DeeJayH
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dont know about these logical fallacies, and i usually do not watch Fox SundayBigDog said:Sure, see Brit Hume any time. On Fox Sunday he repeated commits two logical fallacies that he knows are false (he has to he is educated). He does this because he knows it plays to his intended audience and he wants viewers. Any intelligent viewer knows there is no way to spin anything if you listen carefully. How many died today in Iraq is a number, no spin required. Only the ability to add. But Fox viewers want someone to tell them something good. So, Fox reports the number, as all do, but provides something to feel good, like putting the war to music. Really quite sad for anyone who likes hard news to watch.
Willoughby said:Just to throw my 2 cents in here.....
I believe that most of the news networks are biased in the states. Fox is biased towards the right and CNN towards the left. I just get more annoyed about it when i watch fox because i am to the left. In the UK we get the biggest audience for terrestial TV stations and we are pretty sorted as we have right leaning news from ITV and left leaning news from Channel 4. That leaves the BBC who are a high reputation for balanced reporting. They cover the news not opinion. Its the perfect situation. Your right leaning man and go home and watch ITV and your left leaning man can go home and watch Channel 4. Or thye can both go to the BBC and get the facts....
I can't say i have ever noticed it but that doesn't mean that it isn't there...would you admit that the BBC is anti-american in its slant tho?
which means it is not exactly "just the facts ma'am"
I don't really watch sky..its seems to be in the vaguely right wing-popularist section of the media along with the Sun newspaper (also murdoch)and what about skynews, since it is FoxNews sister station?
BigDog said:No they don't.
First Matthews isn't on Fox.
2nd, Colmes is a sidekick
and not representative of the other side.
In fact, he is there just to make Hannity look stronger than he is.
SouthernDemocrat said:I have no fear of Fox News at all. I am only saying that they cater to social conservatives and social conservatives have an affinity for wedge issues. For example:
How many nights during the last Christmas season did O'Reilly and Hannity devote much of their shows to the supposed "Liberal war on Christmas"?
Basically the contentation was that the evil liberals want to destroy Christmas. What is that if its not hatemongering?
How about all there focus on "Femi-nazis" or "Enviro-nazis".
What other network blatantly demonizes the right to the extent that Fox New's talking heads blatantly demonize the left?
Does Larry King get on his show every night and call conservatives fascists?
There is simply no comparison anywhere in network news. My problem with Fox News is that they claim to be balanced. If they would just come out and say they were a conservative news network, then I would have no problem with them at all.
Stinger said:MSNBC, CBS, ABC, et al. Give me an example of the NEWS demonizing the left..
would you admit that the BBC is anti-american in its slant tho?
which means it is not exactly "just the facts ma'am"
and what about skynews, since it is FoxNews sister station?
I don't really watch sky..its seems to be in the vaguely right wing-popularist section of the media along with the Sun newspaper (also murdoch)
I suppose that is if you count blair as left or right...No Sky News is behind Blair for the most part and tones down any "scandal" he is involved in as much as they legally can without being smacked with a warning from the regulators. Its rare they are critical of Blair or his policies but it does happen. Hence they are not right wing, they are behind the people in power.
::Major_Baker:: said:
DeeJayH said:dont know about these logical fallacies, and i usually do not watch Fox Sunday
however, you may be able to collect on a $10,000 bounty
for years, Neal Boortz has a bounty out for anyone who can find a spin or bias in Brit Hume's reporting during Special Report, weeknights 6pm ET and and again at 12am ET.
not the round table discussions, but his reporting in the beginning of the show.
I expect a finders fee, if you are able to collect, normal 10% cut will suffice
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