WASHINGTON (CNN) – Far from backing away from its recent slam at 24-hours cable news outlet Fox News, the White House is stepping up its criticism of the cable news network.
“The reality of it is that Fox often operates almost as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party,” White House Communications Director Anita Dunn said in an interview that aired Sunday on CNN’s “Reliable Sources.”
Dunn said that Obama had recently chosen not to appear on Fox because of the administration’s belief that Fox is ideologically predisposed against Obama and his agenda.
But Dunn pointed out that during his presidential campaign and since being elected, Obama has been interviewed by Fox News, and will be again in the future.
“He’ll go on Fox because he engages with ideological opponents,” Dunn told CNN’s Howard Kurtz. “He has done that before and he’ll do it again.”
But Dunn was quick to add that the White House does not consider an interview with Fox comparable to interviews with other media outlets.
“When he goes on Fox, he understands that he’s not really going on it as a news network, at this point. He’s going to debate the opposition. And that’s fine. He never minds doing that."
“They’re widely viewed as a part of the Republican Party – take [the GOP’s] talking points, put’em on the air, take [the GOP’s] opposition research, put’em on the air.” Dunn also told Kurtz.
“But let’s not pretend that they’re a news network the way CNN is,” the White House communications director added.
In a written statement given to CNN, Fox News said its programming was comparable to the editorial page of a newspaper.
“An increasing number of viewers are relying on Fox News for both news and opinion,” Fox News Senior VP Michael Clemente said in the statement, “and the average news consumer can certainly distinguish between the A-section of the newspaper and the editorial page, which is what our programming represents.
“So with all due respect to anyone who might still be confused about the difference between news reporting and vibrant opinion, my suggestion would be to talk about the stories and the facts rather than the attack the messenger . . . which over time has never worked.”
In an interview with Time Magazine released late last week, Dunn said Fox News was “opinion journalism masquerading as news.”
"They are boosting their audience. But that doesn't mean we are going to sit back," also told the magazine.
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I love it take it strait from the GOP playbook about labeling the media a certain way over and over again so the people think there is some liberal slant. keep hitting them with it Obama. the media is conservative bias and that is wrong.
make that...what is MSNBC and the NY Times?
so many years of GOP harping about liberal media bias and now the tables have been turned and they dont like it?
FOX News has gotton sooo ridculous that anyone with a brain the size of a pea could figure them out. They are so over the top they look foolish. FOX News is a farce.
Every other station acts like an arm of the white house so what's the difference?
I agree that they're like the editorial page of a newspaper, a very right wing newspaper, but a lot of people don't seem to be aware of that and think they're actually reporting the news. Herein lies the problem.
Fox a news outlet? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Fox varies from the All Testosterone Channel (that would include both Malkin and Coulter) for obvious reasons to the Cartoon Channel for its juvenile approach to the world, but it is very definitely not to be mistaken for a news channel.
Which is why I'm at a loss when broadcast news and other cable news channels emulate Fox.
FOX News is made up of propaganda that only the stupid believe.
While its quite healthy and advisable to debate "oponents", Fox News have always surprised me with their uncannily biased reporting against Pres Obama. Its almost shameful at times if it wasn't democratic..
Anyone with a brain has FOX News figured out.
Obama is afraid to appear on FOX because he is afraid to do a REAL interview and answer real questions. He is so used to be on stations that are in the tank with him, he couldn't handle a real interview. What a huge chicken this man is. If he wants to get his message out for his healthcare plan, he needs to go to the #1 rated cable station........FOX.
FOX News is always the butt of our jokes in the cafeteria. I think most of us know what they are truly about....nothing.
i think President Obama would be wise to fire some of his advisers....in this free world it's a good thing to have differences of opinions....we may not like what the other says in objection to our own views....but just the same it's a right that should be cherished not disregarded or belittled.
Funny thing is..I primarly view CNN but also check out FOX to see what is different and it appears they get the AP stories on line sooner...they like all other sites have the political forum's..but it really is the readers decision to take away from it or not.
He knows he doesn't stand a chance answering hard questions, so he avoids them. Even that weasel Barney Frank goes on Bill O'reilly.
Mr. President, go on FOX, we deserve to see an interview with the questions we want answered. When you go on with your buddys, Couric, Gibson and your best friends at MSNBC we don't watch, it is all just talking points.
Obama can make all the excuses he wants............he knows he would choke and chooses to avoid FOX..........the only source for HONEST reporting.
Thanks to FOX News and me pointing out all their over-the-top, outragous and obsured propaganda, four of my friends voted Democratic. In realty, most of America do know how FOX operates. They'll nuts on a stick. They need to be called out......
Fox News is the Republican new network Democrats know it Republicans know it. Anyone that watches it knows it. You can't get away with calling yourself a real news network just because your traffic reports are unbiased.
FOX News need to be called out on their obsured comments. They never have to prove or justify their comments. They have become a yapping machine that never thinks before they blurt something out. Idiots one and all. GO CNN
That's why I don't watch Fox. Anyone who thinks Glenn Beck and Ann Coulter are even worth the time of day..........
Faux News...We Distort, You Comply.
If Fox News operates like a arm for the GOP
What about MSNBC, CNN, CBS, ABC opearating like a arm for the White House?
pleeeese... fox news is a joke to smart americans. i feel so bad for the older uneducated folks that take this garbage they spew out as real news! . i can't stand to watch the bashing, nasty slurs that come from all there mouths. shepard smith is the only professional they have worth listening to. greta has her moments but as a whole they seem to be grasping at anything they can find negative on president obama.
glen beck as well as sean hannity are the most disgracful of the bunch with open hatred for our president. neither are smart enough to handle an interview with barack obama neither are smart enough to talk intelligently about anything other than made-up dirt coming from republican has beens or dick cheney. obama would wipe the floor with either one of them.harvard grad against two non-college red-necks......hummmm!
I agree. Fox News reporting does seem like an arm of the GOP. I don't tune in unless I want to hear what the opposition has to say. For instance, I tuned in briefly to hear the Left's response to President Obama being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
I banned fox news in our home years ago because I had young children in the house who might have believed this was an actual news channel. We use a variety of news sources and trust very few. The BBC and CNN being the most used news in our household.
I find it humorous that the White House discredits FOX News but thinks CNN and MSNBC to be legitimate. Give me a break!
That's true. Fox news is not fair or balanced.
That is one against 5, CNN, msnbc, nbc, cbs and abc are the arm of the Democrats – but even when it's 5 to 1 Fox is beating them all because when the American people want the real news – they go to Fox.
Hilarioius comments from Dunn – did she at some point talk about how NBC and especially MSNBC is nothing more than the Democratic party on air? Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
Dunn is right on. I wish I could remember the story that Fox claimed that Cnn, Cbs, Nbc, ect, ect didn't report on in a full page add. I know that wasn't true because I saw it reported on all all those stations.
Fox News was the only network that carried the ACORN story for the first week until it went viral and all the left leaning networks, including CNN, had to pick it up. Funny how the WH didn't mention Keith Obermann and MSNBC, which are their lapdogs.
It does make you wonder. Only in America can a foreign billionaire who is fond of China and supports their abuse of human rights controls the media to so many, and he allows 24 hours a day/ 7days a week to trash anything that Obama, or any democrat, does with official republican talking points. Then put in anti American anchors like Beck and Hannity who could not report the truth even if it bit them in the butt.
so, what;s the big deal?
cnn, msnbc, nbc cbs and all the rest are propaganda outlets for the obama administration..lol
it is all fair and balanced after all isnt it?
its obvious, only a fool will deny that, its a straight up propaganda machine 24/7 with republican talking points with Juan William parading as a liberal just for the money { at least he tries }
Yep, Fox news is to the GOP as ACORN is to the Democrats. Which do you think is more corrupt?
Fox is a joke. Pure propaganda. The 'message' they peddle is misinformation, hate and fear – in other words, Republican talking points and values.
Since I try to review all news sources to get opinions on all the different sides, it has been really obvious to me that Fox News will only report things in a very negative way if it concerns anything about the President. I found it very interesting that they did not even have a headline about him winning the Nobel Peace prize. Whether you thought he deserved it or not, it was news.
I also found it very interesting that from the interview with Robert Gates, they made zero mention of what Gates willingly said on the CNN interview and that was that President Obama's strategy in March was the first time the US had come up with a strategy.
To say they are not biased is being deliberately obtuse.
I don't intend to listen to anyone who is negative or warm & fuzzy all the time. I don't watch Keith Olberman nor do I watch, read, or listen to the Glenn Becks, Rush Limbaugh's, etc. of the world.
It's about time someone said what Fox News really is. Fox News is a joke.
I'll still don't understand why the WH is attacking Fox News for this stuff. The people who pay attention already know this and those that watch it for their political information, aren't going to believe it from the WH anyway. All in all, waste of time.
It's very irresponsible for the White House Communications Director Anita Dunn to criticize Fox News for not agreeing and celebrate President Obama's agenda. When President Bush was in power the majority of the main news outlets acted like ideology opponents rather than a fair and honest news networks. Fox News leans to the right. It's very simple and practical. If you like the left point of view watch CNN. If you like the right [GOP] point of view, watch FOX NEWS.
The White House is complaining because one, only one news network would not agree with them when the rest is practically their voice. It seems they will speak out and criticize whatever source of information doesn't act like they wish they acted.
It is and has been an arm of the Republican party. Russia has Pravda – the Republicans have Fox News. Not much difference. Fair and balanced? Just a slogan, an illusion.
