Did anyone else know that FOXnews was created for conservative views?

Question

I was talking about complaining about FOX news and their obvious imbalance on the election coverage among other things and my coworker said that FOX was created to convey a conservative/republican base... is there truth to this? I didnt know they can do that... wow!

Answer 1

Yes. Of course it was set up to deliver what many would think to be the "conservative/republican view". Roger Ailes  also put the operation together because the broadcast news outlets and CNN became too focused on what was happening in the Boston-Washington corridor to the exclusion of the rest of the country. But, you have to recognize the insularity of those who are in the New York-based media. They work together, go to the theater and dinner together, even live close to each other and actually believe that their viewpoint and presentation of the news is not biased. I grew up in New York City. And there are millions of the native population there who think if one goes past the mall in Paramus New Jersey one falls off the edge of the earth. To this date, venturing out of the five boroughs of the city is still called taking a trip "out into the country". Their entire universe is NYC. And that quickly rubs off on and gets adopted by those fresh faces from the Midwest and the South who work their way up the media ladder to land a gig in NYC. The sad part is that they believe their view is the prevailing view in the nation. It isn't. They believe their viewpoint is a moderate one. It isn't.

Perhaps the crowning example of their ignorance is the time when the late David Brinkley decided to air his "Sunday Morning" show on ABC TV from the lobby of the Luxor Hotel on the Strip during the National Association of Broadcasters Convention. Sam Donaldson and George Will told how, the day before, they witnessed a yellow school bus crossing the Strip. Until that moment they didn't know there were public schools in Las Vegas!

Fox News was put together to reach those in "flyover country" between the two coasts whose lives and view were not fairly presented on the other cable TV and broadcast TV outlets.

And Fox News can do that because of the First Amendment and the Federal Telecommunications Act.

Answer 2

Conservatively speaking I didn't know that.

Answer 3

FOX news is THE conservative news network. That's pretty much a fact.

Answer 4

Every news outlet conveys the news with their perticular point of view

Answer 5

Yes.  Every news show, paper and magazine has a slant that they are trying to sell to you.

Answer 6

Yes, nothing is wrong with it.

The other news channels were created for liberal views.

Answer 7

Wow, you learn something new every day.

Hey, I hear they're making sliced bread now, too....