FOX NEWS...Republican bias

Didn't really know the bes place to post this but decided to put it here. With the media the way it is these days, maybe it would be worth while to have a "media related" forum....hmmmmm. Anyhooo, this is from MoveOn.Org.

Sue
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MEDIA ADVISORY Contact: Trevor FitzGibbon or Kawana Lloyd,
For Monday, July 12, 2004 Fenton Communications, 202-822-5200

Jodi Sakol, Center for American Progress

202-741-6379

**PRESS CONFERENCE, PANEL DISCUSSION & FILM PREMIER**
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REPUBLICAN BIAS AT FOX NEWS DOCUMENTED IN NEW FILM, FEATURING FORMER EMPLOYEES
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Former Fox Journalists, Internal Memos to Blow the Whistle on Fox Partisan Bias

Progressives Call for Media Reform
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At a New York press conference this coming Monday, four former Fox News employees will go on the record to expose Fox’s persistent Republican partisan bias, while releasing internal memorandums from Fox News Channel showing executive level instructions to Fox on how to bias the news.



The four Fox whistleblowers appear, along with three others, in Robert Greenwald’s new documentary “Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism,” excerpts of which will be shown at the news conference. The film is a devastating indictment of the Fox News Channel’s purposeful disinformation in the pursuit of partisan objectives. Also at the news conference, Common Cause and MoveOn will outline their forthcoming campaign OUTFOX, starting with thousands of house parties to show the film taking place on Sunday, July 18th.



On Tuesday, media are invited to the official film premiere and to a panel on media consolidation and reform hosted by The Center for American Progress, with media authors and critics such as Arianna Huffington and Eric Alterman.



WHAT: Press Conference with Fox Whistle Blowers



WHEN: Monday, July 12, 2004, 12 NOON



WHERE: Emery Roth Salon I, Ritz-Carlton NY, 50 Central Park South, New York, New York

(59th Street between 5th & 6th Avenues)



WHO: Former Fox employees; Eric Alterman (The Center for American Progress); Robert Greenwald (filmmaker); Chellie Pingree (Common Cause, spokesperson for coalition)



To RSVP for the press conference (at which copies of the full film will be available), please contact Trevor Fitzgibbon or Kawana Lloyd at 202-822-5200.

At Tuesday’s panel, The Center for American Progress’ Media and Democracy Project will explore the impact of today’s media ownership structure on news, journalistic standards and democratic dialogue, as well as explain why progressives must include media policy in their political agenda. How has media concentration affected the accuracy of news and the diversity of viewpoints? What does it portend for informed debate and democratic participation? Five leading writers will answer these questions and explore issues presented in Greenwald’s film. A reception will follow..

WHAT: Panel Discussion and Film Premiere

WHEN: Tuesday, July 13, 2004, Panel discussion: 5 - 6:15 p.m. Film premiere: 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.

WHERE: Tishman Auditorium, 66 W. 12th Street, New York, New York

WHO: Eric Alterman (What Liberal Media?), Arianna Huffington (Fanatics and Fools), John Nichols (Our Media, Not Theirs), Nicholas Lemann (dean of the Columbia University School of Journalism) and Paul Starr (co-editor of The American Prospect and author of The Creation of the Media).

To RSVP to the panel discussion and film premier, call (212) 229-5808, ext. 101, or e-mail dover@newschool.edu to reserve seating. If you require special accommodations, please RSVP five days in advance.

 

wow, freesue, that's a genius idea!


except, kind of off topic, but i turned FNC the other day to see what the big deal was (i'm an MSNBC girl) and wondered "what the hell is wrong with all the correspondents?" they have to be the strangest looking bunch of people. there's something slightly off about each and every one of them.

 

sweet! Hope this gets some attention.

 

here's an article from the washington post about the movie, outfoxed. it's 3 pages but rolls along fairly well. pretty evenly discussing the topic.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41604-2004Jul10.html

 

Don't mean to throw in a simple point here but, the only way that FOXnews could seem right-wing, is if you were far to the left. So, it's understandable that a station that really gives both sides of the story the best it can, seems to slant right.


Edited to add: And I REALLY don't think the Washington Post has any room to talk about ANOTHER station having a bias after ninety-something % of their journalists admited that they vote Democrat. Man I wish I had that source. I'll look for it.

 

fox news is no where near republican bias

 

well, i read the article. it seemed pretty fair to me, critiquing both sides of this issue.

 

hmmmmm.

Two posts about FoxNews not being Republican-biased. I wonder, then, why it is the only news network my right-wing, neocon, Republican brother listens to?

hmmmmm.

