Is it just me or do they seem to always be yelling at the viewers?

I get all my news from the internet anymore since there are sources that just tell you what happened or what was said without an opinion on what it means. As to the job they do at Fox, I'd call them on par with CNN since both have an agenda at work and a definite cut above the ridiculousness that is MSNBC. Now in the context of TV channels I'm going to give them a two since I have little use for them and would much rather watch something else, plus you can get better commentary here on RIA anyways.

 Broke the corporate centrist media monopoly by featuring extreme right-wing propaganda  disguised as 'news'.

I'd have no problem with this situation if there was a similar outlet for the opinions of the left, but unfortunately there isn't.

It's a NEWS CHANNEL!! If the liberal water-carriers were less defensive about the bias so well documented on the other channels, they could analyze Fox in its proper perspective instead of focusing exclusively on its ideological schism from everything else available on this dying medium.

From the hatred-filled accusation posts to Lena's pretzel-twisting diatribe about ratings and how you really need to read them, a change is taking place and the takeover of the US federal government by radical left-wingers who have a very questionable way of looking at the role of the "choice" of Americans' lives (other than pregnant women) and the press has a role to play that ONLY Fox is stepping up to.

They call it the "Fourth Estate. " The free and unfettered press is a part of the system of checks and balances, part of the design of our form of government. It is gone. If the Obama administration has an enemies list, who on FoxNews is not on it? Who on CNN IS on it? Anybody at ABC, whom the president jokes about "sleeping with? "

Hate on FoxNews all you want, there was no shortage of hatred in the entire press for President Bush. But, today the only dissident voices resonate from FoxNews, and how the liberal dingbats howl and deride them. But over 60 million Americans did not vote for Obama (69 million voted for him) and his agenda which includes taking over private companies, spending stimulus money like nobody has ever seen before and an attempt to completely take over America's health care system, with the justification that some people don't have health insurance, even though most of those are not American citizens. And CNN does "documentaries" about how wrong and discordant the plans opponents are.

But FoxNews must be silenced, here on RIA. Sometimes you get the government you deserve.

The staff on Jimmy Kimmell Live spend more time fact checking before they go to air with a news item. The network was WAY better at the beginning when it actually included some news for foxes.

Fixed News is more like it.....

Fair and balanced my ass. Honestly. Yeah it's fair until you have to make your case and Mr. Nospinzone cuts you off.

The devoted fans of Fox News often optimistically refer to Nielsen Ratings as an indication that they're part of a vast silent majority in the struggle towards an America that thrives on radical, right-wing values. Comforting, perhaps, but far from accurate given a cursory knowledge of statistics or an understanding of how media is digested today and moving forward.

To address Nielsen first, the particular "points" or "share" rating system where Fox News beats out CNN (used for the sake of example because this is the network that Fox News loves to claim victory over) is a calculation of average viewership per minute. This means that people watching for a longer duration over the course of any given day get counted numerous times. CNN trounces Fox News in cumulative unique viewership (which is a figure that describes how many different people tune into a station daily). This latter figure is increasingly used to determine the cost to displayed an ad on television because it's a better indicator of reach, and consequently CNN commands much higher rates for advertising on their network.

Another important point to consider is the broadening number of media channels available to people interested in news. Isolating it down to the audience that prefers television is convenient if you've a vested interested in ignoring the reality that, increasingly, people are turning to the web for up-to-the-minute news and information, as Fox News has. A quick check on Quantcast makes it obvious that CNN's audience more than doubles that of Fox News on the web, with 23 million unique visitors per month to foxnews.com's 9 million.

Getting back to the channel wars...Fox News positions itself as an alternative to all the other {hopelessly liberal} news networks, and in doing so, their fans eat it up (and spout it out on here, constantly). By that principle, if we pit Fox News at its most popular moment against all these other networks its audience is downright diminutive.

Anyhow, I do appreciate their existence, if only for the fact that they provide fantastic fodder for The Daily Show and the Colbert Report :P

Reliable in reporting news, consistent in making points, compassionate when discussing the issues of the day, and offers more than one viewpoint.

I tend to like news channels that are moderate and unbiased, and this one seems to be too far right. Besides, their weekend shows are a bit too giddy -- having a little fun is one thing, but in my opinion they carry things a bit too far.

One thing that I really did get a kick out of (when I watched it) was the way they spelled Osama (Bin Laden), which was Usama. That never fails to bring somewhat of a smile to my face whenever I think of it. Perhaps he doesn't deserve to have his name spelled right. I guess this one minor thing was the high point of the entire channel.

Murdoch, The australian who owns this filthy faux news station, couldn't careless if you hate gays or if you cried of anger when a black man became president. He's comforting the dumbest of us in their racist positions, racking up as low as possible and so, attracting all the barn animals in his "slaughterhouse for intelligent thoughts"....If he thought he could make more money with a more central or left wing stance, he'd do it...There's just too many dumb sheeps out here...Heee-haw!

