08-30-2021, 04:48 PM
(08-30-2021, 01:15 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: ** 30-Aug-2021 World View: Fox News
(08-30-2021, 09:25 AM)David Horn Wrote: Fox never supports the left, center or even the center right. It's full-right full-time. Nothing is balanced ... ever! Note how effectivel;y they've managed to kill many of their own supporters by shilling for nonsense COVID policies and against vaccines. In foreign affaris, they have no philosophy, or they wouldn't have switched from hard neocon in the pre-Trump days to ... I don't even know anymore. They've even played XOXO with the Taliban, so God only knows what they believe -- probably nothing based on the evidence.
That's simply not true, though you may think so if all you know about are Tucker and Hannity.
and Pirro and Rivera and Dobbs and Ingraham and ...
John Wrote:But the 6 pm ET "Fox Report" is totally balanced, or at most center-right. Bret Baier's reporting is almost totally non-partisan, and the panels always contain a Democrat Party strategist who is given plenty of time to present the Democrat Party position.
However, even the analysts aren't monolithic. For example, some of them hate Trump. The Covid policies are a good example, because it shows how stupid the Democrats are. Yes, there are a variety of opinions expressed on Fox about Covid policies, mostly opposing forced masking or lockdowns. But remember that 18 months ago Trump was talking about a Covid lab leak, and the Democrat idiots were calling that a "conspiracy theory." Then a few months ago, the Democrats were humiliated by having to admit that a lab leak was possible. I recall ABC's Jonathan Karl saying, "Just because Trump said something doesn't mean it wasn't true." But there are lots of things like that, where the Democrats called them conspiracy theories, and had to make humiliating retreats.
The lab-leak "theory" of 6 months ago was based on conjecture. In the science-based world, that's what we call a hypothesis. Trump and the Foxbots called it a fact. Is it true? Beats me. Beats the CIA too, and they have real resources.
John Wrote:But you're obviously missing the whole point. You listen to the sewer channels like CNN, where you only get the news approved the Democrat Party censors, and that's wrong most of the time. Fox News has people that state lots of different opinions. Occasionally, some of them
turn out to be wrong, but most of them turn out to be right. That's a GOOD thing. That's why the Fox slogan is: "We report, you decide." The CNN slogan is: "We report, and we decide for you." CNN is perfect for someone incapable of actual thought.
My prime sources are the New York Times and NPR. I listen to and read others, and even watch a few shows on C-SPAN and MSNBC.
John Wrote:You should watch Fox's 6 PM ET newscast. You may discover you like it much better than whatever garbage you currently listen to.
Unlikley. That's dinner time, and I don't want to toss cookies in the middle of a meal.
John Wrote:By the way, I'm curious to know what you mean by, "They've even played XOXO with the Taliban." I don't know what that means, and I didn't even know that you watched Fox News.
Hugs and kisses. For some reason, the Taliban is now semi-revered by the hard right. Go figure.
John Wrote:David Horn Wrote:If your "news" is sourced on the hard-right media, no wonder you have a twisted idea of what's true.
Once again, simply not true. I also get my news from MSNBC, the BBC, al-Jazeera, C-Span, and other broadcast sources, as well as dozens of online sources. In the last few days, I've watched a lot of MSNBC's coverage of Afghanistan. All in all, I believe that I am better informed than you or 99.9% of the rest of the world. I have to be, in view of the huge number of people like yourself that constantly attack me.
Why do I doubt this? Well, never mind.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.