AS if we didnt' already kn w that FOX IS an arm of the Republican party ! duh!
Sadly, Mr. Clemente, distinguishing fact from opinion is not a skill the average news consumer necessarily possesses today. We are too used to television telling us what to eat, wear, drive, and so on. The issue here is truth in journalism, not the right to editorialize. Perhaps Fox News Network should make the same disclaimer John Stewart does on the Daily Show.
I agree that FOX does act in an un-official capacity for the GOP, just as Beck, Limbaugh, and Lou Dobbs are.
One of the biggest issues is that these people and stations state they are independents and are giving analysis. In truth through their statements and actions are only giving their sided opinion.
Analysis is taking unbiased facts and examining each. The conclusion or perspective of that analysis is opinion.
A true journalistic piece would provide facts and analysis but leave the opinion or conclusion to the viewer.
The number of viewers at FOX NEWS is on the rise. The drop out rates from high schools is on the rise. Watching FOX NEWS is increasing because it is easier to understand the pictures than it is all those funny words.
So true......FOX is to the GOP what Komeni was to the Taliban.......Chilling......
Fox News is a right wing propaganda machine. I've sat it medical waiting rooms and been subjected to out and out lies. I want to know how an Australian with an agenda can control so many forms of media in the United States. If there aren't laws against this there should be. We have enough problems without Murdoch inciting violence. Why? Why are we allowing this?
what do decent normal thinking Republicans think?
I'm glad that the Fox News exec at least tacitly admits that it is an opinion forum, rather than news. And that would be fine, if that is how they marketed themselves. But they call themselves "Fox News", not "Fox Perspectives" or "The Fox View", so he is full of baloney as far as how they are presented and try to position themselves, especially with their Orwellian double-speak "Fair and Balanced" slogan. "News" implies that the editors of the outlet at least TRY to achieve an objective, balanced presentation of the facts–FREE of spin–allowing the thoughtful viewer to reach his/her own conclusions.
I admit, I cannot make myself watch more than a couple minutes of that network, but the fact that a Jon Stewart is able to find so many examples PER DAY of simply outrageous right-wing rantings and explicity anti-Obama cheerleading on an alleged "news" network is downright chilling.
If FOX admits they're the equivalent to a newspaper's editorial page, perhaps they should stop calling themselves FOX "NEWS".
And the rest of the media acts as the body of this Obama administration.
Come on guys stop playing patty cake back and forth, and just deliver the news.
The White House is absolutely correct. Fox News is NOT a news channel it is for the Republican right-winged agenda and quite frankly that's their choice. But they shouldn't call themselves a news channel, that's false advertising.
I've never heard a fair point-of-view of anything the Democrats nor Obama has done on Fox News. NEVER!! How can everything this man does or the Democrats do be against American ideals & what is best for the Country. Fox, which owns CNN, should take notes. True everything on CNN is not unbiased but CNN does not come out and repeat almost verbatim the Republican daily talking point.
I can see the future.
I see a comment war full of people who can see the obvious and people who continue to pretend that Fox News is actually news because they are unable to differentiate fact from loaded political opinions.
President Obama WH does not like Fox News because it does not work like part of WH public relation department unlike CNN,ABC,NBC etc.
Thats the truth....
The only reason I look at is sports. Other than that its a garbage station with all the hate they spread. FOX NEWS should be boycotted until they correct themselves. Also sponsors who advertise on this station should also be boycotted against. This way i bet they will report the news more fairly.
That's because if FOX didn't give both side of an issue, all the liberal media like MSNBC (FAR LEFT) and the rest of the media only tell the liberal democratic side.
Fox News, Microsoft Works...few of the many things in life that don't make sense.
I've noticed more and more businesses have flipped the switch off Fox News. Maybe those years of telling companies to either turn off the propaganda or lose business has paid off.
While I am a firm believer in our Constitutional right to freeedom of speech, I also believe that freedom of speech has to work BOTH WAYS.
If the Fox "news" channel is going to continue being a propaganda machine for the conservative right, then people who disagree with them, including the White House, have every right to call them on the carpet for it.
Exposing the truth about a rightwing conservative propaganda network masquerading as a "news" channel has absolutely nothing to do with the suppression of free speech.
As someone who voted for Obama, I find Anita Dunn's comments to be nonsense. I really hope the President know that's nonsense. He's got to; he's smarter than that. Fox may be tougher on this Administration than the "national" networks, MSNBC and the New York Times, but the President has immense tools at his disposal to get out his views. And if he really wants to persuade the country that he's right, rather than "triangulate" a la Clinton, or create wedge issues a la Rove, then he'll "cowboy up" and answer questions posed by Fox at least as often, if not more often, than those posed by his mostly-uncritical admirers elsewhere.
Wow, they actually admit they're not news! That's huge!! They are just like the editorial section of a newspaper, where editors give personal opinions and nothing has to be based on truth. That's pretty much exactly what the white house is saying when they say opinion journalism. I've never heard Fox admit that before though. They continue to say they're fair and balanced, when we all know that's a joke.
Bill O'reilly has consistently out done ALL the other networks for the past 8 years – that means someone is watching – the American public. Maybe this white house should start treating FOX and the American people with some respect. Start telling the truth and not try to deceptively cram unwanted liberal policy down our throats.
So what? all the other "News" outlets operate as arms of the liberal democrats. The only problem is that the liberals have way too many arms, or shall we say tentacles.
The sad thing is many uneducated people watch Fox "News" and they don't know the difference between opinion journalism and real journalism.
Its really sad that people cant tell the difference between news and opinion.
THis is rich. All the liberal news churners got Obama the ticket to the White House. Brian WIlliams and Chris Matthews have a love affair with OBama and they are boo-hooing about Fox News? Actually, in a democracy, it is now a good thing to have Fox News around so people can hear the other side of the story and decide for themselves where the truth may lie. I never thought I would be hooraying Fox News – but that's what happens when so-called neutral news organizations play favorites.
Fox News Senior VP Michael Clemente seems to be confused about the news function. As I understand it, reporting the news is to present the facts leaving the reporter's opinion out of it.
Faux News presents opinion as fact which is a perversion of the news function. If Faux News wants to offer opinion, it should advertise itself as Fox Opinion and quit pretending to be a news source.
Hannity, O'Reilly, and Beck should be presented as entertainers rather than analysts or news reporters. They are in the same business as Rush Limbaugh.
Newspapers clearly label their opinion page as the editorial page and readers understand that the opinions presented on the Editorial Page are not news.
Anyone that would rely on Fox News as their sole source of news is simply just afraid. They do not want to know the truth.
I agree. They torture truth by waffling often times. They lack the balanced objectivity that I exppect of a typical news channel. I am a conservative christian but if you arm-twist the truth in order to feel right about doing the will of God , then you aren't doing the will of God. Euphemistic hate propaganda isn't right! Believing that blood shedding other than that of Christ means liberation from bondage and spreading of the gospel isn't right. Believing that looks determine authenticity of one's citizenship isn't right: I could go on and on about what is wrong with fox news.
Give balanced reporting . Tell both sides of the story and let the viewers discern the truth to set themselves free.
It's not even a masquerade, it's just a flim-flam. You can't believe anything on False News any more than you can believe anything that comes out of the mouth of any GOPer – which is to say, nothing at all.
Sensible people should boycott FUX News until they start fair and factual reporting. Not opinions, just the truth!
Fox News is no news at all. It should be called what it is, the right- wing's poison machine.
LOL, Fox does not deny this. So what if Fox is a part of the Republican party. Why shouldn't the republican party have its own news channel?
"Fox News said its programming was comparable to the editorial page of a newspaper"
I respect their honesty about that and for admitting that they are presenting editorials rather than unbiased news.
It is time to enforce the Patriot Act and start rounding up these domestic terrorists Rush Limbaugh , Glenn Beck, Michelle Bachman,
Sean Hannity and the rest of the right wing lunatics who are inciting
violence with their lies and propaganda for the RNC. There is no freedom of speech to defame our President. Nor is their freedom of speech to incite rioting and terrorism. Send them to Guantanamo for enhanced interrogations....after all it's "not torture" right??
They're not a news netowrk. That's painfully obvious. But neither is MSNBC. It's not like one side is right and the other is wrong. Although I will posit that FOX has a far greater number of complete lunatics it parades out as commentators, along with their absolutely bizzare opinions.
I stick with NPR, a few newspapers and the Jim Lehrer News Hour. I mean you'd have to be an absolute moron to listen to Hannity or Beck. Just absolutely stupid. yet, our country is large and, yes, there are really dumb people in it who crave being used as tools by being spoon fed disinformation or other nonsense.
As far as MSNBC, it's not as bad, but after awhile you would get sick of the obvious slant of that reporting as well. The simple solution is not to listen to either one. They just feed into what you may or may not want to hear. The wrost thing is having some organization provide you "facts" that are slanted or incorrect on such important issues as healthcare, foreign policy, etc. I listen to neither and seem to know more. try it some time.
Well, duh. Next you'll be telling us fire is hot and night follows day.
who cares.....
Why is the White House so scared of FOX News?
It makes the White House look so weak when you complain about something as trite as this......
If you don't like Fox...then don't turn them on.... If you are scared of someone being critical of the administration..... you have a lot to be scared of.....
Of course they are different than any other cable network....that's why they're #1 in all ratings catagories....
peole like provacation..... deal with it and stop complaining about a cable network that has little to do with you....
you're embarrassing yourself and the administration.....
