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Chris Wallace: Media Bias 'Astonishing'
NewsMax.com ^ | 16 October 2005 | Carl Limbacher

Posted on 10/16/2005 5:40:36 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!

"Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace said Friday that since leaving the mainstream networks behind to join Fox he's noticed an "astonishing" amount of biased reporting on the part of his former colleagues.

"I came from the mainstream media and I didn't used to feel this way," Wallace told WRKO Boston radio host Howie Carr.

In radio interviews he does to promote his Sunday broadcast, Wallace said, the questions he gets are almost always slanted against the Bush administration.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bias; chriswallace; fns; foxnews; leftistbias; leftistlies; media; mediabias; msm
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To: Alas Babylon!

Daddy must be about ready to disown him.


181 posted on 10/16/2005 2:16:21 PM PDT by Bullish (Proudly and consistently hating the Clinton's since 1992)
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To: geedee
But it's private no more thanks to small minds like yours and Tanker's.

Hey, you brought it up. Then, you felt the need to explain.

Besides, who cares what I think?

182 posted on 10/16/2005 2:28:58 PM PDT by TankerKC (Done with the NFL..)
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To: Prophet in the wilderness
Tried all that. She thinks I am a brain-washed Republican. What she doesn't understand is that I am not a Republican at all. I am a conservative independent with libertarian leanings. In practice this often means that my only viable choice is "the lesser of two evils", the Republicans. So I vote for them, and contribute to them. But I am not one of them.
183 posted on 10/16/2005 4:07:30 PM PDT by chesley
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
It was subtle because it was the only game in town. If they didn't report it, it didn't happen, it didn't exist. So any story that would support a conservative narrative was ... not. Now they can't do this, and the frustrations driving them wild.

Sweet schadenfreude!!! (Did I spell that right? Well, you know what I mean, and probably how conducive to sound sleep it is.)
184 posted on 10/16/2005 4:18:28 PM PDT by chesley
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To: Prophet in the wilderness

Not wanting contention hits it on the head - many of the "Silent Generation" as it was dubbed here on FR, are not grandstanders, they live their lives quietly and hated the upheaval of the 60s after the tranquility of the 50's.

I have told my parents several times thay I find it very interesting that for 2 non-political, Democratic Party leaning parents they raised such tried and true conservatives - and they shrug their shoulders. Part of it is me and my brothers grew up in the Washington DC area - politics 24/7, inside the beltway mentality. My parents grew up in a small coal-mining town in PA - kinda poor but happy. 2 different worlds.

One day we will have a very good discussion - she knows I love her and for now that is good. Thanks for all the pointers, I will always listen to good advise.

Good Night, off to get kids in bed and walk the dog!


185 posted on 10/16/2005 4:38:50 PM PDT by Cathy
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To: StarFan; Dutchy; Timesink; VPMWife78; Gracey; Alamo-Girl; RottiBiz; FoxGirl; Mr. Bob; xflisa; ...
FoxFan ping!

Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my FoxFan list. *Warning: This can be a high-volume ping list at times.

186 posted on 10/16/2005 5:06:42 PM PDT by nutmeg ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - Hillary Clinton 6/28/04)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Well Duh, he just noticed this? He said he didn't realize it until moving to Fox? All Bush reporting is mean spirited, slanted, and intended to destroy him. Kind of like over half of the threads on this forum the past several weeks.


187 posted on 10/16/2005 5:15:21 PM PDT by ladyinred (It is all my fault okay?)
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To: Alas Babylon!; All

WOW Catcher mitt son is saying this I am shock


188 posted on 10/16/2005 5:25:51 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("Not everybody in, it, for truth, justice, and the American way,"= Det Lennie Briscoe)
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To: MarkL; wolfpat; najida; Labyrinthos; Humal; ONETWOONE; PatriotGirl827; My Favorite Headache; ...
I have an Aunt who tells me that she can't stand President Bush. When I ask her for specific reasons, she can't come up with any. She "just doesn't like him."

Behold the proof of a successful propaganda campaign!

They can give you the opinions they passionately hold, but they can't begin to give you a substantive reason for holding them.

It's nothing but pure artifice masquerading as thought.

189 posted on 10/16/2005 5:54:24 PM PDT by papertyger
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To: MarkL

Someday, ask her what are the odds, given the law of averages, that one person could be ALL bad, NEVER do anything right, and NEVER deserve a positive story?

Then point out that on the MSM, America itself is ALL bad, NEVER does anything right, and NEVER gets a positive story. Is that the America she knew/knows?

That's what converted me... how could the US be in the wrong in EVERY conflict? It just didn't pass the smell test. Then I started thinking, and looking.

(However, my mom was the same, don't expect much success!)


190 posted on 10/16/2005 7:47:08 PM PDT by Jerez2
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To: SE Mom
"Fox News wouldn't exist if it weren't for this kind of stuff going on in the mainstream media," he told Carr. "That's why people are fed up with that and want the antidote to it because they get it and they've gotten it for years - the so-called bias in the objective press."

