The difference between FOX and CNN

[craychek]

I watching the coverage of the Israeli forces forceably removing protestors from the gaza strip settlements(note protestors and not people who are actually residents).

CNN made it a point to note that many of the people weren't residents and were just professional protestors and noted that the israeli forces were unarmed and handing out water to the protestors because it was 100+ degrees out there. They described the israeli forces as deliberately making an effort to not provoke the protestors into violence.

FOX kept using the world "ominous" and pointed otu again and again that the were going to put people on the roof in cages and makeshift prision cells in cranes to get people off the roof. They also said that they were going to use special forces to storm the building holding a group of 300 protestors. They kept pointing out how they weren't using kid gloves by using fire hoses on the more violent protestors that were throwing rocks, sand, and water bottles(which the israeli's gave them) at the police. They never mentioned anything about the israeli's handing out water bottles or going in without guns until they had a jewish commentator on for about a minute. She ended up putting things in perspective and telling the new reporters that this was relatively light force for this army...

Anyways I thought I'd just like to point out my observations and add a little bit of my opinion.

[htuttle]

1. The difference between CNN and Faux

...is the about the same as the difference between 'tan' and 'beige'.

[greekspeak]

2. Or ecru and taupe

All four are bland, boring, listless colors describing bland, boring,listless cookie cutter cable op/ed propeganda agencies.

[bryant69]

6. I don't know if that is entirely fair

CNN is problemattic, clearly, but they aren't as bad as Fox.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[htuttle]

8. CNN lies better

The underlying messages are precisely the same, however, since they both use the same list of WH talking points.

[O.M.B.inOhio]

12. yes,their diff emphases give the dangerous illusion of balance & choice

[leftchick]

10. puke and vomit

:puke:

[UTUSN]

3. This Sez Viewers Seek Whoever Agrees with Their Own Opinions

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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/18/business/media/18scene.html

Economic Scene
Fair? Balanced? A Study Finds It Does Not Matter
Many people also believe that biased reporting influences who wins or loses elections. A new study by Stefano DellaVigna of the University of California, Berkeley, and Ethan Kaplan of the Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University, however, casts doubt on this view. Specifically, the economists ask whether the advent of the Fox News Channel, Rupert Murdoch's cable television network, affected voter behavior. They found that Fox had no detectable effect on which party people voted for, or whether they voted at all.

An appealing feature of their study is that it does not matter if Fox News represents the political center and the rest of the media the liberal wing, or Fox represents the extreme right and the rest of the media the middle. Fox's political orientation is clearly to the right of the rest of the media. Research has found, for example, that Fox News is much more likely than other news shows to cite conservative think tanks and less likely to cite liberal ones.

Fox surely injected a new partisan perspective into political coverage on television. Did it matter? ....

Why was Fox inconsequential to voter behavior?

One possibility is that people search for television shows with a political orientation that matches their own. In this scenario, Fox would have been preaching to the converted. This, however, was not the case: Fox's viewers were about equally likely to identify themselves as Democrats as Republicans, according to a poll by the Pew in 2000. ....

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[ClusterFreak]

4. CNN pisses me off constantly, or makes me laugh with it's incredulous...

....attempts to be a serious news network.....Fox makes the bile rise to the back of my throat.

[expatriot]

5. thank you very much for this report and welcome to DU

We don't have cable television and since our reception really sucks we never turn on the t.v. anymore since we have cable internet and get all of our news streaming... I like to keep up on how cable news is covering these things. Thank you.

And welcome to DU!

[madfloridian]

7. CNN is more dangerous than FOX right now.

Most people are aware by now that FOX is the propaganda arm of the White House.

What most people don't realize is that CNN is as well now. They are more dangerous because they are pretending to be what they are not.

CNN is the wolf in sheep's clothing.

[Supersedeas]

9. Exactly

[Clark2008]

11. I completely agree.

Everyone knows that Faux caters to the Reich-wing. It's so obvious. But most people - including most Dems - don't know that Republican-funding corporations also back CNN. That's why the media continuously chooses our candidates for us - those who lose (or can't win in a landslide to offset the Diebolding of America).