It is not so much that Fox news presents a biased, pro-establishment view on current events, but that in the process they become bad journalists, bad commentators and border on dishonesty. They become bad journaists by selective coverage and showing favor to their sponsors and to the avenues of corporate authority which they purport to cover, even at the expense of their own employees (Google Jane Akre and Steve Wilson, Fox News) As they do this, they gain public favor with a vocal minority who blame government constraints for their failure to prosper economically to the extent that they desire. Fox News has deftly played to that audience, frequently convincing these supporters to rally against their own interests, and when they do, exagerating the clamor of their voices. Unfortunately many of the "liberal" competitors of Fox News share their faults, albeit to a lesser degree. Over the past decade, the internet has eliminated much of the power of major network news such as Fox to dominate sociopolitical opinion; this has contributed to some fractualization and polarization in the public, but we are seeing a greater range of views. I have to laugh when I see people defending Fox and putting down MSNBC or even PBS, because the enemies of all such established news stations, all of which argue within a narrow range of opinion, are not each other, but the alternative news shows such as Democracy Now which enlarge the spectrum of the debate! Fox is a dinosaur, but a dangerous one, and its death throes can still cause immense damage to journalistic integrity before it finally destroys itself.

Love it Love it Love it!

Doesn't deserve all the hate being spewed by the left. I doubt any of them have ever watched it. It is just news. Get over it.

Faux News.

The American version of Al-Jezeera, no more- no less. . .

Fox New is almost invariably very unbiased and very honest. Granted, I'm as die-hard Republican Conservative as anyone alive, but this network is far, far more unbiased than ANY liberal-oriented network (there are too many to mention). Everyone affiliated with this show (especially O'Reilly) seems to be very intelligent also.

Lots of flash, sounds and pretty women. I'm sure the reporters are high school grads or they have their GED diploma. They say "we report-you decide". What could anyone possibly decide based on their reportng? Nothing of any consequence. But they are cute.

The most unprofessional group of people on one network I have ever seen, I have seen actual TANTRUMS by people on this network about what they call "sleazy Bill Clinton" and yet, they hire sleazier Newt, Geraldo, Bill O'Reilly the sex phone pervert, and that traitor Ollie North--good job people--way to impress!!

More fascist crap.

Real balanced stuff...that's why it's Dick Cheney's favorite station. At least Jamie Colby is a smoking hot fox--so is Rudi Bakhtiar. The rest of that channel should be flushed down the toilet. It's as fair and balanced as Pravda was in the old Soviet Union.

The discussion is lively and the co-hosts are appear genuinely interested informing viewers of current events in a balanced manner.

I have watched fox news some. I wouldnt necessarily say it has a conservative bias, but I did notice lack of professionalism compared to anchors on the other 2 cable news networks. The anchors seem too subjective, too personal, too casual in their reporting.

I like their actual news (which is what this show is---just news), because it seems to get the newest stories the quickest, but I think liberals aren't separating the primetime debate/commentary/talk shows from the actual news on this channel. The news is good but I agree---the debate/commentary/talk is falling over to the right!

At least here I can get away from the ultra liberal media and get a fair news report.

My favorite news channel. Although I do watch a little news on the other ones, I always come back to Fox. It's closer to being fair and balanced than any of the other networks.

Nothing but lies. The penultimate noise maker for the right wing Noise machine. I understand watching this actually lowers your IQ.

I feel Fox news is doing America good. I mean,honestly, One SLIGHTLY right news station (right meaning republican) because they even bring some very outspoken Liberals onto the set, NOT TO MENTION the fact that Colmes on Hanity and colmes is a liberal, no? Have you taken into consideration that Fox news is the ONLY non-liberal station? Mabey thats why its watched world wide, and thats why its seen as fair and balanced, because All the other stations can do is yell and scream, and beat their fists on the table pronouncing republicans and Bush as untrustworthy and unfair! I mean, thats ALL i see coming from the liberal end. INcluding the ones Fox news hosts.

HEAVEN FORBID...A NEWS NETWORK WITH INTEGRITY!! THE LIBERALS CAN'T HANDLE IT!!

Nothing but interesting topics, fast and breaking news, and thier fair and balanced.

The best of the best!Comes right at ya, unsugarcoated!

