FoxNews, or as I call it, RPN for the Republican Propaganda Network, is 90% propaganda but they do have about 10% news and generally that 10% is pretty good.
I used to be a big CNN watcher but the last 15 years have not been good for them. Selling off the network has turned out to be the worst thing that could have happened. CNN has not been able to compete for ratings with Fox (RPN) and it appears they are really hurting for advertising. They seem to have the AnastasiaDate and AsianDate commercials on quite a bit -- anytime a network is resorting to the kind of advertising in the back of Hustler you know they must be hurting. The only thing good I have to say about CNN is that they finally got rid of Piers Morgan.
Face it, we (USA) have terrible news companies and things are only getting worse.
Brian
I used to be a big CNN watcher but the last 15 years have not been good for them. Selling off the network has turned out to be the worst thing that could have happened. CNN has not been able to compete for ratings with Fox (RPN) and it appears they are really hurting for advertising. They seem to have the AnastasiaDate and AsianDate commercials on quite a bit -- anytime a network is resorting to the kind of advertising in the back of Hustler you know they must be hurting. The only thing good I have to say about CNN is that they finally got rid of Piers Morgan.
Face it, we (USA) have terrible news companies and things are only getting worse.
Brian
werepossum
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Agreed, and well said. Unfortunately I'm never home for the 10% and I've lost the ability to stomach the 90%, and that's the same for all of them.
HamburgerBoy
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Aside from the news reporting on events that gain the most interest (gee really?) I didn't hear any good points from him. Who's causing poverty when the mob burns down their own neighborhood? What white men (that he wants out of his city except when convenient) are keeping Baltimore a shithole?
umbrella39
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the amount of hate and ignorance the left has when it comes to fox news now surpasses the KKKs hate of the black man.
you guys pick out a hood color yet?
you guys pick out a hood color yet?
Londo_Jowo
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LMAO!!!!! This has to be in the running for the most stupid post of the year.
The only thing you left out was comparing the liberals to Hitler.
OutHouse
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OP is. but not calling out the other cable networks for doing the exact thing? thats some bullshit right there.
Rakehellion
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trenchfoot
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So let's pretend that FOX "News" was the only game to be found in Cable Town. What then would your excuse be for their blatant misleading and slanted propagandistic style of "reporting the news"?
I don't see anything wrong with a cable news channel being ideologically biased in the political sense. What I do take exception to is FOX's outlandish, over the top bald faced lying and obviously false and misleading commentary. The other cable news channels biases miserably pale in comparison to FOX's chicanery and willingness to deceptively influence their viewers.
Your lumping in all of cable news networks with FOX to lessen and dismiss their despicable use of disingenuous means to further the agenda of the far right and the very rich (who obviously benefit and endorse FOX's unscrupulous propagandizing) is really weak sauce only because of the huge disaparity between the dishonesty and blatant outright falsification of facts that FOX utilizes in comparison with the other channels.
As an example, I'd be more inclined to believe most things that comes out of Rachel Maddow's and Chris Matthew's shows than Glenn Beck's or Hannity's. They're all reporting biased news, it's just that FOX is not content with doing just that. It seems they'd rather take a trip down to the Sunnydale Funny Farm where all those nice young men in their clean white coats get to pick out the prospective show hosts that FOX recruits.
CZroe
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Go on repeating what the others have told you about Fox News Channel until the end of time.So let's pretend that FOX "News" was the only game to be found in Cable Town. What then would your excuse be for their blatant misleading and slanted propagandistic style of "reporting the news"?
I don't see anything wrong with a cable news channel being ideologically biased in the political sense. What I do take exception to is FOX's outlandish, over the top bald faced lying and obviously false and misleading commentary. The other cable news channels biases miserably pale in comparison to FOX's chicanery and willingness to deceptively influence their viewers.
Your lumping in all of cable news networks with FOX to lessen and dismiss their despicable use of disingenuous means to further the agenda of the far right and the very rich (who obviously benefit and endorse FOX's unscrupulous propagandizing) is really weak sauce only because of the huge disaparity between the dishonesty and blatant outright falsification of facts that FOX utilizes in comparison with the other channels.
As an example, I'd be more inclined to believe most things that comes out of Rachel Maddow's and Chris Matthew's shows than Glenn Beck's or Hannity's. They're all reporting biased news, it's just that FOX is not content with doing just that. It seems they'd rather take a trip down to the Sunnydale Funny Farm where all those nice young men in their clean white coats get to pick out the prospective show hosts that FOX recruits.
It's clear you are just repeating things and will continue repeating the same things forever. Glenn Beck hasn't been on Fox for years. Ever wonder what else you've been blinded to by your biases?
ivwshane
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Go on repeating what the others have told you about Fox News Channel until the end of time.
Substitute Glenn beck for any other show on fox and the point still stands. Are you capable of acknowledging his points are do you disagree?
MongGrel
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Hadn't really looked at this thread much but I'me just personally never cared for Geraldo.
I always liked reading reading Kurt Vonnegut in the past, he married his daughter and he didn't like him at all either, for always being a shill more or less.
I do not know if they are still married probably not, it's immaterial, but he has always been one of the biggest bullshit artists out there.
Kurt loathed him way before he ever was on FOX even.
