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Fox News Is Biased? So What?

42222 Wrote: Oct 21, 2009 9:09 PM

and by far the most outrageously imbalanced media outlet of the bunch, well past the point of absurdity. (Anyone who can regularly watch FN is either brain-dead, or must be strapped to a chair with their eyes pried open à la Clockwork Orange.)

But almost every media outlet is biased.

The more “conventional” media outlets don’t really report actual news anymore. CNN may as well change its name to E! Online – It hardly qualifies as journalism.

But every media outlet is simply chasing viewers and advertising dollars.

Fox woos fundies and plugs credit-repair and payday loan agencies.

MSNBC woos hippies and plugs Microsoft and Toyota.

CNN woos the “Ooo – Is there a boy in that shiny balloon?”...

Those of you paying even the slightest attention these days realize that President Barack Obama has been the target of a near-criminally biased and antagonistic mass media.

Someone had to put a stop to the madness.

The organization most persistently engaged in reporting on issues that put the administration in a poor light has been Fox News. Or should I say Fox "News." Unfair. Unbalanced. Uncooperative.

"They're not really a news station," White House senior adviser David Axelrod recently explained.

"It's not a news organization so much as it has a perspective," chief of staff Rahm Emanuel...

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