EPTThe first time I saw Foxnews on Youtube I thought it was a comedy show (Bill'o'Reilly)... Then i learned that it was *real* and it got even more fun...
Poll reveals FOX news most trusted news in America - Page 9
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Velr
Switzerland10825 Posts
The first time I saw Foxnews on Youtube I thought it was a comedy show (Bill'o'Reilly)... Then i learned that it was *real* and it got even more fun... | ||
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rushz0rz
Canada5300 Posts
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TheFoReveRwaR
United States10657 Posts
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D10
Brazil3409 Posts
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baubo
China3370 Posts
On January 27 2010 22:31 Jibba wrote: Enough is enough. The only thing this poll is showing me is how stupid the average TL member is. You're all able to go "har har, Americans are so dumb, they trust bad news" yet the vast majority of people just assumed the poll was accurately conducted (which, if you read the title, you should immediately realize how absurdly impossible it is to prove) and never bothered to look at the easily accessible information source. There's probably a good portion of you that never even clicked the first link. The reason why people would vote Fox News is because people who hate Fox News don't watch TV. Cable TV news is for older, mid-Americans. Younger people probably get most of their news from non-news shows like Stewart/Colbert/Other late night hosts. Your average teenager or 20ish American doesn't give a fuck about anything related to the government. So quite frankly, our opinions don't even matter to polls like this. Because we don't care enough to matter. For those who do care enough to actually sit through hours of news programming, Fox News is what they like. http://tvbythenumbers.com/category/ratings/cable-news I personally grew up on PBS/NPR. I used to listen to NPR a lot when driving, and I'd always try to catch the News Hour if I had time. I knew of one other person my age who also listen/watch the news. In general, younger people just don't give a damn. And it forces news channels to cater to the audience who do watch: conservative, old, not-so-trendy people of mid-America. And these people like Beck/Rush/Hannity/O'Reilly. | ||
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Scorcher2k
United States802 Posts
On January 28 2010 00:08 Velr wrote: I try to watch the news on national TV and read/overview 1-3 magazins dayli. And none of them is even half as biased as Foxnews, in any direction. The first time I saw Foxnews on Youtube I thought it was a comedy show (Bill'o'Reilly)... Then i learned that it was *real* and it got even more fun... I live in America and I did the same thing... I thought the woman who is in the movie Handcock was fake until I randomly flipped through TV channels bored one night and saw her. I was completely stunned. Oh same thing with Cramer! When I saw him in Iron Man I thought that it was some part of the marvel universe being made up until I saw John Stewert covering his ridiculousness... On January 28 2010 00:22 baubo wrote: The reason why people would vote Fox News is because people who hate Fox News don't watch TV. Cable TV news is for older, mid-Americans. Younger people probably get most of their news from non-news shows like Stewart/Colbert/Other late night hosts. Your average teenager or 20ish American doesn't give a fuck about anything related to the government. So quite frankly, our opinions don't even matter to polls like this. Because we don't care enough to matter. For those who do care enough to actually sit through hours of news programming, Fox News is what they like. http://tvbythenumbers.com/category/ratings/cable-news I personally grew up on PBS/NPR. I used to listen to NPR a lot when driving, and I'd always try to catch the News Hour if I had time. I knew of one other person my age who also listen/watch the news. In general, younger people just don't give a damn. And it forces news channels to cater to the audience who do watch: conservative, old, not-so-trendy people of mid-America. And these people like Beck/Rush/Hannity/O'Reilly. I completely agree and it's sad... I listen to NPR often as well and I get my news from simply going on google news and looking at multiple sources of coverage for whatever story I'm reading about until I feel like I can paint a somewhat unbiased picture of whatever happened. People all over the world just love to be hand fed everything and FOX does just that. | ||
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RoyW
Ireland270 Posts
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Boonbag
France3318 Posts
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Lovin
Denmark812 Posts
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BROverlord
United States80 Posts
