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Old 12-22-2007, 11:05 AM
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We get CNN and Fox over in the UK, and of the two I would consider Fox the more biased of the two.
Not based on the stories upon which they report but based upon the "way" its reported. Semantically they are very clever and describe things in a way which predominantly right wing. Its amazing the way they build negative connations against the left but let the right off.
I thought it was particularly shameful when Fox ran a democratic party debate and blindsided the candidates with pre-programmed questions striaght from Republican party campaign staffers...

Wait a sec... what...? What's that you say...? Fox didn't do that...? That's right... the dems were too chickensh*t to appear on Fox... but I can't rememer who did it...? CNN..?!? They did that to the Republicans..?!? No way..!! I don't believe you..!! CNN would never so such a thing..!!
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again... as has been explained, ad nauseum...

Fox enjoys higher ratings simply because it receives the consolidated viewership of all the 28 percenters who tune it for exactly what they want to hear... whereas the other networks' viewship is fractured near evenly among the rest ... it is simple math...

if the country had only two networks to choose from -- CNN and FOX -- just how do you feel those ratings would stand then?

Fox isn't journalism... everyone knows it but the wombats... (28 percenters)

further, i would suggest that CNN's ratings have dropped because of goofy Limbaugh-ish, pastey, chubby Glenn Beck


After a year of explaining that repeatedly, you've finally let it sink in. That's progress PC!

Now, about your other biased points, CNN lost viewers to their morning show, & Glenn Beck is on at night. Also, 28% doesn't equal half. FOX is as journalistic as it's competition. Lastly, I thought O'Rielly was finished?
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We get CNN and Fox over in the UK, and of the two I would consider Fox the more biased of the two.
Not based on the stories upon which they report but based upon the "way" its reported. Semantically they are very clever and describe things in a way which predominantly right wing. Its amazing the way they build negative connations against the left but let the right off.
Which way do you fall politically? What you've just said is what most left of center people say, while I know tons of people who fall to the right, who say the same thing about CNN & MSNBC. All the stations have a slant, so it's best to watch them all so as to cover all the angles.
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Old 12-22-2007, 11:22 AM
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I thought it was particularly shameful when Fox ran a democratic party debate and blindsided the candidates with pre-programmed questions striaght from Republican party campaign staffers...

Wait a sec... what...? What's that you say...? Fox didn't do that...? That's right... the dems were too chickensh*t to appear on Fox... but I can't rememer who did it...? CNN..?!? They did that to the Republicans..?!? No way..!! I don't believe you..!! CNN would never so such a thing..!!
what CNN asked questions of Republicans that came straight from Republican party campaign staffers? man thats really biased....

I never said that CNN wasn't biased - I said Fox from what I have seen is more so.
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Old 12-22-2007, 11:34 AM
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After a year of explaining that repeatedly, you've finally let it sink in. That's progress PC!
what are you talking about?

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Now, about your other biased points, CNN lost viewers to their morning show, & Glenn Beck is on at night. Also, 28% doesn't equal half.
do you have basic math problems? if i slice a pie into 8 even pieces, and you get 28% of the overall pie, and the rest is split evenly to 7 others, do you not get the most pie?... Fox receives the consolidated viewership of the entire hard core 28% "Bush is doing a good job" cult... there are no other networks that spoon feed them the nonsense they crave... the rest of us -- moderates, liberals, libertarians, skeptical conservatives, etc. -- have 7-8 other networks to choose from for real news...

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FOX is as journalistic as it's competition. Lastly, I thought O'Rielly was finished?
who said Bill O'Reilly was finished? there's always an audience of nutjobs who will drink up ...
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Attention moron melon farmer, Glen Beck is on CNN headline news not CNN.



Which actually went up in the ratings.

Next time you spew **** form your mouth, why don't you get it right, FOR ONCE!

You puppet whatever that clown Soros spews, what an un-educated, know nothing hate spreading monger, you are.
Gee,I wonder why this place gets so out of control.......
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do you have basic math problems? (I don't think so) if i slice a pie into 8 even pieces (that would be 12.5% per slice), and you get 28% of the overall pie (hmmm....my math might be in question, but if you slice a pie evenly into 8 pieces, you can't get to 28%.) , and the rest is split evenly to 7 others (whoa, the rest of what now? you cut 8 evenly, can't get to 28% like you want to, and are making 7 other slices now? Who's on first again?), do you not get the most pie? (I might not get the most pie, but I've certainly become the most confused)... Fox receives the consolidated viewership of the entire hard core 28% "Bush is doing a good job" cult... there are no other networks that spoon feed them the nonsense they crave... the rest of us -- moderates, liberals, libertarians, skeptical conservatives, etc. -- have 7-8 other networks to choose from for real news... (if a train is going from NY to Chicago, and is travelling at a speed of 30 mph, if that train travels for 3.4 hours, how long will it take to get to Seattle?

Dat's a farghing treek queston!



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A pie, when divided, will equal 100%. If you give one person 28%, that doesn't equal half. At least it doesn't where I went to school.
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Old 12-23-2007, 02:20 PM
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Which way do you fall politically? What you've just said is what most left of center people say, while I know tons of people who fall to the right, who say the same thing about CNN & MSNBC. All the stations have a slant, so it's best to watch them all so as to cover all the angles.
Well I'm a bit more to the left or left of centre. Dont get me wrong I know that all channels have a bias of some sort, CNN leans to the left. Whats frustrating is that some on the right deny that Fox is a right leaning station.
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Well I'm a bit more to the left or left of centre. Dont get me wrong I know that all channels have a bias of some sort, CNN leans to the left. Whats frustrating is that some on the right deny that Fox is a right leaning station.
I agree that Fox leans right and that is good, the right needed Fox to counter balance CBS NBC ABC CNN PBS, us righties had no one until Fox came along, now we hear the things the left never wanted us to hear, that is why their ratings are so high.

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Old 12-23-2007, 02:31 PM
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works both ways - there's things that the right want to keep quiet that those other channels air.
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