I Love Fox News, except for Bill O'Reilly.  Greta VanSusteren is excellent!  I believe Fox is about as unbiased as you can find.

I love Fox News Channel, but not perfect.  I really wish Fox should be decided to be independently from owned by News Corporation, that why I hates News Corporation and Rupert Murdoch.

fox is iight but i like their show for sure... American Idol and sytycd is gud also

Most of the low ratings seem to be comming from partisans. Lets face it, the bars been set pretty low.

All these bad ratings,  yet it continues to be the number one cable news channel?  Man....How did that happen, hmmmmm

Television news in general is pretty lousy journalism these days, and Fox is pretty close to being the lousiest of a bad lot

Third rate journalism: buffoonery for people so white they make The Partridge Family look like The Black Panthers, people  who try to make not being a fundamentalist Protestant a felony and who put on a Shriner's fez and then jerk off to pictures of J. Edgar Hoover.

I give two  stars instead of the lowest one because their pretty anchors ladys like Courtney Friel, Julie Banderas and Martha MacCallum have really nice legs.  Is  actually a good channel to watch with the mute button on!

Fake/Faux News all day for the Republicans.

republican bias. Im a conservative republican but i believe the medias place is neutrality.

I think that the try to divert the people from the real issues that need to be approached. They are like brainwashers and want you to dumb down....and all the vulnerable people that start watching it and soon become a moron.

This is not news.

just sheer crap (laughable.. if it was harmless -but's it not)

I guess I'm just used to expecting a certain demeanor from the people who deliver my news.  But it's different on this channel.  I'm especially puzzled by Shepard Smith.  He's terribly unprofessional and looks at the camera as if he's peering into his own personal bathroom mirror, talking to himself and adding unecessary personal opinions and anectodes throughout his newscast.  It's pretty bizarre, as is this news channel in general.

Viewed as comedy in late-night television in other countries. The domestic version of Al-Jeezera, no more and no less. . .

I used to watch fox news all the time but for the past year or so they seem to be more interested in missing white girls, celebrities and TV shows rather than the real news. So I've been watching more CNN lately.

  Try This Experiment: Ask an older person if they voted for Richard Nixon, whether they did or didn't, they'll almost certainly say that they DID NOT. Well, logic and reality indicates that SOMEBODY must have voted for him! Most humans just don't like to admit that were ever stupid or conned into trading the family cow for a big ol' bag of magic beans. Right-wing humans just WON'T ever admit that they were wrong.

Same phenomenon, same paradigm:

  The increased number of broadband internet connections will eventually kill FOX News and embarrass the hell out of everyone who ever argued that it was "FaIr & BaLaNcEd"! If you have kids, and you watch FOX News Network, chances are that your kids won't invite their friends over to your house. They want to avoid the embarrassment of their friends knowing that you're a moron. I bet that you couldn't find the documentary movie "Outfoxed" at your local video rental store, even if your life depended on it!

  Have you ever TRIED  to find it? I did. It was noticeably and intentionally absent!

  Rupert Murdoch is really GOOD at hiding and suppressing things!    ...but I'm pretty good at exposing things!  You can watch the entire movie FOR FREE  riiiiiight => HERE! Spread the word! Let's make all these aliterate right-wingers vanish, just like the Nixon supporters did!  It's kinda' like magic!

  Let's be honest about this. Before "fascist" was an insult or an expletive, it was a real political and social movement and a politically viable philosophy of governance. Henry Ford was a fascist, Charles Lindbergh was a fascist, Chief Justice Rehnquist was a fascist and Antonin Scalia is probably STILL a fascist. FOX News serves that audience. FOX is openly fascist, they even employ people who call themselves fascists, like Ken Adelman, Daniel Pipes and Micheal Ledeen, two of whom now work for Karl Rove in the Bush White House, two doors down from the Oval Office. Most honest Republicans will admit that they're fascists, once they learn what the word really means. The problem is really one of education. The FOX "news" Network is just the "noise" part of the signal-to-noise ratio - and besides - where does one start "educating" when the average GOP voter seriously thinks that Adolph Hitler was an anti-gun, pro-choice atheist liberal, that the earth is only 900 years old, that thermometers and fossils are just liberal myths and that George W. Bush's "liberation" of Iraq is the pride and joy of all Iraqis and the shining hope for the future of Jeffersonian democracy in the Middle East?

If you are a non-believer-type, here's your new favorite song to download and add to your iPod playlist. Right click on THE LINK ~> GodWill.MP3 - choose "Save Target as" - then put it wherever ya' want ! (I have suggestions on where you can put it, for FOX news fans!) ='D

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The phrase "fair and balanced" is a marketing phrase and an insult to the viewer. The so-called news on fox is filtered through the atheistic, ignorant opinions of the reporters. Example: Reporter Sheperd mentions 2 or 3 news stories and then says, "now you know the news." Ridiculous. Or Brit Hume says, "the most trusted news on TV," What? Fox is not as "bad" as other news programs but it sure ain't fair and balanced.

