It’s a consensus! The debate is over! The computer models predicated this, as I did! Don’t be a “denier”! Don’t “jam your head in the sand”! Don’t be a “Neanderthal” or a “moron” or a “neo-[liberal]”, “immoral”, “idiot”! The government should now fund Fox News Channel in Canada and the world over, in order to help Canadians and all the poor nations get fair and balanced news—including both sides of the news about the “man-made global warming”! It’s a “moral obligation”! It’s an “emergency”!
Of course liberals are against this idea.
Fox News Channel was shown by a recent study by a (much hidden by all the media except Fox News Channel) study to be the most balanced of all the news broadcasters in the U.S. in its political coverage. The Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University, found that “Fox News Channel’s evening news show provided more balanced coverage than its counterparts on the broadcast networks.” Even they were surprised, apparently, probably due to all the total BS hype against Fox News Channel by the lying liberal media, which has by now permeated the minds of nearly all. They included in the title of their report a bracketed advisory that it isn’t a typo: “Fox is most balanced (not a typo)”.
Who’s Fair and Balanced?:
…Fox News Channel’s coverage was more balanced toward both parties than the broadcast networks were. On FOX, evaluations of all Democratic candidates combined were split almost evenly – 51% positive vs. 49% negative, as were all evaluations of GOP candidates – 49% positive vs. 51% negative, producing a perfectly balanced 50-50 split for all candidates of both parties…
This week it was another university study and it found that most trust Fox News Channel over the other choices, even as folks also found that it was the most conservative. (Thanks to PTBC reader Frogg for sending this.)
Here are some highlights, which also help me point out, as I’ve been doing, that the public has largely continued its right-thinking downward slide in terms of trusting the news media at all; and the correct trend toward realizing that the news media is egregiously biased in favor of liberals.
• In the current national poll, just 19.6% of those surveyed could say they believe all or most news media reporting. This is down from 27.4% in 2003.
• The perception is growing among Americans that the news media attempts to influence public opinion – from 79.3% strongly or somewhat agreeing in 2003 to 87.6% in 2007.
And, 86.0% agreed (strongly or somewhat) that the news media attempts to influence public policies – up from 76.7% in 2003.
• By four-to-one margins, Americans surveyed see The New York Times (41.9% to 11.8%) and National Public Radio (40.3% to 11.2%) as mostly or somewhat liberal over mostly or somewhat conservative.
By a three-to-one margin, Americans see news media journalists and broadcasters (45.4% to 15.7%) as mostly or somewhat liberal over mostly or somewhat conservative.
And, by a two-to-one margin, Americans see CNN (44.9% to 18.4%) and MSNBC (38.8% to 15.8%) as mostly or somewhat liberal over mostly or somewhat conservative.
The most trusted national TV news organizations, for accurate reporting, in declining order included: Fox News (27.0%), CNN (14.6%), and NBC News (10.90%). These were followed by ABC News (7.0%), local news (6.9%), CBS News (6.8%) MSNBC (4.0%), PBS News (3.0%), CNBC (0.6%) and CBN (0.5%).
In Canada, where the news media is even more liberal, such a study would be hideously unscientific and all but impossible, because of course the liberals have arranged things such that Fox News Channel was banned in Canada until only recently, and then only made available on the digital tier of channels, meaning consumers have to buy or rent special equipment and pay extra to get it at home; while the state-run CBC is, by law, made available to all. Yes, BY LAW. So how are you going to measure what Canadians think? All they see is liberalvision! That’s all they know!
I also like to point out that Fox News Channel was approved by the liberals’ state regulator (the CRTC) only after they approved Al-Jazeera first.
Those liberals who acknowledge the truth instead of hiding it or debating it (usually when they’re drunk), love to point out that yes, OK, Al-Jazeera was approved first, but only with strict censoring and monitoring guidelines to ensure that Canadian national security wasn’t jeopardized by their extremist propaganda. That’s true. But they never add the fact that actually, the liberals’ elitist know-it-all Iranian-style CRTC, in deciding whether to unban and finally approve Fox News Channel or not, debated whether to apply those exact same censorship and monitoring rules to the Fox News Channel license application, at the insistence of liberals who wrote in to the CRTC warning them not to license it in Canada —on the basis that FNC presented a conservative point-of-view —which would presumably (to them) risk Canadian national security (!) or some such liberal-leftist “progressive” lunacy.
Others said it should not be unbanned simply because it would be unfair to allow FNC, because they presented a conservative point-of-view, in addition to the liberal point-of-view. To a liberal, getting both sides is “unfair”. And I can certainly understand their point, given the weakness of their argument and lack of ideas and principles. But folks, that’s how liberals think. They share a lot in common with Iran, on these matters.
Here’s a direct quote from the CRTC decision:
16. Twenty-six individuals suggested that the Commission should approve the addition of Fox News to the digital lists, but only if the Commission applied the same terms as it applied to the carriage of the non-Canadian Arabic-language news and public affairs programming service, Al Jazeera. In support of this position, some individuals cited an instance in which Fox commentator Bill O’Reilly allegedly berated a member of the family of a 9/11 victim for signing a petition opposing the Iraq war.
And after actually mulling that nonsense over, here was their ever-so gracious decision on this idea:
38. Some interveners suggested that BDUs [Rogers, Shaw, etc] wishing to distribute Fox News should be subject to the same condition of license applicable to those that wish to distribute Al Jazeera. The Commission considers that there is nothing on the record of this proceeding that would lead it to conclude that such treatment is necessary in the case of Fox News. Specifically, none of the reasons cited by interveners for such an approach give the Commission sufficient cause for concern that there would be abusive comment or abusive pictorial representation in the programming broadcast by Fox News that, when taken in context, tends to or is likely to expose an individual or group or class of individuals to hatred or contempt on the basis of race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age or mental or physical disability. Accordingly, the Commission will not impose any requirement on BDUs for the distribution of Fox News other than those that generally apply with respect to the carriage of non-Canadian services that are included on the digital lists.
Other related comments from concerned Canadians:
17. The Commission received 35 comments from individuals who opposed the addition of Fox News, most of whom objected to the content of the service. Several individuals referred to Fox News as a service that presents a biased, conservative viewpoint supportive of Republican interests. Others opposed to the addition of the service suggested that the Commission should not authorize its carriage because of what they alleged to be Fox’s conservative ideological slant.
At this point I always like to point out that Fox News Channel is the number (by far) cable news channel in the U.S., far surpassing CNN in viewership. And that you should contact your cable or satellite provider to get it today. It’s astonishingly different. Most Canadians are amazed by it. You actually get more than just a liberal point-of-view countered by a further left liberal or Marxist point-of-view!
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