Good to see Fox News Reporting Real News

[Bond]

Wow:

[The Germanator]

Since when did Fox ever report real news?

Zing!

[gekko]

Good for them. I'd rather read about that than the Presidential race.

[GameMaster]

Originally Posted by gekko

Good for them. I'd rather read about that than the Presidential race.

Seconded.

Between the TV, radio, and online news, I feel like I'm drowning in that mind-numbing shit 24 hours a day.

[Professor S]

I have quite literally stopped watching Fox News or reading their webpage. When they first came out they were a breath of fresh air, giving an right skewed alternative view of political news stories to counter the left skewed stories on CNN, MSNBC, etc. And honestly, if you think that any cable or print news source isn't severely biased, you're just precious and need to have your cheek pinched ASAP. I actually praised Fox early for at least being OPENLY biased instead of feigning being straight news like the other major channells.

The idea wasn't that they were "Fair and Balanced", but they balanced the rest of the media's unfairness.

They also concentrated on reporting (skewed or not), commentary and live news reports, while I found CNN to do more in the way of magazine style op-ed pieces filled with manipulative back ground music and zero discussion. Don't even get me started on the "Situation Room" that makes a Britney freakout look like the Cuba Missile Crisis and the rediculous YouTube debates.

Now Fox has followed more in the lines of TMZ than the Wall Street Journal, giving ours of news over to the love lives of vapid pseudo-celebrities and Comso cover page stories. I've abandoned them almost altogether except for rare heavy-news occassions where they have no opportunity to fluff it up. When they want to, they still do a better job of breaking real news than any other channell.

Fan News' influence can't be denied though, as both MSNBC and CNN have taken steps, baby as they might be, away from the left with Blitzer feeling free to ask tougher questions of liberal media darlings like Michael Moore and giving Glenn Beck his own show and MSNBC being a little more fair.

The best bet is to be the master of your own information. If you see one station or news source giving you "news" you are especially interested in, check the other stations for other takes on it, and then Google it to try and find anything that is slipping through the cracks. To trust one source for all your news is both lazy and invites ignorance.

[Dyne]

Did you know the first official "Fox News Alert" was something to do with Jennifer Lopez or Jessica Simpson? I can't remember which one, but that disgusted me. It was on a documentary on FOX news and the pressure they receive from higher-ups on what to report.