Your Questions About Fox News

Nagesh answers:

Fox news does have a conservative bent. What herkk and others like him fail to realize, or admit, is that the major networks had a monopoly for years on the spin they put on the news so that it denigrated conservatives and exulted the left. Read the book Bias and you’ll see examples every bit as provocative regarding the leftist views that were, and are, mandated by those in control of major network newsrooms. Even more compelling is the extreme leftist agenda of the major universities, like Columbia, that train future journalists. The media, Hollywood, and academia have dominated the dissemination of their far left agenda with the arrogance and tenacity of a divine right king. Fox is the critical response to this monopolistic dogma of the left: A sort of information enlightenment.

Nagesh answers:

The idea of Fox News advertising itself as conservative is crazy(no offense). Not only is is crazy, but it’s un-American. You see my friend, there is money to be made, and propaganda to spread. Who will pay for propaganda if they can’t still make themselves feel good for thinking that is actually news?

Look at this study: (SEMANTIC FRAMING IN THE BUILD-UP TO THE IRAQ WAR: FOX K CNN AND OTHER U S, BROADCAST NEWS PROGRAMS)Fox News, even more than CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNBC, and public broadcasting, emphasized pro-war framing terms. Fox News over a longer time frame also generally trailed CNN in stories covering the absence of Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq, the lack of a pre-war link between Iraq and al Qaeda, majority international public opinion about the war, and the number of American casualties.

The point, by the way, has nothing to do with whether or not we should have gone to Iraq, but with the fact that Fox demonstrates biased presentaion of the things that it says that are even TRUE.

Nagesh answers:

FOX News is biased in favor of the Conservative segment of the country. Not so much in their news coverage, but more so in their evening commentary type one hour programs. Turns out that FOX is a good place to hear about political issues that the other networks won’t tell you, and even want you to know about.

In FOX’s defense however, they do something that the other networks do not do. They have regular opposing views who are admittedly Liberal and or Democrat who appear regularly on many programs. People like Bob Beckle and Alan Colmes.

Nagesh answers:

Fox News. They are fair and balanced and present the news in a friendly and respectful manner. They don’t condescend to the audience or dumb down the news to appeal to “less educated demographics”

MSNBC is just liberal hate speech central. I watch it now and then, as long as I can stand it to find out how the other side thinks. It’s about 10% news, 30%ranting about what’s on fox, 20%communist propaganda, and 40% hate speech.

CNN is just getting goofy. They care more about their new high tech gadgets and fancy ascots than the news. All I hear on there is how the super new technology allows the to present the news like never before. Which is true they used to deliver the news, now they don’t.

Nagesh answers:

Fox News is not a ‘news organization.’ They are an infotainment channel that caters to the ignorant and fearful. Their talking noxious gasbag pundits create doomsday scenarios and make up statistics to back up their ‘theories’ for the ‘views’ parts of their programming. Then the so-called ‘news division’ presents these imagined scenarios and made up statistics as fact. They make the news; you decide how much to swallow.

Real news organizations research the facts before presenting a story.