Fox News, MSNBC, and Media Bias

Please, someone tell Brett Baher (I know I didn't spell that right...sorry!) that our Texas State Senator's name is Kay Bailey Hutchison...not HUTCHINSON.

Thanks! I enjoy watching your news show every afternoon.

Debbie Rush of TX 6:43PM March 31, 2010

Am I the only one that finds the commentators that ask someone a question, and then butt in before they can answer, very, very irritating? Especially Bill Hemmer, -------- someone needs to tell that guy to SHUT-UP!! And when there's three or four of them doing the round table babble, and they all start talking at the same time, don't they know that we can't understand a word ANY of them are saying??!! Why can't any of the news media just present the news without the smirks and slants. Someone tell me the network that does that and I'll watch the news more.

Jerry Zella of MT 10:32AM February 02, 2010

HELP, I'M IN HERE! I have brain damage. It's like being in a semi-comatose state, of sorts. I hear what is said as clear as day, only it was not what was actually said. I get confused easily. I cry for no reason. I no longer feel like a real man. My drivers license was taken away. I have TBI, or Traumatic Brain Injury. I am at the mercy of the government for my disability income. Government bailouts have seemed to only help those who got us into this in the first place, or those able to weather the financial fallout. Nothing for the elderly or disabled, like me. There is no program to help me get my roof fixed, or my house repaired. When gas inexplicably rose to over $4/gal., my wife and I could no longer afford bottled water, cable T.V., eating out, etc. There is a program, however, to force me to pay unprecedented property taxes, and rising healthcare. I was told by a lender that we would be eligible for a loan IF our house was in "saleable" condition. If my house was in good shape, then why would I need the loan? Congress refuses to do the right thing, so it is time we voted them ALL out! No longer should we vote for the incumbent. There should be NO career politicians. Stop shredding the constitution. Lower the salaries of all "public servants", at least at the federal level. Eliminate lifetime pay and benefits that Americans pay for, yet cannot afford for themselves. I wish we could get a President who would do to the federal government what Sarah Palin did for Alaska. The Democratic career-politicians are so afraid of her they convinced a majority that she was some sort of bimbo. The Alaskan people don't think so. Corruption, greed, and adultery seem to be the political norm these days. Under Obama, I may soon lose everything. Where is MY family's bailout? I sometimes wish I WERE a politician so I, too, could have the best of everything without having to pay for it! Please, America, let us vote together, oust the career politicians, and elect people who will FINALLY do the right thing, for all our sakes! Our government must first clean its' own house before they come to clean mine. Greed, thy name is POLITICIAN.

JOHN IVY of TX 10:36AM January 28, 2010

For the ratings disparity, also consider this:

Fox News is Center-Right. All other major news outlets are Center-(or Radical-)Left. The non-Fox networks are all competing for the same market, while leaving the other 50-60% of the country to Fox. Moving his network rightward was a brilliant move by Mr. Murdoch.

News channels show legitimate news, and they show editorial programs. Fox News does a much better job than the rest of keeping the two separate. Witness:

Fox has a much higher percentage of "token liberals" than any other other network has "token conservatives".

For Tom Brokaw, it's usually "President Clinton," but "Mr. Bush".

Only AFTER a massive public outcry did NBC yank Olberman & Matthews from "news" and pull them to the editorial side.

CNN's ace field reporter, John Roberts, refers to the Democratic Party in the first-person plural.

ABC's turns its programming over to Obama-staff-written infomercials pushing healthcare "reform."

CBS aired phony Air National Guard memos critical of Bush with (at best) shoddy verification of their authenticity, and even in the face of numerous anachronisms within the documents, continued to defend them for over a week.

...I could go on

Consider also that ALL major newspapers and networks have been hemorrhaging viewers/subscribers over recent years, with two exceptions:

1. Fox (granted, part of their resilience is cited in my 1st paragraph)

2. The Washington Post (which greatly slowed its slide about a year after a complete overhaul of its editing staff yielded a re-dedication to balanced reporting).

someone of IL 5:01PM October 29, 2009