all the mainstream polling indicated Obama was going to win. Then your Fox News and Romney told us we couldn’t believe those “liberal” polls because they were biased. So Fox News invented their conservative polling which was designed and created to always show Romney winning no matter what happened. Well, guess who was right. It wasn’t Fox News and it wasn’t Romney and his fellow Republicans. We don’t have a President Romney in the White House today. Those mainstream “liberal” polls were right. That's why Obama is POTUS. The polls created by Fox News were the biased and wrong polls. The election wasn’t even close. And that is part of the problem for Fox, Republicans and the nation. You can deceive people for only so long before reality takes a big bite out of your ass. Well reality took a big bite out of Republican ass in 2008. Fortunately for Fox News, ditto heads have a very short memory.