Fox News / Red Eye - i feel sorry for my American friends

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  • Pepe Silvia
    Pepe Silvia Posts: 3,758
    prfctlefts wrote:
    Jeanwah wrote:
    It's funny to see people argue back and forth about the validity to liberal mainstream news networks and conservative ones. Fact is, everything under the "mainstream" tent is not telling us the facts, and people are choosing networks to listen to which are in line to, and validate, their viewpoints.

    The whole mainstream news in America is an absolute joke, and anyone who believes what they hear coming from an industry that's become a circus, reporting entertainment news as big news, etc., should really stop and question what's fact and what's fiction. FoxNews is NOT fair and balanced, (far from it) and the others have their biased agendas. If you want news, look at international news which has no reason to be bias toward American news. And then weigh it all and come to your own conclusions using critical thinking and questioning as to what's really going on in the world, and question what's just being told to us to have us simply believe what we're being told.

    Journalism has changed A LOT in the past 30 years, and journalists don't dig for the truth anymore. They do as they're told by their corporate employers...or they're out of a job. You have to search for independent journalism for real news.

    you say fox is not fair and balenced but no one will or can point to an example. whenever ther is a debate on fox they ALWAYS HAVE A DEM AND AREPUBLICAN so you the viewer can hear both sides and then make up you're own mind. If that's not fair and balenced then what is.


    i'm pretty sure i've told you this before but maybe it was someone else....

    -a few times when a republican was stepping down because of some scandal Fox Op/Ed would put a (D) next to their names instead of an (R). maybe once is a mistake but when it happens more than once it seems like a pretty clear distortion

    -during the '04 campaign people said Kerry said he should be president "because more foreign leaders like him" the audio of the actual quote eventually came out and showed Kerry did NOT say that, which didn't stop Fox & Friends from repeating the claim all the way until the election. to quote reagan "facts are stupid things", i guess....

    -during the '08 primaries Clinton made some comment, forgot what it was, and Fox blew it way out proportion....Fox & Friends asked viewers to email them or call them to tell them if we agreed with them on this....i called twice and emailed once telling them i felt they were taking what she said out of context (even though i was/am far from a hillary supporter) and i didn't feel she meant what they were implying....both times i called i was told shortly thanks for my call and they hung up....an hour or so later they announced the results of the phone calls and emails and claimed not a single person disagreed with them, which is odd considering i disagreed with them 3 times

    also, everyone tries to hide behind Fox doesn't have news anchors, they have entertainers giving their opinions....well, then how is it a News network if they only have op/ed commentators?? people in this thread claim Hannity doesn't report news, he gives his opinion....ok, but that doesn't explain why a few years ago when it was Hannity & Colmes the word NEWS would be on the screen as either a graphic or somewhere on their set a dozen or so times at once....so, if it's just an op/ed show what's the need to put the word NEWS all over the screen? isn't that a bit misleading? maybe so people will see NEWS everywhere and think of it as such?
    don't compete; coexist

    what are you but my reflection? who am i to judge or strike you down?

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    i was thinkin 'death before dishonor'
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,994
    prfctlefts wrote:
    Sure there's a slant but that doesn't mean they dont report the news fairly and acurately
    isn't this the entire purpose of the debate? you say they do, the rest of us say they do not report the news fairly and accurately.
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • dustinpardue
    dustinpardue Las Vegas, NV Posts: 1,829
    As an American you can't watch or read anything from the mainstream media to get news. I get my American news from other countries.
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  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,363
    dustinpardue wrote:
    As an American you can't watch or read anything from the mainstream media to get news. I get my American news from other countries.
    You learn more about your own country by watching news coming from an international source.
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,994
    Jeanwah wrote:
    dustinpardue wrote:
    As an American you can't watch or read anything from the mainstream media to get news. I get my American news from other countries.
    You learn more about your own country by watching news coming from an international source.

    i completely agree with both of you here. what a shame it is that we have to seek the truth from international sources instead of those here at home.
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • Pepe Silvia
    Pepe Silvia Posts: 3,758
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    Jeanwah wrote:
    dustinpardue wrote:
    As an American you can't watch or read anything from the mainstream media to get news. I get my American news from other countries.
    You learn more about your own country by watching news coming from an international source.

    i completely agree with both of you here. what a shame it is that we have to seek the truth from international sources instead of those here at home.


    john moyers is pretty good but people think it's too boring. frontline has had a lot of great episodes
    don't compete; coexist

    what are you but my reflection? who am i to judge or strike you down?

    "I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank." - Barack Obama

    when you told me 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em'
    i was thinkin 'death before dishonor'

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