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Originally posted by hoosier
I thought FOX was not available in Canada? Are you watching it regularly via a US station?
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Despite what you may have been led to believe FOX News is available up here... channel 181 on Rogers Digital Cable... all the channels between 180 and 199 are 24 hour news services so I flip around alot to if nothing interesting is on - or more often between the channels when something big is in the news, in order to get as many sources (I hope) as possible.
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"Commentators parading as news reporting is very disingenious - as is of course the constant editorializing during the "legit" news programs - actually what are the commentary shows and what is actual reporting on FOX?"
Which commentator does this?
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Well any of the major talking heads really...
An example is the constant use of expressions such as: "as we reported earlier" and such during a commentary - commentators don't "report" the present their views on a topic.
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Any examples of "constant editorializing"?
A local talk show host has offered a large cash donation to your favorite charity for a single example of bias in FOX newscasts. So far, no takers.
Much hot air about bias in FOX news, but no examples.
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Okay examples of editorializing - how many negative references do you say hear about France, when France may have nothing to do with the story they are reporting on?
As for an example of bias on FOX for $$$ (feel free to collect) - no problem, visit the thread earlier discussing media bias, there is a link to an investigative report that won a number of awards specifically dealing with media bias - FOX figures prominately... it'd be the one with O'Rielly snapping on the son of a 9/11 victim, Coulter thinking Canada sent troops to Vietnam, O'Reilly being shown to fabricating facts and sources, the FOX news team engaging in a little on-air Canada bashing.
Or you can take the simple approach and just look at the language or "FOX-ism" that they have added to the vocabluary lately: Islamo-Facist or Jihadis.... or you can look at how they apply the term terrorist to a pretty broad spectrum, but the exceptions are somewhat telling (ie. IRA or Jewish extremists).