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Network News Chiefs Worry About Fox News Channel (Bwahahahahaha!!!!!)
IMDb.com ^ | 11-17-04

Posted on 11/17/2004 6:46:48 PM PST by Paul Atreides

The news presidents of ABC, CBS and NBC all agree that the rise of the Fox News Channel poses a threat to their organizations. Appearing on a panel at Stanford University Monday night, CBS News President Andrew Hayward remarked, "Fox has added an important new ingredient to the news system: they mix news and opinion. ... Fox is a blend of news and talk radio on TV. That is a powerful dimension." As reported in the college newspaper Stanford Daily on Tuesday, each of the news chiefs voiced similar concerns. Said ABC News President David Westin: "The problem is when news and opinion are mashed together. ... It is starting to push out the truth telling, which is undermining our core mission. We have to keep the central goal telling the truth as we see it." Each of the executives said that they now must deal with public preconceptions that may clash with the actual facts. NBC News President Neal Shapiro observed that the network had presented military experts who maintained that there wouldn't be enough troops in Iraq to pacify the country following the invasion. "This didn't seem to resonate with the American people." Westin agreed, noting that polls show "that an alarming number of people still believe there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq."


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: foxnews; leftistmediaindenial; liberalmedia
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The truth as they see it! Such as Dan Blather still believing in forged documents?
1 posted on 11/17/2004 6:46:49 PM PST by Paul Atreides
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To: Paul Atreides

No, the Mainstream Media never ever ever inject opinion into their news coverage.


2 posted on 11/17/2004 6:48:20 PM PST by Unam Sanctam
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To: Paul Atreides

by offering truth and opinion foxnews is undeminding their effort to blend the two in order to create a truth that is their opinion. their liberal opinion.


3 posted on 11/17/2004 6:48:23 PM PST by CaptainAwesome2
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Fox has added an important new ingredient to the news system: they mix news and opinion

As opposed to our own stations, where we never provide any news to balance out our leftist indoctrination sessions.

4 posted on 11/17/2004 6:49:08 PM PST by madprof98
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"Fox has added an important new ingredient to the news system: they mix news and opinion."

Do they think we are that stupid or do they really think they keep opinion out of their newscasts?

5 posted on 11/17/2004 6:49:29 PM PST by NonValueAdded ("We are in the process of allowing them to self-actualise" LtC. Rainey, Fallujah, 11/04)
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"Fox has added an important new ingredient to the news system: they mix news and opinion..."

...which are clearly differentiated/identified.

As opposed to the networks, which mix news and opinion and call it "news".


6 posted on 11/17/2004 6:51:15 PM PST by WestTexasWend
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To: Paul Atreides

I done with 'em all.
I still could take the weekend version of NBC News with John Siegenthaler.

But this Sites incident has just about ended my watching of MSM news.

Until Nov. 2008, if Dan Rather gets to do the CBS News election-night coverage!


7 posted on 11/17/2004 6:51:25 PM PST by VOA
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They have NO CLUE how their words sound to "US"


8 posted on 11/17/2004 6:51:31 PM PST by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitor)
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They want the truth to be only what comes from their mouths. What they did not mention was the internet as the voice of the people.


9 posted on 11/17/2004 6:51:55 PM PST by cynicom (<p)
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To: Paul Atreides

The MSM's ben asleep longer than Rip Van Winkle. That liberal kook-aid must be strong stuff!


10 posted on 11/17/2004 6:52:16 PM PST by vetsvette (Bring Him Back)
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To: Unam Sanctam

NBC/GE stabs the Marines in the back.

ABC/Disney stabbed John O'Neill (Swifty) in the back and ABC also portrays Christian housewives as whores in Desperate Housewives. The blond who portrays a whore always has a big cross on which is ABC anti-Christian subliminal message.


11 posted on 11/17/2004 6:52:22 PM PST by FrankRepublican (Boycott NBC & their parent company General Electric for smearing the USMC)
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Fox has added an important new ingredient to the news system: they mix news and the TRUTH.
12 posted on 11/17/2004 6:53:30 PM PST by DTogo (U.S. out of the U.N. & U.N out of the U.S.)
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FNC is king!


13 posted on 11/17/2004 6:53:35 PM PST by quesera (We won!!!)
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To: Paul Atreides

I talked to a guy who once told me "I never lie, I just tell my version of the truth."


14 posted on 11/17/2004 6:53:47 PM PST by Enterprise (The left hates the Constitution. Islamic Fascism hates America. Natural allies.)
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To: NonValueAdded

That's it exactly! They have NO idea that their own so called news reports are nothing more than opinion. They still don't get it. It's not that FNC is so conservative, it's that the alphabet channels are so liberal, so opinionated that anything to the right of that looks conservative.


15 posted on 11/17/2004 6:54:00 PM PST by pieces of time (Pray for the safety and success of our troops.)
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It's a bit hard to "see it" from the bottom of the tarpit!!

Pray for W and Our Troops

16 posted on 11/17/2004 6:54:46 PM PST by bray (Nam Vets Rock!!)
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yes...picked that up right away...as they see it my butt!


17 posted on 11/17/2004 6:55:29 PM PST by Hotdog
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We have to keep the central goal telling the truth as we see it.


Isn't this called OPINION?


18 posted on 11/17/2004 6:56:12 PM PST by MHak
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To: Paul Atreides

Just more blahblahblahblahblah from these crybabies in the MSM. They, like the rest of liberals, blame EVERYONE else for their failures, but never take a look in the mirror! Crybabies, waaaawaawaaaaawawawaaawaaaa!!!


19 posted on 11/17/2004 6:56:38 PM PST by eagle11 (Judge a religion not by the words of its adherents, but by their actions.)
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I wish I could remember which Dem it was that, after either the 2000 or the 2002 election, said: "Fox news allowed the Republicans to get their message out".

That's the problem for the Dems and the MSM right there.

20 posted on 11/17/2004 6:56:51 PM PST by FReepaholic (Proud FReeper since 1998. Proud monthly donor.)
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