And IMO Fox News has given in WAY TOO MUCH to the constant criticism of the left in what they do.

I used to tune in for an oasis from the left-wing bombardment that rains down not just from news sources, but every form of media right down to sitcom drivel. Anymore their efforts to bend over backwards to appease the left (which can only be achieved through COMPLETE surrender to their Brave New World political correctness) has me tuning in far less.

191 posted on 10/16/2005 8:05:53 PM PDT by TheClintons-STILLAnti-American
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To: I still care
"Now that he is exposed to working with more balanced people like Brit Hume he probably is realizing stuff he never did before. "

He may also have found it refreshing to discover that conservatives are aloud to have ideas of their own and think for themselves, after having been immersed the the Brave New World oligarchy all his life.

192 posted on 10/16/2005 8:13:37 PM PDT by TheClintons-STILLAnti-American
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To: Alas Babylon!
Well, Fox is filled with true believers and nuts of every stripe, but the difference is that they've a handful of sane news analysts. Any news outlet that hires Jerry Rivers has to be, er, fair and balanced in some measure. I don't know where Chris Wallace stands, and I think that he plays his political hand close to the vest, but it isn't difficult to see the "amazing" media bias in the MSM. To admit it is to say that the sun sets in the West.
193 posted on 10/16/2005 8:33:16 PM PDT by ashtanga
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To: nutmeg

Thanks for the ping!


194 posted on 10/16/2005 8:37:34 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: geedee
Actually, I should have used the "tounge in cheek" emoticon: :-^)

I gathered that she wasn't "that" kind of girlfriend, but I sometimes forget that some folks can't read sarcasm.

Still, you gotta know, that when you throw around phrases like: "my 7 year old girlfriend" on a public forum where people don't know you; you're likely to get some inquries of one form or another.

195 posted on 10/16/2005 8:46:24 PM PDT by AFreeBird (your mileage may vary)
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To: daybreakcoming

LOL :-)) It could be except MY aunt doesn't have any children. Maybe my aunt's sister is your mother, and they think alike??


196 posted on 10/16/2005 9:21:41 PM PDT by Humal
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To: papertyger
"It's nothing but pure artifice masquerading as thought."

The strange thing is some of this "artifice" comes from extremely intelligent people. One friend, a former teacher w/masters in math, and a niece, college teacher, et. al., are super intelligent, and they should know better. Can't figure out why they don't "see the light" on their own.
197 posted on 10/16/2005 9:27:34 PM PDT by Humal
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To: G.Mason

Right, I don't trust Chris Wallace either.


198 posted on 10/17/2005 3:11:47 AM PDT by W04Man (Bush2004 Grassroots Campaign We Did It! NOW.... PLEASE STAY THE COURSE!)
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To: AFreeBird
I gathered that she wasn't "that" kind of girlfriend, but I sometimes forget that some folks can't read sarcasm.

Still, you gotta know, that when you throw around phrases like: "my 7 year old girlfriend" on a public forum where people don't know you; you're likely to get some inquries of one form or another.

I try to read folks homepages before I comment one way or another on "delicate" subjects like this . . . then I never try to be judgmental until I get more facts. The term "pedo-perv" was provocative and cruel . . . something I would NEVER be to another fellow FReeper.

If any 52 year-old FReeper had written the EXACT same post I did, I would read his or her homepage, then assume there was some kind of inside joke not meant for me and leave it at that.

If you had read my homepage, I would hope you would've known the term was used in jest. I've adopted some nieces and nephews because of something similar to this. I've only been able to handle it physically, mentally, AND FINANCIALLY because of Monica's family. Someone in their family has worked with someone in my family for 85 years now and I love them beyond measure. My nieces and nephews and Monica and her brothers and sisters are the closest thing I'll ever have to children of my own.

Your use of the term "pedo-perv" was totally uncalled for . . . sarcasm or not. This family reads EVERY post I make to Free Republic and that is the only reason I'm going into such detail.

Mine and your interaction was discussed at length at their supper table last night. To even have to have this discussion with such a good, caring, loving, and impressionable young child broke my heart. I'll pass on your explanation . . . but she read your post before I did and her mother told me she spent an hour trying to figure out what a "pedo-perv" was before I called her.

She loves it when I refer to her in my posts . . . that's why I did so. I wanted her to know how proud I was of her. But I will do so no longer.

If you would like to send me a "private reply" to help her understand, I'll see to it that she gets it.

199 posted on 10/17/2005 4:44:27 AM PDT by geedee (Most people don't really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility and courage.)
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To: Humal
LOL :-)) It could be except MY aunt doesn't have any children. Maybe my aunt's sister is your mother, and they think alike??

:o)
See you at the next family reunion - should be fun eh?

200 posted on 10/17/2005 5:56:34 AM PDT by daybreakcoming (May God bless those who enter the valley of the shadow of death so that we may see the light of day.)
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