Rupert Murdoch launched Fox News with the expressed idea of finding a niche in the US media market that would be competitive with the established media giants. His most immediate background was in the U.K. where he launched SKY News to compete against the British government's monopoly called the BBC. He was very successful there.
In the U.S. market the Democrats had controlled both Houses of Congress and the Presidency when Fox News was first being formed. That, along with the very Leftist tilt of the American media was tantamount to a government run monopoly on news reporting. The 1994 midterm elections changed that and then just a bit later Fox News went live.
The primary faces on FNC are deliberately intended to "lean right." That's been Fox's strategy all along. Murdoch and Roger Ailes are going for the audience that is turned off by all of the liberal media's rants. The fact that this in turn appears to be the largest segment of the audience, well... that just shows where America is really at politically.
Even with the fact they are in fewer homes than CNN and MSNBC (see PO's post above, for example), Fox still overwhelmingly beats their competitors like a drum.
I say "kudos" to Murdoch and Ailes. They saw an opportunity to compete against what was essentially a fascist* monopoly and they have done so successfully.
*Fascism: a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.
PO, with FoxNews becoming the GOP retirement center, do you still subscribe to the view that they are neutral, fair, and balanced and not as slanted as the other outlets?
Did you feel the same when Stephanopoulos (sp? aww, who cares?) went to ABC and from there to GMA?
Did you feel the same when Stephanopoulos (sp? aww, who cares?) went to ABC and from there to GMA?
Without Fox News these voices would not be heard.
THEY are the balance.
I can buy that. What I do find incredible is when people act like they are the one news outlet without bias and that they themselves are neutral, fair and balanced.
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PO, with FoxNews becoming the GOP retirement center, do you still subscribe to the view that they are neutral, fair, and balanced and not as slanted as the other outlets?
What do you mean by retirement center?
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Where wanna be GOP's go when they can't make it anymore running for office.
Precisely.
I don't knock them for going to make a buck...just don't try to convince me that the network is without slant and bias. Now, if your position is that their slant and bias aligns with your own, then I can accept and respect that.
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There are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Chuck Norris lives in Houston.
Either the United States will destroy ignorance, or ignorance will destroy the United States. – W.E.B. DuBois
I do find their news coverage to be without bias, commentators not so much.
Which of their shows are news and which are commentary? And I would also ask the same of the other outlets. I would say given this, that Olberman, for example, is certainly commentary so he shouldn't be talked about so much by the right.
Personally, I prefer to look at the networks in their entirety when discussing slants and agendas...and they all seem to have them.
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There are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Chuck Norris lives in Houston.
Either the United States will destroy ignorance, or ignorance will destroy the United States. – W.E.B. DuBois
In signing this multi-year deal ... her political career becomes a footnote.
THANK YOU, JESUS, FOR SAVING OUR NATION.
Now the hate talk show junkies can ingest her hokeyness intravenously via FOX.
Then I guess you are praying for the demise of this administration? If this nation needs saving, it needs saved from the guy on Pennsylvania Avenue and the Congress who are trying to turn this nation inside out. America needs rescued from Sarah Palin? That's like squishing a fire ant because it might sting one of the kids while a boa constrictor is swallowing your child.
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