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Killiana1a on 18 December 2010
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Kasz216 said:
Killiana1a said:
badgenome said:

No, Juan Williams doesn't make you balanced. But between Juan Williams, Kirsten Powers, Alan Colmes, Susan Estrich, Bob Beckel, Geraldine Ferraro, Alicia Menendez, Ellis Henican, et al, Fox is easily more balanced than either CNN (whose idea of a conservative is Kathleen Parker) or MSNBC (whose idea of a conservative is probably Dennis Kucinich).

By all means, hold everyone accountable. But all complaints about how shitty the media in general, and cable news in particular, is seem to start and end with Fox News. Granted, they are the ratings leader by lightyears, but no one seriously thinks that's why they're the whipping boy. Nor are they especially bad as far as cable news goes. It's because and only because they dare to lean the other way.

Problem is, all those you listed as progressive are contributors who come in for 2 to 5 minutes at a time.

Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, and Sean Hannity are all conservative and the biggest draws to Fox News in their time slots. Where are their progressive counterparts who have a 1 hour prime time television slot on Fox News?

What about that is different from MSNBC?

Nothing. According to the survey in the original OP, MSNBC is by the least watched news network with Fox News being number 1. I will concede MSNBC has emulated Fox News by trying to be the liberal Fox News with Olbermann, Maddow, Matthews, and that crazy guy, yet they still are miles away from CNN and hundres of miles away from Fox News' heels in the ratings race.

Unfair comparison. Fox News by far is the most watched news network. They are more comparable to NY Times and the Washington Post as far as news media goes. Comparing Fox to MSNBC or CNN is like comparing the NY Times to the East Oregonian. You cannot compare the echelon with the gutter.

Personally, as a far Left progressive my preferred news channel is Fox News. They have the hottest news anchors like Megyn Kelly as Howard Stern will attest to. Furthermore, working 10pm to 6am and getting all my media online I watch them for opposition research and for entertainment in how they twist a story by the very words they use such as "Government Option" instead of "Public Option," which their focus group pollster, Frank Luntz stated support is split 50/50 if the "Public Option" would have been used during the 2010 healthcare debate, while using "Government Option" skews Fox News voters more to 70/30 opposed.