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Is Fox News bad for Republicans?

TheBigA said:
I don't know anyone in the news media who really thought Jimmy Carter knew what he was doing in 1980.
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Jimmy Carter was elected as a result of the terrible Nixon years. Clinton was elected as a result of three periods of incompetent Republican presidents. Obama was elected as a result of idiot Bush Jr.
 
Oscar Madison said:
"Like many of them, he was an advertising man whose product was Reagan. It still is."

Actually, he was a TV producer ("The Mike Douglas Show") and then a political consultant. He did not work in advertising.
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The way I read BigA's comment was that Roger Ailes and the others were playing the part of an ad man whose product was Reagan. Not that they were employed as ad executives... just that they were treating the Reagan campaign as if it were a product the way an advertiser would.
 
Isn't the First Amendment great? It lets us know who is there, who is coming, where they are coming from and which direction, etc...if we pay attention.
 
If anyone is interested in a perspective from across the puddle, Fox news is available in the UK, via the popular 'Sky TV' platform. Most people with any remote interest in international affairs are at least aware of the channel, and it doesn't give a very good impression of Republicans. The UK perception of Republicans is still all about 'God, guns and (anti) gay' even though that is probably a good decade out of date and I think that Fox News is at least partially to blame for that. In fact a significant minority of UK Conservatives backed Obama (the so called 'ObamaCons').

I'm certainly watching closely to see who the Republicans field in 2016.
 
BMR said:
If anyone is interested in a perspective from across the puddle, Fox news is available in the UK, via the popular 'Sky TV' platform. Most people with any remote interest in international affairs are at least aware of the channel, and it doesn't give a very good impression of Republicans. The UK perception of Republicans is still all about 'God, guns and (anti) gay' even though that is probably a good decade out of date and I think that Fox News is at least partially to blame for that. In fact a significant minority of UK Conservatives backed Obama (the so called 'ObamaCons').

I'm certainly watching closely to see who the Republicans field in 2016.
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Murdoch owns both. From what I've seen watching online, Sky is not as incendiary as Fox - even more CNN-like in presentation but of course with a point of view. No need to watch closely. Nothing is going to happen for about eight months and then it may not be settled until this time next year. I really envy you all with your six week election cycles, in fact the whole Parliamentary system compared to the mess here. God save the Queen.
 
Oscar Madison said:
Murdoch owns both. From what I've seen watching online, Sky is not as incendiary as Fox - even more CNN-like in presentation but of course with a point of view. .
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I thought Sky was the functional equivalent to DirecTV or Dish, not just a news network / cable channel. Or are you referring to "Sky News" specifically... one of the multiple Sky channels?
 
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DavidEduardo said:


I thought Sky was the functional equivalent to DirecTV or Dish, not just a news network / cable channel. Or are you referring to "Sky News" specifically... one of the multiple Sky channels?
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OK a bit off topic but a quick summary on this.

Sky run a UK satellite Pay TV platform, like you say, broadly similar to Dish Network etc. This carries dozens or more like hundreds of channels

They also own a number of the channels on that platform- Sky One, Sky Living, Sky News, Sky Sports and a few more.

In that sense they control both sides of the equation.

In fact Rupert Murdoch only owns 40% of Sky, but even so, it's not surprising to see Fox News on there.

Sky (News) is not as incendiary as Fox News because it can't be. There are strict rules on political bias in the UK broadcast media. You can bend them a bit, but a UK Fox News would be a no no.

Anyway, my point was that Fox News is available in the UK, and I think it does colour UK perceptions of Republicans a bit.
 
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BMR said:
The UK perception of Republicans is still all about 'God, guns and (anti) gay'...
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Pretty accurate. Rethugs are also called "The Party of NO" here because they seem to be opposed to everything invented after the 16th Century.
 
Republicans used to have class - like the Tories. But Tricky Dick decided winning elections was more important than class, principles or governing effectively.
 
gr8oldies said:
Fox News' demographics are up there and so are MSNBC's. You'd think the way leftists talk, that if it wasn't for Fox News, the Democrats would have one-party-rule and all would be Utopia.

Although, since apparently we're not even having an election, but a coronation "what difference does it make

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http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/05/fox-news-liberals-118235.html#.VWfLTFxViko
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Interesting article. They made an important point about how small Fox News viewership is.
"Like many Fox critics, Bartlett inflates the network’s power. Fox’s most popular program, The O’Reilly Factor, pulls in about 3.3 million viewers on its best nights. In a country whose voting-age population exceeds 234 million, 3.3 million ain’t squat. What’s more, the O’Reilly/Fox audiences aren’t even uniformly Republican! According to a Pew survey from 2012, 45 percent of O’Reilly viewers (and 55 percent of Fox viewers) self-identify as independent or Democrat, which means many of the eyes and ears absorbing the Fox message are only tangentially connected to Republican politics. It’s comic to think of Democratic and independent Fox viewers pushing the Republican Party further to the right.

"The reliably liberal Frank Rich appreciates better than most Fox’s essential harmlessness. In a piece published last year in New York, he concluded that aside from infuriating liberals, Fox flexes little political power. The median age of a Fox viewer is 68, eight years older than the MSBNC and CNN median age, and its median age is rising. “Fox is in essence a retirement community,” Rich writes, and a small one at that!

Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/05/fox-news-liberals-118235.html#ixzz3bdPOH76u

Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/05/fox-news-liberals-118235.html#ixzz3bdOd6W1e
 
The younger voter (and or viewer) is paying attention to other news sources. MSNBC or Fox is not a factor. It is kinda like saying Sirius XM dominates radio with 24 million subs (most of those are older demos too). All of the cable news networks make great comedy for the older demos (unless a major story breaks, it isn't news). The BBC, and CNN international usually reads the news and nothing else. If you take any of the cable networks seriously well.....
 
I fondly & affectionately call Republicans & the Tea Party "Right Wing World" & one of the reasons why I call the political right that is because I'm not convinced IT knows what it stands for & believes in anymore. As such, HOW can IT expect anyone else (Let alone Fox News) to ??

At least we political lefties KNOW what WE stand for & believe in :)

Cheers
 
JeeperOne said:
I fondly & affectionately call Republicans & the Tea Party "Right Wing World" & one of the reasons why I call the political right that is because I'm not convinced IT knows what it stands for & believes in anymore. As such, HOW can IT expect anyone else (Let alone Fox News) to ??

At least we political lefties KNOW what WE stand for & believe in :)

Cheers
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Here are a number of sites that might give you some insight: http://www.bing.com/search?q=why+I+am+a+republican&form=U162DF&pc=U162
 
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