FOX News...Is it A Trustworthy News Source?

[RCNicholas]

The FOX News Network is frequently accused of being a faulty, untrustworthy, biased news source, a mouthpiece of the Republican Party, etc. Do you agree/disagree with any of these accusations? Substantiate your position with evidence, please.

[Vigilante]

Fox might be to Reps what EVERY other news source is to Dems. All it seems (to me) is one or the other news source "reports" events and things that seem relevant in a bend toward one side. It's not that they are lying or false, but that what they report seems to be what Reps want/need to hear, while other news sources report what the Dems would like to hear.

As far as slant is concerned, they might tend to minimize the meaning behind the facts, or under-report what they don't like. For example how the liberal media seemed to just ignore hundreds of thousands of people gathering at the White House for a Rep cause, or under-reporting it, or even ignoring it. A news media source doesn't lie because they don't report something, they lie when they report something falsely.

In any event, just read two or three media sources and you'll get a fair balance.

[gharfish]

Fair and balanced. No spin.


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[JimL]

The FOX News Network is frequently accused of being a faulty, untrustworthy, biased news source, a mouthpiece of the Republican Party, etc. Do you agree/disagree with any of these accusations? Substantiate your position with evidence, please.

Fox news is not even news it is merely a conservative spin machine. This was made perfectly evident at one of the tea party rallies when a fox news reporter was caught on stage urging the crowd to make more noise to make it seem a bigger event than it was, until she realized that she was being filmed at which point she ducked away from the cameras and ran away. Thats not reporting the news, that is creating it, and that is dangerous. They are a propaganda machine for the right plain and simple.

[Cow Poke]

[Pilgrim]

I'd say they are about the same as any other cable news network. There really is no such thing as an unbiased news network. They all have their slants. I think the trick is to tune in when its headlines rather than to the digest shows.

[Thersites]

Fox news is not even news it is merely a conservative spin machine. This was made perfectly evident at one of the tea party rallies when a fox news reporter was caught on stage urging the crowd to make more noise to make it seem a bigger event than it was, until she realized that she was being filmed at which point she ducked away from the cameras and ran away. Thats not reporting the news, that is creating it, and that is dangerous. They are a propaganda machine for the right plain and simple.

You've cited a particular instance, but Fox News was around before the Tea Parties and reports on far more than that. It has reported on many REAL stories that other press outlets wouldn't touch until FOX had already covered it for some time- the ACORN scandal, for instance. And even if they are ultimately a propoganda machine, how is that a bad thing? They still cover real news stories and allow the opposition a chance to defend their positions rather more than seldom.

[gharfish]

Even if ? Of course they have deliberately become a propaganda machine (correct!), and that is a...money-making thing!


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[Dee Dee Warren]

Even if ? Of course they have deliberately become a propaganda machine (correct!), and that is a...money-making thing!


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The other news outlets are charities of course.

[Darth Executor]

I'd say they are about the same as any other cable news network. There really is no such thing as an unbiased news network. They all have their slants. I think the trick is to tune in when its headlines rather than to the digest shows.

Or just don't watch them at all. Read hyperpartisan blogs from both sides. If the other side moves a hair the wrong way, their opposition will be blasting it full page all day.

[Cow Poke]

The other news outlets are charities of course.

pret' near... in the sense that their readership/viewership seems to be going to a place where Obama is considering bailing them out.

[Seasanctuary]

A question for any news source: is it accurate in what it does happen to report?

With all the scrutiny on Fox, I suspect yes: Fox is accurate and therefore trustworthy as a news source.

Bias is often nothing more than a matter of selection. For example, I can pick up a certain newspaper which advertises as Socialist and still consider it a "trustworthy news source." Is it biased? Duh. Is it accurate? Yes.

[Darth Executor]

With all the scrutiny on Fox, I suspect yes: Fox is accurate and therefore trustworthy as a news source.

I mostly agree, but scrutiny doesn' t necessarily mean the source will be trustworthy. All the blogs who showed some liberals invented Rush Limbaugh racist quotes didn't stop drunk vehicular manslaughter enthusiast Rick Sanchez from spreading him (and retracting them only after Rush stopped being considered as a possible co-owner, and even so, the retraction was more Clintonian than Clinton himself).

[gharfish]

The other news outlets are charities of course.

Yes, like MSNBC 'is.' But that was not really my point, dizzle. I see FOX newscasters reinforcing Beck, Hannity, and Rush right-wing political beliefs and causes in the course of their extended news segments, when I think it is questionable to do so. Then they are spinning things for the American public for sure.


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[Stabbytheclown]

I admit that I only see the highlights, if that's what they are, of American news over here, but holy moly is it entertaining. Charlie Brooker did an excelent miniseries on newsprograms, one episode of which looked at American news (warning, bad language, including O'Reilly's total melt down):
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