FOX News

[JerrySeinfeld]

In a recent UCLA study of 20 major media companies for potential bias, 18 scored left of center and only two (Fox news and the Washington Times) scored right of center.

And when you hear lefties bitching about FOX news, it's obvious they're looking to discredit the lone voice of reason to completely control the media outright. They're looking for the clean sweep.

FOX news is a shining star. Why can't we get it in Canada?

[Riverwind]

In a recent UCLA study of 20 major media companies for potential bias, 18 scored left of center and only two (Fox news and the Washington Times) scored right of center.

Groseclose and Milyo based their research on a standard gauge of a lawmaker's support for liberal causes. Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) tracks the percentage of times that each lawmaker votes on the liberal side of an issue. Based on these votes, the ADA assigns a numerical score to each lawmaker, where "100" is the most liberal and "0" is the most conservative. After adjustments to compensate for disproportionate representation that the Senate gives to low‑population states and the lack of representation for the District of Columbia, the average ADA score in Congress (50.1) was assumed to represent the political position of the average U.S. voter.

Translation: this study used the average political opinions of a republican dominated senate and house to determine where the 'center' was. It should come as no surprise that their definition of 'center' is probably well to the right of what most people would consider to be the 'center'.

A more accurate study would have calculated the 'political center' based on direct poll data instead of trying to infer the political opinion of the average American from the average elected representative.

[jdobbin]

FOX news is a shining star. Why can't we get it in Canada?

I get it where I am in Winnipeg. Perhaps the right wing companies in your area don't let you have it.

[scribblet]

In a recent UCLA study of 20 major media companies for potential bias, 18 scored left of center and only two (Fox news and the Washington Times) scored right of center.

And when you hear lefties bitching about FOX news, it's obvious they're looking to discredit the lone voice of reason to completely control the media outright. They're looking for the clean sweep.

FOX news is a shining star. Why can't we get it in Canada?

You can get it on satellite and cable, you have to pay for it, it's not with the basic packages.

I find that you hear more on Fox news that CBC would never tell you about. The left is bitching because they don't want people to hear all sides and don't have the media completely sewn up.

[JerrySeinfeld]

In a recent UCLA study of 20 major media companies for potential bias, 18 scored left of center and only two (Fox news and the Washington Times) scored right of center.

And when you hear lefties bitching about FOX news, it's obvious they're looking to discredit the lone voice of reason to completely control the media outright. They're looking for the clean sweep.

FOX news is a shining star. Why can't we get it in Canada?

You can get it on satellite and cable, you have to pay for it, it's not with the basic packages.

I find that you hear more on Fox news that CBC would never tell you about. The left is bitching because they don't want people to hear all sides and don't have the media completely sewn up.

It's so true. Lefties are the worst.

[Ladyjen]

In a recent UCLA study of 20 major media companies for potential bias, 18 scored left of center and only two (Fox news and the Washington Times) scored right of center.

And when you hear lefties bitching about FOX news, it's obvious they're looking to discredit the lone voice of reason to completely control the media outright. They're looking for the clean sweep.

FOX news is a shining star. Why can't we get it in Canada?

You can get it on satellite and cable, you have to pay for it, it's not with the basic packages.

I find that you hear more on Fox news that CBC would never tell you about. The left is bitching because they don't want people to hear all sides and don't have the media completely sewn up.

I have Starchoice here in BC and it is included in my basic package. I have to 99 cents extra to receive MSNBC.

[JerrySeinfeld]

In a recent UCLA study of 20 major media companies for potential bias, 18 scored left of center and only two (Fox news and the Washington Times) scored right of center.

And when you hear lefties bitching about FOX news, it's obvious they're looking to discredit the lone voice of reason to completely control the media outright. They're looking for the clean sweep.

FOX news is a shining star. Why can't we get it in Canada?

You can get it on satellite and cable, you have to pay for it, it's not with the basic packages.

I find that you hear more on Fox news that CBC would never tell you about. The left is bitching because they don't want people to hear all sides and don't have the media completely sewn up.

I have Starchoice here in BC and it is included in my basic package. I have to 99 cents extra to receive MSNBC.

God Bless it!!

[geoffrey]

I now get FOX News. It has some good stuff, adds a little balance in with The National everynight...

[Ricki Bobbi]

I now get FOX News. It has some good stuff, adds a little balance in with The National everynight...

Fair and balanced!

Man, the National is disgusting tripe. Fox News isn't subsidized by anybody so who cares what they do....

Now they follow it up with that George Stombapopadopolis crap.

And my tax dollars go to pay for it without my having the opportunity to opt out.

