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Originally Posted by dy156
Maybe this is sort of a backhanded support of Fox, but like I said, everyone needs to hear both sides, and before Foxnews, many Americans were not.
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I wouldn't call that backhanded support - I would call it very strong support.
I hear it repeated often that FoxNews presents a side that was not heard before and therefore FoxNews is good for general political discourse. Assuredly FoxNews presents a side that was not heard before - but if there was a TV station which presented the almost exclusive view of Nazism or Wahhabism, the same could be said.
That FoxNews has a specific viewpoint does not make that viewpoint valuable, nor does it make that viewpoint the necessary obverse of most other media.