Fox News Vs. Obama For Next 4 Years?
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Media, VideoWatch Megyn Kelly go off on Obama press secretary Bill Burton.
It’s pretty stunning.
Is it me or she yelling almost the ENTIRE time.
Also, do the folks over at Fox really believe that their news is fair and balanced?
One thing’s for sure…Fox News will be VERY popular the next four years. An Obama presidency is the best thing that could have happened to them.
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October 28th, 2008 at 4:38 am
The reason they win the survey as to who is the most fair and balance is because they get almost all of the republican voters, and the democrats are spread out among 5 main stations. If the question was who is the least fair and balanced , that would be foc as they would attract almost all of the democratic votes, and the republican votes would be spread over 5 stations.
October 28th, 2008 at 6:55 am
Fox is the most obvious example of how news is shifting into entertainment for hardline faithful. Unfortunately this type of shading the news poisons real political discussion. We are more interested in being right than in the issues themselves. This makes it harder to move forward on all the important issues out there.
October 28th, 2008 at 7:00 am
She is probably not yelling. A common Fox tactic is to hike the microphone volume on the Fox folks and lower it on the guests.
The problem with this particular segment is that isn’t her show supposed to be about news? It doesn’t bother me so much when Hannity or O’Reilly go righty–they are commentators discussing news–but isn’t Kelly’s show supposed to be news?
That’s where this all goes wrong. She’s rude and obnoxious here. The problem is, the Fox watchers think this is being tough and cheer the behavior.
October 28th, 2008 at 8:12 am
The Orwellian-titled “fairness doctrine” is likely to be reinstituted in an Obama administration, so don’t worry, Fox news will be forced by the Department of Thought to include more truth. Whereas ABC, CBS, NBC network news, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, the New York Times and every major print publication, every acedemic institution, PBS, NPR, hollwood, ect… do not have any political bias what-so-ever, only Fox news and Radio talk shows will be affected.
Although if they include political blogs as part of the regulations, I’d be careful Donklephant. Justin Gardner is neutral and his opinions are the correct ones, but ASC posts a lot here and that is quite worrisome because your audience is exposed to incorrect political speech, therefore Justin, you may be forced under penalty of fines or imprisonment to recruit a Daily-Kos diarist to post an equal number of words to counter Alan’s posts.
Fairness.
October 28th, 2008 at 8:37 am
Jim, can you take a 2 minute google search before you start posting assumptions about Obama’s positions?
“Sen. Obama does not support reimposing the Fairness Doctrine on broadcasters,” press secretary Michael Ortiz said in an e-mail to B&C late Wednesday.
“He considers this debate to be a distraction from the conversation we should be having about opening up the airwaves and modern communications to as many diverse viewpoints as possible,” Ortiz added. “That is why Sen. Obama supports media-ownership caps, network neutrality, public broadcasting, as well as increasing minority ownership of broadcasting and print outlets.”
from http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6573406.html?desc=topstory
At any rate, only one party has been Orwellian (in the sense of torturing people, lying under oath, etc) in the past 8 years and you know exactly who that is.
October 28th, 2008 at 8:41 am
Obama doesn’t need a fairness doctrine, he finally called out Fox News for what it was, and they don’t like it.
The shrillness from conservatives is reminiscent of that from liberals that last 8 years, it is too bad we can’t put aside our notions that doomsday will reign under the other party and try to have sensible discourse and realize that it is possible to work together even while disagreeing.
October 28th, 2008 at 9:20 am
When a filibuster-proof democratic congress sends the bill sponsored by Kerry, Kennedy and the like to President Obama, do you think he will Veto it?
October 28th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
hell if I know, but at least be honest with the man’s positions
October 28th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Thats why I said “likely to be reinstituted.”
Anyway, So you will have one cable news outlet reporting facts that may be uncomfortable to Obama while pundits and ed-op talk show hosts will express critical opinions. Meanwhile, every other media organization will work to obfuscate or ignore facts that may be uncomfortable to Obama while their ed-op talk show hosts praise him.
I don’t know where you have been for the past 8 years, but this is exactly what has happened, but in reverse. You can’t deal with one lousy cable news outlet, while you expect conservatives to accept every other mainstream media organization’s leftist bias?
October 28th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Fox News? That’s accurate. You just have to read it properly. It’s not Fox presenting the news. It’s the news according to Fox, i.e. Fox News.
As already noted, Fox will now become stronger in being the repository for disgruntled Republicans, NRA members, evangelical Christians and those who deem themselves “true” Americans to wallow.
“There’s three sides to every story: There’s Fox, there’s CNN, and then there’s the truth.”
November 5th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
There are some facts that are reported on radio talk shows that CNN, MSNBC, etc NEVER talk about- instead it’s Chris Matthews talking about the “thrill up his leg”- that is certainly not a fact-based but pure opinion and emotional.
Though an independent, I am disgusted with the way the leftist media ripped Sarah Palin to pieces like some incredibly mean, vicious 13 year old girls. The moment people ripped into the clothes from her wardrobe was the new low for all of these propaganda Obama media channels. You can’t distract us from real matters like the Iraq war, the economy, and national security with some stupid op-ed on Palin’s clothes! How junvenile!
Palin’s clothes were to be donated/auctioned off for charity, and I NEVER heard that from the CNN or NPR or MSNBC crowd.
But then hopefully the little child will come and say that “Emperor is Naked” and expose him as he is, along with his sycophants.