Study: Is Fox Too Balanced?

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Here is the sad reality - FOX news can brainwash the gullible all day long (they have proved it by doing so). Mother Nature doesn't care - the world is warming, man is to blame.
Scientists have been telling us since the mid-1980s that global warming (aka climate change) was coming due to man's emissions of CO2 - and just as predicted, we are in the EARLY stages of that warming. It is only going to get worse for the next couple of hundred years.
Objective reality CANNOT be changed by only listening to the delusional "experts" that FOX news dredges up. The question is - why? A successful democracy REQUIRES an educated electorate - could the Saudi Prince and the corrupt Australian be attacking American from the inside? If not, what is the logical explanation for the barrage of lies from FOX?

actually thoughtful of AZ 12:41AM January 10, 2012

For the left-wing professors and news media nothing Fox would say about Global warming would be correct. Fox doesn't disagree with some of the facts but the single conclusion that's it all man's fault, that America is solely to blame, that Americans must reduce its living standards to those in the third world and pay for everyone else.
There are men of science who do not believe all the hype its man fault but are afraid to speak because of reprisals. In the late 60's scientist all declared we would be under a mile of ice by now in the middle of the next ice age, does anyone remember Soylent Green that too was fact.
Studies are slanted by the biases of the ones doing the studies so unless the studies are fair and balanced they are not worth the paper they are written on.

BPF53 of NJ 11:53PM January 09, 2012

So being balanced is when you spend 60 % of your coverage denying that facts exist. The climate is changing, SETTLED FACT. Bringing on 69 guest out of 159 that believe it isn't IS NOT BALANCED, it is just denial of the facts.
Didn't US News and World Reports used to practice journalism?

Roy of WA 10:35PM January 09, 2012

So being balanced is wrong because? The study's authors' are biased? That is what the article implies. Global warming. Wow. Since the last ice age! Tell me something new.

Mike of AZ 10:18PM January 09, 2012

in my opinion of this says fox is sooooooooooo far right since it s inception into cable that it s customer base,the viewer tends to sway in that general direction.fox isn t the news of choice for me,in fact,it s the opposite,it s says we report,you decide,i have a better slogan,how about our minds are made up,we only need to convince you now.their swing to provide fair and balance is so far right,it has a sickness of it s own,it only caters to the affirmative,my mind is made up viewers,whereas if the viewers mind is already set on fact finding information,why is fox news even in the fold?unless they are trying to convince you to accept their beliefs and not bend or break in their beliefs,maybe they are trying build a puppet minded base to spread their moment of hate to another age group or younger viewers.my advice is simply this,fox has cable tv locked up for years to come,how about painting both sides of the fence,instead of having a parade when one side of the fence is done.

anthony of LA 9:50PM January 09, 2012

Oh sure, Fox viewers are more inclined to believe what they hear? I beg to differ, every whiny, entitled liberal I know drools all over the whiny entitled liberals on MSNBC. Sounds like they too believe the bull they hear on MSNBC with the same voracity as Fox viewers.
I would like Fox to go back to the way it was when it started, the alternative to MSNBC, in that MSNBC is far far far far left, I'd like Fox to be far far far far right.

Jaimo of CT 9:15PM January 09, 2012

So...the study's definition of "balanced" is to report what the authors believe and censor what they don't believe?
Facinating.

Lighthope of WA 6:14PM January 09, 2012

The study makes a good point. Presenting a numerical balance like this tends to mislead. It's the old "teach the controversy" wheeze.

Tony Sidaway 7:21AM January 08, 2012

What a strange article. It has to be a joke. The left can appear so delusional.

jo of MA 11:40AM January 07, 2012

We all know how faux news works:
"Will the baby-killing democrats stop beating their wives long enough to help the sainted republicans remove the foreign-born Muslim from our White House? .... a fair and balanced debate coming up"

Joe C of TX 10:47AM January 07, 2012