Fox News, Media Elite (NYT tries to spin Fox's big victory over CNN and CBS News)

NY Times ^ | November 8, 2004 | JACQUES STEINBERG

[latina4dubya]

i could NOT care less if a network is "fair, balanced and unafraid..." what i am looking for is, "does it report the truth?" (op/eds aside, of course)...

[CyberAnt]

Well .. if the NYT or CNN would be interested in complying with the wishes of the WH .. they might get some of the "exclusive" interviews.

I remember when Jessica Lynch was captured, along with other soldiers, and several of them had been killed. The Pentagon had asked the MSM & FOX to remain silent until they had all the facts. Of course, only ONE STATION COMPLIED WITH THE PENTAGON'S REQUEST .. FOX.

Shortly after that, FOX recieved an exclusive interview with General Myers. To me .. all the other "exclusive" interviews are a result of FOX being willing to keep the story under wraps until the details could be confirmed.

[Finalapproach29er]

Ailes and Fox have brilliantly used conservatives to launch their network.

But, like politicians, when they reach the top, they start moving to the center to capture the widest possible acceptance.

Sadly, Fox isn't nearly as conservative as it was 3-4 years ago. It was nice while it lasted.

[Once-Ler]

But Mr. Ailes built a large newsgathering organization while adapting the talk-radio format to cable news. He allocated prime-time hours to opinionated, often conservative voices, and then watched the network gain viewers.

O'Reilly, Shep, and Greta are not conservative. Hanity and Colmes is balanced...really heavily in our favor, but only because Colmes sucks and his party sucks. Fox is fair and balanced just as advertised.

[patriciamary]

I still thought Fox did a poor job on election night.

[Hi Heels]

I sure miss that guy......

[NYCVirago]

FOX, IMHO, is slipping a bit in the quality of their prime-time shows. O'Reilly is a waste, Greta is all Scott Peterson, all the time, and Hannity and Colmes has the same boring guests over and over. While Joe Scarborough has been irritating sometimes in his sucking up to the RATs, he's had much more interesting guests on over the past few months than FOX has. Hardball has had better guests as well.

[garylmoore]

NBC, ABC and CBS, on the other hand, lost millions of viewers this year

You think that they will start telling the truth?

[Fight to win]

i could NOT care less if a network is "fair, balanced and unafraid..." what i am looking for is, "does it report the truth?"

Agreed.

C'mon, people. Have you forgotten already Fox's performance over the last month. I despise the Times, and I am disturbed that there is less distance between their position and that of Fox than there once was.

I no longer consider Fox worth my viewing.

[fivekid]

I DO NOT want their opinion of the news.

I want the news........

[ConservativeMan55]

I love this line.

In June, the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press reported that the percentage of Fox News viewers who identify themselves as Republican was 41 percent, compared to 29 percent who identified themselves as Democrats, and that 52 percent of Fox viewers identified themselves as conservative. (CNN, by contrast, was found to be more popular with Democratic viewers.)

''Mr. Ailes said he regarded the study as "a totally fraudulent survey done by a bunch of liberals.''

[sauropod]

read later.

[OESY]

Roger Ailes, the chairman of Fox News, said, "What I've done is taught
a lot of people not to rest on your laurels, to not think you can't do better.''

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