"Fair and balanced" my ass. It is what it is: a media lapdog and mouthpiece for the GOP...

I have often found better coverage of national news on fox, but I have to mute the talking heads. CNN seems to be more concerned with the Middle East and MSNBC with NYC.

There isn't a more biased news channel. It's almost as if it was broadcasted from the White House.

I think that it's funny when they bash "liberals" but their slogan is "fair and balanced." There is nothing fair and balanced about Fox News.

Unlike other more liberal reviewers, I cannot give Fox News one star simply because its broadcats lean too far to the right. It would be nice if Fox News admitted that they, too, had a bias - just like everyone else. I think that everyone is entitled to their own opinion. If Fox News wants to be the "conservative news channel", that's fine with me. Personally, however, I'd prefer a more centrist take on current events.

Fair and blanced my a**. This news channel is a joke. They spend more time reporting on missing white girls, than real news. When they do report important news, it's usually with a rightist slant. CNN is a better choice.

When it comes to "breaking stories", I watch Fox News for the clarity.....picture clarity, that is (they have the least amount of on-screen graphics overlay of any of the other channels). After I've had my fill and gotten the gist, it's back to anything BUT Fox News. What passes for "news" has always been dismal, and Fox douses itself in steak sauce and hurtles buttcheeks-first into a wolfpack format that can best be described as "mutually destructive". The only thing "fair and balanced" ever accomplished was polarization (in that respect, Murdoch's baby can be deemed a rousing success). EVERY outlet is painfully scrutinized and edited to the point where only 60% of the vital information becomes known (another 30% shows up later through the incidental and accidental, and the last 10% dies alone and forgotten), so what's a person to do? Watch what's being DONE (instead of what's being SAID), form your own opinions, and place your energies into like-minded concerns. It's a big world, and there's plenty of room for everyone.

Euphemism for "Bush's Press Agents." Bottom of the barrel.

Broke the lefto stranglehold on television. Notice how some of the other channels are getting more balance? It was a big breakthrough on the 24/7 group and long overdue.

Sure, this is about as comfortable as you can get if you don't want to listen to the lefty news reports on all the other channels...but I continually see FoxNews swaying more to the left as time goes on and it is really getting to me. Even O'Reilly is becoming a leftist...simply using his time to sensationalize and garner ratings points. FoxNews is not nearly as conservative as people think it is.

The worst sh*t I've ever seen. Full of collusion, contrivances, false representation, underhand practice and lies for compensation. It's not news, it's cr*ap!

You're kidding, right?

Okay, here's where we get the lesson about what is news and what is commentary. The Fox News anchors, like Uma Pemmaraju or Page Hopkins, deliver the news in a very fair and unbiased way. They are reporting the news. Is there more of a conservative slant to Fox News commentary shows? With the hosts, yes. They are not news anchors. Anyone that watches Fox News on a regular basis can also tell you that there is ALWAYS a Liberal viewpoint offered by several regular contributors. Of course, there's also Alan Colmes, but apparently he's not Liberal enough. Whatever. Fox News is the most entertaining, best produced channel for news on the air. It's also a welcome sight for those of us that remember when the Conservative voice on television consisted of Morton Downey Jr. and Wally George.

I just love the no-spin weather reports and the fair and balanced local traffic reports.

Seems to report the same news as CNN and MSNBC. Has much fewer specialized programming than those other two. Anchors seem less journalistic than those at other networks.

If you think that Fox is fair and balanced, you are too far right. If you think that CNN, MSNBC, and most of the other news outlets are not left-wing, then you are too far left. And both of you are fools. The truth is that these are all biased. Biased against you, the people. They favor beating their rivals in the ratings over reporting the complete and honest truth. If you want the complete and honest truth, some plastic surgery'd overpaid tool on cable news is not going to tell it to you. You are going to have to search for other news sources, which is an utter disgrace. UPDATE: Whoever said my comment was unhelpful, I hope you die. There's too many cowards in the world as far as I'm concerned anyway.

The content is driven towards conservatives. That's ok because the liberals have Ted Turner's CNN. However, I think delivery of the news is BORING. It usually ends up a group of people trying to talk over each other and that just makes me turn it. I do like the basic news headlines but any of the talk shows bores me. And of course like any news show it takes a little story and makes it seem outrageously important.

I can't believe people actually watch this conservative wasteland. How on earth can they even try to say they are fair and balanced? How can anyone actually belive it? This may be redundant, but this is truly TV news for the mentally challenged. Ann Coulter guest staring on Sean Hannity...Fair and Balanced.

Thankfully this channel exists to provide needed balance from the majority of liberal/liberal-leaning networks, as it helps one achieve a fuller, more educated viewpoint...tell me people, how is this a bad thing??

This is nothing more than commentary, it is fox commentary channel.

The rest are so slanted left that blue staters THINK it swings right...fair and balanced is all. Also, the best legs on TV.