Way to be biased Media!Follow

No. I assure you that its not just the left in your country that find Fox to be a disgusting parody of what journalistic integrity should be.

I know some of you will find it hard impossible to believe, but if you want to witness an example of what 'proper' reporting is all about, you really ought to have a look at Al Jazeera of late.

Yeah, I wasn't going to say this before, but I guess it's pretty much safe to say that I'd appreciate it if you killed yourself. I don't expect you to capitulate, but if you did I'd be pleasantly surprised.

October 2010. See you there.

Haha. You have no idea what the far left is like.

Look, if Obama was in Europe, he'd be a centre-right politician. In fact, the Democratic party as a whole would be a centre-right political party. The Republicans would split between the hard-right, and the far-right. Compared to Europe, the whole spectrum of US politics is slightly skewed to the right.

I'm not saying this is good or bad, just that there is an ocean as vast as the Atlantic between Obama and anything remotely connected to the "far-left".

This.

Remember, most of the immigrants left Europe because of religious bigotry, the inability to find work, poverty and wage stagnation when they weren't serfs, ethnic persecution, the works. Europe west of the Caucusus has mostly outgrown all that since WWII, but America these days has reverted back to all the reasons we originally left the damn place.

No, I'm sorry, the pilgrims and my ancestors and your ancestors (probably) did not come over here because all the countries in Europe were socialist states and they wanted a free market economy. (Unless you left certain bits after 1917ish.) That was just a bonus people figured out later during the Industrial Revolution.

What the hell are you talking about?

Its not even close to being balanced! Let alone informative and intelligent, or even bloody coherent a lot of the time.

Then again, I can see why you would like it.

Do you know what subjectively and objectively mean? I'm not really sure you do.

The thing is, you shouldn't HAVE too. News is supposed to be just that, news. A reporter reads a story, you watch and listen to reporter read you the story, you then form your own opinions about said story.

This really only happens on your "nightly" newscasts nowadays. Cable news has become this weird bastardization of news and punditry. Sure, MSNBC & CNN aren't perfect, but their "newscasters" try to appear unbiased. The problem with FOX is that they don't even try. You have "news" written by Repubs, read to you by Repubs, for an entirerly Republican audiance: yet because it says "Fair and Balanced" in the byline the dumb twits who watch it think it's "real".

Newspapers have been doing this for years. The AP prints out "just the facts" and the competing papers "spin" the story a different way (Compare the same stories in the Boston Globe to the Herald and/or The NY Times to the Post).

Now, to answer your question: Yes, all the other stations have 50/50 Dem/Repub ratio as the people who identify themselves as such are NOT reporters (not even on FOX): they're pundits. They're paid to argue an opinion with someone who's paid to argue the opposite point.

There nothing 'hip' about waders dude.