FOX TN NEWS RATED # 1 For Truth by Americans.

[natstew]

How many different pills is Rush addicted to?

How much cocaine did Obama snort?
How much crack did Obama smoke?
Who paid for Obama's college tuition?
What nationality did Obama claim when he went to college on U.S. taxpayer's dime as a foreign exchange student?
What citizenship did Obama claim when he obtained passport to Pakistan at time U.S. wasn't issuing passports to U.S. citizens to go to Pakistan?

 

[longknife]

Poll: MSNBC Least Trusted TV News Source, Fox News Most Trusted

Ouch! Does this really get to you libs?

Most surveys regarding cable news channels focus on ratings and the opinions of their viewers. However, a recent poll conducted by the Brookings and Public Religion Research Institute sought the views of all Americans toward all news sources in the nation.

A mere 5 percent of the respondents called the left-wing MSNBC cable channel their “most trusted” TV news outlet. On the other end of the spectrum, the Fox News Channel was named by 25 percent of the people surveyed, surprisingly more than the 23 percent who pointed to the “mainstream media” broadcast networks and the 21 percent who said they trust the Cable News Network.

Read more: Poll: MSNBC Least Trusted TV News Source, Fox News Most Trusted | NewsBusters

 

[BlindBoo]

NEW POLL RATES FOX TN NEWS RATED # 1 For Truth by Americans. I COULD HAVE TOLD YOU THAT.

No...maybe top cable news...but not even close to the top three networks CBS, NBC, and ABC.

"Most Trusted" PERIOD! Maybe not the most watched, because it doesn't come in the basic package, or even the one up from basic. You have to pay more to get it and most ignorant Democrats are satisfied with MTV and a few movie channels.

Here: Fox News Is America?s Most Trusted News Source [Poll]

And this is after being attacked by the Obama Regime for the last seven years and the Democrat Party Machine since Fox came into existence.

P.S.: PERIOD includes broadcast networks

"Fox News has an acceptance, a popularity it is better to say, among Republicans and conservatives," said Brookings Senior Fellow E.J. Dionne, Jr. during an event this week to discuss new survey research about Americans' attitudes toward immigration, foreign policy and the media. "Among liberals and Democrats," Dionne added, "there is no dominant media source."

Fox News' Incomparable Role on the Political Right | Brookings Institution

 

[Pogo]

Farleigh Dickinson University undergraduate school is ranked as one of the worst in the country - ranked #585 on a Forbes ranking of 650 U.S. colleges.

The Study in question was conducted as a telephone survey. Only 8 questions were asked, and there was a structural bias issue. The survey was compiled by Left Leaning Liberals , and the insinuation is that it was compiled and edited with malice of forethought.

The survey was the product of a deliberate socio-fascist campaign to bring forward particular, pre-arranged outcomes, an approach that ignores scientific objectivity,which is essential for for any scientific study - which includes statistical analysis.

Objectivity is a basic philosophical concept, related to reality and truth. Objectivity means the state or quality of being true even outside of a subject's individual biases, interpretations, feelings, and imaginings. The people who conducted this survey were not objective in the least - in fact their surveys allways turn out with the results they set out to achieve - that is in support of their political persuasion .

Sorry Gal, nice try but the Farleigh Dickinson University survey has no credibility and carries no weight.

Riiiight. So it must be pure coincidence that this survey found the same thing, and this survey found the same thing, and this survey found the same thing, and this survey found the same thing and this survey found the same thing and this survey found the same thing, and this survey found the same thing.

Oh and Fairleigh Dickinson followed up that regional study noted above with a bigger one that used a national scope. It found the same thing too.

I'm sure these are just coincidences though. Law of averages.


Obviously what Fox Noise sells is not information (and that doesn't sell anyway). What Fox sells is emotion. That's why loyalists like you get emotionally defensive about a fricking TV channel. Because they have their hooks in you.