Good for the white house. Fox will attack the Domocrates no matter what, so why treat them as a ligitiment news channel?
"opinion journalism masquerading as news"
Yes, this is an accurate yet scary description, based on how many people get "information" from this source.
Try and debate it all you want, any intelligent individual can see this.
If you feel so negatively about CNN, you're obviously giving them some credence by being here and commenting in the first place....
Isn't that to bad that one network will let a more balanced view be heard! For 40 years all ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, New York Times etc. has done is parrot the liberal democrat party line ! Since when did these entities become a political force for the power apparatus to keep the democrat party in power?
"opinion journalism masquerading as news.” --
Dunn hit the nail on the head and that was a nice way of putting it too.
Unfortunately, a lot of ignorant and/or mentally unstable people who view Fox on a regular basis are not capable of making that distinction.
Anybody who believes Faux News is actually news needs a lobotomy!!!!!!!!! They COULD NOT be more biased. And they don't even have the courage to own up to it, insisting they are "fair and balanced". Fixed and Biased is more like it. Unfortunately I do know some people who only watch Fox News and they all sound like stepford wives.
Good for the Obama administration! I'm sick of weak-kneed Dems allowing Republicans to pummel them with falsehoods. The gloves are off!!
The more they do thi and make themselves look more and more foolish the hgher Fox's rating go LOL
If you listen to Fox News, three particular anchors you will think that being a Liberal is the worst sin of all sins in America, you will hate being Liberal. The so called Fair and Balanced news network is nothing but a RIGHT WING TALKING POINTS TV CENTER
Who "cares"?
If you are a supporter of Fox News you need menthal healtcare.
You better support the dems so you can get affortable healthcare soon.
Is it now the policy of this President and White House to interfere with the people's right to free speech and freedom of the press?
Great, so Fox's senior VP at long last admits what Fox critics have been saying all along: That it's not "fair and balanced" journalism at all. Fox and its legion of right-wing sheep were denying it from the get-go, but it is finally confirmed by none other than a high-ranking Fox News representative.
So now the Fox fanatics have to ask themselves: If we were right and they were wrong all along about Fox's bias, how many other stances promoted and championed by Fox News are wrong? How many stories are being inaccurately presented by Fox and defended by its viewers, even as more reasonable, vindicated minds point out the inaccuracies?
“An increasing number of viewers are relying on Fox News for both news and opinion,"....Oh Brother!!!!!
Not viewers who have any intelligence.............
FOX prays on the lower people in the lower rung of the gene pool.
Oh, cry me a river! CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC and CBS are nothing but shills for the Democrat party for cryin' out loud. Everyone who isn't a left-wing nutjob knows this.
I don't care much for Fox News, but they at least keep the "mainstream" (sic) media on a nodding basis with the truth.
Let's be honest...if there wasn't Fox News, we still wouldn't know about ACORN's corruption, the fact that most of 0bama's czars are leftist wing-nuts, and that 0bama's poll numbers were dropping faster than the stock market.
FOX has been sued time and time again over the last several years over their claim of "fair and balanced" reporting when the facts repeatedly prove otherwise. Too bad you can't have a live Fact-Check running as FOX presents their Republican propaganda as actual "fair and balanced" news.
To all of you Fox "news" supporters out there who wrongly compare our President to the likes of Fidel Castro or Hugo Chavez:
You better thank God that our President is NOTHING like Castro or Chavez. If he were, Fox would have either been shut down completely or taken over by now.
The very fact that our President allows Fox to spew their hatred toward him is proof that he has NO intention of being a "communist dictator."
Comparable is a meaningless word. we can also compare a nuclear bomb to a firecracker......it's meaningless. The National Enquirer has more news than Fox news. Now....that's comparable !
I think it's a fair concession by Fox News that they represent a particlar mindset rather than a mechanism of objective reporting.
And why does CNN act like a Democratic newswork? CNN practically elected Obama. Admit it, folks. It's so obvious it stinks.
What do you want to bet that Ms. Dung thinks that the New York Times and MSNBC are objective and unbiased news sources?
There's no mistaking that Fox presents a right of center view but that's not what's behind their ratings increases. With Fox, the line between opinion and reporting is much more clearly defined than with most of the liberal main stream media that this administration favors.
Americans had a serious lapse of good judgment when they elected this administration but they are not as fundamentally stupid as the liberals would like everyone to think. They are slowly waking up from the binge and beginning to realize that the handsome and charming person they went to bed with doesn't look as good as he did the night before. In so doing they have realized the left wing media's participation in this hoax and are now looking elsewhere.
I dissagree, not to say the GOP doesn't love FOX News but the difference is FOX is not a political organization, it can say the things that are so crazy and so absurd because they don't have to worry about re-election. Fox News has become more like Rush Limbaughs talk show. Rush will tell you he is not a politician, he is simply a radio personality there to boost his rating by whipping up the far right into a frenzy. Now Fox has taken a page out of Rush's playbook and have decided to lose any credibility as a ballanced news organziation in favor of higher ratings. Well it seems to have been working but they shouldn't get mad next time a congressman or president decide they would rather appear on the daily show with Jon stewart than on their "News program"
In related news, the White House claims water is wet. Republicans disagree.
I personally watch fox cable news. I watch all three cable news outlets. That's the only way I can really judge what's going on. CNN is the fairest of the three. I really watch fox because these people scare me. I watch to see what kind of hate they're putting into people on the right heads. Even their opinion polls are only from the people on the right. And they state with pride these false poll numbers. How can they claim to be fair and balanced when the won't even let the oppossing view of the guest answer a question with out interrupting them if they (fox new host) do not agree. I want to say I watch for entertainment value but If something discusses you it's not entertainment. I watch because ignorance is bliss. You have to know what both side are thinking. And in my opinion the one that never has anything positive to say are not the ones to listen to. Negative = Evil= No good=Looking to belittle=Always looking to put their opposition down with no sense of fairness at all.
THAT'S RIGHT FOX NEWS ALWAYS LOOK FOR THE WORSE IN PEOPLE. JUDGE WITH A CLOSED MIND.
When they (fox news) start saying more positive things about our country and their leaders then they will be Fair and Balanced.
Fox is just a communication arm of the GOP. They are not a news station. They have not said one negative thing about the GOP. They promoted the tea party events, while other stations covered it. The National Inquire is more fair and balanced than Fox.
They're upset because Fox News doesn't bow down to the WH. They want them to fall over backwards for them and be like all of the other networks. Keep it up Fox News!
I don't even look at FOX news. It enrages me so, I can only imagine how it would rial up Rethuglican WingNuts.
It's time people called out FoxNews, they have been the GOP propaganda department for years now.
They have misinformed and mislead the American people for far too long. There is a seamless connection with the GOP and they share political people and goals.
I used to be so distressed when CNN would constantly quote FoxNews, so much so, that I switched to MSNBC.
the "Terrorist fist bump" statement From the FoxNews Reporter made me sick at what FoxNews passes as news reporting.
I tend to watch CNN,and FOX news channels and I find that FOX is very much on the money on every thing it reports.CNN is on the money too but it tends to water down some stories or reports them kind of late,while MSNBC is well its realy hard to pay attention when you have an IQ . over single diget.
Well...if it weren't for the fact that 98.9% of the time they report the truth and typically use common sense vs. liberal hysterics, than this article may be irrelevant.
I hope Fox News is able to get Anita Dunn fired as quickly as they got Van Jones fired. Unfortunately liberals, they are looking out for your reputations as well, as they seem to quickly call you out on your stupidity and put a check and balance on our radical politicians. Thank goodness for them.
So what if it is???? Does that mean the office of the President and the official White House blog can put out a vendetta on anyone who speaks anything they don't like? Seems MSNBC is a political arm of the Democrats so are they complaining about their fawning coverage? Where is that spirit of change Obama promised -seems the only change is the White House itself is becoming more vicious in its attacks on anything unfavorable. I thought the WH was supposed to be the house of all people not just ones they liked.
FOX News wouldn't exist if more people in the US had a higher IQ and education level. They pander to all the paranoid, illiterate, and unintelligent who can't formulate sensible thoughts for themselves.
It's funny how FOX and the GOP like to blame Obama for winning the Nobel and not having accomplished anything. He would accomplish everything if you obstructionist imbeciles weren't blocking his path. At least the man has real objectives to better this nation for all. Not like the previous occupant of the White House. FoxNews conveniently likes to omit how most of the problems we have today were caused by him.
It's a shame that Rupert Murdoch uses his media empire to feed baloney to people and prevent this nation from progressing. Mr. Murdoch shame on you . You have the power to really help this world but you use it to give right-wing lunatics a voice.
Thank God for CNN's balanced and real news reporting.
"I find it humorous that the White House discredits FOX News but thinks CNN and MSNBC to be legitimate. Give me a break!"
"That is one against 5, CNN, msnbc, nbc, cbs and abc are the arm of the Democrats – but even when it's 5 to 1 Fox is beating them all because when the American people want the real news – they go to Fox."
"Yep, Fox news is to the GOP as ACORN is to the Democrats. Which do you think is more corrupt?"
The statements above says it all....
"Fox News said its programming was comparable to the editorial page of a newspaper." – But ONLY the editorial page of a newspaper should give an opinion, not every news article, like even Fox finally admits to in their statement. Whoever gave that statement is either stupid or just doesn't even want to pretend that they are a news organization, and not just a collection of right wing opinion pieces
The truth has a liberal bias. That just the way it is. A network need merely stae what actually happens to be labeled liberal. Wheres Fox needs to slant the facts. I don't mind that they have their own opinion hell this is America My objection comes when Fox makes up it's own facts.
