US News outlets part as Govt propaganda.

[Tmy]

Uhh I get so tired of the US news stations. What amazes me is that you still hear the same old line about the "anti-war liberal media" WHAT?!??!? Maybe the print media but not TV. Geez its like the US version of AlJeezer. At least I KNOW that AlJeezer is biased. The US stations act as if they are so fair n balanced ( I'm looking at you Fox News). What a joke. I end up wathing Euro stations in order to get an overall view of whats going on.

Damn. FoxNews' O'Riely goes on a daily which hunt exposing rival media outltes that are not patriotic. Theres a media driven red scare.

[Skeptical Greg]

Yeah', what's wrong with those wacky U.S. News shows?

Not giving equal coverage to Saddam and his regimes's point of view...:rolleyes:


We need more perspective from the receiving end of those bombs...:mad:

[Tmy]

Yeah thats it, I want point counterpoint wh Saddam and Bush.

All Im saying is just give me the damn facts and footage. Isnt that what the news is supposed to do.

[Skeptical Greg]

Originally posted by Tmy


All Im saying is just give me the damn facts and footage. Isnt that what the news is supposed to do.

Sounds noble, but has never been that way..

Why start now?

[Supercharts]

Originally posted by Tmy
Uhh I get so tired of the US news stations. What amazes me is that you still hear the same old line about the "anti-war liberal media" WHAT?!??!? Maybe the print media but not TV. Geez its like the US version of AlJeezer. At least I KNOW that AlJeezer is biased. The US stations act as if they are so fair n balanced ( I'm looking at you Fox News). What a joke. I end up wathing Euro stations in order to get an overall view of whats going on.

Damn. FoxNews' O'Riely goes on a daily which hunt exposing rival media outltes that are not patriotic. Theres a media driven red scare.
Try CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC or NBC.
Or read the Globe's editorials boston.com Or the Washington Post, LA Times or NY Times web sites.

[Drooper]

I can't really fault the coverage in the UK from BBC to Sky, ITN and CNN. It strikes me as pretty balanced.

That's the beauty of competition I suppose. The station that gets the truth, even if it bad news will score the points in the end.

[Lurker]

Originally posted by Supercharts

Try CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC or NBC.
Or read the Globe's editorials boston.com Or the Washington Post, LA Times or NY Times web sites.

Yes, I would posit that any one of them is more objective than FoxNews - the most biased news on TV. FoxNews is a joke!

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[Supercharts]

Originally posted by Lurker


Yes, I would posit that any one of them is more objective than FoxNews - the most biased news on TV. FoxNews is a joke!

Lurker

Connie Chung, Peter Arnett and Donahue are jokes. O'Reilly is employed.

[Lurker]

Originally posted by Supercharts


Connie Chung, Peter Arnett and Donahue are jokes. O'Reilly is employed.

And your point is...?

Lurker

[Tmy]

Originally posted by Supercharts


O'Reilly is employed.

I think thats my point. He's he biggest Bushy flag waver out there.
I wonder if hell bash Geraldo (fellow Fox employee) as he has other rival news reporters who got into trouble.

I watch RTP, which is a Portugueses news network on my local cable. I cant understand 1/2 of whats being said but the footage is pretty good.

[headscratcher4]

THe fact that Connie Chung, Peter Arnett and Donahue are unemployed would seem to give some hope for the journalistic profession...the fact that O'Reilly is employed would seem to contradict that assumption.

[Lurker]

Originally posted by headscratcher4
THe fact that Connie Chung, Peter Arnett and Donahue are unemployed would seem to give some hope for the journalistic profession...the fact that O'Reilly is employed would seem to contradict that assumption.

Agreed! :)

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[clk]

Originally posted by Lurker


FoxNews is a joke!

Lurker

JK isn't going to like that you trashed his favorite "news source". I wonder if he thinks that Foxnews is liberal? Hell, everyone is liberal compared to him, so I wouldn't be surprised.

[BillyTK]

BBC News 24 and ITN is okay (though why they sent Trevor McDonald to Kuwait I'll never understand). Sky News is more explicitly pro-war than the other two (hasn't it got Murdoch in common with FoxNews?) but CNN-Europe is too US-centric for my war reporting tastes. And all those whizzy info bars give me a headache. Still, it's nice to hear an Australian accent presenting the news...

[Lurker]

Originally posted by clk


JK isn't going to like that you trashed his favorite "news source". I wonder if he thinks that Foxnews is liberal? Hell, everyone is liberal compared to him, so I wouldn't be surprised.

I don't think JK can be quantified in terms of the usual right/left categories. He is in a category all his own, thank goodness.

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[Richard G]

Fox News has ratings that blow every other network out of the water. ie. most Americans have turned off, and tuned out of whiny assed liberal networks.

[Lurker]

Originally posted by Richard G
Fox News has ratings that blow every other network out of the water. ie. most Americans have turned off, and tuned out of whiny assed liberal networks.

I would submit that FoxNews is doing so well because a large part of the conservatives in the US here only want to hear their own point of view. Kind of like an echo chamber. Evidence is the recent popularity of conservative rant style books that play fast and loose with the truth. Coulter, Hannity, and Savage come to mind.


But, if that is what floats your boat go right ahead. It is a free country, isn't it?

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[Lurker]

And let me add that FoxNews is doing well against other cable shows. Against the big three networks (CBS, ABC, NBC) it has only a small fraction of the viewership.

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