11-06-2009, 05:06 PM
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Her Jay
Location: Ontario for now....
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Found this article in the Calgary Sun yesterday about Fox News, I keep forgetting that now that I'm in Alberta I'm in Harper country and no longer in my Liberal territory, I find Fox good for a chuckle
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To some who rarely watch it, it's both mysterious and outrageous that the Fox News TV channel dominates its cable TV rivals in ratings, and keeps growing.
The prejudice and mind-set against Fox is mainly among those who consider themselves intellectually elite but who, in fact, are less informed about what's going on in the world than ... than Fox viewers.
Fox's supremacy over its main competitors, CNN and MSNBC, grates on the lib-left.
But for most of this 21st century, Fox News has proven the fairest and most balanced of channels, both in hard news coverage and commentary.
Those who dislike Fox (and say they never watch it) consider it too conservative -- that it is mindlessly anti-Democrat and anti-Barack Obama.
This is unfair and wrong.
As one who increasingly relies of Fox for world and American news, I find it fair to Obama without being sycophantic -- especially Bill O'Reilly, who is hated by liberals with a passion that defies understanding.
Mainstream TV channels ABC, CBS and NBC also resent Fox, which is wooing their audiences away.
But when the Obama White House gang attempted to exclude Fox News from coverage, the mainstream media felt forced to rally to Fox in defence of the First Amendment (freedom of the press).
The previous Canadian government was no friend of Fox and the CRTC seemed to go out of its way to make it difficult for Canadians to have the same access to Fox News as they had to CNN, beloved by the left.
In Canada, the most virulent enemy of Fox and its contributors seems to be the Globe 's TV writer, John Doyle, who at the moment is relishing the Obama White House's "war" against Fox.
Doyle's bete noire is Bill O'Reilly, and to a somewhat lesser extent Sean Hannity, whom he calls "barking-mad gasbags."
Doyle denigrates those who like Fox as "cranky old guys" who are over 63 and constitute 50% of Fox's audience.
I guess that includes me, except I'm not cranky, just perceptive.
It's hard to understand the venom directed at Fox. After all, it's just more choice for viewers -- a different approach on newsworthy subjects.
Except Fox will cover news that other media outlets ignore, like the corruption in ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) that Obama once represented as a lawyer and which was caught in a sting supporting underage prostitution to finance a political career.
Doyle calls Obama's attacks on Fox as his "Just Watch Me" moment, reminiscent of the late Pierre Trudeau's unnerving quip to restore order during the 1970 FLQ crisis.
It's also "a warning to other all-news channels," including CNN, which Doyle says "harbours the appalling Lou Dobbs."
To Doyle, "attacks based on rumour, innuendo and half-truths" are Fox News' ways of attempting a "very American" kind of coup:"
Relentless smearing of a legitimate, elected government as socialist, un-American and totalitarian."
More "cranky old men who can't be bothered to check facts but are deeply energized by hate."
Sorry, John, but it's not Fox that ducks facts, just the opposite.
They dig up facts.
Witness the ACORN scam, and the audience ("cranky" or not) that has increased 9% since the White House declared war on it, and risen by 14% in the preferred 25-54 age group.
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White House out-Foxed | Peter Worthington | Columnists | Comment | Calgary Sun
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