Fox News Coverage Found to Be Most Balanced...

[DerickM 1]

No wonder moonbats fly into a rage when exposed to Fox News. The Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University, hardly a conservative outfit, has found that "Fox News Channel's evening news show provided more balanced coverage than its counterparts on the broadcast networks."

http://www.cmpa.com/releases/07_12_21_Election_Study.pdf

Fox News Channel's coverage was more balanced toward both parties than the broadcast networks were. On FOX, evaluations of all Democratic candidates combined were split almost evenly — 51% positive vs. 49% negative, as were all evaluations of GOP candidates — 49% positive vs. 51% negative, producing a perfectly balanced 50-50 split for all candidates of both parties.

On the three broadcast networks, opinion on Democratic candidates split 47% positive vs. 53% negative, while evaluations of Republicans were more negative — 40% positive vs. 60% negative.

Interesting

[green 6]

This is interesting news. I have never watched Fox news. As you know, I live in a foreign country, a country where there are plenty of moonbats. Up here we get Canuck news coverage, CNN, and many of us get the BBC. It has, however, been received wisdom that Fox news tends to slant towards the right and thus it is interesting to learn that it does not.

I myself have a tendency to dress to the left and it for this reason that the only two newspapers to which I subscribe are centre-right and right wing. This dismays some of my moonbat friends but these papers offer up a valuable counter-weight to my leftist tendencies and they also happen to be much more intellectually stimulating.

I do, however, believe that anyone who is seriously interested in the news and in current ideas should make a point of reading the foreign press. This can be done on line. This exercise would be particularly valuable for Americans, I think, and this is only because your country is such a large and powerful one that your news coverage is likely to be self-focused, an inevitable result of your size. Minor countries, such as Canada, really have nothing much going on internally, comparatively speaking, and so much more of our news coverage is focused on global affairs.

And as a sidebar I would like to mention that I have a close friend who now lives in Germany. She gets the Euro version of CNN which she watches regularly. It is, I suspect, her chief source of news since she is a Canuck and not all that comfortable functioning in German. She was exposed to the American version of CNN during a visit back here in Canada. She told me that the Euro version sure was different: much less hyper, more in-depth coverage, and a lot less make-up. It seems that CNN figures that Europeans have longer attention spans than we do....and are less into the Tammy Fay Bakker look.

[gadgetlady 4]

It has, however, been received wisdom that Fox news tends to slant towards the right and thus it is interesting to learn that it does not.

I think the impression that it leans towards the right is because everything else is SOOOOO far left that everyone's lost perspective and doesn't know what "balanced" is anymore.

[lizzie_07 0]

There's a really interesting documentary that I watched a little while ago called "Outfoxed" that's about this exact issue. It discusses their claim to be balanced.

Here's the link if you're interested: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6737097743434902428

[Mellis 0]

I found Fox a few years ago- I have always found them to lay out the facts--not try to tell you what you should think. And yes--they cover both sides

Mary

[DerickM 1]

Seconded!!!!!

[green 6]

.....speaking of 'quelle horreur',

"green dresses to the left"????

.....

Well, only metaphorically.... :heh: In terms of the actual arrangement of the real goods, well, that is my husband's bizness!

[Chris_NJ 9]

chirp chirp chirp where have all the moonbats gone on this thread?

OMG FOX news is fair ! !! ! ! ! ! LOL

Better than the

[METALBAND 0]

Green is my favorite moonbat!!!!

[green 6]

chirp chirp chirp where have all the moonbats gone on this thread?

OMG FOX news is fair ! !! ! ! ! ! LOL

Better than the

Omigawd! I think I might have shorted out my keyboard by spraying a mouthful a scotch while laughing, eh. Bluddy brilliant, eh, sez this moonatick. :faint:Green of da North is not worthy. :eek:

[transformer 1]

I don't think we can really believe anything reported by our American "journalists" regardless of the channel their drivel is broadcast on...does anyone else smell something rotten?