Originally posted by sh76
It's funny when people who would never turn on Fox News scream about how "dishonest" it is.
Specifically to ensure that hear from all sides, I split my cable news watching as equally as possible between MSNBC, Fox and CNN and I don't think Fox is, on the whole, any more biased than MSNBC. Less so, probably.
Two years ago I shared a home with a person who had fox news running 24/7. Because we live in Australia there's also a lot of local content, but we got the stars like Bill O the Clown, Steve Doocy and Gretchen, Hannity and Coombs and Glenn Beck. I know some have moved on, but don't talk to me about fair and balanced and no spin zones.
Let me just say that the stacking of panelists in any debate was so one sided, the voices on the left, the ones truly representative of leftist politics were never invited on to speak, and basically any public funded enterprise run by government for the benefit for the people was under constant attack, all the while drumming up support for and actively promoting privatization as the only solution to public problems in all the news commentary.
So to not see Fox as the right arm/promotional arm of your local right wing party is to miss a lot. And the most annoying thing? Only the right is patriotic. Only the right really cares for the health and well-being of the nation.Yet that sense of stewardship would never extend to promoting care for the environment or care for the weak or downtrodden. No way, you and the planet are on your own bud.