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Bill scott
SFN Addict
USA
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 Posted - 04/19/2006 : 06:47:37
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Remember the good ol days when Cronkite, Jennings, and Brokow were the only choices you had to be indoctrinated by.
CABLE NEWS RACE
MONDAY, APRIL 17, 2006
VIEWERS
FNC O'REILLY 2,424,000
FNC HANNITY/COLMES 1,861,000
FNC GRETA 1,743,000
FNC SHEP SMITH 1,568,000
FNC HUME 1,387,000
CNN KING 1,290,000
CNN DOBBS 885,000
CNN COOPER 770,000
CNNHN GRACE 707,000
CNN BLITZER 624,000
CNN ZAHN 571,000
MSNBC OLBERMANN 511,000
MSNBC SCARBOROUGH 401,000
MSNBC HARDBALL 384,000
MSNBC TUCKER 309,000
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"Lets get one thing clear, Bill. Science does make some assumptions." -perrodetokio-
"In the end as skeptics we must realize that there is no real knowledge, there is only what is most reasonable to believe." -Coelacanth-
The fact that humans do science is what causes errors in science. -Dave W.-
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pleco
SFN Addict
USA
2998 Posts |
 Posted - 04/19/2006 : 06:58:03 [Permalink]
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It all comes from the same sources...
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by Filthy
The neo-con methane machine will soon be running at full fart. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 04/19/2006 : 07:22:06 [Permalink]
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I don't watch cable news. I feel that I am blessed....
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Bill scott
SFN Addict
USA
2103 Posts |
Posted - 04/19/2006 : 07:43:42 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by filthy
I don't watch cable news. I feel that I am blessed....
I don't even have cable TV... |
"Lets get one thing clear, Bill. Science does make some assumptions." -perrodetokio-
"In the end as skeptics we must realize that there is no real knowledge, there is only what is most reasonable to believe." -Coelacanth-
The fact that humans do science is what causes errors in science. -Dave W.-
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 04/19/2006 : 10:36:42 [Permalink]
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Man Fox News is soooo biased its quite weird actually. Many of the programs have a balanced feel to them but it goes away when you compare the stories that each network reports on. Then of course you have the talking head opinion shows which are pretty much Rush level right.
My favorite was the daily show send up a month or so ago, FOX was parading nearly every comentator onto the air all of which were complaining about the leftist coverage of the 'Cheney shooting his friend and almost killing him story.'and how the media should grow up and start covering all the real news that actually matters to the public. The only other story covered on Fox later was the Entwhistle extradition. The guy who killed his wife and kid and flew to the UK. They showed the plane landing live, the transfer to the car and the helicopter coverage of the car driving from the airport and on and on...
Things like Iraqi civilian deaths are rarely if ever mentioned on FOX, not that CNN mentions it a lot but FOX avoids anything which is anti-right agenda for the most part. Not to mention there is so much make-up on those heads I swear they are covering up demon horns, its creepy they seem plasticised or something. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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marfknox
SFN Die Hard
USA
3739 Posts |
Posted - 04/19/2006 : 11:24:34 [Permalink]
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Bill wrote: quote:
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I don't watch cable news. I feel that I am blessed....
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I don't even have cable TV...
I second filthy's statement, and I, too, do not even have cable. What a waste of good money. :-P Why can't we be like Hong Kong and have a la carte cable? I just want Comedy Central and the SF channel! |
"Too much certainty and clarity could lead to cruel intolerance" -Karen Armstrong
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 04/19/2006 : 13:57:05 [Permalink]
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I don't have cable, either, but I do have DirecTV. For reasons having to do with my blood pressure, I rarely watch Fox News. When I have, I have been astounded by the political bias, both overt and covert. They constantly apply a filter to the news that would make Orwell's Big Brother proud. By comparison, at least, the other cable new sources seem to handle the straight news much more objectively, and have a much wider political spectrum represented by their opinion commentators. Calling their news coverage "Fair and Balanced" is the most laughable thing Fox does.
No, I take that last statement back. Fox, though not their news department, has aired some of the funniest, sexiest, most cutting-edge entertainment material on TV, much of it in stark contrast to Fox News' biases. "The Simpsons" has even spoofed Rupert Murdoch by name. When it comes to fictional comedic and dramatic programs that haul in the huge audiences, Fox doesn't turn to its essentially dull-witted Neocon friends for material, but to some of the most brilliant people on the "other side." All for one good reason: Money. Much as Murdoch and Fox like to push their Neocon political agenda, they are economically astute enough to know what popular culture sells commercials and rakes in the big bucks.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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moakley
SFN Regular
USA
1888 Posts |
Posted - 04/19/2006 : 19:26:11 [Permalink]
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Life is good
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. -Anonymous |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
1990 Posts |
Posted - 04/19/2006 : 20:13:11 [Permalink]
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I had cable for 14 years while in a f#$%ing apartment. I bought and moved into a house two months ago north of Austin. No time for craple TV with house to paint, tile to lay, fence to build.
After work, it's home with a quick nap with Oprah on lulling me to sleep!
FOX channel, what a oxymoron of TV entertainment....ultra right news balanced with giggles and jiggles breast sit-coms. Push those limits. Hmmm, they say...what can we do next year to top last year? That's the motor that drives the networks. |
"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
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trogdor
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 04/19/2006 : 20:16:39 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by moakley
I don't watch news unless you consider The Daily Show news.
yes yes I do. |
all eyes were on Ford Prefect. some of them were on stalks.
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Chippewa
SFN Regular
USA
1496 Posts |
Posted - 04/20/2006 : 02:49:53 [Permalink]
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The Fox News motto: "fair and balanced," is silly. Real news reporting is not "fair" at all. Especially if reporting on something criminal. Factual is what real reporters strive for. Only propagandists try to be "fair". And "balanced" is also meaningless. Only propaganda is "balanced". Real news coming in from all directions is unbalanced and the truth will always offend someone. To hell with fairness. Fair to whom, the Nazis? Factual reporting beats "fair" every day of the week.
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Diversity, independence, innovation and imagination are progressive concepts ultimately alien to the conservative mind.
"TAX AND SPEND" IS GOOD! (TAX: Wealthy corporations who won't go poor even after taxes. SPEND: On public works programs, education, the environment, improvements.) |
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