Why is Bill O'Reilly covering the Democratic Convention (on FOX)? The airwaves are for the benefit of the public, and viewers have the right to hear their convention without O'Reilly, the Bush mouthpiece, moderating every move. This is like the fox moderating the chicken rights convention. Most viewers polled are worried about the war and about health care. We need to hear our advocates discussing these issues, not defending potshots from O'Reilly. The broadcast environment now is one to filter the left side of the country for the broadcast companies' own gain or ideology. We've come to a point where it looks 'ok' for the right wing to moderate the Democratic Convention. It is not ok. Our viewer's rights are being violated. No less than the survival of the species is at stake. Fox, and other broadcast companies and agencies could have the blood of World War III on their hands for supporting these warmongering views and surpressing images of dissent. You are not broadcasting not the other side, the side of the nation's majority, the side that has been polled on TV channels and thinks the war is not worth it. I am willing to fight for citizens to get our airwaves back. That's something worth fighting for.

Absolute Junk. I wouldn't even call it news, this is a 24/7 advert for the Bush administration.

In my opinion, Fox News is fair and balanced...if by fair and balanced you mean horribly shifted to the right and 'limited' to the ideals of the conservative crowd in its scope and coverage. I guess if you only want to hear what you want to hear, there is no better choice than the Fox News Channel. It certainly seems to satisfy those whos minds have already been made up about the way things are, and reinforces the 'further-to-the-right' conservative opinion that their way is right and everything else is something else. Perhaps I would find them more tolerable if they were classified as 'entertainment' rather than news..Just a thought~

Conservative right wing crap. Republicans think that their word in golden; like it is the Bible. It's just more white house filtered, ass kissing crap.

With some of the slickest computer graphics of any news station and a bevy of attractive female reporters, Fox News Live --while not up to the greatness of the Fox Report with Shepard Smith--is still quite good. The news coverage is fair and balanced and done with entusiasm. Some items are even done with humor and more.

How can anyone watch that nazi neocon Sean Hannity who calls everyone a traitor who doesnt support the war with that puppet Colmes who just sits there and takes it a fair and balanced program? How can anyone watch that disgusting idiot Mancow high on coke every morning to call the torture scandal 'insignificant' and think its a media blitz banging war drums instead. Bill O'Reilly has actually toned it down a notch ever since he was proven wrong about WMD, but he is still clearly pro-Bush. At least CNN has Buchanan, Novak and other REPUTABLE conservative talk show hosts. They are more balanced than Fox will ever be.

Fox News is little more than the official mouthpiece for the Bush administration. It mixes pandering to sensationalism with hard right wing politics. Anyone watching it should recognize that they are watching a show with a bias and factor that into the information the network provides.

Very UNFAIR and IMBALANCED news.

I don't believe that FOX News is biased towards a conservative pro-Bush point of view. Their only bias is towards sensasionalism and sloganeering, it keeps ratings up and the ad dollars coming in. The anchors themselves aren't conservative but the management of the station is. Roger Ailes, a Republican party operative manages the network and Rupert Murdoch, a big time Republican contributor and owner of a large media empire, founded the station. It's obvious that everyone on down to the anchors have to conform to these biases. They are biased in the respect of what they decide to report on. The reporters in general are professional and do manage to remain detached, but they overhype the terrorist threat to their advantage. They're not conservative, but just war-mongerers. Obviously you shouldn't take FOX News seriously, it's pseudo-entertainment; like soap operas, they want to keep people watching to see what happens next. That's why FNL is the most popular network on right now. The line has been blurred between entertainment and hard news, this is part of the reason why there is so much political polarization; blood, gore, and mindless argument sells above everything else. All of Rupert Murdoch's operations follow the tabloid style of reporting. I consider FOX News Live fluff, but they do have some pretty hot babes on that show.

To answer a question left by a previous reviewer, because more people watch one news show than another does not make it better. See argumentum ad populum on my Logical Fallacies list. Fox News is sickeningly biased, and built on the premise that it is somehow good to keep the people afraid, all the time. I wouldn't object to them so much if they admitted their bias. They could start by replacing fair and balanced with propaganda for the people, but that concept isn't in the Goebbels playbook they use.

The question is: why does Fox get more viewership than its competition? The answer should be obvious; however, the liberals will have a hard time figuring this out. It takes the ability to use reason sometimes to come to a conclusion.

Fox News is hardly as biased as most claim. While the majority of Fox programming may lean on the conservative side (i.e. The O'Reilly Factor), the actual news is reported with very little bias (no more so than CNN).

