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

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Lapey said:
It’s funny, I watch Fox every day and have for as many years as it came available on the service I subscribe and I have never seen what you describe; at least not as news. I also watch the other two cable news networks, but mainly Fox. I don’t think you have watched anything on Fox. I believe you have been told by others have said about Fox and have bought the narrative hook line and sinker.

It’s what Rush affectionately calls a “low information voter”. Those who base their opinions off of soundbites spoken in left or right wing comfort zones and then base their opinions and thoughts and sadly vote from those ill formed opinions.

Sadly there are too many on both sides of the aisle who do what you apparently do.
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rush?
 
FOX will cover religious news the most so I will stick with them.
 
Since Fox is most trusted or has biggest audience, does that mean it is the mainstream media?
 
pnewton said:
I get all my news from the CAF World News Forum. 😃
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I only watch cable news at the gym, and then I switch back and forth between cnn and fox based on which channel has the more interesting news at the moment. I do read the Wall Street Journal everyday though, so I guess my news is biased through that medium.
 
Fox does have the best news. Of course most of their programs are really news commentary. Through those show one can also get the news … but with commentaries pro and con. Sometimes the other news agencies surprise me and do fair coverage of a story that breaks the PC template. Fox is far from perfect but far in the lead per the MSMs competition IMO.
 
Michael_Mayo said:
A pretty narrow view for a channel claiming to be “Faith and Balanced”.
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That would be fair and balanced, right? You see the network promoting republican politics, i see it as reporting news along with many programs offering commentary that don’t slant to the left like all the rest. Thats what you call right winged. You can keep your msnbc, i use that channel to remind me what not to do, think or how not to act.
 
Lapey said:
That would be fair and balanced, right? You see the network promoting republican politics, i see it as reporting news along with many programs offering commentary that don’t slant to the left like all the rest. Thats what you call right winged. You can keep your msnbc, i use that channel to remind me what not to do, think or how not to act.
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Either way, it is a subjective matter. Fox claims to be fair and balanced, but we have no objective way of measuring that. So people on the left view fox as promoting republican values, people who are a little less on the left see msnbc as promoting democrat values. But there is no objective measure for either.
 
stinkcat_14 said:
Either way, it is a subjective matter. Fox claims to be fair and balanced, but we have no objective way of measuring that. So people on the left view fox as promoting republican values, people who are a little less on the left see msnbc as promoting democrat values. But there is no objective measure for either.
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Thanks for repeating what was already posted Captain.
 
Lapey said:
That would be fair and balanced, right? You see the network promoting republican politics, i see it as reporting news along with many programs offering commentary that don’t slant to the left like all the rest. Thats what you call right winged. You can keep your msnbc, i use that channel to remind me what not to do, think or how not to act.
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msnbc is just as slanted in the opposite direction. let us just acknowledge these realities.

Can you goive an example of some of the “many programs offering commentary that don’t slant to the left like all the rest”?
 
Michael_Mayo said:
msnbc is just as slanted in the opposite direction. let us just acknowledge these realities.

Can you goive an example of some of the “many programs offering commentary that don’t slant to the left like all the rest”?
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I guess i didn’t make my point as clearly as i thought. My post was simply stating that many programs on Fox are commentary on the news, not necessarily news programs. but whether they are news programs or news commentary they are not slanted to the left like the rest, which is why i watch Fox. The others, msnbc, cnn, are nit places i go to for anything other than reminding me why i watch Fox.
 
Lapey said:
I guess i didn’t make my point as clearly as i thought. My post was simply stating that many programs on Fox are commentary on the news, not necessarily news programs. but whether they are news programs or news commentary they are not slanted to the left like the rest, which is why i watch Fox. The others, msnbc, cnn, are nit places i go to for anything other than reminding me why i watch Fox.
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And I misread you. I thought you said Fox has prorgrams not slanted to the right so I asked for examples. I see now that you did not make that claim. Sorry.😊
 
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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Agree. Bias is one thing, ignoring or bending facts is another.
 
stinkcat_14 said:
Either way, it is a subjective matter. Fox claims to be fair and balanced, but we have no objective way of measuring that. So people on the left view fox as promoting republican values, people who are a little less on the left see msnbc as promoting democrat values. But there is no objective measure for either.
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Oh yes there are objective measures…

“Paying a Price For Bias? MSNBC Drops to Fourth Place in Crucial Ratings Demo in July” - newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2014/07/30/paying-price-bias-and-slop-july-msnbc-fell-number-four-25-54-demo#sthash.D5gSiQeo.dpuf

“The New Yorker Magazine Admits Fox News is More Balanced than MSNBC”
townhall.com/tipsheet/heatherginsberg/2013/08/28/the-new-yorker-admits-fox-news-is-more-balanced-than-msnbc-n1679931

“Pew Study Finds MSNBC the Most Opinionated Cable News Channel By Far”
forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2013/03/18/pew-study-finds-msnbc-the-most-opinionated-cable-news-channel-by-far/
 
Zoltan_Cobalt said:
Oh yes there are objective measures…

“Paying a Price For Bias? MSNBC Drops to Fourth Place in Crucial Ratings Demo in July” - newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2014/07/30/paying-price-bias-and-slop-july-msnbc-fell-number-four-25-54-demo#sthash.D5gSiQeo.dpuf

“The New Yorker Magazine Admits Fox News is More Balanced than MSNBC”
townhall.com/tipsheet/heatherginsberg/2013/08/28/the-new-yorker-admits-fox-news-is-more-balanced-than-msnbc-n1679931

“Pew Study Finds MSNBC the Most Opinionated Cable News Channel By Far”
forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2013/03/18/pew-study-finds-msnbc-the-most-opinionated-cable-news-channel-by-far/
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These are all based on opinions, not objective measures.
 
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