Tagged and Bagged: barak obama, fox, jerry springer, sotomayor
“Obama nominates Sotomayor to Supreme Court” is the headline on all of the US television stations that we get on our Cable offering, except one – Fox!
Ange was watching a TV show that was interrupted by this nomination announcement. Its common in the US for their President to interrupt daytime television for these types of things.
That wasn’t stopping Fox, though. Apparently, a Jerry Springer rerun was more important in their eyes. “I’m cheating on my third cousin” beat out President Barak Obama for airtime. Gosh, could this be politically motivated? Let’s ask Bill O’reilly.
Who is Sotomayor? Who cares? Not me!
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=1495804
Lisa, what was the relevance of that link? If you’re a Rethuglican, then I can understand you pointing out an article that shows the (Un)Democrats in a bad light. Wait. I’ve got it. You work for Fox and you want to show that other stations have Fox’s narrow bias as well!
Let’s see what am I? I am not Republican nor Democrat. I just believe in 2 sides to every story,Just like FOX does and unlike MSNBC does ,
Thanks for your reply, Lisa. I agree with you that MSNBC is definitely not able to produce balanced news. I have to disagree about Fox, though. There’s not much balance with that station either (like CNN). I just thought it funny that every network except Fox was covering this nomination, interrupting regular programming, like they always do.
I still don’t see how that story that you linked to is relevant to what I wrote. So, the two sides to every story argument is a great one, but what about two stories?
Well for one every station(except Fox)is in lockstep with anything Mr Obama does so maybe FOX didn’t feel the need to announce it like it was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
I never used to watch FOX until many people were knocking it. So basically they gave it more viewers IMO.
I do find it to be refreshing to hear another point of view once in a while.
But you do have to remember FOX has 2 channels 1 which is regular TV and the other is their News Channel which I am sure was interrupted to make the aanouncemnet.
Fox does not = Fox News Network. One is a TV station (network) while the FNN is a 24/7 news and
news related entertainment station (cable). The Fox TV station (network) is way more liberal
than FNN and most network TV stations (abc, nbc, cbs..). I am also certain that MSNBC, CNN, and FNN all made the announcement as breaking news!
FNN may actually be slightly right of center (truth) however, it only seems so glaringly conservative when when EVERY OTHER network or cable news station is extreme left, sold out, and absolutely biased to the regressive / oppressive party!
@Greg – I see what you’re saying, Greg. The thing that got me when this happened (and remember that I’m in Canada) is that the Fox station was the only one that didn’t interrupt its regular programming for a presidential announcement. This station is a local station in Detroit, which you can get with rabbit ears (well, now with a digital converter and rabbit ears). The FNN, etc are all channels that you need to have cable TV to get. Not everyone can get cable. Somebody’s LOCAL STATION didn’t show what everyone else’s local station was. They’ve done this for Bush’s announcements. Why not Obama?