Posted on 01/31/2014 3:10:34 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
"....A 2007 study found that in the 2000 presidential election, “Republicans gained 0.4 to 0.7 percentage points in the towns that broadcast Fox News.” The study’s estimates “imply that Fox News convinced 3 to 28 percent of its viewers to vote Republican, depending on the audience measure.” In addition to being influential, I also learned that Fox News is an extremely poor source of information about current events.
...One of the first things I noticed was how similar all of the on-air personalities were..... Shep Smith seems to be the exception to this. In contrast, he comes across as refreshingly candid and good-humored, and doesn’t indulge in the sort of winking innuendo that passes for news on much of the rest of the network. Within a few days of the commencement of my Fox project,I developed a fervent,Stockholm syndrome-style crush on Shep Smith.(The women of Fox are attractive, which is not an unusual requirement for female TV personalities, but they are dramatically, disproportionately blond and share a particular ebullience.)
The quintessence of the Fox News style is found on “Fox & Friends.” It is the network’s morning show, a competitor to “Good Morning America” and“Today.” It features three hosts, Steve Doocy, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Brian Kilmeade. Doocy seems to be the brains of the three,....Hasselbeck seems as if she might be too nice for the role in which she is cast. She has only a few go-to facial expressions—compassionate concern (generally reserved for children), an angry moue that comes off more as a petulant pout, and a bright smile that she occasionally tries to repurpose, Doocy-style, into one of outraged disbelief. She can’t quite pull the latter off,however, and the effect is sort of disturbing, resembling a fear/aggression response more than anything else. Kilmead plays the part of the dumb little brother,....
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
NOTE #2: While he picked "O'Reilly, Fox and Friends and Shep to watch - Meygan Kelly is the featured picture at his post.
NOTE #3: His world view of Fox: "...Fox's role is the "purveyor, not only of right-wing information but of right-wing ignorance.."
This article is like reading a Two Minutes Hate.
Personally, with his obsession with Shep Smith, and his utter disdain for the Fox women.....I’d say that he’s a wee bit light in the loafers. Come on out John, that closet is too dark for you.
The definition of liberal is thinking Fox News is “conservative”
John needs to stay in that closet. There are already plenty of them out of it and I’m tired of their whining.
How old is he?
Three or 73?
BOR is as liberal as he is.
This guy sounds like a spoiled little brat of a kid who is such a picky eater that when presented with green birthday cake, refuses to eat it, claims it smells disgusting, and if forced to take a bite spits it out, gags moans, says it tastes worse then poop, and throws a tantrum etc.
Even though green cake is exactly the same as white cake (with just a couple drops of tasteless food coloring), and this kid absolutely LOVES cake.
That morning, one of the “Fox & Friends” headlines—quick stories that merit only a few second’s mention—was that “that salmonella outbreak” had become so severe that furloughed CDC workers were being recalled to help deal with it. My eyes widened in surprise. What? A salmonella outbreak? I had been watching Fox News for an average of three hours a day for eight days, and this was the very first I had heard of it. I was even more disturbed by the casual tone of it all, as if they had been discussing it for weeks, and I had just missed it. My first—and perhaps slightly fevered—thought was that the network had soft-pedaled the story because they didn’t want to give the impression that furloughing a bunch of agricultural inspectors might have been a bad idea.
The Salon employee did not hear mention of it from a sampling of a mere three hours a day of watching for eight days -- what I believe are opinion shows about political issues -- and he judges the reason Fox "spiked" the story was Fox didn’t want to give the impression that furloughing a bunch of agricultural inspectors might have been a bad idea. Recall that Republicans are blamed for the "shut down" so is the Salon employee saying Fox news was trying to cover for them?
Is the employee of Salon saying that Fox has no right to express opinions?
Are we back in the decades of the Fairness Doctrine when one hour a week of Buckley's Firing Line is all the fairness conservative opinion needed?
If the left ever gets away with doing that again it's time to -- like the hundreds of thousands of citizens past -- defend free speech against oppressors with blood.. our free speech, their blood.
Translation: the more people know about the issues, the more likely they are to vote Republican. It is quite telling that while this John guy claims that Fox does not convey accurate news, all he actually talks about are the anchors. I guess that's because if he were to try to support that claim, he would find that the Fox news stories fact-check pretty well.
At work, our home page is MSN. I usually bring up Fox in a different browser. Both have their share of fluffy articles. MSN has sections on News, Sports, Entertainment, Money, Living, and Autos. Fox has sections on Health, Business, Technology, Travel, Opinion, Entertainment, Politics, Sports, Lifestyle, World, Fox News Magazine, US, Retirement, and Movies. It would seem that Fox has more serious content. I just watched some video on MSN: Do vegetarians live longer, to which the answer was, "Yes, they do!" The video was completely full of inaccuracies, starting with the fact that it superficially compared all vegetarians with all omnivores without adjusting for the fact that many omnivores eat unhealthy diets while few vegetarians do (since vegetarians are generally more health-conscious). From that small sample size, I would have to assume that MSN viewers receive utterly skewed "news" and are very poorly informed. I don't have time for a complete review of the site, but I can guess that for balanced, accurate news, MSN should NOT be one's first choice.
He thinks the Republicans were responsible for the government shutdown,
he has the same level of mental acuity as Boehner.
Fox News Dominates Cable Ratings for State of the Union Address
I maybe watch about five hours of FOX news a week. I like Bret Baier's five o'clock report and the FOX all-star thing, and I occasionally watch some other FOX show. That's it. Like he says, does FOX ignore a lot of "important" news? Sure it does. Just like all the other news shows.
But he can't be honest. He dislikes FOX basically because it presents a view of the world which is mostly (but not always) at odds with his very liberal view of the world. It would be like one of us watching MSLSD for a month, and then announcing we didn't like it. So what?
At no time does Haggerty bother to express an opinion on political philosophy. Like all liberals, he chooses subjects, the government shutdown, and it's all the Republican's fault. Obama could never have anything to do with the shutdown or Obama's capricious actions to deliberately harm certain groups and not harm people/groups he favors. He never considers the role of government or how his liberal heroes pervert the proper role of government.
Basically, his article is typical liberal twaddle. He wrote it before he began his experiment. Haggerty doesn't want to be convinced about anything. He just doesn't want any contrary ideas about liberalism to seep into his head.
Funny how those who listen to Rush’s show or get their news from Fox always come out on top in the “politically informed” polls. You can’t get any lower than the Democrat “low-information voter.”
That is astounding. Maybe there is hope for the country after all.
Salon.com, Huffington post. Says it all. They’re filled with haye filled progressive that love to whine when they’re losing.
Salon.com, Huffington post. Says it all. They’re filled with haye filled progressive that love to whine when they’re losing.
They love to whine when they’re winning.
Salon? Isn’t that a website that once had national TV ads, had it’s stock delisted on the exchange due to it’s astronomical cash burn, and only saved itself by selling softcore porn?
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