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Originally Posted by SentToStud
A few weeks ago you recommended I watch Fox News and suggested I would see a balanced report. I did tune into Hannity and Colmes the night of the Kerry furor a few days ago. It was after Kerry had issued his apology. The story lead the show and lasted about 10-12 minutes. During that time, Hannity and "analyst" Newt Gingrich ripped Kerry and the Democrats for all but about 15 seconds of the segment (when the obligatory Colmes retort was issued). Hannity and Gingrich denied there was an apology then said even if there was one, it was insincere and politically motivated. Hannity went on to to liken Kerry to Mel Gibson, stating that when someone is "joking" there are more likely to be speaking their true feelings; much the same as people, including Gibson, do so when a bit boozy.
Point is, so what if some of the media is liberal? That's true, but some of it is conservative as well (Wash Times, Fox, etc). With all the freaking media that's out there, people have to sift through it to get the real story and to form their own opinions. Most people are too lazy or don't care enough to do so and are happy to simply subscibe to liberal or conservative ideology because that's the easy thing to do.
I happen to like Drudge a lot.
And here's a prediction. I have never heard a bad word spoken regarding the the Military Times. I bet we will now see conservative media bashing this publication and Gannett.
And I have a question for you. Do you think Bush's job approval rating is negatively effected by the totality of all media coverage? Personally, I dont think so, but rather believe it's a result of Americans disliking war coupled with him being a second term president.
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With regard to Fox, I was talking more about their actual news coverage than their shows. I do like some of the shows. I think O'Reilly is alright most of the time. At times, he can be really obnoxious but most of the time he is alright. He is very conseravtive on most issues but he has liberal guests on all the time that he debates, so both sides get their voice heard. I like the fact that O"Reilly will always give the guest the last word. I think that is the fair thing to do.
With regard to Hannity and Colmes, the show is probably not quite as balanced as it should be beacuse Hannity is really the star of the show and he comes on much stronger than Colmes. I'm not a big fan of Hannity. He's a conservative hack. The guests on the show are usually alright. They usually have a good mix of both liberals and conservatives.
With regard to your question about Bush, I do not think that his job approval has been hurt by media coverage. I think the media has been fair with him overall. I think the only thing that has really hurt him is the war. And the war would not have hurt him at all if it would have gone well. Americans are results oriented. If we would have won the war, everyone would be happy.
I agree with you about the Drudgereport. I like it because it has a good mix of articles from both liberal and conservative papers. It has all the interesting headlines from all the big newpapers.