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To: i-node who wrote (166560)	4/2/2003 12:33:15 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583869

a loud mouthed personality who shoots from the hip. Is that correct? I would say O'Reilly is more like Chris Matthews, except I'd say O'Reilly is more centrist than is Matthews; Matthews seems more tied to his dogma than is O'Reilly. I often find both to be on the wrong side of issues. I find the personalities of both Matthews and O'Reilly to be grating. I've never watched Matthews for more then 10 minutes at a time......I assume his dogma is left. What distinguishes O'Reilly from Matthews is that he seems to like to corner people and then nail them. Matthews seems to just go on incoherently. Hannity & Colmes is more like Crossfire -- with Hannity pretty far right and Colmes a little less far to the left; overall, the show tilts a little to the right, but not as far right as Crossfire tilts to the left, if that makes any sense. I think FOX has carefully chosen Hannity as the stronger personality, sort of like CNN chose Begala & Carville as the stronger personalities there. Colmes I assume is the one with the glasses. I wonder why Congress people go these shows.......they seem to be put into awkward positions frequently. Greta was a liberal on CNN; Paula Zahn was a liberal on FOX. Basically, they traded places. But Greta is much less liberal on FOX, in my view, than she was on CNN. Yeah, she doesn't seem very liberal to me. This is unusual for me.......but I was put off by her looks at first......I'm not sure why. However, she seems fairly reasonable and open to at least hearing what the opposition has to say and sometimes asks the hard questions. O'Reilly gets really old after a while. He is, in a word, arrogant, and I prefer not to watch him anymore. No surprise there........he bothers me. Once again tonite he was all over Arnett. His repeats his rhetoric so frequently that it loses its meaning. In switching back and forth between stations, I see what you mean by the bias on CNBC for an example. Its more subtle than FOX but its there. Something I read tonite and plan to post on the thread that really bothered me. Al Jazeera was kicked out of the NY Stock Exchange because it showed dead American soldiers in its footage and that its footage generally had an Arab bias. I'm sorry that the Exchange felt the need to take that step. On several occasions since the war started, I have seen dead Iraqis on American tv. I don't like it but I don't think it warrants cancelling any station's contract because they show dead bodies, American or Iraqi. What's your reaction?