If a candidate ran on a privatize the CBC platform I would vote for him on the basis of that one issue alone.

[newbie]

In regards to Fox in general, who couldn't use more of dope addict Rush Limbaugh and pervert Bill O'Lielly, spokemen for the self-righteous right.

[sharkman]

IMO Fox isn't a diamond in the rough, that was maybe their first year. Now that they regularly beat the other networks they are top of the heap.

The true center in politics can only be remembered by old people. Before abortion was even a twinkle in Morgantaler's eye. We've strayed so far to the left in Canada we are pretty close to socialism. Fox is closer to the middle than any other network I can think of. I just love it when these lefties grouse about Fox, they are just proving Fox's success.

[BubberMiley]

The true center in politics can only be remembered by old people. Before abortion was even a twinkle in Morgantaler's eye.

Old people like me remember young girls dying of clotheshanger abortions in warehouses.

[sharkman]

The true center in politics can only be remembered by old people. Before abortion was even a twinkle in Morgantaler's eye.

Old people like me remember young girls dying of clotheshanger abortions in warehouses.

Old people remember young girls who said no and meant it, young men who wouldn't use date rape drugs, and a time when kiddie porn did not exist.

[Argus]

In a recent UCLA study of 20 major media companies for potential bias, 18 scored left of center and only two (Fox news and the Washington Times) scored right of center.

I would say that most major media outlets in the US are reflexively left of centre, especially on social issues, but generally not by a whole lot. I think FOX is not only right of centre it's further to the right than the rest of the major media is to the left. And while most bias (and I admit there is bias) in the liberal media is generally unorganized, instinctive, and individualized, FOX's bias is institutionalized and deliberate.

And when you hear lefties bitching about FOX news, it's obvious they're looking to discredit the lone voice of reason to completely control the media outright. They're looking for the clean sweep.

FOX news is a shining star. Why can't we get it in Canada?

I get FOX and I can't say I'm usually impressed by what I see. There are too many talking heads and the positions they take often seem to me to be distinctly out of touch with reality.

BTW, anyone who watches CNN in the late afternoon would have a hard time finding much "left" in their coverage. They rail against illegal immigration, and the "war on the middle class" nearly continuously. Their attitude is one of nearly unrestrained contempt for politicians of every stripe.

[Drea]

The true center in politics can only be remembered by old people. Before abortion was even a twinkle in Morgantaler's eye.

Old people like me remember young girls dying of clotheshanger abortions in warehouses.

Old people remember young girls who said no and meant it, young men who wouldn't use date rape drugs, and a time when kiddie porn did not exist.

Old people remember when us women were taught to "Lie back and think of England". Old people remember "she dressed like a slut so she asked for it". Old people remember when the pendulum was all the way over to the right, not the centre.

Thankfully, cooler heads have prevailed over the past couple of generations.

[sharkman]

Man Drea, you sure have a chip on your shoulder. BTW, a generation is generally 40 years. In stating things have swung to the center the last 2 generations, you don't mean since the 1920's, do you?

Your idea of all the way to the right may be off a little. Nazi Germany was far right. Us Western nations have so far been able to avoid such wild extremes, although with the harvesting of fetuses for stem cell experiments, I think we are at a tipping point, morally speaking.

[Drea]

Man Drea, you sure have a chip on your shoulder. BTW, a generation is generally 40 years. In stating things have swung to the center the last 2 generations, you don't mean since the 1920's, do you?

But I put the cool little icon guy in my post -- certainly wasn't meant to come across as "chippy"

Your idea of all the way to the right may be off a little. Nazi Germany was far right. Us Western nations have so far been able to avoid such wild extremes, although with the harvesting of fetuses for stem cell experiments, I think we are at a tipping point, morally speaking.

But you agree that the pendulum has swung to the left. Not all the way left or I'd be sitting at home collecting my welly cheque instead of here at work.

You agree that the pendulum was further over the the right from the 1920's. Yes, the 20's are when real equality, real reasoning and logic started to become the norm.

So we agree that the pendulum has swung from *not all the way to the right* to *not all the way to the left*.

Thank goodness eh!

[Electric Monk]

Some people say, Fox news isn't the fair and balanced news source they purport to be.

[BubberMiley]

Although with the harvesting of fetuses for stem cell experiments, I think we are at a tipping point, morally speaking.

I agree. People who wouldn't want to save a sick person because they are worried about, not fetuses, but cells that are just going down the garbureator anyway, are pretty far-right nutty.

And where were these people for the past 20 years as in-vitro fertilization became more and more popular?