Look over carefully the fellow who is trying to sell you his way of life and make sure his way is as good as your own.

That is why the MSM is losing viewer and readership. People are tired of being sold their snake oil.

CNN's once dominant credibility ratings have slumped in recent years, mostly among Republicans and independents. By comparison, the Fox News Channel's believability ratings have remained steady both overall and within partisan groups. Nonetheless, among those able to rate the networks, more continue to say they can believe all or most of what they hear on CNN than say that about Fox News Channel (32% vs. 25%).

Scott McClellan, former White House Press Secretary (2003-2006) for President George W. Bush stated on the July 25, 2008 edition of Hardball with Chris Matthews that the Bush White House routinely gave talking points to some Fox News hosts in order to influence discourse and content. Though it is not uncommon for White House officials to provide press releases to the media, McClellan stated that these talking points were not issued to provide the public with news, they were to provide Fox News commentators—not journalists—with issues and perspectives favorable to the White House and Republican Party.

You really need to study the topic you wish to discuss or debate. In the UK they have laws that prohibit the news from doing anything more than reporting the facts, the presenter is not allowed to comment in any way or it is biased and can be fined under their laws. With that said when Fox News and American based News organization broadcasted the war they rooted for America to win. This might have violated UK laws. This does not mean that Fox News is biased in their reporting of the news, it means that rooting for your country to win the war is not considered a good thing in the UK.

The reason Fox News was so highly acclaimed was the fact that for once in recent history a news organization was showing the upside of our troops rather than finding a cloud of suspicion and doubt to counter balance any good news. The reports of bad things were reported but equally so were the good things the troops did.



The English translation is if we allow Mr. Murdoch to do to BBC what he did to CNN people will not watch us any more and we can’t compete with the truth without a left lean. CNN is a left leaning biased network and it is not being challenged in the UK but Fox New is. This is how people avoid competition. This is why we got rid of the fairness doctrine in the US and the UK has not.

I guess the UK doesn't air CNN's sister channel where extreme righty Glenn Beck is king.

Mr. Beck, if that is his real name, is not even a republican he is a conservative. How do you justify your claim?

Which all goes to prove my point. Fox is number 1, not for growing viewership, bue due to declines on the other networks. People (mostly non-viewers I suspect) rate CNN higher, but neither gets a good mark. People dont trust them to be honest. Why? Their bias has been exposed and yet they continue to deny it. When someone catches you in a lie, they are a lot less likely to believe you. The MSM has been lying a long time.

Why is talk radio so popular? They state up front they are biased! So people trust them to give a biased view of the news. And they get what they expect.



Actually he claims to be a libertarian, if that is his real persuasion.

Contempt prior to examination is the major weakness of most thinking.

If you don’t know, have the courage to admit it and you will be well on the road toward learning.

A prudent individual knows that it is futile to resist change.

But Don Quixote was more about human nature than one man.

Do you wish to elucidate on this statement?



Okay, I fail to see the relevance could you please communicate in a way that does not make it seem as if you have lost touch with the topic?



I also fail to see the relevance here. Fox News Channel is changing the way news is reported yet you are against this change. Did I misunderstand what you wrote or is this a liberal way of gracefully bowing out of the discussion?

Well, if you have contempt for someone or something, you have a tendency to disregard the truth and are more willing to lean toward bias opinions and propaganda.

Oh, come now! Conservatives vote Republican despite their disappointment over Bush and MAC.

Thanks, now I know why I can't stand O'Reilly and Beck.