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Velr
Switzerland10825 Posts
On January 28 2010 00:22 baubo wrote: Your average teenager or 20ish American doesn't give a fuck about anything related to the government. So quite frankly, our opinions don't even matter to polls like this. Because we don't care enough to matter. This is even worse than watching/believing Foxnews  . | ||
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baubo
China3370 Posts
On January 28 2010 00:24 Scorcher2k wrote: I completely agree and it's sad... I listen to NPR often as well and I get my news from simply going on google news and looking at multiple sources of coverage for whatever story I'm reading about until I feel like I can paint a somewhat unbiased picture of whatever happened. People all over the world just love to be hand fed everything and FOX does just that. Actually, I think Fox News does a lot more than that. They're actually REALLY, REALLY GOOD at hitting people's weaknesses and their passions. I mean, I currently live in a communist country that every American think is ruled by government propaganda. Yet I find Fox News much better than the Chinese government when it comes to propaganda. It's as if the Chinese govt doesn't really work to lie to you, because it's a monopoly and don't care. Whereas Fox News has competition. So the they work hard and come up with genius methods. It's quite ironic that the best propaganda comes from a democracy. To me, what's sad isn't that so many Americans are buying into Fox, but rather there's no a single damn thing anyone can do about it. TV is run by ratings and money. And when there's so money involved, there's no way it can be unbiased. Twisting the truth for the almighty dollar is the American way, after all.  | ||
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Gnabgib
United States381 Posts
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ZeaL.
United States5955 Posts
On January 27 2010 23:33 lightman wrote: wow FOX news ? this sucks ! question for al TLers: what news do you watch ? I mostly Bloomberg and CNBC, cause I work in finance. Don't watch TV. Listen to NPR, read the Economist, and go online. TV news is worthless to me. | ||
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Motiva
United States1774 Posts
lol sad sad day for mankind | ||
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SleepSheep
Canada344 Posts
I trust that as long as the remote is in my hand I won't watch it. | ||
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Undisputed-
United States379 Posts
Theres a reason Beck and O'Reilly crush everyone. It just seems like other news stations just put their blinders on if they are politically aligned to who is in power. Even with all the shenanigans going on in washington. | ||
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BlackJack
United States10574 Posts
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Undisputed-
United States379 Posts
On January 28 2010 01:47 BlackJack wrote: btw in case people aren't aware, (and it seems like there are more than a few that aren't), a lot of Fox News programming isn't even meant to be unbiased these days and a lot of it isn't even meant to be News. Beck/Hannity/Huckabee/ and soon Palin make no secret of the fact that they are conservative. This should not be news considering Palin and Huckabee both made runs for the white house on the Republican ticket and Hannity/Beck have been on talk radio for several years, etc. Basically, if you tune into FoxNews during primtetime expecting to find some unbiased news you're completely oblivious. Just like Olbermann/Maddow make no secret of being liberal. These are OPINIONATED SHOWS. Olbermann recently referred to Scott Brown as a homophobic, sexist, racist, supporter of violence against woman. He is just as bad or worse than anyone on FoxNews yet everyone on the left loves him, just like everyone on the left loves John Stewart. So clearly it's not about despising unbiased cable news, because if that was true Keith Olbermann would be just as hated as Sean Hannity instead of being hailed as a "truth teller." It's really all about despising unbiased cable news that don't align with people's political views. MSNBC watchers are no better than the "ignorant redneck / xbox live playing / gun owners" that watch FoxNews. Agreed, Beck has said many times his show is not a news program. You can listen to him rant and rave his opinions and decide if you agree with him or not. He is sensational on purpose obviously because he needs to be to draw viewers in his time slot. I don't like watching Hannity because he is a bit of a mutton head and is basically the conservation version of Olbermann (not as bad though in my opinion, Hannity doesn't come off as nasty). | ||
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TeWy
France714 Posts
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