You're definitely on the high end of the bell curve when it comes to intelligence of liberal posters on this Forum - Now if you could only fight off that leftist conditioning thats been drilled into you - My guess is you're College Educated - probably by a bunch of Academia Nuts - Wake Up Pogo Stick - they Lied !

Uh -- no, I came from a large family and there wasn't a budget to send anybody to college, so I never got that. My working background however is in media, specifically broadcasting. So my sources are many and diverse.

Your complaint here seems to center on a duality of poisoning the well ("waaah! they're fascists, I'm not gonna read it!") or simply disagreeing with the results personally ("waaah! they lied!"). That's irrelevant gainsaying; surveys don't determine what you know and believe; they determine what a general body of the public knows and believes. Then they correlate those beliefs with the believers' self-described source of info. Then you get the results.

ONE>]The first survey you quoted dealt with Climate Change and viewers acceptance of Global Warming.

An analysis of 2008 survey data from a nationally representative sample of U.S. adults finds a negative association between Fox News viewership and acceptance of global warming, even after controlling for numerous potential confounding factors

---- and?

Several of these surveys focused on public knowledge of some news event -- such as healthcare, climate change, the Iraq war.

What's your point?

TWO> The second Survey contained multiple Loaded Questions . The answers that the organization conducting the survey deemed correct were allways answers that a Liberal would accept - andin many cases their versions of the correct answer was questionable and highly opiniuonated . It was the equivalent of asking who was the better President - Ronald Reagan or Bill Clinton designating Clinton as the wrong choice and publishing the survey results to depict Liberals as poorly informed

most economists estimate the stimulus caused job losses
most economists have estimated the health care law will worsen the deficit
the economy is getting worse
most scientists do not agree that climate change is occurring
the stimulus legislation did not include any tax cuts
their own income taxes have gone up
the auto bailout only occurred under Obama
when TARP came up for a vote most Republicans opposed it
and that it is not clear that Obama was born in the United States

These were all questions that a right leaning John Q.Public would tend to answer in a manner that would not be in agreement with the "Correct Answer"

I'll concede that there's a vague one or two ("most economists estimate" depends on who you ask) but the last five on your list are straightforward factual yes-or-no quantifiables. Whether a legislation included tax cuts or how many Republicans voted for something is a simple one-or-zero; not a matter of opinion.

Three> The third link you provided is not even a survey - it's an Asian Pop Music site - so I'll just assume you either made an error .

Actually it goes to a pdf of a PIPA study called "Misperceptions, the Media and the Iraq War". Hard to get Asian pop music out of that. I know I've quoted these links for a long time and some might have shifted but this one still works when I click it.

Four The Fourth Link you provided is probably credible , although it is from a socio-fascist university it postulates that Fox continued to Spread Rumors about the NYC ground zero Mosque -I didn't read it - just the headline - but I'll grant this one might be on target.

There's the poisoning the well thing again It doesn't "postulate" anything; it asks people's perceptions and correlates those perceptions to whether their primary information source is A, B, C, etc. Just like all the others.

Five > THe Fifth link you provided is a Dead Link from NBC News ??? That's 2 out of 5 so far wassup wit dat ?

Mea culpa here. This link seems to have shifted since the last time I posted it about two weeks ago. The new link is here.

Six The sixth Link you provided is from The Kaiser Family Foundation . The Kaiser Family Foundation is hardly non-partisan they have been advocating socialized medicine for many years - and have a vested interest in the outcomeof the survey results - so I'll simply toss their "survey" where it belongs - in the Trash.

Aaaand right back to poisoning the well, OK, we're going with here too.

I could find nothing on KFF indicating advocacy of a particular position. They are known for studies especially on health care especially as it affects the poor and uninsured. Nothing partisan about that. And they're not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente so -- what would be the 'vested interest'? They're a nonprofit, they say they're nonpartisan, and Wiki does too.

Funny you were willing to break down an earlier poll for the quality of its interrogation structure, here you're not. Why is that? Or did you try it and not get anywhere so you went back to poisoning the well?

Seven This is merely a rehashing of the same information from Link # 1 - Wassup wit dat Bro !?

