How Roger Ailes Built the Fox News Fear Factory

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  1. TwistedTiger

    TwistedTiger Founding Member

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    Well, let's just say lesser of two evils.
     
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  2. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    Stop goose-stepping for minute and listen . . .

    For the fourth or fifth time . . . THAT IS NOT THE GIST OF THE ARTICLE NOR THE POINT I MADE!!!

    If you are too dim or too obstinate to realize this, then I'm done with this discussion. You are steering it to an issue that isn't being argued. It's not about whether or not networks are biased. It's about how FOX was designed and created as a right-wing political information dissemination engine, not as a legitimate new outlet.

    As I stated already, other networks may have developed some biases, but the article documents how FOX and only FOX was designed to be a specific political media outlet and they make no secret about it. If you have evidence that some other major network was created like this, to promote a single political viewpoint, then offer it. Else, STFU and read the article. It's kind of interesting.
     
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  3. TwistedTiger

    TwistedTiger Founding Member

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    Why? It works for you.
    Some bias! Some bias, are you serious? MSNBC might as well be named Obama campaign head quarters. Do you really think it was formed as a legitimate news agency?
     
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  4. SabanFan

    SabanFan The voice of reason

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    So? What's wrong with that. The conservative viewpoint needed an outlet and Ailes provided it. That's admirable, unlike Immelt lining Obama's war chest and prostituting NBC in exchange for becoming the President's sidekick.
     
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  5. Rwilliams

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    So what if fox was invented to cater to a conservative audience. Many people were sick of seeing the Alan colmes types spitting out hope and change crap. Were sick of rainbow dust being blown up our azz by liberals that own the media. You don't think msnbc wasn't created as a response to fox? Fox caters to conservatives. It was made for conservatives by conservatives to have an outlet to express our point of view. What's wrong with that ?ever heard of the first amendment? If liberals can have a channel why not conservatives. I hate msnbc so I don't watch. If you don't like fox don't flopin watch it. Lots of us enjoy fox and will watch it no matter what anyone else thinks.
     
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  6. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    Sure. It's a perfect example of what I was speaking of. NBC news has been around since the 1920's. MSNBC was established as its cable news network to compete with CNN. Over the years it evolved, dropped its partnership with Microsoft and started trying to establish its own identity and gradually began to cater to a more selected audience to compete with FOX.

    MSNBC


    It wasn't founded to be the mouthpiece for a political party, even if it may have become one. If you have evidence of this, then share it. Or . . .
     
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  7. martin

    martin Banned Forever

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    i am going to assume you have never watched the other networks.
     
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  8. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    Nothing. But it makes FOX unique. The insistence that every network but FOX is a liberal democratic mouthpiece simply isn't true.

    Twisted is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
     
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  9. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    You assume far too much already.
     
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  10. martin

    martin Banned Forever

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    cmon, man, the dude read a 13 page article. thats intense
     
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