If the fired Oreily and Hannity and kept Shep Smith (an honest conservative) they would be all set.
Really? What a shock.
Keep hammering away at Faux News, the furthest thing from a legitimate news outlet on television.
FAUX News should be renamed FOX Entertainment. That woul dbe far more accurate.
Fox News, and I use the term "news" loosly has long been the propaganda channel for the GOP. Hannity, the hate mongering bigot, O"Reilly, the despicable Beck get their talking points from the Repiglicans. They hammer away at Obama, without mercy, every day. Yet they offer no solutions. Their mission in life is to tear down this country while a Democrat is in office. The die hard, 20% that dare to admit to being a Rethuglican, hang on their every word. Stupid people. Think for yourselves. Fox News: what goes around, comes around!!!!!
The w.h. wouldn't know a news outlet if it bit them in the butt. those buffoons couldn't operate unless their state controlled monkeys were slobberring all over them giving pseudo credibility to the ongoing lies and deceit that is the centerpiece of the kenyan muslim dog.
Faux News is only 'on the money" if you believe what they say before they say it ... seems reasonable if you are already in agreement. People who listen to Rush, move onto Hannity & Coulter then finish their day with Glenn and his crocodile tears are only hearing what they want to hear ... and won't believe anything else ... keep repeating lies and finally some will believe it is the truth ... like "birthers" You know. some people still think the world is flat and the moonwalk was done on a Hollywood sound stage ....
"Fake" News is a joke. I mean when you have Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, and Bill O'Reilly on your payroll then you're not an independent new source, I mean seriously people. Even Fox News' dumb blonde reporters are anti-obama, with their sarcastic and belittling remarks they always throw out. CNN is the only real NEWS channel.
I'm 66 years old I don't watch CBS,ABC,MSNBC.or FOX If it's not on CNN it's not news!
Libreals are whining because people can now get the truth. Liberals hate the truth. By the way, they just released the cable news ratings. The top 13 shows are all on Fox. And of course, CNN will not post this.
And by the way, for marketing purposes (and to prove those who argue differently wrong) there are more college educated viewers on Fox than on any other cable news network. Nice try!
well it looks to me that the republi-can'ts only response to this is that every other media outlet is Obama-lovin' so fox has to be idiotic and rude in order to be fair and balanced (ROFLMAO)
at least it goes to show the real minority that is the GOP.
and CNN and MSNBC an arm of the liberal left wing
At least fox will mention some important things such as the deficit and ACORN. CNN chooses to leave these details out.
Do me a favor you Fox critics. Take a look at the European newspapers on the internet and their comments on Obama's award and record. They are laughing at him and calling him just a talker and an empty suit.
Don't believe me? Try it. Or are you too scared and myopic?
Fox News does the exact same thing from the right that they claim that the other news netwroks are doing from the left...yet they posture themselves as being "fair and balanced." They are no such thing...there is nothing fair and balanced about what they do. They are hypocrites about their ideological slant on the news. That's the problem. If they would just be honest about what they are doing, I would have no problem with it. They will always look for the worst way to portray a Democrat and best way to portray a Republican...particularly if he/she is a conservative.
I find it so amusing reading all of these posts. The crazy leftys are incapable of acknowledging facts. The facts are that Fox is the most popular by far of all cable news networks. The top 13 shows are all on Fox. The smartest people watch Fox. And the majority of Americans consider themselves conservative. How about them aaples.
I don't actually mind the branding of Fox as the outlet for the Republican party. What I do mind is the denial that all others are the outlet of the Democratic party.
Just another example in the long, long list of double standards. Just another example to add to the long, long history of the media conditioning the public.
Obama's just mad that Fox took part in taking his ACORN down.
See the Greedy Old Party worship at the stained porcelain shrine of Faux Noise.
The White House is afraid of FOX News so how do we expect them to defeat the Taliban. Weak sauce direct from the White House.
When did Fox become a media outlet? Why is this news? Anyone with even a single functioning brain cell knows that Fox is owned by the same guy as the National Enquirer and is just a way for the GOP to keep the wingnuts up to date on their talking points.
If Fox compares itself to an opinion magazine, then maybe they should stop calling themselves "Fox news".
All I know is that FOX news is kicking the butt of these other so called news organizations in the ratings. The people of america want to hear the straight story so they listen to FOX news, it's obvious.
But the liberals that you guys are just don't see it that way and that's fine. Cry all you want, but FOX is too fair as far as most americans are concerned.
“An increasing number of viewers are relying on Fox News for both news and opinion..." because those viewers are not only incapable of distinguishing news from opinion, they are also incapable of forming an opinion on their own.
Doenst CNN stand for Clinton News network?
I suppose if Fox fact checked the Saturday Night Live skit that poked fun at Obama's lack of accomplishments they might be taken more seriously......
Apparently the White House has not learned that whenever they go after FOX News the onlt thing that happens is that FOX News ratings go up and the Obama Administration looks silly. NOTE to Obama and his staff: If you are so right & rightious, what are you afraid of??
Let them say what they want, but they shouldn't have press credentials, they are part of a political party. The Propaganda arm of the Gastapo, er GOP
one of fox's lead stories the past 48 hours is how a CBO report found 41 Billion in health care savings if tort reform were implemented in any health care bill. That's a lot of savings, no? Unfortunately, no tort reform is in any health care bill. i checked nbc, cnn, msnbc, abc, and cbs. No one reported it. If Fox news did not exist, the CBO report on this very important issue would never be reported. Call Fox biased and call them homers for the GOP, but thank goodness for them. No one reports anything that is not Pro-Dem. I'd be in the dark on other points of view.
The WH will only use media organization that will read the news they write. CNN=Clinton News Network, MSNBC=Socialists
Unfortunately for the gop, FOX reports both sides of the news unlike the government run news media who only reports made-up wonder stories for obama.
With the rating FOX has if they were an 'arm' of the gop, the gop would not be in the dumper. Isn't this sorta whiny cry baby for the obama administration? Only one news media reports ALL the news the rest of the so-called news media just reports glowing admiration for this so-called administration and just because one network doesn't bow down to the arrogant you-know-what the white house whines and cries like infantile morons.
I moved from Australia to the US in part to get away from Rupert Murdoch and his rabid, right-wing excuses for objective reporting. Unfortunately he followed me here and now I have to put up with the same rubbish from Fox that I thought I'd left behind. I'm sure when the founding fathers said "give me your poor, your huddled masses" they didn't have him in mind.
It is no surprise that this white house and liberals think CNN and MSNBC are unbiased in their reporting. There are no neutral news organizations today – all of them have political bias.
so lets look at this.She claims fox is an arm of the GOP yet she appears on CNN the channel that "Fact checked " a satire on snl that was not favorable to Obama. The administration does not want a free press they want Pravda
This statement is correct. Which I could live with if the rhetoric was not full of anger and hate. It is more the tone of what they say and not the partisanship alone.
Fox news is all hate talk. No healthcare yeh! No Olympics yeh! Go to war yeh!, No abortions but yeh, die in war yeh! Look out for yourselves and not your fellow country men yeh! Were religious minded but look out for ourselves Yeh!
Negative, negative, negative
A rational person needs only to listen to Fox "news" for a short time until it becomes obvious that it is totally slanted toward the GOP. This is so obvious that only a fool would try to say otherwise.
holy freedom of speech!
the white house calls out a news network for not liking HIM!
HIM must be very happy with MSNBC. (mighty soft news barack channel)
Why is the WH always pointing fingers and the blame lol. its like bush issueing statements saying msnbc is the left wing prop machine and denying them interviews. No 1 is forced to watch Fox yet the ratings indicate that every night all night they beat cnn, msnbc, hsn combined...does that tell u anything white house. they go to fox for the real truth not the watered down 5 days late truth.
For every story bashing Obama on Fox there are 10 kissing his butt on other networks. His news conferences have pre-staged Q&A's. No one dares ask hard questions. Fox is the only network to do it's job. The other MSM outlet's are just so biased to the left that when someone reports from the center it looks extreme. Try to tell me that CNN 'journalists' like Roland 'kiss-Obama's butt' Martin are impartial.
what a joke!!! CNN and all other media outlets are Obama's cheerleers. CNN is not a objective media outlet but is on the payroll of Obama's adminstration. CNN wake up and do you job and report the facts and don't let Obama and the liberals dictate what you report and information CNN provides to the amercian people. Until CNN does that, CNN's rating will continue to be low
Fox has done more to discredit America in the world than any other station....they conduct tv polls and exclude all the presidents supporters and blatantly lie and mislead their viewers....they are the reason people overseas think all Americans has a low IQ....WELL GOOD JOB THEN!
For real news watch CNN and BBC for trash news go for Fox
Liberals are so pathetic. They whine all the time that they are the champions of tolerance and diversity, but look at how they react to people who don't buy their party line. Liberals malign those who differ as "extremists" and "haters" just because they dare to have a different opinion than those held by the leftists.
The hypocrisy of today's anti-First Amendment left is positively sickening!
Fox rating is skyrocketing because it is just one network, which speaks the truth and reports for the people not the special interests.
CNN is everything but balanced.
One more comment JN claims the republicans are holding up Obamas acomplishments ,well maybe a little info from an ignorant fox watcher,the dems have alarge enough majority to pass any legislation they want without a single republican vote .Stop crying and pass something!
