I apologize about the misrepresentation of what you said about Franken, although I humbly disagree. And I don't see you putting out a possible three sources, you interjected CNN and MSNBC, but only for half a sentence followed up by a statement lending to neutrality. No need to harp however.
You don't need to be on fox news to be mainstream, people still read the newspaper or news sources, just because O' Reilly or Limbaugh have popular radio/tv shows, doesn't mean the left doesn't. The New York Times comes to mind as completely liberal, I'd say as slanted in it's reporting of news, if not more so then fox. I'm sure that that statement would be rebutted with the standard, what makes the NY Times so liberal? It's obvious, and can be answered the same way if the question were begged of Fox for its conservative nature; it's in what they choose to report. Also if you talk about news, albeit improvised "funny" news, watch Comedy Central at 8pm eastern time, there is an hour straight of the exact same shit Fox does, only from a different slant. People would no doubt argue it's mock news, but it definently pushes an agenda, and were it not for the chickey field reporting could be entirely construed as a news journal show.
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Originally Posted by willravel
Mojo, do you think Fox News is slanted to the right?
Do you belive that overall the American News Media is slanted right?
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Fox news is slanted to the right. A lot of people watch Fox news. A lot of people don't. A lot of people read the news paper, news texts I find tend to be more "liberal". I don't really know where I put the news media, Fox represents a bastion of conservative thought, but I couldn't state really how to allocate the overall scene as it is not clearly all represented by Fox.