New Cable News Network: America One

Sounds like they want to compete with Fox, but be less balanced. (Liberals having seizures at the thought?)

Do you think they will succeed? Maybe a place for Glen Beck to come back to?

Will probably pass by MSNBC in ratings during the first year.

FredHayek wrote: Sounds like they want to compete with Fox, but be less balanced. (Liberals having seizures at the thought?)

Do you think they will succeed? Maybe a place for Glen Beck to come back to?

Will probably pass by MSNBC in ratings during the first year.

Fred, for the most part the lefts whining about your lack of links is , IMO, a pathetic straw man.

In this case I only have the faintest clue what this post is about and would have to search "America One" to buy a clue. I will probably run across it in the future but for now, to me, this post is babble and the sun is out and I have wood to split.

Nothing wrong with that, I sometimes post something so that I can find it again vs. giving a rats ass if someone reads or comments on it.

I am posting this in what I consider the unlikely possibility that you do not realize that some of your posts are a bit oblique and because I had a burning desire to use oblique in a sentence.

I think you used oblique well Bob.

Here is a link.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/one-america- ... mpetition/

from your source:

The news used to be you would confirm your source multiple times, you would report the fact, and you would leave it up to the viewer to determine what we should or should not do. That is missing,” he said. “Cable networks, many of them, have blurred the line between delivering the news and information and delivering the personal views of the host. Nothing wrong with either one, but we just believe that they should be separated, and we are going to do that.”

I personally would welcome a news outlet that did that....but wonder how they can claim they will be a conservative source of news and will only report facts, aren't those mutually exclusive?

Calm down, it was a joke.....but if the conservative slant is kept to the opinion pieces and the news was reported in an unbiased and factual manner that would be a distinct difference between them and FOX.

archer wrote: from your source:

The news used to be you would confirm your source multiple times, you would report the fact, and you would leave it up to the viewer to determine what we should or should not do. That is missing,” he said. “Cable networks, many of them, have blurred the line between delivering the news and information and delivering the personal views of the host. Nothing wrong with either one, but we just believe that they should be separated, and we are going to do that.”

I personally would welcome a news outlet that did that....but wonder how they can claim they will be a conservative source of news and will only report facts, aren't those mutually exclusive?

Calm down, it was a joke.....but if the conservative slant is kept to the opinion pieces and the news was reported in an unbiased and factual manner that would be a distinct difference between them and FOX.

It would also be a distinct difference between them and every other network (only liberal) like MSNBC CBS CNN ABC CBS.... Am I wrong?

Thanks frogger.

Don't ask me why but I have a distinct memory of when I first noticed media bias. I was driving to work listening to one of those on the hour news summary on the radio. It was during the Granada invasion and the report used the word quagmire.
For those who do not know, quagmire had a very high negative emotional subtext from it's usage during Vietnam.
(BTW, pretty sure it was Judy Woodward but at this late date not positive).

Aside from how a story is reported and what questions are asked during an interview a large component of bias is what stories are emphasized and which are minimized.

Exactly. Story selection is the best example of media bias. Listen to NPR, you will hear many more stories about education than you will on CBS or MSNBC. Education is important to their producers so it gets more air time. (And possibly to their viewers more than soccer scores.)

Media bias is also very clear when networks don't air a story that needs to be told.

Benghazi survivors anyone? You think the NY Times would have ferreted out this story if it had happened during Dubya's terms?

The NYT and LJ would still be talking about it.