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MongGrel
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I've seen Geraldo express legit opinions, and even sound pretty smart. But he is bought and payed for right now. Even if he disagrees, it is his job not to show it.
I find him distasteful, but hardly as bad as say, hannity.
I find him distasteful, but hardly as bad as say, hannity.
Fox news. Serious journalism. Cnn, msnbc worse? Lmfao! They never hired this guy:
1. Riveras 1986 special broadcast, The Mystery of Al Capones Vaults, was one of the most hyped TV events in history and one of the biggest busts. In the two-hour special, Rivera finally opened the famous gangsters secret vault, but instead of finding Capones money or any bodies, it contained only a couple of empty bottles and dirt. The failed stunt became a pop culture landmark, and Al Capones vault is now synonymous for a heavily hyped event that amounts to absolutely nothing.
2. Rivera was covering the controversial trial of Casey Anthony, a woman suspected of killing her daughter Caylee, when he made headlines of his own in 2011. Referencing a tattoo Anthony got in the weeks after her daughter died that said bella vita, Rivera said on Fox, I think it will end the prosecution case with a bang, so to speak, to show that this was a selfish, narcissistic, self-involved slut.
3. In 2003, Rivera was traveling with the 101st Airborne Division of the U.S. Army in Iraq as a war correspondent for Fox News and ended up making a huge tactical error he drew a map in the sand during a live broadcast pinpointing his exact location and revealing the time and details of an upcoming operation. Although it had been originally thought Rivera would be expelled from the country for giving away sensitive, classified information, a deal was ultimately reached allowing him to leave on his own.
4. That wasnt the first time Rivera caused a commotion on the battlefield in Afghanistan in 2001, he described on air an incident of friendly fire, claiming he had been on the scene. Rivera said he walked over what I consider hallowed ground today and had said the Lords Prayer on the land where three Americans soldiers had died the previous day. But the Baltimore Sun later reported that Rivera was actually 300 miles from the site he described. Rivera blamed his mistake on the fog of war and said he had confused the event near Kandahar with one where he actually was in Tora Bora but the Tora Bora incident occurred three days after Riveras report.
5. In 2005, Rivera traveled to New Orleans to cover the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. But he made headlines after a New York Times report alleged he had nudged an Air Force rescue worker out of the way so he could be filmed helping lift an older woman in a wheelchair to safety a charge Rivera vigorously denied. The Times did not publish a correction, but later added a note saying, The Times acknowledges that no nudge was visible on the broadcast.
.... And am just old but no one remembers a backward swastika?
1. Riveras 1986 special broadcast, The Mystery of Al Capones Vaults, was one of the most hyped TV events in history and one of the biggest busts. In the two-hour special, Rivera finally opened the famous gangsters secret vault, but instead of finding Capones money or any bodies, it contained only a couple of empty bottles and dirt. The failed stunt became a pop culture landmark, and Al Capones vault is now synonymous for a heavily hyped event that amounts to absolutely nothing.
2. Rivera was covering the controversial trial of Casey Anthony, a woman suspected of killing her daughter Caylee, when he made headlines of his own in 2011. Referencing a tattoo Anthony got in the weeks after her daughter died that said bella vita, Rivera said on Fox, I think it will end the prosecution case with a bang, so to speak, to show that this was a selfish, narcissistic, self-involved slut.
3. In 2003, Rivera was traveling with the 101st Airborne Division of the U.S. Army in Iraq as a war correspondent for Fox News and ended up making a huge tactical error he drew a map in the sand during a live broadcast pinpointing his exact location and revealing the time and details of an upcoming operation. Although it had been originally thought Rivera would be expelled from the country for giving away sensitive, classified information, a deal was ultimately reached allowing him to leave on his own.
4. That wasnt the first time Rivera caused a commotion on the battlefield in Afghanistan in 2001, he described on air an incident of friendly fire, claiming he had been on the scene. Rivera said he walked over what I consider hallowed ground today and had said the Lords Prayer on the land where three Americans soldiers had died the previous day. But the Baltimore Sun later reported that Rivera was actually 300 miles from the site he described. Rivera blamed his mistake on the fog of war and said he had confused the event near Kandahar with one where he actually was in Tora Bora but the Tora Bora incident occurred three days after Riveras report.
5. In 2005, Rivera traveled to New Orleans to cover the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. But he made headlines after a New York Times report alleged he had nudged an Air Force rescue worker out of the way so he could be filmed helping lift an older woman in a wheelchair to safety a charge Rivera vigorously denied. The Times did not publish a correction, but later added a note saying, The Times acknowledges that no nudge was visible on the broadcast.
.... And am just old but no one remembers a backward swastika?
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Thebobo
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CZroe
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Yes. And I'm glad they have the good sense to distance themselves from him. I do stand corrected, though, good sir. I did misspeak.
It was a bad call to give him any work after repeatedly showing a lack of journalistic integrity. But hey, it's all entertainment, right?
pcgeek11
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Hannity, Oreilly, Kelly for examples are Not News Shows. They are opinion commentators which are quite a different animal.
Fox does have good News programming such as Special Report with Bret Baier, Americas Newsroom, and Shepard Smith Reporting.
Lots of the complainers I see are mixing the two together.
Fox does have good News programming such as Special Report with Bret Baier, Americas Newsroom, and Shepard Smith Reporting.
Lots of the complainers I see are mixing the two together.
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