No, it isn't. It's two different studies on the same topic done by two different entities in two different years. But they did draw the same conclusions.

Oh and Fairleigh Dickinson followed up that regional study noted above with a bigger one that used a national scope. It found the same thing too.

And FDU can continue to do all the follow ups they want , so long as leftists are writing the script - they will allways get the fantasy results they set out to achieve.

Aaaand right back to poisoning the well again in lieu of particulars. Well at least you tried opening the links. Except for that Asian pop music thing.

I notice you seem to be using "leftists" and "liberals" interchangeably here. Which do you mean?

 

[Pogo]

Riiiight. So it must be pure coincidence that this survey found the same thing, and this survey found the same thing, and this survey found the same thing, and this survey found the same thing and this survey found the same thing and this survey found the same thing, and this survey found the same thing.

Oh and Fairleigh Dickinson followed up that regional study noted above with a bigger one that used a national scope. It found the same thing too.

I'm sure these are just coincidences though. Law of averages.


Obviously what Fox Noise sells is not information (and that doesn't sell anyway). What Fox sells is emotion. That's why loyalists like you get emotionally defensive about a fricking TV channel. Because they have their hooks in you.

What the FOX Rumor Mill sells is GOSSIP!.

Gossip is a very dangerous tool. We should be more wary of the gossiper, and not the gossip they're trying to relay to you.
- John Lydon

Okay if you say so

Obviously what Fox Noise sells is not information (and that doesn't sell anyway). What Fox sells is emotion. That's why loyalists like you get emotionally defensive about a fricking TV channel. Because they have their hooks in you.

What Fox Sells is an alternative to the decades of Leftist Brainwashing being hammerred into the American Psyche by Socio-Fascism . The Socio-FascistElite ,and their usefulidiots, folks such as yourself rabidly foam at the mouth and vomit out Pea soup whenever Fox is mentioned - and that's why I defend it and will continue to do so. It's time Big Brother got a boot up his ass instead of the ass kissing and bootlickering from useful idiots who run around calling themselves "Liberals"

How's it Feel being a useful Idiot ? You don't like it when the vomits aimed at you -do ya ?

What a witty retort. A Gif of projected puke. And you want to see others as "foaming at the mouth".

You've just proven my point; you're melting down here like your daughter's honor has been attacked. That's because, again, what Fox sells is emotion, and you bought it. When you have an emotional relationship with a TV channel, it should be telling you something about what's going on psychologically.

Nobody ever made a profit disseminating the news, and Rupert Murdoch, who made his fortune on sleazy gossip tabloids, knows that as well as anyone. News is expensive. You need lots of reporters with travel expenses; you need camera crews and satellite phones and foreign news bureaus. Murdoch came in and rather than deal with all of that, plunked down a crew of angry white guys who, rather than gathering and reporting the news, would sit and pound a table in a garishly pastel-colored studio with visual shifts that go whhoooosh and a steady stream of suggestive screen crawls, to talk about the news that was already out. The actual news it carries is confined to dayparts that don't affect the bottom line; the character, the game face, the essence of Fox Noise (as opposed to Fox News) is completely built around emotion. All of the above are emotional hooks designed for that purpose. And in recent years they've added sexy short-skirted bimbos to join the angry white guys pounding on tables.

Basically the same thing as the sleazy gossip tabloids do, this time using political celebrities instead of movie celebs -- otherwise the same thing.

News isn't emotional. News is dry, straightforward facts of who-what-where; there's no judgment in it. That's not what Fox is there for because that doesn't sell. If you're watching straight news on NBC and the channel happens to drop off the air, you just shrug and go to ABC -- that's an unemotional relationship. If you melt down because somebody posted studies suggesting Fox Noise is noise, well that's when you have an emotional relationship. And that's what they want.

