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Jul 13, 2004, 11:14 AM
 
Yes it's a biased look at FOX.

But it should be able to take what it dishes out:

OUTFOXED
     
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Jul 13, 2004, 11:56 AM
 
Yeah how dare them not spin their news to the left side!
     
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Jul 13, 2004, 12:10 PM
 
That looks pretty interesting. Some of the stuff on that trailer was scary, even out of context.
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Jul 13, 2004, 12:14 PM
 
Fox is already coming out strong against these leftist lies and fantasies.

Fox has offered to make public all of their internal memos if their competitors (if you can call them that, since theyre insignificant), will release theirs. Think they will do it ? NOPE, because people will then see who the real liars and propagandists are who distort the news in the most evil ways.
     
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Jul 13, 2004, 12:16 PM
 
Originally posted by PacHead:
Fox is already coming out strong against these leftist lies and fantasies.

Fox has offered to make public all of their internal memos if their competitors (if you can call them that, since theyre insignificant), will release theirs. Think they will do it ? NOPE, because people will then see who the real liars and propagandists are who distort the news in the most evil ways.
The other stations are also scrambling because Fox is on top. They used to make fun of Fox, saying it has no chance.

Now it's on top, they are scrambling to try to smear the credibility.
     
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Jul 13, 2004, 12:21 PM
 
Now, does anybody look at that obvious bias in news reporting? Not a chance. Instead, we get the liberal hatchet organization Moveon.org producing a cheesy little so-called documentary about FOX News Channel, given the cutesy title "Outfoxed."_

The three network newscasts add up to 30 percent of America on any given night, and we know what their biases are; plus, the two major news weeklies, all the big national papers and National Public Radio.
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You have America's major media dominated by the Left; 80-some percent of reporters are self-described liberals, and they're complaining because FOX lets you hear what the conservatives have to say while also presenting the liberal side.

The producers of this hit piece use some of FOX's internal memos on news direction to justify the claim of bias. They ignore memos that run
counter to their theory._

FOX has issued a challenge. If other major news organizations will release all their internal news direction memos, FNC will release all of its news direction memos.

Then the public can decide which news media is fair and which is not. We have confidence that we will come out just fine if that test is administered.

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,125536,00.html
     
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Jul 13, 2004, 12:22 PM
 
Originally posted by PacHead:
Fox is already coming out strong against these leftist lies and fantasies.

Fox has offered to make public all of their internal memos if their competitors (if you can call them that, since theyre insignificant), will release theirs. Think they will do it ? NOPE, because people will then see who the real liars and propagandists are who distort the news in the most evil ways.

Maybe FOX should start a petition to try and ban/boycott it. Maybe get O'Lielly to sue too. Just for good measure...
     
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Jul 13, 2004, 12:31 PM
 
Originally posted by pman68:
Maybe FOX should start a petition to try and ban/boycott it. Maybe get O'Lielly to sue too. Just for good measure...
Nah, who needs a boycott ? I'm all for free speech. As a matter of fact, the left loonies hate the fact that so many people are switching over to Fox.

Intelligent people can see for themselves what drivel these moveon.org people spew.
     
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Jul 13, 2004, 12:43 PM
 
Originally posted by PacHead:
Nah, who needs a boycott ? I'm all for free speech. As a matter of fact, the left loonies hate the fact that so many people are switching over to Fox.

Intelligent people can see for themselves what drivel these moveon.org people spew.
It's not simply a matter of Fox's obvious right-wing agenda. I don't necessarily have a problem with that. It's that the network seems to parrot that agenda with almost no independent thought at all:

Rather than politics, Fox News offers only lockstep ideology. It does not present arguments; it blends fearmongering and happy talk, rinses in red, white and blue, and pours the mixture down our throats. Instead of challenging its audience, it simultaneously terrifies and comforts them, painting a hostile world constantly in need of good, old-fashioned Republican-style American might. It shows us a busy screen of sound and fury, but devoid of all thought. It's a nonstop thrill ride for the paranoid American body politic, and the public -- at least Murdoch's target audience -- has been as delighted as kids on their first visit to Disney World. Fox News has conquered the TV news landscape so thoroughly that the other networks have remade themselves in its image.
     
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Jul 13, 2004, 12:52 PM
 
Originally posted by itai195:
It's not simply a matter of Fox's obvious right-wing agenda. I don't necessarily have a problem with that. It's that the network seems to parrot that agenda with almost no independent thought at all:
I am not denying that FOX is slightly more to the right than other News shows which are way to the left. There needs to be far more channels like Fox to balance out the extremely left dominated media.

Personally, I get nauseous when watching some of those other channels.
     
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Jul 13, 2004, 01:06 PM
 
Originally posted by itai195:
It's not simply a matter of Fox's obvious right-wing agenda. I don't necessarily have a problem with that. It's that the network seems to parrot that agenda with almost no independent thought at all:
The other news sources are so far left, Fox just looks like it has a right wing agenda.
     
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Jul 13, 2004, 01:13 PM
 
Originally posted by Zimphire:
The other news sources are so far left, Fox just looks like it has a right wing agenda.
Uh... Come on, is Fox's agenda really in question anymore?
     
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Jul 13, 2004, 01:14 PM
 
Originally posted by itai195:
Uh... Come on, is Fox's agenda really in question anymore?
Not to the leftists. They don't question much.
     
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Jul 13, 2004, 01:22 PM
 
Originally posted by Zimphire:
Not to the leftists. They don't question much.
LOL, the irony
     
   
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