I live in australia we get Fox news as well as CNN ,CBS and BBC, we laugh in australia how incredibly biased fox is we have running jokes in australia about it, no offence but glad i am not living there.

Fox is the most ridiculous excuse for news reporting on television. They are completely biased, infair, inaccurate and right-wing motivated. Small wonder since Georgie Bush's cousin runs the company.

I used to click over and watch Fox News for laughs. Taken in moderation, their approach is moderately humorous. However, upon closer examination, their claim to report in a fair and balanced way is laughable. I had a day off from work recently, hung out with my Dad, who is a big Fox fan, and I noticed that the whole day on Fox was spent either cheerleading for George W. Bush or cheerleading for the war in Iraq. I used to be amused by Bill O'Reilly, but if he doesn't agree with somoene on his show he cuts them off or doesn't even let them get a word in edgewise. I think if there were a cable channel that was as blaringly liberal as Fox is blaringly right wing, there would be a huge outcry from the conservatives. I know some people think CNN is too liberal, but I think it has a lot more journalistic integrity than Fox does.

Fair and balanced news, with the human touch. Not the robots and DNC/internationalist bias of the others.

Fox News Live is my favorite channel, I probably watch it more than you. My interest is the Calif. Dept. of Curruption. I heard Jill Stewart awhile back and I was so impressed to hear someone finally speak the truth on this horrible system. Realizing that inmates are not a popular subject until I hear a new visitor saying that this is an awful system, I had no idea. The correctional officers do not want to let lifers go because they keep the peace, do most of the work, and cause less problems because they believe that they will someday get out. Granted many lifers should not get out but there are many that should have been deemed suitable for parole a lon time ago. The C/O's laugh and say we decide who gets out not the Govenor, we pay him. As a prison wife I can quarantee that we are all not on welfare or whatever, some of us are very educated and what we know about CDC would make people sick. Since the recall the inmates have been locked down a lot because C/O's get time and a half when they are locked down, explain the logic of that one, what could possible happen to make there job so dangerous at that point, everyone's locked up. I am an RN specialized in mental health and I have never seen so many exaggerated senses of self-worth in my life with no education to back up what they say. Like Jill Stewart said, they have only to have a GED, they make over $100,000/yr, can retire at the age of 50, and joke about how much tax payers pay just in their sick time because when they go on lock down for a week they have made their money so they call in sick for a few days. It is hard to get anyone to listen to us as we are in the same catagory as the inmates. I am so digusted by this system and the fact that no one wants to hear us when infact we have good things to say. Thank God for people like Jill Stewart

Hate TV

If "Live" implies the reporters actually have 2 brain cells to rub together, then Live should be taken from the name. Get rid of News while you're at it. The mission of Fox is ONLY to get Bush re-elected. That's fine, everyone has their opinion, but QUIT THE CRAP about being fair and balanced. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

I feel that Fox news is very biased, and I also have noticed that fans of Fox news tend to say that Fox is the only news channel that they watch. Choosing to watch any one news channel is detrimental to your own awareness of the truth because it prevents you from getting various perspectives. The best way to stay informed is to watch a variety of news coverage. That way, you notice the way that stories are slanted, and you can decide for yourself which ones sound more biased. Generally, Fox news viewers shut out all other sources of information and label them "liberal" just because they don't happen to like what they're hearing. The best way to keep current is to get your information from a variety of sources. You wouldn't trust a journalist who was one sided- the best journalists try to get as many sources as possible. You should do the same.

It's pure entertainment becuase it's NOT fair and balanced at all! Fox is twice as "conservative" as CNN is "liberal". Everyone knows this and to deny this fact is to prove ones lack of awareness and basic honesty.

I think Prolix needs to get those hemmeroids looked at!

Fair and Balanced? What? Any network that lauds itself over its lack of bias cannot be trusted. It's funny reading the comments here repeating that phrase. Fair and Balanced. Fair and Balanced. GAH. Can't you even think for yourselves when you're rating a program, rather than repeating their catchphrase? No wonder FoxNews is popular. Which brings me to the next point: "We Report. You Decide". NO! They selectively report, encourage their reporters to convey the networks opinions through facial gestures, and then draw conclusions, so YOU THE VIEWER only have to nod your head, sit back, and watch more commercials - All while you feel good about yourself being more 'patriotic' than other Americans because you enjoy watching State Propaganda. Remember: Four legs good, two legs bad.