 

It's probably a mistake to say that Fox News is Republican biased. It's conservative biased. Conservatives can vote Democrat! Rupert Murdoch also owns the biggest selling newspaper in the UK and he chose to support the Labour party a few years ago. Doesn't stop him, or his media outlets, or for that matter parties like the Democrats or Labour from leaning rightwards. There is no leftwing in mainstream politics.

 

:H FAIR-L
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
Media analysis, critiques and activism

http://www.fair.org/extra/0407/special-report.html

NEW FAIR STUDY:
Still Failing the "Fair and Balanced" Test:
Fox's Special Report leans right, white, Republican & male

Though Fox News Channel wraps itself in slogans of journalistic
evenhandedness, FAIR's latest study of Fox's Special Report with Brit Hume
finds the network's flagship news show still listing sharply right. In
one-on-one interviews, conservatives accounted for 72 percent of
ideological guests, and Republicans outnumbered Democrats five to one.
And, according to the study, Special Report rarely features women or
non-white guests in these prominent newsmaker interview spots: 83 percent
of guests were white males.

The study, featured in the August issue of Extra!, was commissioned by
filmmaker Robert Greenwald for the film Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on
Journalism. The film will screen across the country on Sunday, July 18 at
house parties organized by MoveOn.org; you can find the screening nearest
you at http://action.moveon.org/outfoxed/.

FAIR's current study looked at 25 weeks of Special Report's one-on-one
interview segments including 101 guests. Results were compared to those
from 2001 and 2002 FAIR studies of Special Report.

* Conservatives outnumbered progressives by more than five to one. Fifty
seven percent of Special Report's guests were ideological conservatives;
12 percent were centrists, and 11 percent were progressives (while 20
percent were non-ideological). Among ideological guests, conservatives
accounted for 72 percent. This marks an increase in left-of-center guests
since 2002, when a mere three percent were left of center-but also an
increase in conservatives, up from 48 percent.

* Republicans outnumbered Democrats by five to one (35 to 7).
Furthermore, of the handful of Democrats that did appear, the majority
were centrist or conservative. Only one of the 35 Republicans, on the
other hand, was centrist, and none were progressive. The five-to-one
imbalance is a marked regression from the 2002 study, when Republicans
outnumbered Democrats by only three to two.

* Women and people of color continue to be scarce. Only 7 percent of
guests were women, and only 11 percent were people of color. Only one
woman of color was featured in a one-on-one interview: National Security
Adviser Condoleezza Rice. And the female and non-white guests were
remarkably conservative; no progressive women and only one progressive
person of color appeared.

If Fox is the "fair & balanced" network it claims to be, then the guest
list of what Fox calls its "signature news show" ought to reflect a
diverse spectrum of ideas and sources. In FAIR's second study of Special
Report in 2002, the show had slightly moderated the imbalance with regard
to Republican and conservative guests found in our 2001 study. But with
current findings indicating that the show has tipped back toward increased
imbalance, it becomes harder to defend Special Report from charges that it
chooses its guests based on political sympathies, not news judgment.

"Fox is depriving its viewers of real debate and some important and
dissenting views," said FAIR's Steve Rendall, co-author of the study.

The complete report can be accessed online at:
http://www.fair.org/extra/0407/special-report.html.

For more information on Outfoxed, visit http://www.outfoxed.org.

 

Everything is going so wrong. Must watch Fox to feel better about it...

 

Heh, I like it cyberfly.

 

That's so true, people don't want the truth, they only want to hear that the war is going great, the economy is improving, the environment is not in danger, jobs are being created, etc....No one likes worrying, but those of us with a conscience can't help but worry. Someone has to.

 

So seeing footage of dead bodies makes the war look good? Well i'll be damned i didn't know that. But on topic, you mean to tell me fox news is biased to the right? HOLY SHIT! I WOULDA NEVER THOUGHT THAT!

 

c'mon saying foxnews is conservative biased is like saying that the new testament is jesus-biased.

 

Fox News is very pro-Republican. That's just the way they are, much like Washington Post being liberal.

I've always wondered why there are hardly any Africans on Fox. They had that one person, Collins Spencer, but he went to CNN and got an anchor position. When he was at Fox, they always had him out in the rain and snow while all the white people were inside the studio. I don't know of any black anchor persons or news talk show hosts on Fox News.

I wonder too how Fox is able to apparently circumvent affirmative action.

 

that was sarcasm. Well maybe Fox News is like me and thinks that affrimative action is bullshit.

 

To be 'Fair and Balanced', they should have a reasonable number of minorities on their show, regardless of what they think about affirmative action. At least give one anchor position to an African. There are a lot of groups that don't like affirmative action but they still hire a reasonable number of minorities and give them important positions.

 

Fox is more opinion than news.

 

News always comes out as opinion. CNN is sickenly liberal to me, yet do you hear me bitch?