Fox News: Too Fair, Too Balanced

Fox News: Too Fair, Too Balanced

Written by Cinnamon Stillwell
Monday, January 24, 2005


Fox News Network has become a favorite target of leftists these days, who, in all their impotent rage, like to ascribe various sinister motives to what they see as a staunchly conservative news channel. An entire documentary, Outfoxed, has been devoted to the idea that Fox News is part of a right-wing cabal to control the country.

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Fox is certainly a cut above the competition, but as far as providing a real alternative to the liberal agenda of the mainstream media (MSM), many viewers are still waiting.

http://www.chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=12567


For more fun look at
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1327103/posts
discussing the same side.

To provide their real "fair and balanced" alternative to the "liberal media." Good Lord. It's hard to imagine what could be worse than Fox.

you could try to get it up in editorials. Lots o luck.

what makes all the news "liberal". How and what news is reported that classes it as "liberal"?
News by definition is something that is new that happened. Now if a reporter tells us about something that has happened that we didn't know about then he/she is a "news reporter". What words would that reporter use that transmorgrafies (sp?) the report into "liberal news"?
Ronald Reagan was the one who noticed it first, but didn't elaborate on why it was "liberal", then pretty soon all the republicans were seeing all the "liberal" news, still without explaining why it was liberal.
Can anyone enlighten me? (I consider Hannity, Limbaugh, O'Reilly as hate mongers, not news people.)

(I hope I was clear..it's late and I'm tired.)

Say what?

where is this so-called "liberal" media?

About ChronWatch & Our Mission!
I have been a reader of the San Francisco Chronicle for twenty five years. Like many of you, reading the morning paper with my first cup of coffee has become an important tradition. While the Chron has always had a liberal bias, talented writers like Herb Caen, Art Hoppe, and Stanton Delapane made for intelligent and enjoyable reading. Recently that bias has turned into a stifling, total domination, and without the talented writers of the past. As a result, my day starts out on a down note. I feel insulted and violated. More importantly, the taste of that first cup of coffee is ruined. And, sadly, all of this occurs before the sun gets very far up in the sky.

Pressing all of the obvious buttons
I tried all the obvious approaches of protest: letters to the editors, emails to the journalists, and forwarding articles to the editors. I even pointed out that it really wasn't good business to insult a significant segment of the readership on a daily basis. None of these attempts had the slightest impact. Of their various reader constituencies, the Chron (sic) appeals exclusively, almost shamefully, to the ultra liberal group.

What is the purpose?
ChronWatch was started to mobilize those who want a balanced presentation of the news into a force that can influence the Chronicle editors. If you are of the same persuasion, you can multiply the impact by reading the views presented on this site, and by posting your thoughts and comments for other readers to share.

I also decided that there is a much bigger issue
I admit that when the ChronWatch concept first occurred to me, I had in mind a mere tweaking of the Chronicle's liberal nose. After getting deeper into the project, I realized that this is a far more serious issue. As the saying goes; this is a battle for the minds of the people. But, it goes beyond that. I have come to believe that the consequences of losing this battle are horrendous. It's no longer just a matter of choosing between a left center Democrat versus a right center Republican, an Al Gore versus a George Bush. Much has been made of the meaning of the red and blue map of the last election. It's gradually becoming clearer to me. It's not about abortion, or gun control, HMOs, education, prescription drugs, or any of the favorite issues used to define the two parties. While those are still extremely important individual issues, the real battle is over our most fundamental traditional values as a country.

Their "new way" has serious consequences
What was once "just liberal thinking," has already become "leftist," and is steadily moving toward "Socialist" in its beliefs. :puke:

Yeah, Bill O'Reilly - leftist.

Just look at who he/she considers as conservative intellectuals.

"Despite the welcome presence of Ann Coulter, Michele Malkin, and occasionally Rich Lowry, a plethora of conservative intellectuals languish in obscurity while blowhards such as Bill O'Reilly dominate the scene at Fox."

Oh well at least he/she pegged O'Reilly as a blowhard.

or falsifying the news:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2998021

With the ascendancy of the merely insane to absolute power in Washington, the lunatic fringe must now move further right to retain their self-imposed outsider status. This is where the likes of Michelle "Concentration Camp" Malkin and Ann "You're All Traitors" Coulter see an opportunity. There is an obvious acceleration lately from the merely inflammatory to ever more incendiary rhetoric similar to the National Front in Great Britain. The jackboots and gun rack crowd are searching for a new outpost of hate where they can sing "Bushland Uber Alles" together as they plot the Great Day of the Rope for us liberal commies. Smelling a good buck to be made, the charlatans in the MSM (forgive the redundancy) are reaching new lows trying to become their biergarten of choice.

Yes, Virginia, its going to be a god damn long four years!