Why I don't like Fox News

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Quoted from Scot Hacker's blog:

Protests clog NY, Philly, Washington. In San Francisco more than 1000 are arrested. Fox brushes up against this news, does all it can not to treat it with revulsion. I mean with Shock and Awe. How can anyone protest at a time like this?, the reporter asks. Our boys are halfway across the world at risk of dying to protect our very right to protest, and they're protesting? The irony is thick like chemical weapons gas, the reporter nearly coughs. Fox puts convicted war criminal Oliver North in the field as a reporter--that's what credibility is all about. 16 die in a helicopter crash--12 brits and a 4 yanks. Or so I hear on CNN. When Fox does the same story a few minutes later, they tell us that four people have died. If you're not American your life isn't worth prime-time mention. The info graphic tells me the cruising speed and gas mileage of the Abrams tank and I feel informed.

Remember, kids, the Liberal Media™ is biased--Fox is there to set things right for us!

Comments

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As for the co-mingling of the reporting and politics. Well, that's simply a business decision in the end. Both companies exist to make money.

There are reasons why Fox is outscoring CNN despite the fact the country is most likely closer to CNN than Fox politically.

I think it has more to do with the fact that FoxNews is run by greedier capitalists than CNN than politics. That might have a correlation with political stances of course, but not always and not directly.

It simply pays to be entertaining.