Let's be clear. To be a liberal, or a progressive, it takes a certian level of thought. Which is missing from the conservative platform.
Stop calling it FOX "News". It's not a "news" channel. You can't call every other outlet liberal because it isn't conservative.
I find it funny that so many people who claim to be supporters of Fox news are posting on a cnn message board that they claim it in the bed with Obama. I dont go to Fox message boards at all because I know what you are going to get. Repub talking points. Nothing wrong with that in my opinion. I just feel like CNN offers a independent prospective. Fox makes news up and CNN reports news.
Animal Farm is eerily on target for this debate. Obama's attempt to freeze out objectiors is downright Orwellian . How is FOX differerent from MSNBC or several other media outlets (Rick Sanchez? Jack Cafferty?)? None of those are news. The answer is that FOX just disagrees with those currently in power. Remember how the sheep were used by Comrade Napoloean to bleat over the objections of any opposition? Frightening, isn't it?
Amazing how egotistical the retrogressive supporters are. Their constant theme is "We are just so clever." If you were so clever how did Obama get into the White House and how did Nancy "the Shrew" Pelosi and sleepy Reid get to head up up congress. You really just like your own kool aid. The Obama administration has incredibly thin skin. If nothing else Bush was emotionally and mentally tougher then this light weight and his administration
Why is fox new polls always way different from repitable polls?
Hannity repeats himself over and over and over with the same talking points. It drives me crazy. It didn't work during the election and it's not going to work now.
Hannity I have a question for you. Is Bush a good person and Is Obama a good person and why.
War vs Peace. Republicans choose war every time. Look back over the last 30 years and see what I mean.
Face it folks. All of the news outlets play to certain demographics in an effort to boost their own ratings and make as much money for themselves as they can. They aren't in it for you. They aren't in it for the political agendas they gravitate toward. They are doing exactly what you should be: looking out for number 1.
Don't automatically assume that certain people are less intelligent or less informed because they happen to get their infomation from sources you don't like. Do yourself a favor. Read and watch them all. Develop your own opinion. If you are paying attention at all, then that says a lot about you. Nibble the bait, but don't bite the hook.
IF YOU CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM FOX NEWS. I use to get my news from CNN, but then I started flipping channels and see something on fox and three or four days later CNN would cover the story,so why wait three days get it while is hot.
GOP is a party of religious extremists, and FOX is a voice of absurdity. Recent incoherent rumblings of Bill O'Railly who attempted interview Richard Dawkins is just one example.
Obama only interviews with the STATE MEDIA not FOX.
Anyone who listens to fox news is anti American. They are adamantly against America prospering. They love war. They love the child hate the adult. I consider all of them domestic terrorists
I guess that means OBAMA neither wants votes from FOX News viewers or cares about them!!! Oh but wait til re-election then he will try to make nice with FOX – LOL... too little to late Mr.
If you want just "fluff" and "Obama is wonderful" then you don't want to tune in to Fox News because Fox news gives you the REAL news!! and most of us educated people don't like lies!!!
Someone needs to be critical of this administration and keep them honest. None of the other news outlets will do it, they're too busy admiring Obama.
Sad that the left can't take anyone criticizing their guy. They did it to Bush for 8 years, and in a virulent manner... what hypocrites. You should WANT someone to watch what the government is doing, fools.
Even if all Fox News reports are 100% bad, I'll still listen to Fox. Why? Because I need some sort of opposite opinions rather than only listen to "yes man real" news from other news networks.
Fox News grabs the most audience because they are the only one who holds the 46% or so Americans who voted for McCain last year. While the other news networks must share the 52% or so Americans who voted for Obozo.
If let's say there are 5 liberal news networks (CNN, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, CBS), then each of you only get 11% Americans at most.
Dunn, I hope you're not idiot enough to do the math.
Without admiting it she also made it clear that ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN act asthe research arm or the communications arm of the Democratic Party,” Otherwise they would be boycotting them. With out FoxNews we would never have learned about Acorn.
Fox News Senior VP Michael Clemente calls what Fox does "vibrant opinion"? Where I come from, it's called lying.
Fox presents their opinions as facts, not editorial. They twist everything to suit their own propoganda needs – and when they're caught lying, they don't admit it.
In this day and age of instant fact-checking via the Internet, only a lazy fool believes the junk coming out of Fox News.
Fox news tells more lies per min, than a priest hears in a confession after a Saturday night of partying!
I agree; Fox News is not news, but a rant by the right. They talk about the deficit. Who caused it?? There was a surplus when the Democrats left the White House the last time. The President did what he had to to keep our country going. Even he said he wasn't thrilled about having to do what he did - but he keeps getting bashed for it by the very people who caused the problem in the first place.
I think a case can be made that Fox is biased against Obama and is for the RNC, but a case can be made that other stations and news organizations are pro Obama and the DNC and against the RNC.
Most news oranizations lean one side or the other.
Not many are down the middle
Tha White House hates FOX because they EXSPOSE their law breaking! Hard to be a criminal if FOX is watching!
If the Obama administration is so afraid of Fox News, how will they ever confront Iran, North Korea, and the terrorists in Afghanistan? What a bunch of wusses in the White House we have today. Not only that, we have a bunch of wuss followers on this site as well getting their panties all in a bunch because of a news network that actually reports truth in a world full of liberal biased news. It just dives you liberal pansies crazy when Fox's ratings outnumber all of your stations combined. Democrats=cry babies.
This is really funny, and hypocritical too. The White House is going to cry about FOX but it is ok for ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC to operate as the propaganda wing of the liberal socialist democratic party. This is just more typical bs politics in America.
What a joke this women is!!!
It is sad that here in our United States we can not leave hate and intolerance where it belongs in the toilet. It is also a shame to show that face to the nations of the world. They must surely wonder how we can
with pride elect a candidate and then within a few short months attempt
to tear him down for the sake of of of ..what.?
Fox is owned by an Australian billionaire. He does not give a rip about America. He's a business man who has found and filled a niche. It's alway interesting how the wingnuts complain about Soros but then take all their talking points from Murdoch. At least Soros is American.
There can be no doubt that Fox News is the most biased cable network claiming to be a news organization in human history, of course, unless you consider are braindead and Glenn Beck, Karl Rove and Sean Hannity to be impartial and balanced reporters of facts. Fox News hires female "news" broadcasters based on looks alone.
And all the other major news stations are arms of the Democratic Party. Why else would they give Mr Obama a pass on the Rev J, Mr Van and the
the man from the Weathermen. Why else would the media not take him apart over giving billions of dollars in bailouts without making sure there were rules on how it was to be used.
Before anyone says anything about me being a mouth piece for the Reps., I am a life long Democrat over 55, who has never voted any way but Democratic and that includes the last presidential election. I am now very concerned because our president seems inexperience and out of his league with the folks he surrounds himself with. They are of questionable character.
Faux News is a medium for low IQ people who cannot discern "Fair and Balanced" news with Truth and real journalism. Their brand of journalism belongs to the gutter!
With the remainder of our so called News agencies in the tank for the liberals, I thank God everyday for FOX News. Call it what you want but they are the only ones ringing the alarm bell on what is transpiring before our very noses. Think of it America, you now have the Federal Government wanting to regulate the type of lite bulb you choose to use... Why should someone in Florida pay for healthcare for an illegal immigrant in California? That and 10 trillion in debt is the least of what the Fed has done for us in the last 20 years! States Rights, back to what the Constitution established not what the Usurper in Chief and Comrade Hillary have in mind!
And CNN, PMSNBC, CBS, ABC, NBC & PBS don't act like an arm of the DNC.
Obama and his staff continue to suck up to CNN, MSNBC and the other cowardly so called "news" outlets. Anita Dunn has a lot of room to talk. The way the Obama team has used the liberal media to push his agenda, to lie about his policies, and to attack anyone who opposes his idology. It is pathetic that this moron was elected to "change" America, promising transparency and healing. The reality is, he and his "staff" have driven the two sides further apart. Change!! America can't stand too much more his his kind of change. At least FoxNews has a mind of its own. Pathetic. Shame on Anita Dunn, and on CCN for reporting this kind of crap!!
Obama has appeared on Letterman and Leno and.... Are those bastions of journalism? What would have been the reaction is G Bush would habe refused to speak to MSNBC?
America! Wake up!
What happens on FOX is not news. The scary thing is that many of you think is. They have little regard for the truth, but a lot of interest in promoting their ideological bias.
They would be lost without talking points from the Republican party.
While FOX has gathered an impressive number of high-profile journalists, all of them have been lured by the promise of huge pots of money. Selling your integrity to cash in the news business is hardly a new thing, but FOX has taken it to a new level.
The White House isn't calling for censorship; its calling for truth in reporting.
Everyone knows that FOX is the propaganda arm of the GOP and has been for several years. Heck, Karl Rove left the Bush Administration and immediately became a FOX "commentator," pushing the Republican agenda!
That's right, there is no cheerleading at Fox. Sorry Obama.
the head of tje gop research, communications
and lobbying group is cnn's john king.
Oops, Am I bad – the last comment was meant for Vic of San Antonio.
I suppose she thinks MSNBC is really a reliable source for fair news reporting. And she probably thinks ACORN is a wonderful organization that is above reproach.
I think Fox sticks to their agenda fairly well. Fox supports corporate greed, (like the health insurance industry or Halliburton, Enron, etc.) and uses those who are not too bright to spread the hate against any group that tries to reform it.
