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How Roger Ailes Built the Fox News Fear Factory

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SabanFan said: ↑

I realize that, but when he started making anti-Barry policy noises, out the door he went.
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When his ratings dropped, out the door he went. He said it himself, he was more interested in shaping politics than being a journalist.

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When his ratings dropped, out the door he went. He said it himself, he was more interested in shaping politics than being a journalist.
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And why did his ratings drop (though I'm not sure they did)? Because the mostly non conservative CNN viewership, which is much less than Fox by the way, didn't want Obama maligned on CNN.

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And why did his ratings drop (though I'm not sure they did)? Because the mostly non conservative CNN viewership, which is much less than Fox by the way, didn't want Obama maligned on CNN.
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No, it was because Dobbs got boring, frankly. He started making every show about his pet issues--immigration reform, offshore outsourcing, and big business influence on government. He would repeat his ideas over and over and news wasn't getting in anymore.

The only publicized instance of CNN officially reining in Dobbs was because of the amount of airtime he was giving to the "birther" issue to the exclusion of other news.

So . . . is this the only example of CNN bias toward liberals that you can come up with?

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In a joint study by the Joan shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University and the Project for Excellence in Journalism, the authors found disparate treatment by the three major cable networks of Republican and Democratic candidates during the earliest five months of presidential primaries in 2007: “The CNN programming studied tended to cast a negative light on Republican candidates—by a margin of three-to-one. Four-in-ten stories (41%) were clearly negative while just 14% were positive and 46% were neutral. The network provided negative coverage of all three main candidates with McCain fairing the worst (63% negative) and Romney fairing a little better than the others only because a majority of his coverage was neutral. It’s not that Democrats, other than Obama, fared well on CNN either. Nearly half of the Illinois Senator’s stories were positive (46%), vs. just 8% that were negative. But both Clinton and Edwards ended up with more negative than positive coverage overall. So while coverage for Democrats overall was a bit more positive than negative, that was almost all due to extremely favorable coverage for Obama.” [1]

Accuracy in media and media Research Center (mRC) have claimed that CNN's reporting contains liberal editorializing within news stories as well as omission of important facts. Former Republican House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, and MRC founder Brent Bozell, among others, have referred to CNN as the "Clinton News Network".[2] DeLay has also called it the "Communist News Network".[3] In its early days, CNN was sometimes referred to as "Chicken Noodle News".[4] In September 2009, a Pew Research Poll showed that Democrats were much more likely than Republicans to rate the network favorably, and Republicans were much more likely than Democrats to see CNN unfavorably.[5]
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fox is conserative, cnn is liberal, msnbc is communist. nothing new here. move along.

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red55 said: ↑

So . . . is this the only example of CNN bias toward liberals that you can come up with?
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You only asked for one.

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Give me one example. Just one.
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tirk said: ↑

fox is conserative, cnn is liberal, msnbc is communist. nothing new here. move along.
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It's not a black and white world. Right wing stooges just can't seem to recognize a middle position. Everything to the left of them is liberal.

Fox is right, MSNBC is left and CNN is central.

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Fox is right, and everybody else is working on Obama in 2012.
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or

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Fox is right and everybody else is wrong
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FIFY:thumb:

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Speaking of right-wing stooges . . .

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Speaking of right-wing stooges . . .
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Unfair and balanced.

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So no one found anything factually incorrect with the article?

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