Why do they want that? Because a loyal emotional relationship keeps you coming back, and that means audience, and audience means ratings and ratings means advertising dollars. The more they can polarize you with an "us against them" mentality, the more they get to portray themselves as "us" and include you in their little club. That's a personal relationship. And it's deliberate, and it's engineered and it's calculated. It's there to manipulate you into an emotional relationship for the same reason sugar is added to your groceries -- to get you addicted. To this end it will polarize, sensationalize, overemphasize, demonize, marginalize and ultmately capsize the news so that you're drowning in a sea of implied bullshit with them -- the TV channel -- representing your lifeboat. Like a little secret club, a grownup version of the tree house with a sign on the outside that says "No Girls". Us versus Them. Personal emotional relationship.

Television itself is by nature a hypnotic propaganda tool, nothing more, and what Fox Noise does is simply exploit that flaw as far as it can be exploited. You're being manipulated plain and simple. Ideology isn't the point; that's just the tool of the trade, used because it works as manipulation.

That's why all those studies show what they do -- because accuracy is not the objective. Fear is the objective. Emotion sells, and no emotion sells like Fear. Fear the climate warnings. Fear the healthcare bills. Fear the political party. Fear the black man. Fear da liburruls. Fear the President. Fear the women. Fear the minorities. Fear The Gay. Fear the communists/socialists/whateverists. Polarize, polarize, polarize. Fear the shit out of these things and we'll be back to tell you how we're looking out for you and five more things to fear, right after these words for car insurance and Viagra. Don't change that channel, or you'll never find out what your next fear is. You will obey us.

It's entirely a personal relationship. Notice they don't talk about politics; they talk about politicians. Personal level. Let's not about the effects of this or that policy; let's about the personal agenda of this guy or that guy. Forget the boring revenue numbers; we're here to talk about evil and how it's out to get you.

You're being manipulated. Your getting emotional over a TV channel tells us they're winning. Broadcast ratings don't measure agreement; they measure attention. And Fear generates attention. It always has.

 

[HenryBHough]

The problem is that the pollsters confused an entertainment cable channel with a news source. MSNBC never should have been included in the survey.

 

[RandallFlagg]

Turn Off Fox

Bad News for America

Fox News and it's continued mission to call itself "news" when in fact 98% of its programming is opinion at best is bad for anyone seeking to find truthful reporting that conforms to the rigorous standards of journalism. Not just bad for America, who has had the misfortune of hearing its opinions and felt the effects of its influence on the uninformed at the voting booth, but especially for those living in countries like Iraq who have felt very real consequences of public support fostered by the network resulting in US military actions that would otherwise have been very publicly rejected.

Is Fox News bad for America? | Debate.org

So, we should get our news from the Obama propaganda networks? Surely you jest. I SHUDDER to think of the press if Hillary (the murderer) gets elected. My God, it will be worse than the Soviet Union.

No thanks. I'll stick with the most watched cable news in America - while you and the other 2% of the American Left (otherwise known as the Fourth Reich) watches MSNBC.

Besides - have you SEEN their women?!? Red Blooded American WOMEN!!! Son - not Dykes!!

 

[Bush92]

Fox sucks! I get my truth from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.

Neither of them is amusing. They suck! So does SNL and that snarky bitch Tina Fay from 30 Rock.

 

[RandallFlagg]

Poll: MSNBC Least Trusted TV News Source, Fox News Most Trusted

Ouch! Does this really get to you libs?

Most surveys regarding cable news channels focus on ratings and the opinions of their viewers. However, a recent poll conducted by the Brookings and Public Religion Research Institute sought the views of all Americans toward all news sources in the nation.

A mere 5 percent of the respondents called the left-wing MSNBC cable channel their “most trusted” TV news outlet. On the other end of the spectrum, the Fox News Channel was named by 25 percent of the people surveyed, surprisingly more than the 23 percent who pointed to the “mainstream media” broadcast networks and the 21 percent who said they trust the Cable News Network.

Read more: Poll: MSNBC Least Trusted TV News Source, Fox News Most Trusted | NewsBusters

I have no doubt whatsoever that MSNBC is the "least" watched and trusted.

The most anti-american, hateful network that has EVER existed on the airwaves. I can not believe that they are actually STILL of on the air. Just goes to show you, NBC has more money than sense.

