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^^O'Reilly is such a witless twit. I can't tell what's worse, his attempts to be funny or his inability to be even slightly creative in his insults toward Jon Stewart. I can't wait to watch the second half tonight.
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I watch FoxNews because I can't stand the liberal bias found elsewhere. Not saying Fox is the golden standard of unbiased news reporting, no the conservative slant is obviously their modus operandi. Fox is catering to a market the mainstream outlets have forgotten or decided to ignore alltogether. Just look around the networks, they're all running the same viewpoints with heavy doses of liberal philosphy. MSNBC, CNN, and the rest carry the same content and opinions that most people have decided to tune out from their broadcast. Now Fox has it share of characters that I cannot stand starting with the tool named Oreilly who I simply detest and cannot wait until his show is canned. The only person I really care to watch is Sean Hannity who I think is their best TV personality. He is a true conservative and can articulate our viewpoints like very few can. As Mark Levin calls them, the rest of the nuts on Fox are "back benchers".
I don't watch FoxNews because I cannot stand the conservative bias. You can't complain about biased networks if you watch a biased network yourself. Fact is, every network can be claimed as bias, so that shouldn't be any sort of argument used to not watch a particular network. Unless, of course, you are biased yourself (which you obviously are) and only want to hear the viewpoint you support. The ideal for a moderate would be a blend of both. Occasionally I'll watch CNN, but after the State of the Union, I actually watched FoxNews to see their response to it because I was curious. I watched the Republican response because I was curious. I hate bias, but I realize it exists and will seek it out in order to see differing viewpoints. That being said, the blathering crap that spews from the likes of Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity are a complete waste of my time. I can take some bias, but I cannot take completely narrow, false viewpoints.
I don't understand this, you say you hate bias but admit seeking it out. The only reason it's blathering crap to you is because of your bias towards them and the fact that they don't play for your team.
Personally, I think that 24 hour network news (not Faux, not CNN, not MSNBC, the whole bloody mess of them) has ruined journalism and as a result I won't watch any of that garbage. I highly encourage people to read their news from several different sources so that they can come to a reasonable conclusion based on facts, not the blatherings of some biased, opiniony "news" personality.
If you want to see another point of view, you have to seek out biased opinions. Period. Just so you know, there are plenty of people out there who think Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity or idiots but aren't liberal. I know, it's a difficult concept to grasp.
No, actually the concept is easy to understand. It's like Matthews, Olbermann and Maddow. I always find myself tuning in for a different perspective followed by the urge to shoot the TV.
I tune in to the ones you mention exactly as often as Beck, Hannity, and O'Reilly. As a result, I don't ever feel like shooting my TV (OK, not true, there have been a few times during American Idol) and I am far more informed on the facts than most viewers of those programs.
Really....................Man there is really no hope for this country. Actually, If they would just show the final eight or something, I would dig it.
I never said I was looking for the mythical unicorn known as "unbiased news". It simply doesn't exist in the media conglomerate era. So what I look for in Fox is the minority opinion that the other 5 major networks do not express. Watching all the liberal drones regugitating the same agenda over 5 different networks, makes me want to shoot my TV. Again I don't believe fair or unbiased news exist in today's media world. The only question is, if your going to watch news then which of the biased viewpoints would you rather watch? To me it's an easy choice, I watch the stuff the mainstream is unwilling to show. Just watch Hannity for an hour then look at Matthews, Olbermann, Maddow, Cooper, Blitzer, Leibowitz etc... For every conservative TV host, there are 5 liberals doing the same on the rest of the networks. Yet the still can't get their ratings to match that of the conservative. Half of names I mentioned above are hack pundits from the now defunct Air America. Even Radio paints the same picture, Limbaugh, Hannity, Levin and Beck hold 80% of the market share. So now the real question is why do a record number of Americans tune into conservative media? You can keep labeling them as misinformed angry right wing extremist but the fact still remains that millions of them prefer to litsen to the conservative viewpoint rather than the mainstream liberal bias.
Mathematics, if we assume what you say is true. Say half the country is conservative and half is liberal. There are 5 liberally biased news organizations, and 1 conservatively biased one. So, 50% of the population will watch the conservative channel, and 10% will watch each liberal channel. That gives the conservative channel the highest ratings by far. The math isn't that easy, but it offers insight into why FoxNews' ratings are higher: because they offer an unique form of bias that no one else offers. It's not because the majority of America is conservative, but because those that are conservative only have one place to turn to unlike liberals who, according to you, have many places to turn to. I fundamentally disagree with the extreme liberal bias you appear to see in organizations like CNN, however. It's not nearly the extreme you see in opinion pieces on Fox. CNN may be left of center, but they're not far left of center as Fox is far right. Why is it a conservative viewpoint but liberal bias? They're both biased, so please use equalizing semantics if you want your argument to have some modicum of validity. Thanks is advance.
Yes, why? Because that's all I quoted? I don't see value in quoting entire posts, sorry, it just wastes space. Otherwise, why do you think that?
Because your post went off about stuff that he covered in his own post. Had you read further from what you just quoted, you wouldda realized that
