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"Some critics have asserted that Fox News Channel promotes conservative political positions." Seriously? That's like saying "some critics have asserted that Hitler promoted anti-Semitic views." or "Some critics have asserted that Billy Mays promoted pro-Oxi Clean views." Just be honest: Fox news has conservative bias, MSNBC has liberal bias, and CNN just shows YouTube videos. <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">— Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/74.192.58.206|74.192.58.206]] ([[User talk:74.192.58.206|talk]]) 06:21, 3 November 2011 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:Unsigned IP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot--> |
"Some critics have asserted that Fox News Channel promotes conservative political positions." Seriously? That's like saying "some critics have asserted that Hitler promoted anti-Semitic views." or "Some critics have asserted that Billy Mays promoted pro-Oxi Clean views." Just be honest: Fox news has conservative bias, MSNBC has liberal bias, and CNN just shows YouTube videos. <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">— Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/74.192.58.206|74.192.58.206]] ([[User talk:74.192.58.206|talk]]) 06:21, 3 November 2011 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:Unsigned IP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot--> |
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I think the statement would be a lot more accurate if it read: |
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"Some critics have asserted that Fox News Channel promotes exclusively conservative political positions." |
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It should also really be noted that Chris Wallace claims that Fox News is a deliberate counterbalance to perceived bias in the "liberal media", as can be seen in his interview with John Stewart on Fox News Sunday [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwyUdBp-cck here]. |
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Fox News biast againt 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul
This morning Fox News announced who the establishment’s three leading 2012 GOP candidates are in light of last week’s Republican debate and straw poll in Ames, Iowa.
Fox News’s top three are: 1. Michele Bachmann, who won the straw poll by as little as 0.91% or 152 votes, 2. Mitt Romney, who did not even compete in the straw poll, and 3. Rick Perry, who participated neither in the debate or the straw poll.
No mention was made of Ron Paul, who overwhelmingly won the debate (even according to Fox News’s own post-debate poll) and scored a close second at the straw poll with 4,671 votes, except to lump him in with Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Herman Cain as an also-ran.
http://www.ronpaul.com/2011-08-15/the-mainstream-medias-leading-gop-candidates/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.169.96.46 (talk) 09:20, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
- That is an interesting aspect, but we would need a 3rd party source for that. Moreover it is a detail that belongs into the controvery article rather than here.--Kmhkmh (talk) 10:09, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
Demographic
Can someone please change "in the age 25–54 demographic" to "in the 25-54 age range", or similar? The use of the modish word "demographic" is fatuous. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.131.48.230 (talk) 16:58, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
- Uhh, im pretty sure "demographic" is a standard term for the media industry. I'm surprised someone throwing around "modish" and "fatuous" would be perturbed by "demographic" Jairuscobb (talk) 21:14, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
Fox news as the product of Nixon's response to anti-Nixon administration news coverage?
- I've just stumbled on one of Gawker's articles entitled Roger Ailes’ Secret Nixon-Era Blueprint for Fox News, where it presents documents from the Richard Nixon Presidential Library that depict a ploy «by Ailes and other Nixon aides to circumvent the "prejudices of network news" and deliver "pro-administration" stories to heartland television viewers». This being true should be referred in the article. Any thoughts? -- Mecanismo | Talk 22:55, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
- This sounds quite interessting!--91.39.113.101 (talk) 08:50, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
I heard it was a product of the Zionist-Klu Klux Klan-Tea Party-Nazi-Fascist-Rich CEO/ignorant toothless hillbilly conspiracy to supplant The Truth™, as reavealed to mankind through CNN, MSNBC, ABC, and CBS by creating a 24/7 Racist Propaganda Machine™. I also have documents to prove this, Dan Rather faxed them to me right after he printed them off Microsoft Word. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.225.227.226 (talk) 21:14, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Fox News in Canada
