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ORIGINAL: bipolarber

Thadius,

Well, that's true... but, where do they place CNN on their selection? On my system, FOX is located two channels away from the major networks... CNN is buried somewhere up the screen among a bunch of home shopping channels, two religious 24 hour "send us your dredit card, and we'll make sure you get into heaven" type programmers. (it's right next to LOGO, in fact) and the NASA (Amazingly, we can make space flight boring) channel.

Can't speak to what the TV selections are like over there for the troops... I'll have to ask my nephew, the next time he's home, about that. However, we DO know that their emails and internet access is severely restricted (since many of the troops blogs were less than complimentary as of three years ago, when the policy was enacted) So I wouldn't be surprised if Bush was allowing only whitewash through the cables.

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ORIGINAL: Raechard

Having said that I used to love it when John Gibson would read out all the abusive emails he got to prove the point that every view counted. Maybe I was watching FoxNews for the wrong reasons.[:D]

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ORIGINAL: Thadius

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ORIGINAL: bipolarber

Thadius,

Well, that's true... but, where do they place CNN on their selection? On my system, FOX is located two channels away from the major networks... CNN is buried somewhere up the screen among a bunch of home shopping channels, two religious 24 hour "send us your dredit card, and we'll make sure you get into heaven" type programmers. (it's right next to LOGO, in fact) and the NASA (Amazingly, we can make space flight boring) channel.

Can't speak to what the TV selections are like over there for the troops... I'll have to ask my nephew, the next time he's home, about that. However, we DO know that their emails and internet access is severely restricted (since many of the troops blogs were less than complimentary as of three years ago, when the policy was enacted) So I wouldn't be surprised if Bush was allowing only whitewash through the cables.

When I was in Chicago and here in Michigan, all of the cable news channels are lumped together, just as almost every other group of channels (sports, cartoons, learning..)

Actually, a big reason for the increased security of blogs and emails, is that some folks were talking about mission objectives, accomplishments, and or failures... and that stuff is classified.  When I was in the sandbox during the Storm, we didn't have the internet, and blogs were a journal on a bbs someplace.  We were informed though that our mail could be screened, and possibly redacted.

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ORIGINAL: Sanity

The other networks sound just like you do... especially MSNBC and CBS.

FOX News just provides a little bit of balance, something that seems completely alien to certain Democrats who it seems would love nothing better than to dictate what news may or may not be disseminated over the airwaves.

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Government TV (PBS) leans very far to the left and can't match FOX News, can't even come close when it comes to presenting both sides of any given argument.

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[8D] Yes, that's a bit like helping someone in a wheelchair up a ramp, just to be able to push them back down.

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ORIGINAL: Sanity
FOX News just provides a little bit of balance, something that seems completely alien to certain Democrats who it seems would love nothing better than to dictate what news may or may not be disseminated over the airwaves.

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ORIGINAL: bipolarber

I seem to recall that they did a study of who was better informed: people who watched the Daily Show with John Stewart (the fake news) or Rush Limbaugh....(the really fake news) 

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...please tell me you have a link to that study......

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Limbaugh’s audience is often underestimated by critics who don’t listen to the show (only 3 percent of his audience identify themselves as “liberal,” according to the nonpartisan Pew Research Center for the People and the Press). Recently, Pew reported that, on a series of “news knowledge questions,” Limbaugh’s “Dittoheads” — the defiantly self-mocking term for his faithful, supposedly brainwashed, audience — scored higher than NPR listeners. The study found that “readers of newsmagazines, political magazines and business magazines, listeners of Rush Limbaugh and NPR and viewers of the Daily Show and C-SPAN are also much more likely than the average person to have a college degree.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/magazine/06Limbaugh-t.html?pagewanted=6