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What you won't know if all you do is listen to Fox-News - 5/28/2011 8:35:35 AM   
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I was having post-golf dinner with a buddy, who is fairly intelligent for a Christian conservative, and he mentioned the John Edwards indictment. I responded that John Ensign will probably be indicted, too. He asked who Ensign was.

“He just resigned in a sex scandal involving Tom Coburn,” I responded.

Blank look.

I said, “You are aware of the special election in New York yesterday?”

“Of course.”

“Do you know why there is a special election?”

“No.”

“Craigslist? Shirtless picture? Sex scandal? Any of this ring a bell?”

Blank look.

When we go on our annual golf trip, this friend always puts Fox News on, so I suspected there might be a connection. I went to Foxnews.com and ran a search for John Ensign. The search produces a selection of 4 videos at the top of the page, with text stories listed below. The text stories were fairly appropriate, listing the referral to DOJ and possible Sharron Angle run to replace him, as well as other articles on the scandal.

But the four video thumbnails at the top, right next to the FoxNews “Fair and Balanced” logo, were of Ensign on tax cuts, John Edwards’ sex scandal, tornado damage to Joplin, MO, and the sex charges against the former head of the IMF.

There is a link above these thumbnails for “more videos of John Ensign,” so I clicked. Through the first three pages of 10 videos each on “John Ensign,” Fox News had no videos of John Ensign except the first one showing his interview on tax cuts, and another dealing with the “tax compromise.” It wasn’t until the fourth page of videos that the sex scandal was mentioned, and even then it was a clip from 2009 followed immediately by three favorable videos of Ensign interviews on tax and budget issues.

I figure this must be a problem with the algorithm, finding “John” instead of “John Ensign,” so I did a search only for “Ensign.” This time, the first page of video results has the video from 2009, but the rest are Ensign interviews repeating the Republican talking points. I click on the next page, and 4 more videos are presented.There were no videos of the Ensign scandal, his resignation, his successor’s appointment--nothing, except a side mention in a segment on Governor Sanford hiking the Appalachian Trail.

Maybe there is a problem with the Fox News search engine, I thought, so I ran a search for video on Google, Bing, and Yahoo. Each produced numerous videos on Ensign’s sex scandal. Almost all of them were from other networks. But I could see in the thumbnails that a couple of the videos were from Fox. I clicked. They were local Fox affiliate reports. No actual FoxNews videos to be found.

How about former Congressman Chris Lee? The results were eerily similar. Headlines on FoxNews show coverage of the sex scandal in text, but when it comes to video, it is almost a total blackout. There is a mention of Lee in one video, but it is a piece on the election to replace him.

I decided to be more specific in my FoxNews.com search, so I ran “congressman chris lee scandal.” No videos come up on that topic. Instead, I got videos on medicare and “Efforts to Stem the Hiring of Illegal Immigrants,” “Herman Cain Talks Campaign Strategy,” and “Deadly Twister Rocks Arkansas Town.”

The only thing I can figure is that Fox News has decided to avoid titillation in favor of hard news.
If John Ensign or Chris Lee had been Democrats - the Fox viewer in the story would have known all about them.

IOKIYAR - It's OK If You're a Republican. Meaning some action which, if it were attached to a Democrat, would be cause for a firestorm of outrage on Fox-News and on AM Talk Radio, but not when committed by a Republican.





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RE: What you won't know if all you do is listen to Fox-... - 5/28/2011 8:56:55 AM   
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RE: What you won't know if all you do is listen to Fox-... - 5/28/2011 9:04:27 AM   
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Status: offline 		Years ago I took my son and his friend to this documentary called "Out Foxed". It showed how Fox News had lowered the bar for all cable news and driven down the bar for what passed as news. It showed the techniques they use to pass off opinion as news... with such things as "Some people say..." as a way to introduce their spin...

"Some people say liberals are all demon spawn, how would you respond?"

"Some people say that we found WMD in Iraq"

"Some people say that tax cuts for the rich will create 10 billion jobs next year"

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RE: What you won't know if all you do is listen to Fox-... - 5/28/2011 9:05:48 AM   
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What you won't know if all you do is listen to Fox-News


Well, you won't know much outside of Republican propaganda, true.

