Fox news has most trusted coverage, or not, quinnipiac university national poll finds

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Book_Worm said:
Leaving bias out of the equation, Fox News has consistently been the least accurate (factually) of the major networks and their **viewers the most ill-informed, **as proved by numerous studies.
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I read this story about Farleigh Dickinson’s latest “study” which claims viewers of the Fox News Channel are the “least-informed” national audience and let out an audible chuckle. Seriously?
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I suppose if the measure of how well informed someone might be is based on how well they recite liberal talking points, then the study might have a case. But how informed are Fox viewers compared to others when it comes to issues that actually matter?
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Take for instance the lawsuits filed by various Catholic groups against the ObamaCare contraception mandates. If you’re a Fox News viewer, you’ve undoubtedly heard about this piece of news — arguably one of the biggest stories on the defense of religious freedom against an encroaching federal government in U.S. history. But how much do viewers of other networks know — how “well-informed” are they on this topic?
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The May 21 editions of ABC’s World News and NBC’s Nightly News failed to report the story altogether and CBS Evening News gave this historic news story a mere 19 seconds of air time.
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The Media Research Center’s Brent Bozell calls this the media’s “worst bias by omission” that he’s seen in the last 25 years:
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This is not a mistake, nor is it an editorial oversight by the broadcast networks. This is a deliberate and insidious withholding of national news to protect the ‘Chosen One’ who ABC, CBS and NBC have worked so hard to elect and are now abusing their journalistic influence to reelect Obama. And when a network like CBS mentions the suit ever-so-briefly, they deliberately distort the issue by framing it as a contraception lawsuit instead of what they know it to be: a religious freedom issue. It’s bogus, dishonest – a flat out lie.
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The fact is that the Catholic Church has unleashed legal Armageddon on the administration, promising ‘we will not comply’ with a health law that strips Catholics of their religious liberty. If this isn’t ‘news’ then there’s no such thing as news. This should be leading newscasts and the subject of special, in-depth reports. Instead, these networks are sending a clear message to all Americans that the networks will go to any lengths – even censoring from the public an event of this historic magnitude – to prevent the release of any information that will hurt Obama’s chances of re-election.
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The so-called ‘news’ media have sunk to a new low. This is despicable.
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Further, an analysis by MRC’s Matt Balan found that of all the Big Three networks’ 36 stories, interviews and mentions of the HHS contraception mandate from January 30 to February 15 earlier this year, morning and evening guests favored politicians over church officials by a margin of 60 to 9. NBC News (not surprisingly) had the worst ratio, hosting 25 politicians to speak on the subject and just 3 members of Catholic Church clergy.
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So, Farleigh Dickinson, I’m sure your analysis would be correct… if we wanted to measure how much NBC viewers know about why Obama is right and the Catholic Church is wrong. But we don’t. Instead, in the context of history and the preservation of freedom, the blatant bias of your favorite networks is turning out more rhetoric than news.
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theblaze.com/blog/2012/05/24/fox-news-viewers-least-informed-hardly/
 
Al_Moritz said:
Since when is evolution a liberal agenda? It is science.
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They explored “Why we have tears” from an evolutionary standpoint. Of course they interview two gay men to make their point. One cheats on the other and the cheated on man cries. Killed two birds with one stone on that story.

And I do believe macro-evolution is still legitimately debatable.
 
Zoltan_Cobalt said:
FOX News continues to have the highest ratings and largest audience share than all other cable news networks.

“You can fool some of the people all of the time or you can fool all of the people some of the time…but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.”

Ratings count!

If the majority of people thought FOX was untrustworthy, biased or dishonest…CNN and MSNBC would be up there in lights.
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There is no majority in Total Day ratings.

tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2015/03/06/cable-news-ratings-for-thursday-march-5-2015/372041/
 
I like nightly news hour, and NPR. I watch a lot of international news. A journalism background will do that to you. I do like MSNBC but they make no bones about being left leaning and I can appreciate that.
 
qui_est_ce said:
They explored “Why we have tears” from an evolutionary standpoint. Of course they interview two gay men to make their point. One cheats on the other and the cheated on man cries. Killed two birds with one stone on that story.

And I do believe macro-evolution is still legitimately debatable.
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Aah, (bordering on) evolutionary psychology it seems. Yes, most of that is pseudoscience, unlike macro-evolution which is well established science.
 
Al_Moritz said:
Seriously?

