This has to be one of the most ridiculous issues ever concocted by liberal purists, and, quite frankly, reflective of a dangerous type of thinking. A type, I may add, that blatham is never reticent about warning against.
Fox has been demonized in a way that smacks either of a mind so narrow it can fit under a door, or a discomforting desire to shut down a public news source because it doesn't operate with the bias they have come to expect and demand from other, older sources.
According to a poll conducted by Sacred Heart University; as reported by
Reuters:
Quote:"Americans know bias and imbalance when they see it and they don't like it.
When most service organizations strive for consumer satisfaction ratings in the high eighties to low nineties, an overall positive rating of 40.7% is
dismal," said Jerry C. Lindsley, director of the Sacred Heart University
Polling Institute. He added, "Americans know that it's just not that hard to
present both sides and keep personal bias at home."
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.
Just Fox News was seen as mostly and somewhat conservative (48.7%) over mostly or somewhat liberal (22.3%).
Its important to note as well that the poll found that Americans, by a comfortable margin, believe Fox New is the most trusted source for accurate reporting.
Quote: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%).
So even if we accept that Fox New is roughly as biased as CNN and MSNBC and less biased than The NYT and NPR, what could possibly justify the Democrats' refusal to participate in Fox sponsored debates and blatham's anger for Hillary Clinton because she apparently has decided to cross the picket line?
As Roger Ailes commented - If Democrats are afraid of Fox News, what will they do when faced with Al Qaeda?
