How is Fox News still going?

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Dragonclaw

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WE have so many channels and outlets for news nowadays that these groups have become specialized. No matter what your personal opinions and viewpoints are there will be a news program that pretty much caters to it. Doesn't matter how "right wing" or "left wing" your views go...
 

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Well, put it this way. What is arguably the most talked about news source. It's Fox of course, because of all the lies they use and get called on. Despite what you might think, the people running Fox News know that the lies they tell will be called on the carpet. They wouldn't tell them otherwise, because they would gain nothing from them. By telling so many blatant lies, Fox has enraged so many people that the sheer controversy alone gathers them so much attention that advertisers know that buying advertising space in the Fox News time space will guarantee viewers. This then leads to a high price on advertising space, which goes to the Fox network, and finally affects the budget and direction in which Fox News reports. That is basically the business plan that Fox News uses, and is why they will never go away. Too many people are unwilling to dissect and analyse WHY Fox does this because they don't try to see the big picture (something that is very concerning for the future of the country). Personally, I'm a conservative, but it's obvious that this amount of attention would be given without credible support to the belief that Fox is blatantly lying. You have to understand that Fox News is, at it's heart and core, a business. It's a politically charged business, but will always be a business first, and no successful business would ever change such a wildly successful business model.
 

likalaruku

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Fox is a tabloid, they quote fellow UK tabloid "The Sun" like a legitimate news source & they have made the mistake of thinking an article by The Onion was legit more than twice.
 

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Fiz_The_Toaster said:
Alright, let me ask this, what would you have in place of Fox News?

I'm asking this because it's good to have a differing point of view other than something like MSNBC and CNN.

EDIT: I'm not supporting Fox News and I'm not a fan of that source, but I'm curious.
Liberals always talk about free speech and free press but when it different from theirs they want it ban.
 

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likalaruku said:
Fox is a tabloid, they quote fellow UK tabloid "The Sun" like a legitimate news source & they have made the mistake of thinking an article by The Onion was legit more than twice.
Foxnews, talk radio, and the internet gives a different view on an issue. The problem is the liberals. They don't like the conservative side of the story.
 

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Flac00 said:
Fiz_The_Toaster said:
Alright, let me ask this, what would you have in place of Fox News?

I'm asking this because it's good to have a differing point of view other than something like MSNBC and CNN.

EDIT: I'm not supporting Fox News and I'm not a fan of that source, but I'm curious.
An actually "fair and balanced" conservative channel. Fox ignores all reality and facts, MSNBC does not.
MSNBC is a race baiting liberal news network. MSNBC "facts" isn't fact. Of all the news network they are rank in rating last. I'm surprise they still on the air.
 

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Smithburg said:
This is something I've been wondering. Fox has been shown to lie and twist facts around repeatedly, especially with people like Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck (Even though he's gone) and so on. So how do they stay afloat casting themselves as a news source? Isn't there anything about news organizations shown to be lying about things that could end up biting them on the ass?
You know why they still in the air? They double the rating of ALL CABLE NEW NETWORK COMBINE. They are the only center right new network on the air. The other news networks are pure leftist.

I'm surprise CNN and MSNBC still on the air. They been bleeding money left and right because no one watch them. ABC, NBC, and CBS news networks are pathetic shadow of their former self. Americans are tried of the liberal crap that these so called "news network" put out.
 

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jdun said:
Fiz_The_Toaster said:
Alright, let me ask this, what would you have in place of Fox News?

I'm asking this because it's good to have a differing point of view other than something like MSNBC and CNN.

EDIT: I'm not supporting Fox News and I'm not a fan of that source, but I'm curious.
Liberals always talk about free speech and free press but when it different from theirs they want it ban.
To be fair, it's not just the liberals yelling that, it's everybody. Everyone, regardless of political stances, wants free speech but gets angry and throws a fit when opposition comes around.

The liberals saying that are the very vocal minority.
 

isometry

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Fox News stays in business because relativism ("everything is just an opinion, everyone is biased") leads to people watching television that reinforces there beliefs as if they are facts. All news networks do this "belief-reinforcement", Fox News just comes across as more ridiculous because of the particular set of beliefs they have to reinforce.
 

Barciad

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Because us English need something to prove that our cousins across the pond are as stupid as we claim them to be, thus allowing us to act all superior.
 

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Eddie the head said:
People people believe it. It doesn't matter that it's false most of the time people believe it.
It's more than that. It's that Fox tells people what they're absolutely convinced that they already know. The most telling point in the 2008 Presidential campaign was towards the end, when there was a series of anti-Obama attack ads and they all ended with the same words: Just Like You Thought.

Rush Limbaugh is a master at tapping into people paranoia and getting them to point at the radio and yell 'I KNEW IT!'
 

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Pretty much every news program is as bad or worse than Fox, the only difference is that Fox has the audacity lean to the political right. Watch the documentary, "Media Malpractice." The amount of bias from all sources in the 2008 election is mind-boggling.

Also, news media - Fox included - can't actually lie, or they would have a ton of lawsuits up their ass. That's why the media invented 'spin.' Everything said is technically the truth. They just make a big deal out of everything.
 

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MAGIC snort snort

and i think people are just like

'lol look how dumb they are lets watch how stupid they get'

sadly people actually believe there spoonful of bollocks
 

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Well, I'm sure you all heard about the legal case that Fox was in a short while ago; when they sued for the right to lie (during news segments) and won. I could link you to some, but just google search "Fox sued for the right to lie" and you'll get a lot of sources.

Fun fact, the average fox news viewer is 65 years old. Make of that what you will.
 

exessmirror

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because the other part of the fox network supports them, and ppl like to have a good laugh once in a while
 

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Forlong said:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/jun/20/jon-stewart/jon-stewart-says-those-who-watch-fox-news-are-most/
This one is slow sometimes, but based upon the video you linked to I assume your post was intended as a joke?