I honestly think that if we can do things without the repugnants we can also do without ox news (no misspelling here).........after all, just look who listens to it and you can easily figure out their mentality.....nothing there
The republicans always resort to the "liberal bias of the MSM". How all the major networks EXCEPT Fake News is "gotcha" media.
Of course, the "drive-by" media deals in facts.
Faux News would not know a fact if walked up and introduced itself to Rupert Murdoch or Lush Limprick.
I do not consider Fox to be a news outlet at all. They are much more an entertainment venue, much like wrestling. I am always amazed when someone actually tells me that they "get the news" from Hannity, Beck, etc. What a joke!
Aren't we supposed to be fighting terrorists? Why hasn't anyone called for the dismissal of Hannity, Beck and O'reilly for consistantly agreeing with Rush Limbaugh who is an admitted terrorist? And those politicians who defame America overseas to our enemies.
I say we all make a citizens arrest against all of them for treason.
This is another lie put out by Obama. Obama and the libs can't stand Fox News because they show both sides of an issue. Thank goodness we have at least one news outlet that does not bow down to King Obama on a regular basis.
Hmmm.....CNN mderating a discussion on its competition.....that seems fair.....why don't we check the ratings to see what the people think...NO CONTEST.....Are you lobbying for a bailout CNN?
Fox ratings are only high because it is the only source that right wing wackos go to have their opinions confirmed, whereas liberals and independents have any number of sources to get actual news.
Imagine if liberals and independents only had one source for their news – the channel would crush Fox in the ratings game.
And MSNBC acted the same for the Dems. This is such a non story.
The station has become a septic pit, I find it hard to listen to what is purported to be news. It is too far right, lies deliberste lies are spewed from the mouths of so called educated people. I myself have listened to speeches the president makes and within half an hour I hear distortions that I am shocked at. I have stop listening to Fox and I have told my friends and relatives not to as it is center of fabrications
Wow, I had no idea liberals could be so out of it!
To think PMSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and the like are giving you FAIR REPORTING is funnier than Pam Anderson believing she can act!
Obama, his czars and croanies just can't handle the fact that one network is not going to bow to them and feed American full of Obama-Bull.
No, you libs would just soon sit back and believe the "non-news" networks, drink your Obama-Lax and thing all is find while he is picking your pockets clean.
Peace prize? For a former Chicago ANTAGONIZER???????
Get real,libs!
oh boo hoo boo hoo.... If Obama can't take criticism from one news network than he's more of a whimp than I thought. Plus its the commentators on the network that he was a problem with are commenting on their OPINION of what's going on... Get over yourself Obama.
The truth of the matter is that Cnn is light blue, MSNBC is a dark navy blue. Fox news is astonishingly red. But let's be honest. To say that Fox is an arm of the GOP while completely ignoring the fact that liberal media got you elected is a bit hypocritical.
I long for the day of honest, non-biased media.
"The truth has a liberal bias"
Truth has no bias, truth just is.
The way it is reported can be biased however, in both directions.
the obama administration needs to focus on real issues instead of crying over Fox News. grow up!
If it wasn't for FOX, that $500 billion of Medicare funds would be speeding on its way to insurance execs and ACORN would be deciding how to "fix" the census. Too bad there is no news outlet without a political agenda.
FOX rarely, if ever, tells the truth! To them, everything has to have a spin - not necessarily conservative or liberal, Repub or Dem - it's just that the FOX newscasters can't tell the truth, they have to turn the truth into a lie to appease their rabid viewers.
FAUX News
We distort, you decide
Beck, Hannity, O'Reilly, et al., are all working for FOX for the glam, not because they are journalists interested in or committed to telling the truth. They are all a disgusting representation of what is bad in America - LIARS!
It is no secret that Faux News is the media outlet for the GOP. Obama is a very talented debater so engaging the pinheads at Faux News is a good way to get warmed up to engaging the GOP side of Congress.
"Is it now the policy of this President and White House to interfere with the people's right to free speech and freedom of the press?"
I am sorry but in what way are they interfering with free speech and freedom of the press?
the arm of the republican party? i thought it was more like the weiner
CNN as FOX Are RIGHT WING GARBAGE NEWS, ask Lou Dobbs with that BIRTHER nonsense, and ask the President of CNN John Klein does Ruppurt Murdock and HOLE HANDS.CNN you have got a Lot of NERVE ,your NETWORK IS GOP as well
If FOX is so biased–how come they have both sides on? And why do they outnumber the other cable news channels in audiences?? President Obama won't go on Fox news because their questions are too tough for him to answer, unlike the other channels, "tingles don't run up their legs when he speaks!!!!!
I am sure Obama prefers MSNBC - there is not a mainstream media anymore.
You want unbiased, straight-up reporting? Then watch the BBC. CNN is great, but Fox is nothing but a 'show' complete with drama & hysterics which plays to a certain audience. CNN & BBC are too boring for those people. They want the satisfaction they get from Fox telling them it's okay to hate.
What a crock – just because Fox does not kiss his royal butt like the rest of the news networks did during the election and continue to do so – the white house cries like a baby – grow up – not everyone, including myself, agree with the would be king of the world -
If some schmuck supporting a family on 12 bucks an hour want to
go to some rally in D.C. because some guy on Fox making 30 million dollars a year tell him then fine. I just wouldn't want to be that stupid, that's all.
Yes Fox is conservative. Yet on most of their programs they invite the opposing side/view; that is more than I can say often for CNN/MSNBC or some of the other networks.
I wonder why the ratings for Fox News keep going up and Obama's keep going down. Hmm.
I wonder why people who make money and dont want government handouts watch fox. The other people with little intelligence and work ethic watch and listen to the others networks. As a money manager95% if my clients watch fox. Makes you wonder why and how they became successful not waiting on the government to bring there food stamps why the waddle around and watch oprah.
Of course Fox News is biased. Otherwise, there would be no conservative counterpoint to the liberal bias of the rest of United States media. One poster actually believes that "the truth has a liberal bias." Fortunately, he is wrong – truth has no bias, it just is.
So we are left with one conservatively biased news organization – Fox, with liberals holding the rest of the media cards. Why are liberals so upset about that? The only reason I can think of is that liberals, are, in fact, opposed to free speech.
The only people who watch Fix News are uneducated, uninformed, small minded, misinformed, cannot think for themselves,self absorbed maniacs. I believe I just painted a picture of McCain, Lumbaugh, Hannity, Beck and O'reilley and the republican party.
NBC is liberal? Have any of you claiming this ever actually watched Brian Williams? Did you forget about David Gregory hip-hopping it up on stage with Karl Rove at a public event?
I love when the GOP guys get in trouble with scandal and Fox news airs the story and puts a "D" by their name, that's priceless. Everybody knows Fox isn't news...it's an OPINION channel. The only opinion that matters is what Murdock sets for the day (even their own reporters will tell you that after they leave). You people that think it's news really should look for "outfoxed" it's a great documentary about what REALLY happens at Fox news.
All or nothing. If you ain't with us you're against us. Bring it on.
Many people would not recognize the truth if it bit them. I try to find what is reasonable and plausable and mostly factual on the "news" channels. I can take about 2 min of FOX Noise, then their absolute nonsensical blathering about the incarnate evil of anyone or anything from the Democrats reminds me of being in church . . . support my god, then one true god, or I'll kill you. The weather channel and even HSN have more facts than FOX Noise. All the bigots I know watch FOX. I'm sure FOX is the only channel the devil watches.
So is CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NY TIMES. Thank God there is Fox news or else all we would have is wool over our eyes regarding this administration. Boo woo, fox is calling me out, boo woo what should we do, Boo woo let's bring Fox new down, so the people won't know the truth, boo woo woo, I am too BIG to fail.
God bless America.
Reality knows no political bias, and has nothing to do with either political cult. Reality does not have a "liberal" bias, but both "liberal" and "conservative" have a bias against reality.
Faux News, is the leading cause of brain damage. Just look at the republican party.
It's simple, there is always at least 2 sides to every story. Rarely do I see a dumb liberal or a dumb conservative. I do see dumb democrats and dumb republicans on a daily basis though.
But when people like JN say "FOX News wouldn't exist if more people in the US had a higher IQ and education level." I have to get a chuckle. How do you think most MD's vote, Republican or Democrat?
I can tell you that most teachers, union laborers, and public servants vote Democrat. Most business owners vote Republican.
She's right, and the sad thing is that a good chunk of the American public (hopefully far from a majority) won't realize it. Honest, well-researched reporting of the facts and their implications apparently isn't glitzy enough, and demands too much of viewers who want entertainment; most networks (Fox, but also CNN, MSNBC, and local stations) seem obliged to write their "news" to pander to what they evidently think is their viewers' inability to draw conclusions on their own. And viewers then think that what they are watching is "news". Good news reporting isn't primarily entertaining, it is thought-provoking. Or should be, IMHO. That's where we've gone wrong, and our democracy is paying the price.
Is Fox objective? No. Should the White House complain about it? Well, not really.
Several other major news sites and stations work like the long arm of the democratic party. In a way, it seems to even itself out. For every Fox, there's an MSNBC. If the White House wants fairness and accuracy, the should be objective and complain about both.
Now anita cry really loud so everyone can hear you.
So what does CNN/ABC/MSNBC/CBS count as? I rarely hear anything other than the liberal arguments from their respective news. It's the United States. Everyone is entitled to their opinion here including Fox News. If Obama's administration is really that worried about it then they're wasting their time. I don't recall Nixon crying over a news network going after him, same for Clinton. Grow a thicker skin, people.
