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could you look it up for me :3

Lazy ass...

Anyway, ...

It's owned by the Fox Entertainment Group,  which got its name from William Fox (William Fuchs), which is wholly owned and controlled by "News Corporation" since it publically traded its stock, and News Corporation bought all the shares.

The chief executive officer and founder, is Rupert Murdoch. The president and chief operating officer is Peter Chernin, who also is corporate director of American Express.

Rupert Murdoch hired Republican political strategist Roger Ailes as it's founding CEO. Roger Ailes was the media consultant for Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, as well as Rudy Guiliani's first mayoral campaign in 1989.

Fauxnews biased? I think so.

 

Give me a frickin' break!  That clip is complete BS.  It features:

• Fox New opinion commentators (as opposed to hard, supposed to be impartial, news), including
  
• Sean Hannity
• Bill O'Reilly
• Interviews with people being asked for their, quite possibly biased opinions, including
• Dick Morris
• Newt Gingrich (yeah I'm sure he's not biased)
• and several STAFFERS FOR THE MCCAIN CAMPAIGN!
• Talk radio clips, even of people not on Fox News
• Bill O'Reilly
• Sean Hannity
• John Gibson
• RUSH LIMBAUGH?
• MICHAEL SAVAGE??

The closest thing this clip comes towards putting forth a case for bias would be against hard news reporters.  It only has two clips of them, and they're of misstatements of fact, not attacks or indications of bias.

• David Asman (at 0:40 in the clip) stating that no other campaign has planned its presidential transition team.  At best it's a misstatement, but it makes a great deal more sense if you have the full context.  Here is the full segment the clip came from.  The story was addressing an attack by the McCain campaign that Obama was being arrogant, and criticizing him for putting together a transition team so early, not at all.  Not that you could tell that from the BS snippet they took.
• Random female reporter (at 2:34 in the clip) repeating an explanation by the Obama campaign for not visiting the military hospital in his overseas trip.  I'm assuming they're calling her out for the statement that the Pentagon refused to let him go with media cameras, but they don't give any more than the Family Feud [X] and move on.  I'm not up on the exact quote the Obama campaign used, but at best she misquoted the Obama campaign (though it wasn't insanely off the mark, if I recall).  It was more something about him not being able to bring his campaign advisor or something pretty innocuous, but hardly proof of Fox New bias.

It's always amazing to me the number of otherwise rational people that loathe Fox News. Ask them whether they actually WATCH it, and they say no, usually pointing me to something stupid like Outfoxed.  Ask them how they can be so conclusive about Fox New bias when they don't watch it, they either say they've watched "enough" or point to the channel's opinion commentators like Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity.  The former, maybe a little more to the right than he is left, is plenty independent on a lot of views and, despite the people who criticize him and comment on Youtube clips of his temper and "shouting people down," takes great pains to not take a position in political elections.  He has positions on individual issues like Iraq (he thinks it was a mistake) and the death penalty (he's against it), but that's why it's an opinion show.  Same thing with Sean Hannity, minus the pains to not be partisan, but that's because he's on a left-right show and he's the right guy (you know, Hannity & Colmes?).  That'd be like pointing to Tucker Carlson on Crossfire as an example of CNN conservative bias.


But we can play this game if you want.  It's not media bias if you have a balanced set of opinion shows, as long as those opinions aren't put forth by the hard news reporters.  You know, the guys with the microphones "from the scene" or giving political event reports such as Brit Hume.  I'm not conceding any major bias by Fox News, but with a 24 hour news cycle I'm sure there'll be misstatements here and there (hard news guy Sheperd Smith has quite humorous ones).  Even if Fox was slightly more right than center, it's no where to the degree of other news outlets.  Let's look at a few gems (from their hard news political reporters no less):
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Why aren't you going after those networks for being biased?  Because it's a bias you agree with?  I certainly hope it's not that you can seriously watch those clips and say it doesn't exist.  And if you say you don't watch those networks either, what the heck news station DO you watch?

I think the statement was that she had foreign policy experience because she lived in Alaska, which is near Russia.   Heck, they are only a few inches away from each other on your standard globe.



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Talk radio clips, even of people not on Fox News

• Bill O'Reilly
• Sean Hannity
• John Gibson
• RUSH LIMBAUGH?
• MICHAEL SAVAGE??

if i rember right thay are all on fox and friends wich is part of foxnew

Don't tell me I'm a robot. I don't support or oppose anything unless I know about it.

And to correct your assumption, I go to the internet for news. I watch Fox and MSNBC for entertainment.



You know what I meant, prick.