Fox News

KillerGremlin · 10-20-2009, 06:41 AM

I want to clarify, I don't blame the people at NBC or FOX for doing what they do. In fact I see the news from time to time as I channel surf or as the roommate or GF watch it. I just don't go out of my way to watch it unless I am napping or am bored or am catching Sports/The Weather.

My issues is when people align their TV watching with their political beliefs. If you are a Republican that doesn't mean you can only watch FOX or that you need to believe or support everything that comes from FOX. In fact, I would hope that most intelligent people (Republic/Democrat/Independent/Whatever) would realize that no single party can possibly represent all their beliefs! Likewise, no single news source or news personality could possibly be an accurate representation of what you believe in. Heck, I think Bill O'Reilly is batshit insane but I still agree with him from time to time. The news shouldn't have to be objective, the viewer should.

Professor S · 10-20-2009, 12:37 PM

In the end, I think if you rely on only one news source you do yourself a disservice. In the end we are al responsible for our own education and knowledge creation.

Journalism as it is traditionally defined has long since died. Now it's up to us to define what is or is not true.

Typhoid · 10-20-2009, 06:47 PM

News nowadays (At least in the USA for the mostpart) is highly, highly objective, as it depends on who owns the company, and how well the ratings are doing. It's not about news anymore, it's about money.

BreakABone · 10-20-2009, 08:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Typhoid

News nowadays (At least in the USA for the mostpart) is highly, highly objective, as it depends on who owns the company, and how well the ratings are doing. It's not about news anymore, it's about money.

Wouldn't that mean its subjective?

Typhoid · 10-20-2009, 11:13 PM

I'm on painkillers, cut me some slack.

Professor S · 10-21-2009, 01:30 PM

One interesting thing I've observed:

No one really voted on the MSNBC poll citing that they don't watch it enough to tell... yet there are a decent amount of votes on the FoxNews poll and almost all are for the negative option. So do we have a large group of dedicated FoxNews viewers, who have a predominantly negative view of the channel, in Gametavern? Really?

Or are some of us just going along for the ride...

Vampyr · 10-21-2009, 01:34 PM

I had a roommate a couple of semesters ago who had it on every morning/evening.

I would like to mention, though, that my local Fox News channel is very unbiased.

Typhoid · 10-21-2009, 06:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Professor S

No one really voted on the MSNBC poll citing that they don't watch it enough to tell... yet there are a decent amount of votes on the FoxNews poll and almost all are for the negative option. So do we have a large group of dedicated FoxNews viewers, who have a predominantly negative view of the channel, in Gametavern? Really?

I think you're looking too much into it.
I don't watch Fox News, yet I know that it is biased towards the conservative side - heavily biased.

Yet I know very little about MSNBC, largely because nobody complains regularly about its motives and blatant biased reports.

I'd assume its much of the same. People who voted against don't watch it, they just don't like it.

TheGame · 10-22-2009, 10:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Professor S

So do we have a large group of dedicated FoxNews viewers, who have a predominantly negative view of the channel, in Gametavern? Really?

Haha, the poll didn't asked if they are "dedicated FoXNews viewers", it just asked if Fox has a bias. Fox and MSNBC aren't the only news outlets.

I think youtube is riddled with clips from Fox News since they're opinion shows get so crazy, and go against what most of america believes, and their news shows are so painfully bias that its funny to look at. While MSNBC is a real news outlet and it's not interesting enough to mock on youtube as much.

I guess they're the outlet people love to hate.