FOX News Biased
...bias in Fox News channel.” -Rupert Murdoch (Salon, 3/1/01) Fox has become the best at their game. The formula that Fox uses is simply a form of talk radio (Rutten). All opinions are yelled and shouted, while the viewers and listeners become consumers of this formula. Over time the personal ideas and beliefs solidify. More than half of all Fox News viewers call themselves conservatives, making the percentage over 12% larger than 4 years ago. What we have here is “syndrome thinking”: when the will of the people embrace beliefs by something other than logic. I see my generation following the popular fashion and trends. Why should we believe that news should be any different? The possibility that a young American will watch more than one station to gather information is grim. Instead of making rational decisions, many will emulate what Fox News has told them. Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) conducted a study back in 1/1/01 for 19 weeks on Fox’s signature political news show, Special Report with Brit Home. FAIR looked and focused on the show’s one-on-one interviews with the anchor (Steve Rendall). With an overwhelming conclusion of 8 to 1 (Republicans to Democrats), the guests were 89% Republican. Even conservatives got in their time. On Special Report, 71% of the interviewers were conservatives; this outnumbered all other points of view by nearly 2 to 1. Now these numbers may be excused if say the Senate was an imbalance made of party representatives; but when the Senate is made up of 50/50 at the time during the study? This is not “Fair and balanced”, this is partisan allegiance. “Who would be the most likely to cheat at cards, Bill Clinton or Al Gore?” -Fox News Channel/Opinion Dynamics poll (5/00) Fox claims, it is the only unbiased network in television (Seth Ackerman). I am not alone here when I say, “That’s a lie!” I could be considered by most accounts to be liberal, but this isn’t an attempt to ostracize the conservatives in the U.S. This is an attempt to educate others about the negative impact one sided repo...