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Discussion in 'Chit Chat' started by Pseudojim, Dec 9, 2009.

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Do you think that Fox News is 'fair and balanced'?

  1. Yes

    7 vote(s)
    8.8%

  2. No

    73 vote(s)
    91.3%
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  1. Pseudojim

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    Does anyone REALLY think that fox news is 'fair and balanced'?
     
    #1 Pseudojim, Dec 9, 2009
  2. AmandaBear

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    Hellz no! They make me sooo effin' mad sometimes. >.> Wait...more like all the time. lol

    They get their facts wrong ALL the time and are clearly biased towards the right wing. I actually wouldn't mind their conservative bias if they didn't purposefully distort their facts and take things out of context for their own agenda.
     
    #2 AmandaBear, Dec 9, 2009
  3. Martin

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    Nope, but I struggle to think of a handful of mainstream news organisations that are fair and balanced.
     
    #3 Martin, Dec 9, 2009
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    I will leave the room if my husband has Fox news on. It makes my blood boil.
     
    #4 beckyg, Dec 9, 2009
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    No, but I find most media outlets have some sort of bias.
     
    #5 Black Cat, Dec 9, 2009
  6. paco

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    oh god no.

    not going to say that any other television news is any better, but at least they don't claim to be.

    i trust shows that make fun of the news much more, at least you know what to expect.
     
    #6 paco, Dec 9, 2009
  7. Pseudojim

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    lol, i'd do more than leave the room!

    And yeah, all news has its problems, but they're about the worst
     
    #7 Pseudojim, Dec 9, 2009
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    Fox News : fair and balanced :: gorilla : tap dancing

    Impossible.
     
    #8 Étoile, Dec 9, 2009
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    #9 Greggers, Dec 9, 2009
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    lol @fox news.
     
    #10 grapevine fires, Dec 9, 2009
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    Faux news...

    Msnbc is fairly open in their liberal leanings. They dont pretend to be otherwise, and their independent and conservative commentators tend not to tow the liberal line, like the democratic and independent commentators on faux news tend to be right of the left.

    there is nothing balanced about faux new's reporting, and they are rarely fair.
     
    #11 Emberstone, Dec 9, 2009
  12. Pseudojim

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    oo we got some yes's! the race is on! =P
     
    #12 Pseudojim, Dec 10, 2009
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    To the people who voted yes: have you ever watched Fox News? Seriously...
     
    #13 Owen, Dec 10, 2009
  14. Just Adam

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    no its fox ..>.>

    bbc news all teh way :slight_smile:

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    make him leave teh room that way your tv needent be soiled by that filth :slight_smile:
     
    #14 Just Adam, Dec 10, 2009
  15. Mirko

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    This!
     
    #15 Mirko, Dec 10, 2009
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    There is no such thing as fair and balanced news. Everything is biased. Fox is in fact more biased than most other news sources. Read the New York Times.
     
    #16 Derek the Wolf, Dec 10, 2009
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    HAH FOX NEWS isn't that the station that thought that this concept art for fallout 3:
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    was what a terrorist wanted to make DC look like
    in words: EPIC FAIL

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    SORRY I'm wrong, it was the daily telegraph (who'd have guessed)
     
    #17 Connor22, Dec 10, 2009
  18. Just Adam

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    its an improvment though..certainly cleaned that place up a bit :wink:
     
    #18 Just Adam, Dec 10, 2009
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    The New York Times is one of the more liberally biased newspapers out there. I'm pretty sure there is not going to be any "unbiased" news platform, because it is human nature to inject their own bias into reporting it.
     
    #19 Shevanel, Dec 10, 2009
  20. Gaetan

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    In today's news market, there is no such thing as fair and balanced. Every station, every company has a bias, even if it's not obvious. Ever since the deregulation of the late 80's, news stations have no longer been required to show both sides of an issue. We still feign that we are being fair and balanced by showing some of the other side, but we're really only fooling the ignorant.

    Fox news happens to be the far conservative news company. CNN, ABC tend to be just a little left leaning. NBC leans ever so slightly to the right. CBS...I'm not sure where it stands these days.
     
    #20 Gaetan, Dec 10, 2009
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