i would like to bang that guildmeyer or whatevertf her name is chick that has her own show and comes on hannity and colmes to talk about the duke lacrosse case

5/17/2006 2:12:53 PM

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"There is a difference between the news reporting shows and the news analysis shows"

p.s. Jane skinner is hot

5/17/2006 3:23:11 PM

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"Now, as for your thought on conservative vs liberal thoughts, here's some of the balance you talk about. Quote : "Can we pray for the re-election of George Bush?" -Sean Hannity"

Thats an analysis show...not to mention its co-hosted with a well known liberal in Colmes!

5/18/2006 12:06:32 AM

^Last I heard, Colmes got substantially less words per show than Hannity and also isn't as inflammatoy as Hannity.

In other words, Colmes is a dummy liberal...he's there to take a beating.

5/18/2006 12:15:00 AM

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"dummy liberal"

redundant

5/18/2006 11:13:01 PM

didn't read the whole thread only about 5 posts, but in reponse to the first post: anyone who gets all their news from one source is a fucking idiot. If there is something going on in the news that you're interested in then you should seek out as many different perspectives as possible. This way you can make your own informed opinion instead of regurgitating those of others.

and the pundits are supposed to be bias, they are opinion shows not news shows.

5/18/2006 11:32:31 PM

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"You have no proof, and chances are that you have been told this by other media outlets who hate fox news because of two reasons: the first abonorio has stated, and the second is that Fox News is killing them in ratings and they want more viewers. Since you think they are so bias, why dont you do something to prove it and dont just spout off something you hear from other left wing people. Why dont you watch fox news for a week, write down all the "bias" and present your findings in a thread each day."

This is too easy...

Ratings Mirage:
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2005

Bias at Fox News:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_Channel_controversies_and_allegations_of_bias

"The 'signature political news show' of the Fox News Channel, Special Report with Brit Hume was found to have a strong bias in their choice of guests, overwhelmingly choosing conservatives over 'non-conservatives' to appear in interviews. 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."

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:[13] (PDF),

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" (Compared with 56% for CBS, 49% for NBC, 48% for CNN, 45% for ABC, 16% for both NPR and PBS). However, the belief that "Iraq was directly involved in September 11" was held by 33% of CBS viewers and only 24% of Fox viewers.

33% of Fox viewers believed that the "U.S. has found Iraqi weapons of mass destruction" "since the war ended". (Compared with 23% for CBS, 20% for both CNN and NBC, 19% for ABC and 11% for both NPR and PBS)

35% of Fox viewers believed that "the majority of people [in the world] favor the U.S. having gone to war" with Iraq. (Compared with 28% for CBS, 27% for ABC, 24% for CNN, 20% for NBC, 5% for both NPR and PBS)

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. However it is debatable as to which way the causation runs - it might not be that people who watch Fox News are more likely to hold conservative views, but that people with conservative views are more likely to watch Fox News.

5/19/2006 12:51:15 AM

just tell him to watch this shit http://imdb.com/title/tt0418038/ (keeping in mind that it is somewhat bias itself) there are some ex-fox employee's on there who left or were fired for questionable reasons, as well as stuff concerning the ratios of liberal and conservative interviewees, the time they give conseratives to speak compared to liberals (most of this info is presented by representatives from FAIR which ^ mentioned). Dumb ass Bill O'Reilly saying all kinds of stupid stuff and contradicting himself. How they push an agenda. They also talk about other networks, not just fox. It shows how Fox started a lot of the flashy stuff on the shows and that becuase their ratings went up and were the highest the other networks followed. It also talks about different networks' involvement in the elections. But I wouldn't recommend watching this one film and taking it's word, seek other information and sources as well. There are non partisan groups that make an effort to keep track of this stuff. Look it up.

All networks are bias. Some less than others perhaps but still bias. The problem is that the value of a News show is set just like sitcoms and other entertainment programs: by ratings. Rupert Murdoch isn't in the business to bring information to the masses, he's in the business of bringing masses to the news, whether that be via tv, papers, magazines, whatever. He's there to make money and influence people, like any other media mogul. High ratings bring more money. They all do what they have to do to get ratings. Websites do what they have to do to get hits. There is very little journalistic integrity in mass media outlets. Not that it really matters though, many people don't seem to want truthful, informative news. they want news that agrees with their beliefs. If these shows stuck to reporting facts and all sides of stories that wouldn't be an issue. But they spew opinions more than fact. I think calling Fox, and most of the other major networks "news" is very generous and at times difficult to do with a straight face.

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5/19/2006 2:44:49 AM