For those who don't know, the owner of the US' Fox News is billionaire Rupert Murdoch, who has a much larger empire in the UK, including Sky TV (UK's largest) and all of his News Corp tabloids, which did all of the same fearmongering tactics with Brexit for their wealthy/conservative political party: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jun/24/mail-sun-uk-brexit-newspapers The effect of just Fox News (on US biases and anti-science to stoke voter turnout around "God, guns, gays," and racism to get enough votes for reduced capital gains taxes, corporate tax deductions, reduced industry regulations, and other things Republican donors want): Tests of knowledge of Fox viewers A 2010 Stanford University survey found "more exposure to Fox News was associated with more rejection of many mainstream scientists' claims about global warming, [and] with less trust in scientists".[75] A 2011 Kaiser Family Foundation survey on U.S. misperceptions about health care reform found that Fox News viewers had a poorer understanding of the new laws and were more likely to believe in falsehoods about the Affordable Care Act such as cuts to Medicare benefits and the death panel myth.[76] A 2010 Ohio State University study of public misperceptions about the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque", officially named Park51, found that viewers who relied on Fox News were 66% more likely to believe incorrect rumors than those with a "low reliance" on Fox News.[77] In 2011, a study by Fairleigh Dickinson University found that New Jersey Fox News viewers were less well informed than people who did not watch any news at all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_Channel_controversies#Tests_of_knowledge_of_Fox_viewers "Fox News viewers scored the lowest of over 30 popular news sources... Those who listed Fox News as one of their news sources had overall lower levels of knowledge on the factual questions. They couldn't find South Carolina on map or name the second digit of pi." https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2016/07/21/a-rigorous-scientific-look-into-the-fox-news-effect/ In 2009, an NBC survey found “rampant misinformation” about the healthcare reform bill before Congress — derided on the right as “Obamacare.” It also found that Fox News viewers were much more likely to believe this misinformation than average members of the general public. http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2009/08/19/4431138-first-thoughts-obamas-good-bad-news Democrats: 37% support Trump's Syria strikes 38% supported Obama doing it Republicans: 86% supported Trump doing it 22% supported Obama doing http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence...e-attack-on-syria-they-hated-under-obama.html, Fox News' cofounder worked on the (infamously racist) Republican "Southern Strategy" to get the South vote for Nixon. They were pretty open about their racist tactics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy You start out in 1954 by saying, "N----r, n----r, n----r." By 1968 you can't say "n----r" — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "n----r, n----r." A memo entitled “A Plan for Putting the GOP on TV News,” buried in the the Nixon library details a plan between Ailes and the White House to bring pro-administration stories to television networks around the country. “People are lazy. With television you just sit—watch—listen. The thinking is done for you.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...t-the-gop-on-tv/2011/07/01/AG1W7XtH_blog.html Ailes repackaged Richard Nixon for television in 1968, papered over Ronald Reagan’s budding Alzheimer’s in 1984, shamelessly stoked racial fears to elect George H.W. Bush in 1988, and waged a secret campaign on behalf of Big Tobacco to derail health care reform in 1993. "He was the premier guy in the business," says former Reagan campaign manager Ed Rollins. "He was our Michelangelo." Ailes has used Fox News to pioneer a new form of political campaign – one that enables the GOP to bypass skeptical reporters and wage an around-the-clock, partisan assault on public opinion... created to mimic the look and feel of a news operation, cleverly camouflaging political propaganda as independent journalism. Over the next decade, drawing on the tactics he honed working for Nixon, he helped elect two more conservative presidents, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. In 1984, after the 73-year-old Reagan stumbled badly in his first debate with Walter Mondale, the campaign tapped Ailes to prep the president for the next showdown. At the time, Reagan was beginning to exhibit what his son Ron now describes as early signs of Alzheimer’s, and his age and acuity were becoming a central issue in the campaign. Worse still, Bush had baggage: He was neck-deep in the Iran-Contra scandal that had secretly sent arms to Tehran and used the profits to fund an illegal war in Nicaragua. Ailes saw an opportunity to address both shortcomings in a single, familiar strategy – attack the media. In 1974, his notoriety from the Nixon campaign won him a job at Television News Incorporated, a new right-wing TV network that had launched under a deliberately misleading motto that Ailes would one day adopt as his own: "fair and balanced." The project of archconservative brewing magnate Joseph Coors, the news service was designed to inject a far-right slant into local news broadcasts by providing news clips that stations could use without credit – and for a fraction of the true costs of production. Once the affiliates got hooked on the discounted clips, its president explained, TVN would "gradually, subtly, slowly" inject "our philosophy in the news.” The network was, in the words of a news director who quit in protest, a "propaganda machine." For Ailes, it was a way to extend the kind of fake news that he was regularly using as a political strategist. "I know certain techniques, such as a press release that looks like a newscast," he told The Washington Post in 1972. "So you use it because you want your man to win." But in 1993 – the year after he claimed he had retired from corporate consulting – Ailes inked a secret deal with tobacco giants Philip Morris and RJ Reynolds to go full-force after the Clinton administration on its central policy objective: health care reform. Hillarycare was to have been funded, in part, by a $1-a-pack tax on cigarettes. To block the proposal, Big Tobacco paid Ailes to produce ads highlighting “real people affected by taxes.” According to internal memos, Ailes also explored how Philip Morris could create a phony front group called the “Coalition for Fair Funding of Health Care” to deploy the same kind of “independent” ads that produced Willie Horton. In a precursor to the modern Tea Party, Ailes conspired with the tobacco companies to unleash angry phone calls on Congress – cold-calling smokers and patching them through to the switchboards on Capitol Hill – and to gin up the appearance of a grassroots uprising, busing 17,000 tobacco employees to the White House for a mass demonstration. “RJR has trained 200 people to call in to shows,” a March 1993 memo revealed. “A packet has gone to Limbaugh. We need to brief Ailes." http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-roger-ailes-built-the-fox-news-fear-factory-20110525 Daily memos Photocopied memos from John Moody instructed the network's on-air anchors and reporters to use positive language when discussing pro-life viewpoints, the Iraq War, and tax cuts, as well as requesting that the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal be put in context with the other violence in the area.[84] Such memos were reproduced for the film Outfoxed, which included Moody quotes such as, "The soldiers [seen on Fox in Iraq] in the foreground should be identified as 'sharpshooters,' not 'snipers,' which carries a negative connotation." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_Channel_controversies#Internal_memos_and_e-mail
CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC -- the Democratic Party's news networks. Washington Post and New York Times -- the Democratic Party's newspapers. The Democrats are surely pissed off that the Republicans have one news network which supports them.
You know why so much media is not onside with Trump or the Republican Party ? It's because they push a lot of really bad policy, don't exercise good judgement, and don't get results. Trump makes it much worse by lying a lot and failing to do proper research on his ideas. I don't support either US party, so don't try to claim partisan bias like most on here do. I'm simply unimpressed with the Republican leadership in recent elections ( e.g. Bush and Trump, hard to believe there are worse candidates out there ) and current Republican policies on taxation and health care ( for example ) are simply bad for your country. Seriously now, do you think the Republicans or Trump are viewed more positively outside of your country ? Canadians have Trump at a 13% approval rating. Canadians have just topped out at 51% who simply don't consider the US itself in a favorable manner anymore. These numbers are really bad compared to past years.
Actually I am not much of a Trump supporter. The point I was making was the absurdity of an article complaining about FOX news being the "Government TV Network" or the Republican TV Network when a majority of the networks and papers in the U.S. have had a significant liberal bias for decades -- well before Trump ran for office. What is really unimpressive in the U.S. is the national-level Democratic leadership. If your party is unable to come up with a candidate with an associated platform to beat a candidate like Trump then your party is effectively both ethically and politically bankrupt.
NBC and MSNBC is owned by Comcast which is conservative ABC is conservative, CBS is owned by Disney, again conservative. Let's not forget Sinclair which runs a lot of local stations. And this is not about 'support', Fox is outright propaganda as you can see from the evidence presented
You are just repeating what Ailes taught you to parrot, anything not towing right wing talking points became 'liberal' under him.
ABC is not conservative, CBS and Disney are not conservative. Simply watch their newscasts to verify this. Sinclair runs mainly stations on the CW network. Likewise the CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, and NBC are not about 'support' - they are outright propaganda mouthpieces for the Democratic party.
I believed CBS, ABC, NBC were biased even before FOX appeared on cable channels (or even cable was available). This is not about 'talking points from Ailes' -- this is about the fundamental slant of the coverage from these media outlets.
Oh please, these are corporate entities who care nothing but ratings and are owned by conservative moguls, they seem liberal only because you have been brainwashed by Fox - their programming at worst is what urban audiences want to see. In what universe would Comcast run a liberal network given their extremely right wing views, same for Disney whose management is conservative.
The slant is in nothing but in your mind, the whole overton window has shifted where if Republican talking points are not adhered to, then it becomes 'liberal bias'