 

[RandallFlagg]

Fox sucks! I get my truth from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.

Neither of them is amusing. They suck! So does SNL and that snarky bitch Tina Fay from 30 Rock.

Used to watch SNL in the 70s. It was actually funny and good in those days. Haven't watched it since the early 80s - and I mean like 1981.

Comedians (for the most part today) are nothing more than political hacks - not funny, but partisan as hell. The days of the genius Richard Pryor and Sam Kennison are long gone.

 

[Pogo]

Besides - have you SEEN their women?!? Red Blooded American WOMEN!!! Son - not Dykes!!

Thanks for this reaffirmation of everything I just posted in 65. Personal relationship rather than informational.

P.T. Barnum and H.L. Mencken are laughing their initials off.

 

[jillian]

Turn Off Fox

Bad News for America

Fox News and it's continued mission to call itself "news" when in fact 98% of its programming is opinion at best is bad for anyone seeking to find truthful reporting that conforms to the rigorous standards of journalism. Not just bad for America, who has had the misfortune of hearing its opinions and felt the effects of its influence on the uninformed at the voting booth, but especially for those living in countries like Iraq who have felt very real consequences of public support fostered by the network resulting in US military actions that would otherwise have been very publicly rejected.

Is Fox News bad for America? | Debate.org

So, we should get our news from the Obama propaganda networks? Surely you jest. I SHUDDER to think of the press if Hillary (the murderer) gets elected. My God, it will be worse than the Soviet Union.

No thanks. I'll stick with the most watched cable news in America - while you and the other 2% of the American Left (otherwise known as the Fourth Reich) watches MSNBC.

Besides - have you SEEN their women?!? Red Blooded American WOMEN!!! Son - not Dykes!!

neither set of women want anything to do with you. but I do appreciate the typical rightwing misogyny that makes wackadoodles think attractive = reliable.

 

[jillian]

Fox sucks! I get my truth from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.

Neither of them is amusing. They suck! So does SNL and that snarky bitch Tina Fay from 30 Rock.

Used to watch SNL in the 70s. It was actually funny and good in those days. Haven't watched it since the early 80s - and I mean like 1981.

Comedians (for the most part today) are nothing more than political hacks - not funny, but partisan as hell. The days of the genius Richard Pryor and Sam Kennison are long gone.

you think pryor and kinnison weren't political?

you sure you ever heard either one of them?

comedians have ALWAYS been political.

 

[jillian]

How many different pills is Rush addicted to?

How much cocaine did Obama snort?
How much crack did Obama smoke?
Who paid for Obama's college tuition?
What nationality did Obama claim when he went to college on U.S. taxpayer's dime as a foreign exchange student?
What citizenship did Obama claim when he obtained passport to Pakistan at time U.S. wasn't issuing passports to U.S. citizens to go to Pakistan?

PRESIDENT Obama wasn't the coke freak... that would, once again, be baby bush.

I particularly like the question about crack since, of course, if he's black, he must have been a crackhead, right? now tell us how you aren't a racist and how you're horribly misjudged.

poor baby... keep howling at the moon.

 

[pvsi]

NEW POLL RATES FOX TN NEWS RATED # 1 For Truth by Americans. I COULD HAVE TOLD YOU THAT.

NEW WORLD GOVERNMENT. NET RATED # 1 For Truth by Americans. - US Message Board - Political Discussion Forum

 

[RandallFlagg]

Besides - have you SEEN their women?!? Red Blooded American WOMEN!!! Son - not Dykes!!

Thanks for this reaffirmation of everything I just posted in 65. Personal relationship rather than informational.

P.T. Barnum and H.L. Mencken are laughing their initials off.

Yet your side claims that the right is waging a "war on women". You are a phony as well as a Nazi. Not to mention - liar.

Did I spell all those words correctly, Adolph?

 

[RandallFlagg]

Neither of them is amusing. They suck! So does SNL and that snarky bitch Tina Fay from 30 Rock.

