<p>“With that being said, why do you think Fox has such a large following? Because you have to get the other side from some where…”</p>
<p>You don’t balance a slight left-leaning in 10 news organizations with a right-leaning 10x larger in a single organization. “Balanced” implies that you have to compensate for some bias but Fox takes this to an unnecessary level. This isn’t a moment-balance scale…</p>
<p>Honestly, I think Fox is less right-leaning than most people on the left want to admit. I don’t honestly think they are that farther from center than MSNBC, to be honest. The major difference is that the side they present is so drastically different from the side that the more popular networks present that people who are used to watching the liberal lean subconsciously reference that as being objective and then Fox looks a lot farther to the right than it really is.</p>
<p>If you actually watch the two, the news they present is no different, it is just the commentary that they offer afterward. Personally, I like to get the news from both sides and kind of compare how both sides interpret an issue. It is actually pretty interesting.</p>
<p>The main reason that Fox takes so much flak is because they are the only network that didn’t worship the ground that Obama walks on and because they were the only network that didn’t devote part of their programming each day to blasting Bush and the GOP. It is every bit as tiring to watch MSNBC and CNN run front-page stories about Obama swatting a fly while letting the Iranian election protests and Korean missile stand-off become secondary topics.</p>
<p>Both major groups of networks are slanted. I don’t believe Fox is as slanted as some believe, mainly due to the fact that the public is so used to the liberal leaning media that they tare the scale when it is already leaning left (so to speak). Besides, anyone who bases their political opinion on what a few talking heads on TV tell them is pretty goofy to begin with. Go go gadget thinking for yourself!</p>
<p>I’ve just completely stopped watching the news. i go to news.google.com . That paints a pretty good picture…</p>
<p>Yeah I don’t generally watch the news either, but even reading it can get chock full o’ opinions at times.</p>