The section under Canada is misleading and false. Fox News is banned in Canada because of a Canadian regulation that bans the broadcast of false or misleading news. And no I'm not making that up. Fox News attorneys even admitted that the First Amendment gives them the right to lie or deliberately distort news reports on the public airwaves in the USA. However, Canada's Radio Act requires that "a licenser may not broadcast....any false or misleading news." Here are some sources:
http://mwcnews.net/focus/politics/9037-fox-news-lies-keep-them-out-of-canada.html http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/276-74/5123-fox-news-lies-keep-them-out-of-canada http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr/fox-news-will-not-be-moving-into-canada-after-all_b_829473.html http://current.com/community/93039146_canada-rejects-fox-style-news.htm http://www.care2.com/causes/crtc-refuses-to-allow-false-news-on-canadian-airwaves.html Galraedia (talk) 20:33, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
- Those are highly opinionated and biased sources and they don't quite back the argument you are trying to make. From the reading, FNC is not baned, only broadcasting of false or misleading news. By that definition you are trying to use none of the news organizations in the US would be allowed to broadcast in Canada as they have all at one time or another broadcasted something that was false or misleading news. Furthermore, the most reliable of the sources (care2) actually says that SUN will be moving into Canada. It is ironic that you would present misleading opinion to state that FNC is banned from Canada. Arzel (talk) 23:44, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
Highly opinionated and bias? Are you freaking kidding me? Fox News and Fox News TV style channels are banned from broadcasting on the airwaves in Canada. Here: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/crtc-ditches-bid-to-allow-fake-news/article1921489/ Galraedia (talk) 00:53, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- Please, spare me the hyperbole. Yes, a bunch of left wing sites are making that claim, but that is not what the law says. There is no law that says "Fox News is banned from Canada", only that law that says you can't broadcast false or misleading news. but even Canada hasn't become China in it's control of information. Arzel (talk) 03:45, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
Arzel, there is no left or right in wikipedia, only the truth. Fox News is banned from broadcast in Canada because officials in that country see it as "false or misleading news". Whether or not that is true is irrelevant because it doesn't change Canada's reason for not allowing it on the airwaves. I'm not saying Fox News is "misleading or false", I am saying that Canada's reason for not allowing it on the airwaves is because they consider it to be in violation of a law that prohibits the dissemination of false or misleading news in their country. The fact that you would accuse these sites of being "left-wing" brings into question your own bias. Just because something isn't suger-coated the way you want it to be doesn't make it any less true. Galraedia (talk) 21:04, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- Some editors may find it fortunate that CRTC rules don't apply at Wikipedia; the assertion that "Fox News is banned from broadcast in Canada" is verifiably a falsehood:
- http://www.myaccess.ca/Home/Communities/AC3/AtHome/TV/ChannelLineup/ViewOurLineup/tabid/2485/ABZone/AC3AHA/Default.aspx
- http://www.bellsrdu.ca/en/sales_channel_lp.php
- http://www.cogeco.ca/web/on/en/residential/tv/tv_channels.php?cat=F
- http://www.eastlink.ca/CableDigitalTV/DigitalChannels/InformationPackage.aspx
- http://www.mts.ca/mts/personal/winnipeg/mts+ultimate+tv+service/channel+packages+and+pricing/find+a+channel
- http://www.rogers.com/web/Rogers.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PTV_PROG_CHANNEL&forwardTo=themePack&group=1&N=125+12+4294967120+4294949452+4294949430
- http://www.sasktel.com/personal/max-entertainment-services/max-channels.html?Link=LOBMaxChannels&campaign=Home#knowledgeplus
- http://www.shaw.ca/Television/Channel-Listings/
- http://www.lyngsat.com/packages/shawf1.html
- http://www.telus.com/content/tv/common/pdf/TELUS_TV_channel_guide.pdf
- Fat&Happy (talk) 18:29, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
Let's be honest
"Some critics have asserted that Fox News Channel promotes conservative political positions." Seriously? That's like saying "some critics have asserted that Hitler promoted anti-Semitic views." or "Some critics have asserted that Billy Mays promoted pro-Oxi Clean views." Just be honest: Fox news has conservative bias, MSNBC has liberal bias, and CNN just shows YouTube videos. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.192.58.206 (talk) 06:21, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
I think the statement would be a lot more accurate if it read:
"Some critics have asserted that Fox News Channel promotes exclusively conservative political positions."
It should also really be noted that Chris Wallace claims that Fox News is a deliberate counterbalance to perceived bias in the "liberal media", as can be seen in his interview with John Stewart on Fox News Sunday here.
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