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[johnslat]

Well, I like Olbermann and Maddow, though they're both a little too conservative for me.

[gungediana]

To be fair to Fox News, it's the only channel which is prepared to say anyhting critical of President Obama at all.

If it wasn't for Fox News, the President would get almost 100% positive coverage it seems to me. So I think it's a must watch channel right now!

[johnslat]

Dear gungediana,

"To be fair to Fox News, it's the only channel which is prepared to say anyhting critical of President Obama at all.

If it wasn't for Fox News, the President would get almost 100% positive coverage it seems to me."

!00%, you say:

ABC Offers Skeptical Take on Obama's Stimulus Claims


Diane Sawyer Frets: Obama 'Caved-In' to Cheney & 'Political Right'

On the ABC, CBS, and NBC evening news, fifty-eight percent of all evaluations of the president and his policies have been favorable, and 42 percent were unfavorable. (As noted above, these figures are based on judgments by reporters and sources not affiliated with either political party.)

http://www.cmpa.com/media_room_4_27_09.htm

When Americans are asked to assess television news coverage of Barack Obama, Fox News Channel stands out from other networks for being too critical of the president. Nearly three-in-ten (29%) select Fox when asked which of six broadcast and cable news networks have been too critical of the new Democratic president, a far greater share than any other network.

In contrast, no one TV network is singled out for being too easy on Obama. Each of five networks (CNN, MSNBC, NBC, ABC and CBS) was named by about one in six respondents in this regard. Again, the Fox News Network stands apart � just 5% named Fox as being too easy on the president.

The latest weekly News Interest Index survey, conducted April 17-20 by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, finds a substantial partisan divide in views of how TV news networks cover Obama. More than four-in-ten Democrats (44%) say Fox has been too critical of Obama, compared with 25% of independents and just 18% of Republicans. No other network comes close to Fox, though 11% overall � including 18% of Democrats � say CNN has been too critical of the president. Very few Americans cite the broadcast networks � ABC (4%), NBC (4%) or CBS (3%) � as too critical.


In the survey, no one network is particularly identified as too easy on Obama. That is despite the view of many media watchers that, among the cable stations, MSNBC�s prime time lineup tilts to the left, while Fox�s leans conservative. Some 16% of Americans identify MSNBC as too easy on Obama, the same percentage that cites CNN. Among Republicans, one quarter (25%) says MSNBC is too easy on Obama; about as many say the same about CNN and each of the broadcast networks.

The impression that there is a pro-Obama bias to media coverage is widespread among Republicans � a majority identifies at least one network as being too easy on Obama, and a quarter feels that at least five of the six major networks � if not all of them � are too easy on Obama. This criticism is cast evenly across all networks except Fox News.

While many Americans see one or more networks as too critical or too easy on Obama, just more than half make no such distinctions. When it comes to being too critical, 53% either say that none of the networks is guilty, or offer no opinion. The same is true when it comes to whether any of the networks is too easy on Obama.

In a separate question on the media in general, the public sees coverage of the first months of the Obama administration as fair. Two thirds (66%) say the news organizations they follow are being fair to the new president, while 18% say they are being unfair. More than seven-in-ten (72%) Republicans say the coverage has been fair, compared with 66% of Democrats and 67% of independents.

Those who say they see the coverage as unfair � including 23% of Democrats, 16% of independents and 12% of Republicans � were asked to explain their answers. Among the common responses were that the media was expecting too much too quickly, that it was being too negative and critical and that Obama was getting blamed for steps taken by past administrations.

http://people-press.org/report/508/fox-news-stands-out-seen-as-too-critical-of-obama

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[tillymd]

Have you seen the movie "Wag the Dog" with Dustin Hoffman?
Great movie! I can't help but think of it everytime I watch the news.

Tillymd

[johnslat]

Dear tillymd,
I have - I agree. Great movie. And Walter Cronkite, once the "most trusted man in the USA", considered by many to be a "model of journalistic integrity" just passed away.
Regards,
John