Study Confirms That Fox News Makes You Stupid

ckm8 wrote: It's funny that none of the Fox News cultists have chosen to address the proof that management actively influences the information it disseminates to benefit a particular ideology, nor are they concerned

Do you watch Fox News? If you did, you would see they do have liberal reporters including Shepard Smith and have many liberal pundits and politicians on their commentary, not news shows, including Geraldo Rivera, Juan Williams, Mara Liasson, and Alan Colmes.

It is very rare for MSNBC to invite GOP members on Olberman or Maddow.

Geraldo is NOT liberal...Juan Williams is NOT liberal. Colmes quit because he couldn't take Hannity any more. No, Fox trots out a couple of folks and tries to hang a "liberal" sign on them, but by any stretch of the imagination they are not "liberals."

MSNBC invites GOP members on to their show all the time...Most of the time they refuse, (probably because they know they will be shredded with the truth.) The few times they DO accept the invitation to come on the shows, they come away looking pretty stupid...(Which is why they rarely accept the invitations.)

No one knows what Geraldo is,, LOL

ckm8 wrote: It's funny that none of the Fox News cultists have chosen to address the proof that management actively influences the information it disseminates to benefit a particular ideology, nor are they concerned

No doubt you are referencing the "public option" being referred to as "government option". I'm still baffled by that criticism mind you. Public policy and government policy are interchangeable terms, are they not? One is more descriptive, one more benign sounding, but they mean the same thing, don't they?

It all depends on the motives now PS- doesn't it? The motivation here is clearly to influence the viewing public to oppose the Public Option.

Two months prior to Sammon's 2009 memo, Republican pollster Frank Luntz appeared on Sean Hannity's August 18 Fox News program. Luntz scolded Hannity for referring to the "public option" and encouraged Hannity to use "government option" instead.

Luntz argued that "if you call it a 'public option,' the American people are split," but that "if you call it the 'government option,' the public is overwhelmingly against it." Luntz explained that the program would be "sponsored by the government" and falsely claimed that it would also be "paid for by the government."

"You know what," Hannity replied, "it's a great point, and from now on, I'm going to call it the government option."

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201012090003

...and yes, it's from Media Matters which is what I consider the partisan equivalent of Fox.

In fact the public was not "evenly split" on the public option, but clearly supported it.