Thread: FOX News, the new whipping boy of the left.

Quote: Originally Posted by Echo2 I have backed and continue to back taxing ALL income for SS, not just income under a certain amount. THat single change in the law would make SS solvent in 1 year. That's not what made it insolvent , you simpering nitwit. This has been explained before - if the wealthy paid into it (as a proportion) what they got OUT of it (like everyone else), then you're not covering any lost ground. Of course, if...

I can't find the exact survey, but it has been brought up before on these boards. I'll have to do some more digging. I did find this though: http://people-press.org/report/?pageid=830 It indicates that there is a divide between journalists and the higher ups, for numerous reasons. However, an ideological split is not unlikely as well. Also, this survey is much more nuanced than partisans make it out to be. For instance, most of the...

Quote: Originally Posted by Freethinker ?!?!? Who are the ' far left people on MSNBC?? Yea sorry, by your standards they are all ultra right wing nationalists, so I will not try to even give you an answer.

Quote: Originally Posted by Evil Homer Both of those are the same study. It's an interesting start, but I think their analysis is incomplete. While it's probably harder to quantify, I think the general point of each story needs to be taken into account, whether it's pro-liberal or pro-conservative. This study only accounts for statistics and poll-based stories. It even listed the Drudge Report as left of center. The other...

Eh. It's not for me or my wife that I am angry and even insulted by it all; My bigger concern is the effect that the spun and packaged 'news' (and the mindless, non-stop advertising, aimed at our debt-ridden consumer-culture) is having on the younger guys and girls who are not as bright and wary as yourself. What a load of CRAP they are all being fed. I fear they are lapping it all up like pablum, and they in turn are becoming...

That was ostensibly what they were designed to do here, too. After 20+ years of hearing left-wing spin in the "news", FOX was created.

I have backed and continue to back taxing ALL income for SS, not just income under a certain amount. THat single change in the law would make SS solvent in 1 year. Since bush failed at giving our SS to wall street he just gave them a ton of money before he left office - no strings attched.

It's amusing to me when people complain about media spin, and your complaint highlighted to me exactly why. To me spin is just part of the news experience, something to be expected, just like ads. Anybody with any passing facility with the English language should have learned how to read through it the second they dropped the bullshit of their youth. Not that I'm accusing you or anybody else of not being able to read through the...

Quote: Originally Posted by Travh20 Anyone notice that since Bush left the amount of attacks and the level of venom directed at FOX news has climbed exponentially? There was always a level of attacks and venom, but ever since their regular whipping boy, George W Bush vacated the office, it has gotten out of control. Why is that? I think that since the left owns the government, and still can not get anything done, they need someone to blame, a...

Quote: Originally Posted by Travh20 MSNBC is as far left as FOX is right Quote: Originally Posted by Travh20 Who are the conservatives on MSNBC? ?!?!? Who are the ' far left people on MSNBC??