Used to watch SNL in the 70s. It was actually funny and good in those days. Haven't watched it since the early 80s - and I mean like 1981.

Comedians (for the most part today) are nothing more than political hacks - not funny, but partisan as hell. The days of the genius Richard Pryor and Sam Kennison are long gone.

you think pryor and kinnison weren't political?

you sure you ever heard either one of them?

comedians have ALWAYS been political.

Tell you what, Dumbass. Watch ONE HOUR - ONE HOUR with your buddy Bill Maher (who, every time he calls a woman on the right a "****") you claim he is a "comedian" JUST ONE HOUR.

Then watch one hour of Pryor or Kennison and perhaps, just perhaps, you'll see the difference between "funny" (Pryor and Kennison) and hateful, Nazi propaganda (Maher).

Pryor and Kennison would be tearing you Nazis a new ass, were they still alive, for being the pussies that you are.

 

[Pogo]

Besides - have you SEEN their women?!? Red Blooded American WOMEN!!! Son - not Dykes!!

Thanks for this reaffirmation of everything I just posted in 65. Personal relationship rather than informational.

P.T. Barnum and H.L. Mencken are laughing their initials off.

Yet your side claims that the right is waging a "war on women". You are a phony as well as a Nazi. Not to mention - liar.

Did I spell all those words correctly, Adolph?

My "side"?

Where do you see "lying"? My analysis says Fox Noise is all about emotional hooks; you just confirmed it above.

have you SEEN their women?!? Red Blooded American WOMEN!!! Son - not Dykes!!

Emotional bullshit, complete with multiple exclamation points, trying to make the case that "Red Blodded American WOMEN!!!" somehow equates to "truth" on a frickin' TV channel.

As I said, thanks for the validation of everything I just laid down.

 

[GreenBean]

What the FOX Rumor Mill sells is GOSSIP!.

Gossip is a very dangerous tool. We should be more wary of the gossiper, and not the gossip they're trying to relay to you.
- John Lydon

Okay if you say so

Obviously what Fox Noise sells is not information (and that doesn't sell anyway). What Fox sells is emotion. That's why loyalists like you get emotionally defensive about a fricking TV channel. Because they have their hooks in you.

What Fox Sells is an alternative to the decades of Leftist Brainwashing being hammerred into the American Psyche by Socio-Fascism . The Socio-FascistElite ,and their usefulidiots, folks such as yourself rabidly foam at the mouth and vomit out Pea soup whenever Fox is mentioned - and that's why I defend it and will continue to do so. It's time Big Brother got a boot up his ass instead of the ass kissing and bootlickering from useful idiots who run around calling themselves "Liberals"

How's it Feel being a useful Idiot ? You don't like it when the vomits aimed at you -do ya ?

What a witty retort. A Gif of projected puke. And you want to see others as "foaming at the mouth".

You've just proven my point; you're melting down here like your daughter's honor has been attacked. That's because, again, what Fox sells is emotion, and you bought it. When you have an emotional relationship with a TV channel, it should be telling you something about what's going on psychologically.

Nobody ever made a profit disseminating the news, and Rupert Murdoch, who made his fortune on sleazy gossip tabloids, knows that as well as anyone. News is expensive. You need lots of reporters with travel expenses; you need camera crews and satellite phones and foreign news bureaus. Murdoch came in and rather than deal with all of that, plunked down a crew of angry white guys who, rather than gathering and reporting the news, would sit and pound a table in a garishly pastel-colored studio with visual shifts that go whhoooosh and a steady stream of suggestive screen crawls, to talk about the news that was already out. The actual news it carries is confined to dayparts that don't affect the bottom line; the character, the game face, the essence of Fox Noise (as opposed to Fox News) is completely built around emotion. All of the above are emotional hooks designed for that purpose. And in recent years they've added sexy short-skirted bimbos to join the angry white guys pounding on tables.

Basically the same thing as the sleazy gossip tabloids do, this time using political celebrities instead of movie celebs -- otherwise the same thing.

