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to say that fox news is much more conservative than other tv networks is true. to say that fox news is on the conservative side of america's center is also probably true.
however, that in itself says nothing to the accuracy of their reporting. imagine a scale from 1 to 100 that gauges the bias inherent in any news source. 1 is ultra-conservative slant, 100 extreme-liberal propaanda, 50 is the perfect reporting of all issues with complete objectivity.
if you group the majority of tv news sources at 75 and foxnews at 35 you satisfy most people's claims. fox is radically conservative for a tv network, it certainly has a right-wing bias... but its score is nearer the center than other networks.
so you see, to atomically make the claim that foxnews has a conservative bias can be at once correct and irrelevant.
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