I used to watch Fox News for a few years until some folks pointed out to me that it was not trustworthy. Took me just a short while to figure out they were right.
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I never watched it for years for the same reason. Other people claimed it was not trustworthy. Then I decided to check it out for myself and realized the only reason they thought it wasn’t trustworthy was because it didn’t support their opinions.
 
I have very little to say about the news aspect of Fox News, although much on the network is social commentary more than straight news. They have perfected the science of the blonde short skirt, high heeled, well endowed female anchor/co-host. Other networks, have started following suit.:rolleyes:
 
SyroMalankara said:
I have very little to say about the news aspect of Fox News, although much on the network is social commentary more than straight news. They have perfected the science of the blonde short skirt, high heeled, well endowed female anchor/co-host. Other networks, have started following suit.:rolleyes:
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Is this Bill O’Reilly or Watters World? I agree it’s a little lightweight and right wing but the claim that they don’t report mainly straight news is false.
 
FollowChrist34 said:
Also with the death of the newspaper, online newspapers are forced to rely more and more on sponsors to survive - this affects their choice of news stories and approach to coverage.
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Yes, and it unfortunately leads to things like this:

youtube.com/watch?v=Pl7sWtUu1Fc#t=52

When the media has to purchase stories to have something to report, it means we have lost the benefit of having several reporters doing their actual job. This centralization of the news does not keep the media balanced or fair. In fact it downright primes it for using media as a manipulation of masses, which I think everyone should be very concerned about. Truth is truth, but truth needs to be sought. No man is an island and iron sharpens iron.
 
qui_est_ce said:
NPR has a definite liberal agenda. Not a day goes by they don’t push evolution, gay rights, or climate change. At least Bill O’Reilly (I know he’s a commentator), has opposing points of view on his show.
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I know that NPR is considered “liberal” media, but just sharing news about anything ‘liberal agenda’ does not necessarily make it bent toward or pushing that view. I for one am glad that there is media out there reporting on these things. It is good to have all sides. Let people have their say. Shutting people up never solved any problem… at least not for very long.

All the great Catholic debaters won because they knew their opponents side very well, listened to what they had to say and started from their side. They also treated them with charity and respect. God is neither all liberal or all conservative. I know I quoted your post, and I’m not saying this about you qui est ce, but just to people in general: Beware of breaking things down in such a simplistic code. The pharisees did as such and Jesus was not pleased with what they were doing.
 
Is it possible that this is a case of a united right and a divided left? It seems like there are many places one can go to get a left of center opinion on the news, but there are less places for right of center commentary. Perhaps Fox does so well because, unlike other sources, Fox is able to take a larger slice out of a less divided pie.

As far as bias, I can only echo what others have said by stressing the need to review news articles from both perspectives.
 
MacBP said:
Is it possible that this is a case of a united right and a divided left? It seems like there are many places one can go to get a left of center opinion on the news, but there are less places for right of center commentary. …
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That’s a really good point. It reminds me of why I left the left long ago… too many opinions, no solid answers and everything going its own way led to nothing good or truly unifying.
 
AnneElizabeth said:
That’s a really good point. It reminds me of why I left the left long ago… too many opinions, no solid answers and everything going its own way led to nothing good or truly unifying.
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“If you’re not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you’re not a conservative at forty you have no brain.” 👍
 
FollowChrist34 said:
“If you’re not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you’re not a conservative at forty you have no brain.” 👍
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… and that is me and what I was sayin’. ( LOL! )

That’s great, I never heard that before. 😃
 
AnneElizabeth said:
… and that is me and what I was sayin’. ( LOL! )

That’s great, I never heard that before. 😃
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👍 Me too!

It’s attributed to Churchill no less, but when I went to Google to get it I saw all these websites debunking that claim so I didn’t put an author in the post. It is true anyway, no matter who said it. He may have done I guess.
 
Thanks, I was just about to look it up.

I’ve heard it said that having children of your own does it to you… that is what my once liberal now conservative brother in law said to me. I don’t have children and I changed, but I do think its also true that having your own family to raise makes a change in perspectives.
 
FollowChrist34 said:
“If you’re not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you’re not a conservative at forty you have no brain.” 👍
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Likewise, when people emerge from the swamps and crop fields they tend to become liberal. Maybe because exposure to the diversity of people and culture in cities changes minds.
 
EmperorNapoleon said:
Likewise, when people emerge from the swamps and crop fields they tend to become liberal. Maybe because exposure to the diversity of people and culture in cities changes minds.
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They must leave their brains in the swamps and fields…
 
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