How can a news network that airs talk shows where cons. rant about liberals for an hour, be fair and balanced?

O'Reilly, Gibson, Colmes, to name a few.


No wonder conservatives hate liberals so much. There is too much opinion on Fox News, that's for sure.How can a news network that airs talk shows where cons. rant about liberals for an hour, be fair and balanced?
All news networks are businesses.





They primarily care about advertising revenue.





They do not really care about left vs right. They pick their target demographic and ';sell'; news to them so that they can sell advertising.





In this respect, differing news agencies have different advertisers. The journalists have no editorial control.





They just read what is put in front of them.





Our job as news consumers is to try to sift through a variety of sources, not just taking one point of view as gospel, in order to form our own opinions of what is actually fair and balanced.How can a news network that airs talk shows where cons. rant about liberals for an hour, be fair and balanced?
The hard news portion of FOX network is in the crawl.


It frequently has a totally different take on the real news even as the pundits have their say. It can be quite amusing, try it sometimes as the talking heads tell us how well the war is going and the crawl lists the dead and the new attacks.
Look at CNN (which actually stands for Clinton News Network). There is so much friggin opinion there, it dwarfs the small amount Fox puts out. Plus, with Fox you get the whole story.
You've got tax funded NPR, PBS, and the ABC, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, and the NY times. So may I pass you some government cheese to go with your Whine.
You obviously don't know what you're talking about. Alan Colmes, the third one on your list is actually quite liberal and a Democrat. I don't see a show on CNN or any of the liberal ';news'; networks like Hannity %26amp; Colmes where you have strong arguments from both sides.
What about all the trash in the NYT and on CNN and MSNBC etc. The media slants are plain and simple. Naturally the liberals ignore the abuses of their friends and attempt to make the conservatives look bad. How can CNN consider wasting time filming Kennedy using a photo op with children to push for SHIP program approval. The dummycrats have stooped to new lows in trying to use Children to get media attention. The lack of leadership in Congress is ignored by CNN and the liberals and why they highlight Bush's approval rating they ignore their 11% rating. What a joke most of the media is becoming.
The ';fair and balanced'; news laws are really strange and don't apply to certain things like news networks. Mostly it's to govern advertising time to make sure networks aren't refusing to sell time or giving free time to any candidate. I wish people would look up the word ';liberal'; and not just use it to describe socialists.
to the republican viewers they are very fair and balanced.
you mean as opposed to CNN, msnbc, CBS, NBC and ABC? LOL......you libs crack me up.
If you don't like Fox you don't have to watch it. Look around i am sure you will find a liberal ';news'; show to your liking.
Faux Breaking News ';White chick still missing in Aruba'; ! ';Liberals are stealing Christmas'; blah ,blah and more blah !
Colmes is a liberal. You ought to watch the shows before you criticize them.
I think your Question should be how can a news talk show, that favors the Democrats and the Liderals and,where rants about Republicans, and Conservatives be ,fair and balanced. do all of us a favor and shut your pie hole.
Obviously you have never watched Fox news. All that is ever on that network is both conservatives and liberals debating 24/7 unlike all of the other networks where it is liberals spouting biased opinions and outright lies 24/7.





I wish it was the way you described it, conservative opinion only. Frankly I'm sick of hearing the liberal view point on every issue on Fox. Libs have way too much media as it is.


Of course it is the only network where conservatives and liberals debate though.
I'm going to give you an answer without giving an opinion on which I think is best. Fox news feels that the media is overwhemingly slanted to the left (liberal), so they offer a converse to that: conservative views and opinions. They DO report from a liberal angle at times (fair and balanced), but their owner (Rupert Murdoch) and their staff are decidedly conservative. I suggest you watch all news programs, MSNBC, CNN, and Fox to get the entire picture.
Remember how they spun every negative Bush story and then quickly swept them under the rug





Mark Foley


Karl Rove and Cheney revealing Valerie Plame


Cheney shooting a friend in the face while drunken hunting





They are nothing short of media whores for a group of Treasonous Self Appointed Leaders
Yeah, unlike the view and other liberal hate shows.








Do us a favor, put a sock in it, okay.
Stop watching Olbermann to get your talking points!
well o'reilly is an indipendant who backs the libs on the environment, and allen colmes is a die hard liberal, so rather than complane about what you read someone else say about the channel you should try watching it yourself
Well, Fox News IS fair and balanced- and I think this gets you angry because CNN and other networks attack the president and anyone who supports him.