Fox was responsible for giving the cover that allowed Jeb Bush and the GOP to steal the 2000 election. They all but bragged about it. Bush's cousin and Ailles are operations of the party. This isn't even controversial. It's obvious. They should have their license revoked.
Good on Obama to realize that fox news is much like the national inquirer....Fox news has entertainers...Like O'reilly from Entertainment tonight, Hannity from a sad Catholic boys school, Glen beck from the planet Mars,...and all the rest of their female hot leg crew. This is not real news to me. Rupert Murdoch has found big dollars to tell lies....it isn't about truth, rather about lies.
Fox has never been a news station, just a propaganda arm for republicans, with Beck, O'Reilly and Hannity pandering to the nutter fringe. The WH is simply calling Fox what it is.
I politely ask restaurant and business managers here (in the Dallas area) to switch channels to ESPN or something less provocative if their t.v.'s are tuned to Fox. Interestingly enough, in the last year of the Bush regime and since, fewer and fewer of the local businesses have their t.v.'s on Fox in their lobbies and waiting rooms. Good riddance.
Face it. If you are white, work and like your freedom, then you probably like and watch fox. If you are black, homosexual, or a non-citizen, then you need to keep promoting CNN and the democratic agenda so you can have the things that white people actually go to work and earn.
It cannot last forever like this.
I've stopped watching CNN and ABC news several years ago due to their blatant liberal bias. MSNBC is laughable. I still go onto CNN.com regularly because they tend to have a jump on most breaking news issues over Fox by 30-60 minutes. I then go to Fox to read the truth and the other articles, like Van Jones, that CNN chooses not to report.
All news here in the US is made for one reason only: to get high ratings. They don't care about the facts. Doesn't matter which channel. In essense, they are the same. They scare us into being afraid, voting for their candidates, regardless of how corrupt they are, they tell us what we should think, etc.. How about this: turn off your TV. Quit watching the news channels and think for yourself.
Fox seems to have discovered what the GOP discovered many years ago. The voting public does not verify what they see or read. That is why after 20+ years of aggressively working on Republican campaigns (from local to national) and seeing firsthand the negative and often false information being pumped out, I gave up and quit. I still try to watch Fox but, after researching what is said, I often find it to be exaggerated or flat out false.
You will know them by their fruits...... Fox news- No. 1 cable news network; CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS-circling the drain!!!!!
Yes fox news is basically a branch of the Republican party, which is a branch of big business. The goal is to brainwash Americans into offering up their lives and souls to the corporate elite.
FoxNews is to America what Joseph Goebbels was to Hitler.
Poor, Poor Anita. If only Anita had FACTS to prove that what FOX airs isn't FACTS. Could it be, she can't prove them wrong because they're right?
There are no unbiased news outlets. FOX criticizes everything the President does and all the other channels can't find one negative thing to mention. During the campaign, when it was the duty of the media to vett the candidates, not one found anything wrong with Obama, except FOX. He says judge him by the company he keeps, but the likes of CNN, ABC, NBC and the like don't even mention Rev. Wright, William Ayers and Van Jones until FOX points them out.
Very interesting ....
The vitriol from the left hardly indicates any level of civility or tolerance. The White House creates a diversion where none exists, but then plays fast and free with the Constitution, sacrifices the lives of young men and women while it sits on its thumb trying to decide what is the politically expedient strategy against our enemies, and subverts 1/6 of the economy into their hip pocket, all while diverting the government largesse into the pockets of their supporters..
".. no freedom of the press to defame the President..." Well, actually, there is ... it's called the Constitution. But, apparently, the liberal knowledge of the tenets of our country is as weak as their lessons in intelligent discourse and proper manners.
All the right-wing-things are upset because President Obama had the Nobel Peace Prize thrown at him instead of 2 smelly shoes. That hurts them dearly. You can just smell the right-wing-thugs fuming and stewing.
The truth may be bitter but the White House just said the truth, period.
I am thinking that if the dunn house of politics keeps playing attack politics, they will be very surprised next year that they lost the house and ten democratic senators. My President Obama needs to stop paying people like anita dunn, they should be volunteers, not white house staffers playing politics, besides she is not very good at it.
NBC's Political Director Chuck Todd is such a Liberal Kool-Aid drinker it's almost comical to watch them try and report on National politics. This has and will continue to be to their detriment.
FOX and everyone associated with FOX is a joke, we all know that (though of us who aren't suffering from dementia, that is). Unfortunately, most of the news media inclucing CNN most of the time doesn't do any better job covering the news that FOX.
It dosen't matter any more , obama and his demacrat socialist reshime are going to get the boot soon,and all of his brain dead demacratic followers will follow him over the cliff to defeat !He's a do nothing looser !
What a newspaper doesn't do is mix the editorials with the news. They are in different section to give clear separation between news and someones opinion. Fox mixes the two so closely there is no way of knowing where news ends and opinion begins or if they are one in the same.
The news will always have a certain level of bias, left or right....HOWEVER, when you take it to the extreme of Fox News, it is no longer news, but angry voices.
Fox News is a bias news station: Fact
Msnbc is a bias news station: Fact
Obama has the right to say that either of these is bias: Fact
Sean Hannity is stupid: An opinion, but its widely accepted among Americans.
So, Obama and the Democrats criticized George W. Bush for not opening a dialogue with countries such as Iran, North Korea, and Venezuela because of their stance towards democracy, human rights, and socialist and/or dictatorship governments...but now Obama won't talk to Fox News because they won't report what Obama wants them to report.
These double standards are getting ridiculous.
T McKinley wrote:To all of you Fox "news" supporters out there who wrongly compare our President to the likes of Fidel Castro or Hugo Chavez:
You better thank God that our President is NOTHING like Castro or Chavez. If he were, Fox would have either been shut down completely or taken over by now.
The very fact that our President allows Fox to spew their hatred toward him is proof that he has NO intention of being a "communist dictator."
Uh, isn't that what he is trying to do???? By discreditting FOX news...he is essentially trying to silence his opposition. Do you not believe that if he could shut them down, he would???
This is extremely funny.
Fox news beats CNN and MSNBC every day.
They have twice the viewers.
What kind of communications director is this woman?
She should be fired.
All of Obamas media advisors should be terminated, they are clueless.
Gibbs is an arrogant moron and this woman is a complete idiot.
No wonder why Obama is having such a hard time getting any of his programs passed.
He's preaching to the choir at MSNBC and CNN.
If he wants to get his message out there to real independent minded Americans he needs to go on FOX.
What a bunch of cry babies this White House is! It is pathetic! Fox News doesn't even deem it worthy to respond to this pathetic whining. Good job Fox News!
What planet is the WH communications director living on?
The country is divided almost 50/50 on most issues. CNN is your mouthpiece no matter what you say.
What don't you and the rest of you liberals get about that?
I forget, which president has had several ex network and cable executives come work for it?
I forget, which president had a free day of programing on NBC to tout his healthcare plan?
I forget, which networks didn't ask Obama a single tough question during the campaign?
I forget, which network has Olbermann?
I forget, which network forged documents to try to take down Bush?
I forget, which network never heard of the corruption at Acorn?
I forget, which network gets a tingle up it's collective leg whenever Obama speaks?
It could be Fox News is not as overtaken with the Presdent Obama love affair that is so evident with almost all other "news reporting media". I watch most all of the cable networks. I think the news media has been "left leaning" for the 45 years I've been exposed to the news. Commentary is one thing. Too many news media mix commentary and the news.
The message behind this story is simple. If a news outlet wants access to the President, it must blindly follow his agenda with absolutely no criticism.
This administration is terrifyingly Orwellien.
Watch your spelling, those of you who are calling the consevative Fox News supporters stupid with a low IQ. Do you even realize that your spelling is less than that of a fourth grader? I hate to tell you how many words you have grossly misspelled. The misspelled words almost always come from the Fox News bashers who are calling the other side the equivalent of "morans." What is your grade or IQ level?
T, Mckinney – ever heard of the fairness doctrine? It is the law Congress is trying to pass which will shut down any conservative programming. Umm Castro, Chavez?????
Tina – Fox has liberals on its programming., Won't see conservatives on Oberman or Madcow with MSNBC (Most Supportive National Barack Channel)
Moderators will not post this. So to the moderators: enjoy!
Acorn, Van Jones, Tea parties – where were NYTIMES, CNN, MSNBC, CBS. Where are the in-depth investigations into power and corruption? Fox News is the only station willing to investigate and inform the people what is happening in our government. Is this the real reason the WH doesn't like Foxnews. I guess it is easier to complain about the messenger than it is to address the substance of the message.
Oh those laughable libs. The more they open their mouths the more ridiculous they sound. Simply because they don't bend over backwards applauding this do nothing administration Obama and his cronnies want nothing to do with Fox. A little over a year from now when large portions of the left join what wil probably be 12% of the population on the unemployment lines, then they'll have something to whine about.
I do agree that Fox News is a center of right news organization but if Fox is so irrelevant than I would like to know two things:
1) Why did Obama fire Van Jones after former CNN Headline News Host Glenn Beck played some of Jones' videos? Even Bill Maher acknowledged that "he (Obama) let Glenn Beck fire Van Jones".
2) Why did Obama drop ACORN like a hot potato after those videos of the "pimp and prostitute" were exposed for the world to see?
My point is if Obama feels like Fox News is completely irrelevant than he would not have done either one of these two things and Obama would also make a point to ignore them, much in the same way Bush ignored the main stream media.