News isn't emotional. News is dry, straightforward facts of who-what-where; there's no judgment in it. That's not what Fox is there for because that doesn't sell. If you're watching straight news on NBC and the channel happens to drop off the air, you just shrug and go to ABC -- that's an unemotional relationship. If you melt down because somebody posted studies suggesting Fox Noise is noise, well that's when you have an emotional relationship. And that's what they want.

Why do they want that? Because a loyal emotional relationship keeps you coming back, and that means audience, and audience means ratings and ratings means advertising dollars. The more they can polarize you with an "us against them" mentality, the more they get to portray themselves as "us" and include you in their little club. That's a personal relationship. And it's deliberate, and it's engineered and it's calculated. It's there to manipulate you into an emotional relationship for the same reason sugar is added to your groceries -- to get you addicted. To this end it will polarize, sensationalize, overemphasize, demonize, marginalize and ultmately capsize the news so that you're drowning in a sea of implied bullshit with them -- the TV channel -- representing your lifeboat. Like a little secret club, a grownup version of the tree house with a sign on the outside that says "No Girls". Us versus Them. Personal emotional relationship.

Television itself is by nature a hypnotic propaganda tool, nothing more, and what Fox Noise does is simply exploit that flaw as far as it can be exploited. You're being manipulated plain and simple. Ideology isn't the point; that's just the tool of the trade, used because it works as manipulation.

That's why all those studies show what they do -- because accuracy is not the objective. Fear is the objective. Emotion sells, and no emotion sells like Fear. Fear the climate warnings. Fear the healthcare bills. Fear the political party. Fear the black man. Fear da liburruls. Fear the President. Fear the women. Fear the minorities. Fear The Gay. Fear the communists/socialists/whateverists. Polarize, polarize, polarize. Fear the shit out of these things and we'll be back to tell you how we're looking out for you and five more things to fear, right after these words for car insurance and Viagra. Don't change that channel, or you'll never find out what your next fear is. You will obey us.

It's entirely a personal relationship. Notice they don't talk about politics; they talk about politicians. Personal level. Let's not about the effects of this or that policy; let's about the personal agenda of this guy or that guy. Forget the boring revenue numbers; we're here to talk about evil and how it's out to get you.

You're being manipulated. Your getting emotional over a TV channel tells us they're winning. Broadcast ratings don't measure agreement; they measure attention. And Fear generates attention. It always has.

I "thanked" your response , mot because I agreed with it - in fact I didn't even read the whole thing [Yet] - perhaps tommorrow when I have a tad more leisure time. What I did read was ...

Television itself is by nature a hypnotic propaganda tool, nothing more, and what Fox Noise does is simply exploit that flaw as far as it can be exploited. You're being manipulated plain and simple. Ideology isn't the point; that's just the tool of the trade, used because it works as manipulation.

My question to you is -If "ideology isn't the point" -why is Fox "Noise" as you like to call them, any different than the Leftist media that has dominated the screen since the mid 60s

CBS< NBC< ABC all outlets to varying degrees for leftist propaganda . Yet there is no cries of righteous outrage at the nonsense thay have been vomitting onto the American Public for Decades .

The fact is Fox goes against the grain of Big Brother -Fox has pissed off some highly placed puppet masters - no other network or media organization has ever had to endure the relentless ounslaught they have been subjected to

 

[bedowin62]

it's simply hilarious; watching left-wing nutjobs make fools of themselves

one is here deluding himself that liberal cable news' low ratings mean they are somehow more trustworthy than Fox News.
isn't it just like the Left to ridicule anybody who dares hold different views?

apparently huge swaths of Americans trust Fox News to present what they see as truth

of course if your idea of serious journalism is hearing some left-wing idiot talking head fantasize of defecating in the mouth of Sarah Palin then watch MSNBC or CNN.

hilarious; left-wing media is MORE shrill; more partisan, more brainwashed, more vitriolic, more mired in group-think, more intolerant, than the people they try to ridicule and say aren't serious journalists.

what idiots and hypocrites libs are