FOX News unabashedly publicized the so-called teabagger event in Washington, DC recently. In fact a FOX news producer was caught rallying the crowd behind a FOX reporter during a newscast. The network has regularly been caught reporting false information. It refuses to show the President's speeches and news conferences, something it did not do with the previous administration. In several instances it has been caught falsifying the party designation of disgraced Republicans, showing them as Democrats.
The troubling factor with FOX News' obviously biased reporting and its extreme, sometimes fanatical on-air personalities is the fact that it is owned by a foreigner, Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch, then, is influencing the direction of the voters in this country. Recently, one of his news outlets in Britain was caught illegally taping phone conversations of British politicians, which makes one wonder if FOX News is doing the same in this country.
Murdoch not only owns right wing FOX news, but he owns the right winged New York Post and the Wall Street Journal, which is taking a decided turn to the right. His network also has outlets all over the country in most major TV viewing areas. The TV network typically broadcasts shows that push the envelope of legally appropriate material for prime time. I have heard many folks call it the trash network, because most of its shows are trashy, the opposite of what those who watch his news network would claim to support.
Murdoch continues to widen his control of news in this country. His newspapers and cable and broadcast news outlets have ramped up their rhetoric since the Obama election. They are pulling in a large number of viewers who faithfully believe the network's right wing hacks, Hannity, O'Reilly, and Huckabee, convicted felon, G. Gordon Liddy and Iran Contra's Oliver North. This type of decidedly unbalanced, often false reporting is swaying a large sector of the voting public. Thus it makes Murdoch a very powerful figure, who sits backstage, while his mouthpieces continue to garner support for his growing news empire and putting votes behind right wing Republicans. One has to wonder just how much Murdoch becomes personally involved in backroom politics and influences the politicians his network helps bring votes their way.
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Is it comparable to George Soros and his money buying ability?
When the news gets muzzled, we no longer have freedom of speech and that is just one of the freedoms in jeopardy with this administration. If you don't like Fox, watch all your favorite liberal stations and leave us one that doesn't follow the pied piper Democrats.
That is fine, if FOX didn't lie so much to create its agenda. The real problem is that it is owned by a foreigner, who may be creating an agenda. That should defintely worry a right winger like you, anonymous, if it didn't feed your fears and hatred.
So you are lie checking ALL media? Otherwise, stop trying to spread fear and hatred. You sure have tunnel vision.
As a matter of fact I do get around. The worst is FOX. Most of the others actually give both sides of an issue. Of course MSNBC is biased, but they usually back up what they broadcast with footage of the lies they are pointing out. FOX only has one side as does WorldNet Daily on the web. Fear and hatred? Where exactly is that? Show me.
Are you out videoing ACORN? They and all their affiliates need watching.
I am catching up on your posts as I was away for a 10-day trip to Canada. In Canada you cannot watch Fox "supposedly" News because they say that it is not a “news” outlet but a propaganda network. I do believe that since the advent of this network in the US the ignorant public has been more slanted to the right. You can see proof of this by the ridiculous comments you receive from that “anonymous” worm. One of my friends’ son used to work for Fox News. He said that they were not allowed to report what they saw but had to give it to a special team which would change many of the reports, to the point of completely reversing what had been said. He did quit as he felt he just could not work there and feel right about himself. The problem is that so many people here believe the lies – they want to believe them anyhow – even if you told them the truth but it did not jive with their extreme conservative views, they would not believe a word – they would not allow themselves to hear the truth, their belief make-up could not take it.
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