The liberals posting here would do a far better job of convincing people that they are superior to the Fox News viewers if they could construct a complete sentence or spell correctly. It does tend to weaken your argument.
The misguided statements as well as the misunderstanding of the Constitution are also amusing. Please read this post below.
“T Mckinley October 11th, 2009 4:16 pm ET
To all of you Fox "news" supporters out there who wrongly compare our President to the likes of Fidel Castro or Hugo Chavez:
You better thank God that our President is NOTHING like Castro or Chavez. If he were, Fox would have either been shut down completely or taken over by now.
The very fact that our President allows Fox to spew their hatred toward him is proof that he has NO intention of being a "communist dictator." “
The president does not allow or disallow speech, the Second amendment of the Constitution does. Please study history and the foundation on which the country is built.
Amazing how the DNC complains about reporting and then we hear they pulled an add about health care after Senator Dole complained that it was misleading because it portrayed him as supporting the democratic plan when he certainly does not.
Thank God we have Fox reporting the truth.
That is the studpest thing I have ever heard. So Obama will only give interviews to people the are in his camp, like the liberal media.
He is scared of fox because they are not in his pocket. The reality is that the media and the socialist government are indistinguishable.
Why is this news!! 168 people died in a flood in indonisia and even more died in a tsunami in samoa, Who cares if Fox News is hurting the white houses feelings GET OVER IT! the white house didn't cry when the media went after Bush so who cares if one station goes after Obama.. I don't watch the news anymore because its to political. the next pres. election aint til 2012!
I wanna hear about stories that matter. And if the media thinks that Fox news picking on Obama is more important than 168 people dying then we have a serious issue..
If it weren't for FOX, we wouldn't know what Pelosi, a proven liar; Reid, her henchman; Rangle, so crooked he has to screw his pants on; Murser, another robber of the public till for needless improvement to an airport with no incoming/outgoing planes; and all the other high jenks of the ultra liberal democrats, are up to. Fox has more viewers than all the other networks combined. That should tell concerned Americans something. Our soldiers need help in Pakistan, and Obama is more concerned with his persona, his health plan (which will fail); queers and lezbos; Guantanomo; and if McCrystal doesn't get the 40,000 troops he needs, don't be surprised if Mc resigns. And if he does, Obama is toast.
The media elite and the political left can whine all they want, but Fox is the most-watched news network in America.
And I'm just saying that as an outsider. I'm a CNN man myself. But maybe there's something there that some people need to sit up and notice.
Oh, you weak, thin-skinned President! You have all the major news organizations as lap-dogs, and you begrudge the one network that refuses to be that for you. You wouldn't even be in office without the media blitz for you! And I say "you" Mr. President, since you are just speaking through one of your minions; next you will try and shut down FOX just as you long to try to "legally" do away with conservative talk radio. Spoiled fellow–you want ALL the marbles ALL the time! You are fast losing respect of those of us who simply disagreed with you earlier on.
MSNBC = TASS or Pravda.
Refusing to agree to an interview with the Fox News Network on the basis of "ideological differences" is just as arrogant as it is politically disengenuous. If the Obama dictatorship insists on putting this Country on an inevitable path for economic collapse and "public option," (taxpayer subsidized), healthcare..., he owes it to the heterosexual segment of society to reveal the realistic cost of providing ongoing healthcare to AIDS victims and pro choice advocates. Now that he's a "Nobel Prize" winner..., he's undoubtedly worried about saving face while deciding whether to support our troops in Afghanistan while they are being ambushed. Considering that 98% of the other media outlets are arms of the left wing establishment, I can't see how censoring the one network that will challenge "his" ideology is a bad idea.
Keep going to the other stations and get the softball questions. We all know the real reason behind not going on Chris Wallace or Bill O'Reilly, you would like the questions and the American people wouldnt like the answers. Transparent?????
No offense to anyone but journalism is dead. Period.
Obama's hilarious! He'll talk to Kim Jung Il, Ahmadenijad, Chavez, Castro, but Fox news is simply too biased. LOL!
Hey Obama, maybe Fox will unclench its fist if you just reach out your hand.
Oh course the WH doesn't consider an interview with FOX the same as with the other media outlets. The other media outlets are all an arm of the WH and would never challenge the dear leader. They are more like PRAVDA West.
Fox is the only news channel that is not an arm of the democratic party. Democrats want complete control of the media and Fox stands in the way. Obama wants to be a dictator.
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Come on it's silly to complain about Fox.
If FOX is the arm of the GOP then…..
MSNBC and CNN are the arms of the Democrats.
So it looks like we are ahead by one arm, so exactly why are we complaining again?
Wow. If you don't bow before this man, he does not want anything to do with you.
All the media hated Bush and he never whined like this loser.
I love this line...
"Dunn said that Obama had recently chosen not to appear on Fox because of the administration’s belief that Fox is ideologically predisposed against Obama and his agenda."
Yes, Obama only goes on news networks who are ideologically predisposed in favor of his agenda. I'm sorry, but when you watch the guy go on 5 different programs and essentially say the exact same thing, you'd excpect at least one of the interviewers to challenge his statements as opposed to simply asking pre-arranged questions which allow him to repeat rehearsed answers.
It is widely known (and hence the refusal to appear on Fox) that Chris Wallace refuses to ask talking point questions, nor does he give his interviewees the questions in advance so they may prep. Also, isn't it interesting that nobody thought much of Glenn Beck for all the time he was on Headline News. As soon as he goes to Fox he becomes enemy #1 for the left. Perhaps they knew what he would say, but now he would actually have an audience.
What a bunch of Left Wing cry babies, why doyou think that anyone who doesn't agree with you is a moron or idiot. You are no different than the Right Wing Zealots except you are on the other end of the teeter-totter. If either one of you extreme wingnuts has enough sense to be civil and get off the name calling ride the other side will fall flat on it's @.
If Anita Dunn actually believes that Fox News is biased, but that MSNBC, CNN, CBS, NBC and ABC are not, then she either is not qualified for the job she holds or is incredibly stupid. And to the morons that confuse people like Bill O'Reilly with news anchors, he is not. He hosts a political discussion show, just like Keith Oberman does on MSNBC on the opposite end of the political spectrum. I find it quite disconcerting, if not alarming, how incredibly uninformed and intellectually incompetent so many Americans are when it comes to simple issues such as this. In any event. Obama's WH is starting to sound like Nixon's WH. What does he have planned next? An enemies list? Unbelievable that he would blacklist a major news network....
Let's see...what is worse? A cable news network (FOX) slanting the news (opining) or a WH Press Secretary and the WH news releases slanting the truth? And don't follow up my comments with your raving madness that the WH has been totally honest with what they are putting out as the truth. They "spin" the stories, just as they spin the words from President Obama and VP Biden. Now that kind of action should be getting most Americans angry - not a news channel spinning a story. Lastly, why don't you FOX haters produce some specifics instead of doing what you accuse them of doing –opinionating?
Ridiculous. I voted for Obama but to hear that the Dem's want to take this route is no better than Republicans claiming MSNBC.com or the NYTimes or the Washington Post are Democratic media arms. We're not truly as stupid as our politicians – and their spokemen – seem to think we are. Sad. And also sad that CNN would choose this as a "ticker" item hoping to take a shot at a rival network - wonder what side of the political spectrum Republican supporters will say you're on. Disappointing that the media seems to think it has the obligation to take sides on so many issues.
I watch both CNN and Fox News and got to say, I hear more spirited debate from both sides on Fox. Much more fair and balanced there than on CNN and way more than NBC and MSNBC, the latter being just an another press agent for Barry.
Let be honest with ourselves. Fox News a right of center network. CNN is left of center. MSNBC is socialist.
What a bunch of losers!!!! How many news stations ripped on Bush and operated as lapdogs for the Dems???? CNN INCLUDED!!! Obama is such a whiner....can't even handle criticism. Wow, heaven forbid anyone criticize our supreme leader.
this is not anything groundbreaking or new. if you watch fox for a few minutes you can sense this is true. what i find hard to believe is when people disagree with her on this point. its true that fox leans to the right and endorses many of republican parties positions.
equally surprising is gross ignorance of those who see fox's bias, but think the left is reporting straight. how logical would that be? if your enemy is spewing bias, you will just sit back and report honestly and full story? that is definitely not the way of politics, its a dirty corrupt environment.
its just sad that so many choose ignorance. both parties have flaws, and both sides of journalism have bias.
chris matthews said he thinks its his job to make the president succeed(obama), compare that to his intentions with bush, to hold his feet to fire like a gritty reporter to get to bottom of things. and he is one of the most trusted names on the left.
The White House continues to look for those that will promote their own agenda and want to punish those that don't. I consider myself an independent and don't see where Fox is the arm of the Republican party! Many of us can't wait until 2010 and 2012 to cast our opinion and send Ms. Dunn home.
Gee the White House doesn't like FOX, is anyone surprised by this? They're only exposing the administration for what they are and making their jobs much harder. Good! And MSNBC is owned by Obama's buddies at GE, and CNN projects Ted Turner's super-environmental (etc. etc.) views. No one is objective. That's why you must research everything on your own from multiple sources. If you have a favorite channel and only watch one, then what are you complaining about bias for? Wake up.
LOL, One network dares to question the Whitehouse and they are mad..
BIAS? How many Palin (non-event) stories has the CNN Ticker run, just look at the approvals of comments, CNN is left of center (not as bad as MSNBC), but fox is the only network with a bias? Puhlease!