| The Ghost of RubangB said: I won't bash conservatives or conservative news, but conservatives would be much better off if they had their news coming from anywhere but Fox. Fox isn't even a conservative network. They'd immediately switch to liberal news if they thought they could make more money that way. Fox hurts conservatives and liberals and America. But they're #1! Yay for money instead of actual journalism! |
I completely disagree. I think FNC is a very positive thing in journalism for America right now. With the rest of the media playing from the spectrum of left to center Fox is the only truly right of center cable news outfit. You have to have the opposing view which is why I think MSNBC, despite my hatred for Olbermann as a human being (I'll be blunt, I really do loath his existance), is still serving a purpose. MSNBC and FNC are unapologitically slanted, they both make the same coy "we're fair" claims and propaganda but thats only because it is a business and you can't come right out and say "We're just slinging it from the left/right, hope you're cool with that." and still have the kind of success they have or in MSNBC's case would like to have.
But everybody else in news is either left, center left, or center. Without FNC you have a failure of journalism to truly provide the full spectrum of viewpoints and it would do a huge disservice to the country. I watch a mixture of CNN, MSNBC, ABC, FNC, etc.. (<3 Tivo) and the conservative view on those non-FNC channels is generally the same soft poorly spoken token views that FNC gets from Allen Colmes only he is giving the "token lefty" view instead. I think often times the hosts/producers of the individual shows choose their guests and opt for those token views to be propped up as straw men for their easy destruction to drive ratings.
The negatives of the slant are far outweighed by the positives of at least having the view available. We need the media to keep the politicians honest and that doesn't happen when the entireity of the media wants to have sex with the most powerful politician in the country...and I think Obama has the super power to turn straight reporters Gay and make married reporters leave their spouse. No, kidding aside, I think the news has seriously been on vacation for the last few months and while I do not think they need to lay into Obama they need to start asking tough direct questions to both Gibbs and Obama.
PS - I'm sure we'll just have to agree to disagree on most of this, but I'm putting it out there.
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