This is the ONLY network that could ever claim to be "Fair and Balanced". Liberals whine about the dominance of conservative hosts on talk radio, and the emergence of the FOX News Network. They should ask "Why did this happen?". It happened because people were sick of getting one viewpoint of the news from video, print and radio media - and the conservative talk shows provided "the other side of the story". It's not just conservatives that were frusrated with the liberal bias in the media - and the "spiking" of the other side of the story by liberal journalists - it was honest, well educated liberals who WANTED to hear the other side!! They got sick of liberal talking heads like Dan Rather reading the daily news release and propaganda from the democratic party as facts - and were stareved for the other side!! News used to mean "all the news that liberals want you to know". People from all political persuasions ran to shows like Rush Limbaugh when they came on - just to get the WHOLE story and to get the news that the liberal media was CENSURING!! That's WHY FOX is where it is - it gives BOTH sides. Extreme leftists are screaming just about the conservative side GETTING A VOICE in the media. Its the leftists that are for censurship, deprivation of first amendment rights and propaganda. Then the bastids had the NERVE to accuse Roger Ailes of "bias" just because he sent a letter to theWhite House after 9-11 recommending that we "hold the terrorists acountable"!! The liberals hated him because he was rooting for America instead of against America and FOR our enemies!! He's obviously biased!! This from people like Dan Rather who claimed that being the keynote speaker at Democratic National Committee fundraiser did not compromise HIS "unbaised" position!! What a joke!! The reason people have flooded to FOX is because they are sick of the mainstream media and the traitors amongst them who continually root for the enemies of America - and AGAINST our country!! People WANT to root for America!! Heck - we live here, why shouldn't we? Why should we root for the terrorists that killed 3,000 innocent people like the majority of the mainstream media does? That's not "unbiased" - it's biased towards EVIL and it's WRONG!!! God Bless the FOX News Network for having the courage to tell the truth in the face of so many liars who want to control the messages we get!! God Bless FOX!!

Nothing else comes close.

Fox News Channel is where Clinton bashing has-beens go to die and resurrect themselves as hate-mongers who demonize anyone who doesn't agree with them. How refreshing. Kim Hume, the Fox News Director admitted on C-span that Fox News is not fair and balanced as many of the people who watch it are lead to believe. They have an agenda to promote the GOP point of view which is really the AEI point of view and they don't give a flying fig about you, your job, your kids, your health or your beliefs. Its about money stupid. So if your brain is too tiny to handle truth then Fox News is for you.

Fox news is so different from CNN by the fact that they aren't constantly directing you to the liberal agenda. Fox News is a refreshing change from all those other relentless new channels.

The best of the news shows. Fair, balanced, and interesting.

Every show on Fox, as I said before, is biased. Meaning that the opinions are right-wing, conservative, and in favor of the Republican party. Never does it show the opinion of a liberal, a moderate, or an anti-war demonstrator. Even if they do they don't let the liberals or moderates voice their opinions without cutting them off and reprimanding them of being anti-American and treasonous. For example, Jeremy Glick, whose father died in the Sept. 11 tragedy, came on the O'Reilly Factor to speak against the war. You would think that O'Reilly would be little more sensitive towards Glick. Instead, O'Reilly refused to let Glick finish his sentences. We all know how O'Reilly gets when someone disagrees with him. He goes berserk and almost satanic. When O'Reilly couldn't take it anymore, like he always does, he told Glick to "SHUT UP, SHUT UP!" He cut the interview short and he signaled to one of his staff members to get Glick out of there. Not professional journalism if you ask me. (Transcript @ http://www.oreilly-sucks.com/oreillyglick.htm.) Glick, as every one else, is entitled to his opinions and this is what so great about democracies such as the U.S.--there is no secret police ready to hack your head off when you speak your opposition to the government’s actions. Yet you have your media police. I feel so sorry for the conservatives who watch Fox and absorb its one-sided garbage. It’s not even a news station!! It’s a broadcast of right-wing opinions on three-day old news. I’m just shocked that Fox programs are at the top of the Rateitall list. Some say that liberals need to cite examples of bias in Fox Propaganda shows, I think that by watching Fox anyone with the right mind can point out the bias for themselves. www.oreilly-sucks.com for more info.

Fair and balanced Republicans.