However, in fairness, the rest of TV news is only marginally better, and not by much.

Journalism is rare today.

Some people say watching TV news is a waste of time, that it says little to nothing. How do you respond?



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RE: What you won't know if all you do is listen to Fox-... - 5/28/2011 9:08:40 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hilarious. As a former reporter and news director and current college professor, I'd give my eye teeth to work at Fox News. They ask hard questions of EVERYBODY. What I constantly find amazing is the pack mentality of the mainstream reporters and editors... they merely publish what the DNC sends them; however, they do go after Republicans hard. The trick is to get the curious enough to push beyond the liberal cocktail set and ask hard questions of EVERYBODY. What passes of "news" in the mainstream press is really whatever they dream the night before. It's pathetic. HOWEVER, the nice thing is we don't have to rely on three networks any longer. I love the new technology, which wasn't around in my hey day.

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liberalism - 5/28/2011 9:10:01 AM   
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RE: What you won't know if all you do is listen to Fox-... - 5/28/2011 9:13:24 AM   
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Hilarious. As a former reporter and news director and current college professor, I'd give my eye teeth to work at Fox News. They ask hard questions of EVERYBODY.


Then you fit squarely into the new generation of bullshit journalism and declining educational standards. Fox asks stupid questions of everybody, and follows up on none of them. Do a little research yourself, and see how journalists used to do it.

Your posting style alone and your chosen persona speak volumes.

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RE: What you won't know if all you do is listen to Fox-... - 5/28/2011 9:13:26 AM   
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Status: offline 		So you currently are a college professor in what field?  Do they got motor rewinding in college? Or is it more likely you the chair of the 'Learning From Youtube' courses at Pfitzer College.

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RE: What you won't know if all you do is listen to Fox-... - 5/28/2011 9:13:34 AM   
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ORIGINAL: ArizonaBossMan

Hilarious. As a former reporter and news director and current college professor,

Do you really expect anyone to believe that someone who cannot write cohernetly ever wrote for a living?

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RE: liberalism - 5/28/2011 9:13:59 AM   
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RE: liberalism - 5/28/2011 9:15:54 AM   
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ORIGINAL: ArizonaBossMan

And I would suggest looking at http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=56494 too. It's the only explanation.

Did they teach circumstantial ad hominem in your version of grad school, sparky? Or what constitutes academic research?

My guess is you got to cover a class or two at adjunct pay. This crap would never get you hired.

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RE: liberalism - 5/28/2011 9:17:26 AM   
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ORIGINAL: ArizonaBossMan

And I would suggest looking at http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=56494 too. It's the only explanation.

I'd take serious any web site that has this posted on the same page :
Get Michael Savage's prophetic "Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder"

Of course we all know what a balanced individual Savage is....




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RE: liberalism - 5/28/2011 9:18:04 AM   
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RE: What you won't know if all you do is listen to Fox-... - 5/28/2011 10:01:23 AM   
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As a former reporter and news director and current college professor,


OMG.... you posted a link to that book and you expect us to believe you are a journalist and a professor....




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RE: liberalism - 5/28/2011 10:04:01 AM   
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My guess is you got to cover a class or two at adjunct pay. This crap would never get you hired.


He may have subbed at a community college for a remedial English class, at below instructor pay (and I am being generous even with that)

It reminds me of a history professor I had when I was going to community college that insisted people call him "professor" even though he had just received his MA degree

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RE: What you won't know if all you do is listen to Fox-... - 5/28/2011 10:14:56 AM   
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Too bad its all bullshit. It was all over Fox News when it happened.

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RE: What you won't know if all you do is listen to Fox-... - 5/28/2011 10:31:58 AM   
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RE: What you won't know if all you do is listen to Fox-... - 5/28/2011 10:36:46 AM   
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ORIGINAL: juliaoceania

Results of the University of Maryland Study: Fox News Viewers Least Informed


Results of Suffolk University Poll

"This poll shows two things: first, the network news have completely lost their brand. Second, the only network with any intensity is Fox News. Bottom line: the more they attack Fox, the stronger it is getting.”



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RE: What you won't know if all you do is listen to Fox-... - 5/28/2011 10:37:57 AM   
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RE: What you won't know if all you do is listen to Fox-... - 5/28/2011 10:51:35 AM   
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