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CW2 Jonathan K, in response to 1SG McKeown's Fox viewership assertion you translate that to "money behind them". That raises my curiosity. I think of it as money in front of them. They sell a product that people like. Viewers watch Fox, advertisers pay based on audience size, therefore Fox makes money.
Your subtle switch to money behind infers that they have a large audience because they have a lot of money. Would a lot of money make people talking any more interesting? Are you saying that the high salaries allow them to hire hosts that are more entertaining, engaging, or seductive? Didn't the other networks have an earlier start than Fox and bigger wallets before years of lower ratings? I don't understand your logic. Please clarify.
Fox also brings in a LOT of cash from their advertisers. Their opinion shows draw the largest share of the marketplace so that makes perfect sense.
Yes, the other networks got a head start on Fox, but Fox had a great business plan. They hired some foxy women (Pun intended) to host programming even though most of them weren't qualified. That certainly paid off in the end. They also threw a LOT of cash into production and drew in a lot of people because of their news ticker and graphics. There is a lot of work that goes into those two things on the screen and there's a reason for that. It captivates the audience and continues to reengage them. This all costs money. The other news channels had minimal graphics and mostly stock tickers at the time. Fox took that and turned it into a media product, which engaged their core demographic: Baby Boomer Conservatives. That's a huge market to exploit, and Fox does a good job of it.
There are several documentaries about the shenanigans at Fox albeit they are mostly focused on lies and intimidation. Regardless, they also point out the production machine that drives Fox and it's pretty interesting if you are interested in studying/working in marketing.
With that being said, today most US News Media is bias one way or another. I do watch FOX, CNN and use BBC to put all the pieces together to try and figure out the REAL NEWS. Though FOX is geared to be more conservative I have to say they report on things that effect the everyday American and the Military more so than most other US News Networks. ABC has been trying to get back to it's roots on delivering REAL NEWS but they still have a ways to go.
So to answer the question, NO, FOX News is not dangerous! What is dangerous is Americans are not getting REAL NEWS.
As for your global warming/climate change statements, I suggest you look into the past. We are heading for a ICE AGE, the heat comes first to help distribute moisture across the globe then comes the cold. The world has been here along time and has run this cycle several times.
CPT K, I believe that all networks slant the political views to there audience I don't think it matters which political party they represent. And for MSNBC to be less slanted then FOX is absurd. But you are a liberal.
OK Jerry is going to get on his soapbox now!
I don't really look at life the same way as most I guess, or go about it the same way you do, apparently!
I think really everyone should be morally guided by there inner self. but we have a problem there because everyone is biased in someone towards one thing or another so we need to start with a common ground somewhere, Ours is this platform the Military site Rally Point!
You can take beliefs and customs from other people to help you guide yourself through the difficulty's in your life or when you really don't have a clue which way to go. But most people are baised because or their up bringing. What was passed down to them from there parents and grandparents. This is where people decide in life who is good and bad and why they are believed to be that way! Meaning a religious person instance or (Christians) would say they dislike gays because in the bible it says they are suppose to hate them, but we are suppose to love everyone for who they are and where they come from (right)!
Also a sore subject: Abortion is bad because you are killing a baby (right), instead of looking why there doing it, its really none of anyone else's business, except nosey self righteous people who think they are better then everyone else. So lets destroy any hope of a young couple having a good life for themselves because they have to bring a unwanted or unplanned baby into their life. Life is hard enough without all the pressures throw upon you at a very early age! What's right for one person is not right for others. They should seek the help they need and get educated on their decisions and in the end they have to live with it what they've done through the rest of eternity not you. The world is over populated anyway, and people are starving to death because of this belief which is more humane for a babe to find its death before its first breath or to die from disease or starvation. It's a matter of perspective of course and who's eyes you are looking through. I'm not a women and I sure don't think I should telling any women who is destitute or not she should keep a baby she can not afford not to say able to feed. But we would rather put another baby out there too, so someone else can support it and feed it. What happened to the community's that raised are kids, now its gangs and drugs raising them.
Liberals make me sick and so do conservatives.
Where are the real compassionate people who really care about what is going on in our country and want to do something to make it better. I'm neither a Conservative or Liberal, I take my stand for what I think is best for the people or me. I go off of what I care most about for my family and friends. I think everyone should have a work ethic, I don't believe in handouts from the government, if you give to your country, your community, your state, with service or time you deserve to get back something the people who you helped retain the freedom, if you did not serve and you do not have a job, then you need to rely on the goodness of other people's hearts or compassion not from the government, or from communities and social media groups, churches food banks and shelters! but not from our federal or state government. I believe in the constitution and we all should stand by it and preserve it, not destroy it. It's what we all have fought for past and present future to come, I hope! I believe free choice. I believe in Darwinism, the strongest should survive, but I believe in helping mankind redeem itself, not the continued disgrace of depending on someone else to provide for them. Everyone is down in the dumps at some time in there life but living on welfare and subsidies their whole life is something else entirely. I believe in the right to protect ourselves and family and friends. I can't help you weren't raised around guns and the scare you so you don't want other US citizens to have them. Religion should never come up in politics and should never be forced a pond anyone and taken away from anyone either. There is no reason in public school there can't be a place for both 15 minutes set a side for this before school starts or something.
I could go on and on but I will save it for another time!
Media habits of liberals, conservatives: 'different worlds'
Ever wonder why your avowed-conservative brother or fervently-liberal aunt can't even seem to agree on the facts? Here's an answer.
New poll showing everyone lies. Fox is on the bottom of the truth-telling tree.
Fact-Checking Site Finds Fox News Only Tells the Truth 18 Percent of the Time
While MSNBC's numbers aren't exactly worth bragging about, they're still far better than the "fair and balanced" Fox News.
It's a fact-check site. Something is either true or it isn't. I only added the link to this thread since it was relevant, but if you read through all of the comments, you will see that we covered the validity of cable news channels pretty extensively. By the end of it, I was feeling nostalgic for the old-style Ron Burgundy news... But more in the Walter Cronkite area.
Fact-checking U.S. politics | PolitiFact
Fact-checking U.S. politics
How do you know PolitiFact is biased?
Through a variety of factors. Journalists tend to lean ideologically left. The St. Petersburg Tampa Bay Times, which started PolitiFact in conjunction with the Congressional Quarterly, is a traditionally liberal paper. We note that PolitiFact's stories appear to damage Republicans far more often than Democrats despite the fact that PF tends to choose about as many stories dealing with Republicans as for Democrats. If the selection process was blind then either proportions should be approximately even or else the party with worse ratings should receive more ratings overall according to what PolitiFact lists as its selection criteria. Plus our independent research helps confirm the hypothesis.
You admit that sometimes PolitiFact is unfair to Democrats. Doesn't that mean PolitiFact isn't biased?
No, it doesn't mean that at all, or at least it proves nothing of the kind. Ideological bias at PolitiFact is most likely expressed via a preponderance of unfair harm hitting Republicans rather than Democrats. If 95 out of 100 Democrat stories harm Democrats and 100 out of 100 Republican stories harm Republicans then that indicates a bias against Republicans, albeit a relatively insignificant bias. We think the liberal bias is far more pervasive than that, touching selection bias as well as ideological spin.
And finally, their explanation on how the bias is interjected...
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