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To: Mr. Whist who wrote (104103)	12/7/2000 10:38:25 AM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

FoxNews has one intention only: Using sensationalism, sex and flash as a means to tilt public understanding rightward. Its owner Ruppert Murdoch, news director (Roger Ailes--hello Lee Atwater) and virtually all of its newscasters, reporters and analysts, themselves, have a difficult time hiding their tilt to the right. And oh how they pretend to be "fair and balanced." If anything is a signal that they're trying to manufacture opinion, it's the claim that they're "fair and balanced." After all, that's not up to them to decide. Is it? Look at the dose you get in the morning with the three hosts lapping up Man-Cow and his weird rightwing manifestations. Through the day, you're always looking at a flashy blonde and about four out of five Republican analysts/commentators/contributors, throughout the political campaign, were all flashy blondes. No wonder Bush did well amongst the male vote--LOL! Most major cities have two newspapers: one which delivers substantive content and the other which uses sensational headlines and controversial challenging columnists designed only to sell news rather than deliver it. FoxNews is more like the latter, to a point of downgrading news into a mix soap-like personality features with strong musical backgrounds--the ugly in feature need not apply to FoxNews! FoxNews is owned by billionaire Ruppert, who always yearned for a national televised news format consistent with his own conservative bent. In order to enhance this creation, FoxNews paid its affiliates to carry its signal, whereas traditionally the affiliates always paid to get a signal from a major carrier. What we are witnessing from FoxNews is the adage that: money can buy anything! In concert with rightwing drive-time AM radio, it's easy to see how public opinion is being shaped and manipulated with FoxNews now taking the lead.

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (104103)	12/7/2000 11:37:05 AM
From: kvkkc1	Respond to of 769667

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To: Mr. Whist who wrote (104103)	12/7/2000 12:39:17 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

One more time: Fox News does NOT present a balanced approach to the news. If one considers Fox's conservative leanings in reference to, say, CBS's or Dan Rather's liberal leanings, then balance is achieved, but only by putting Fox on one side and CBS on the other side of the scale. Here you have it right. In other words, people who use "balanced" on this board actually mean that Fox serves as a "foil" to what they perceive to be an overall liberal bias in the television media, which, in my opinion, is totally false. And then you reverse yourself and claim there is no overall liberal bias that Fox can balance. If Fox is only a balance for CBS IMO that is sufficient. Are you saying that other news sources are as equally conservative as FOX? Which? Or all all the others balanced and only CBS and FOX busy "foiling?" Have a good one.