Poll: If you could topple FOX news would you?

[bfgmetalhead]

We know them as one of the biggest suppliers of miss-information and biased smear attacks on popular culture, like games and films.

However free speech is a right and they and I have the right to exercise it. If though, you had the chance to take FOX news down forever or make them change to not be like they are now would you?

 

[Wuggy]

No, even though they spout out ridiculous bullcrap, free speech is still a too high value for me. And then again, the way I see it is: "Let your enemies speak up and people will see how wrong they are"

 

[Watchmacallit]

Yes...Yes...Yes...Why is this even a question?
Free speech is perfectly fine until idiots abuse it and spread fear among the less educated of the population.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Free speech...always an awkward issue.

Everyone agrees that the right to say whatever you want is an absolute must...unless you yell "fire" in a crowded theatre, incite a race riot, give out people's financial information, pass on state secrets and the like. Then most people agree that it's an absolute must to stop those things.

Personally, I'd prefer to take down the stupid fuckers choosing to believe Fox news.

CaP: always there...didn't work

Push the envelope

 

[Exile714]

Fox News isn't conservative, they're merely a company seeking to earn money. Fox News knows that there are people who want to watch news which confirms their world view. These people have nowhere else to turn, so they turn to Fox News.

If you destroyed Fox News, those people would merely migrate to another news network with conservative slanting. If none were available, they would flock to internet sites or even cult-like organizations.

The same is true for liberal news sources, which is pretty much every other one. Liberals watch a lot more news, and a lot more public broadcasting which explains the liberal bias there.

Would I destroy Fox News? No, because they're not the issue. People refusing to pay attention to information which refutes their biases, conservative or liberal, is the true problem.

(Captcha: requires me to watch an advertisement!!! WTF is this???)

 

[Wierdguy]

Ive always said there is a limit to every rule - and freedom of speech is no different. When people abuse the right to speak freely by spreading obvious lies and bullshit for no other reason than... well I honestly dont know the motivation of FOX - a secular white christian prudish state who looks down on the rest of the world with contempt and smug self-satisfaction?

Meh - you get my point.

 

[BabyRaptor]

Yes. Goddess, yes. As someone who lives in America, and lives with a Faux Noise sheep...I know the damage they do. Free speech or not, if they could be eradicated from the face of the earth, the country would be an indescribably better place.

 

[Wintermoot]

yes.
I,m all for free speech but news station should provide the truth not a warped version of the truth.(for example in a recent article they claimed that bronies where the same as man children and stopped working so they could watch more MLP.)

 

[Avaholic03]

No, because without Fox News, the Daily Show would suck. Where else are they supposed to get their material from? Also, it makes it easier to spot the idiots...pretty much whoever starts talking about something "great" or "amazing" they heard on Fox News.

 

[DoctorPhil]

I see Fox news as propoganda. I suppose propoganda falls under freedom of speech, but it's too harmful. We don't let neo nazis have big nazi conventions do we? At least not where I live.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Yes I would do it within a heart beat. There is a different between making news and making one sides remarks. News should be about fairness or equel measures.

 

[ZRendZ]

I personally wouldn't generally because I'm mean and I like to laugh at stupid people saying stupid things.

Spoiler: Off topic

The Captcha when i wrote this response says "Oh lord"

 

[Sudenak]

I'm all for freedom of speech.

But freedom of speech means you can't just scream "FIRE" every five seconds in a crowded room. Nor can you smear people. Majority popularity does not make this okay. They're essentially lying about their opponents (how can you not be the mainstream media, Fox, when you are the most watched News network?) in hopes of garnering more money.

And it shows, too.

My family is ultra-conservative. They watch Fox News every day. They watch the non-news sections and take it just as literally as they take the news sections. My mom is the worst offender: she watches nothing but Fox news from 7-11 AM each morning, and then watches them from 2-10 PM.

As it is, she views my hobby (and future career) as a gamer (and game artist) to be immature and immoral, truly believing games like GTA cause murder and all that other golden shit. She believes atheists and Muslims are trying to destroy Christianity in America by demanding Christmas trees be taken down in public places. She believes liberals are trying to destroy the country. She believes George W. Bush was the best president (seriously) and did nothing wrong, and believes Obama is a terrorist and the worst president ever.

And that's just naming a few. Arguing with her doesn't work because if I show her facts that aren't from Fox, she calls it the liberal bias.

So yes, yes they need to die. And I don't care how it is done.


EDIT: Oh yeah. She thinks the liberal mainstream media is smearing Palin, and that Palin would make a great president because "she's a good thinker".

 

[Catchy Slogan]

I'm not sure I want to take the risk of someone worse taking their place. Is the enemy you know worse than the enemy you don't know?

 

[Jabberwock King]

Yes. How is this even a serious question? Bias is one thing, but Fox Noise gets things wrong on a regular basis on purpose, also known as lying.

I will now provide proof to support my claim.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5914682&mesg_id=5914819
Click the link and be amazed, as those screen captures are real.

 

[Exterminas]

No, because of Freedom of Speech.

It is in your constitution that everyone has the right to talk bullshit, if they really want to. Changing them would compromise that right and open the door for changing and banning every opinion you dislike. Not very democratic.

 

[Hamish Durie]

hmm topple isn't the word i would use. purge with fire and salt yep that's the word

 

[EternalFacepalm]

I would. Sure, they may have free speech, but they're still suppliers of false information. And people believe it. I find it wrong in every way to educate someone to believe in lies.
Or maybe I'd keep it as comedy, and force them to be even more ridiculous.

 

[HobbyJim]

If we're going to topple Fox News, we need to topple/change MSNBC and CNN as well, since these networks are also guilty of bias and smear campaigns. I live in Atlanta and have heard people call CNN the "Clinton News Network." So, the left-wing bias from both networks is quite obvious, although most people who watch that network probably wouldn't pick up on it. If I had the magic powers to stop Fox News from what they're doing, I would not. At that point, you're taking a way a constitutional right and Fox news, while I disagree with their approach, has made some valid points and from what I've seen have never started any type of violence or caused any pain. Except the forehead bruises from all the face-palming.