Your taking the one show Fox and Friends and lumping it in with all of the other Fox shows.
Well, no, I'm really not. I was talking about Fox and Friends, but it's certainly easy enough to lump them altogether, since all of the shows come from the same marching orders. They are all, more or less, the same.
Yes they are clearly a commentary/news show. I mean people aren't robots. They have opinions.
Nothing wrong with that, except they try and pass themselves off as impartial journalists, which they are not.
If you just want hard news watch Special Report with Brett Bair first half hour. All news. Just the facts. No opinions.Robot like.
Oh, you need to watch his show a little more closely, and with a careful eye and ear. While the first half hour of Brett Bair's show contains more news than commentary, and while it is certainly robot-like, it's hardly free from commentary. It has loads of it.
Regarding the opposing viewpoints. Yes they do. They might not have them on at the same time,but they will have one person with a point of view and then will have the other person maybe a half hour later. I watch the shows and I've seen it done over and over. They have opposing view points on EVERY show.
Remember Hank Williams Jr? They never had an opposing viewpoint on ANY show. That interview was set up and designed to bash Obama, even though the story was Williams being removed from the Monday Night Football opening because of his remarks. Not only was the whole thing set up to deflect from the real issue, they failed to have an opposing viewpoint on either issue, the real one or the deflection.
On the FIVE show they have Bob Beckel giving the liberal viewpoint on every show. Even on the strictly opinion shows like Hannity he ALWAYS has a liberal on his panel giving their viewpoint on every show. Oreilly the same. Your claim that Fox News rarely gives opposing viewpoints is just not accurate.We'll just have to disagree on that point.
We'll have to disagree on what exactly is an opposing viewpoint. More often than not when an opposing viewpoint is shown on Fox, it's not to show an opposing viewpoint in order to give their viewers both side of the story, but rather the opposing viewpoint is more akin to a Christian being fed to lions. the opposing viewpoint is presented solely as fodder for discussion, usually about how wrong or absurd the opposing viewpoint is in the first place.
About your assertion that the interviewer becomes combative. In a way isn't that a good thing?
In almost all cases, no, it's an extraordinarily bad thing. You have someone (the interviewer) actually taking sides against someone they are interviewing. That's not journalism. The only time is becomes journalism is when the interviewer becomes combative towards someone who has done something wrong and refuses to admit to it, and the interviewer is trying to extract more facts. During a political interview, being combative is become part of the story, which should never happen with a reporter. Ever.
You have guests come on that are mouthpieces for one party or the other and they just give answers from some talking points memo. I like it that they try to cut through the bull and get to the NEWS.
I could get on board with that if they even attempted once in a while to cut through the bull of a right-wing mouthpiece, but they never do. And they don't because they are also part of that mouthpiece. They have their marching orders straight from the top, and it's no secret what those orders are.
They might give the right wing version of news,but it is INCLUDED along with the left wing version. The difference is they are the only ones that do that on a consistent basis.
No, no, no. Watch them more closely and with a jaundiced skeptical eye and you'll see it. Pretend they aren't Fox News and pretend you don't already buy into the crap they're shoveling, pretend you are going to grade them on Fair and Balanced without you yourself taking a position one way or the other on the content. Pretend you are not left or right, but clueless of which is which, and that they are not pandering to guttural and reptilian instincts. Pretend you don't agree or disagree with anything they say. Just watch and listen, and you'll see it.
MSNBC,CNN,ABC,CBS,NBC,PBS. give the left wing view and give the right wing view occasionally. You can see that Fox is outnumbered.
You're giving the networks named above far more credit than they deserve. They give the left win version of the news, and give the right wing view rarely, virtually never. And on the rare occasion they do, it's for the purpose of making the right wing position look bad, wrong or flat out stupid. It's fodder for liberal commentary, to be used as talking points for liberal views. It's the exact opposite of Fox News, where the same thing is done in reverse. You think it happen more fairly and more balanced, but that's because they keep pounding that mantra into your head to the point where you actually start believing it.
By the way I view Fox News as a source. I don't view them as the final distillation,but they are by far the most accurate in their news.
Then you are, sadly I fear, broken. They are precisely as accurate in their news reporting as the other networks you named above. The only difference is you agree with Fox's point of view, but that doesn't make them more accurate. It simply makes them more agreeable.
I watch Fox News rarely anymore, but occasionally, as a news source, but in the same way I watch the others rarely, but occasionally. To see what they are saying, contrast and compare, use other resources, filter for the Five Ws, and then make up my own mind. I implore you top not regard Fox News, or any other mainstream media as trusted or accurate, because they are all biased and agenda driven. Even if the agenda is the same as yours.
