Share Your Experiences of Right Wing Journalists in Media

[mrswdk]

www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/06/12445 ... -GOP-Media

Many of us understand the damage Rush Limbaugh, FOX News, and 'hate' media' has done to [America] in promoting racism, homophobia, misogyny and bigotry. They perpetuate lies and poison the minds of people who get sucked in... Jen Senko is a filmmaker who watched the transformation of her father, as he slowly came to believe the extreme Right Wing lies, and she's making a documentary about it

[Nobunaga]

Yes they so utterly evil, and their numbers so large.

[thegreekdog]

I never really got into Rush, Hannity, Levin, and the like. I've listened to them on occasion when I'm driving and sports talk radio is making me angry.

Right wing journalists are too pro-government for me.

[chang50]

Fox News,Hannity is the worst recently,since Beck left.Their motto is 'fair and balanced',yet every slot is dominated by right-wingers,and the token left-wingers are regularly ridiculed and marginalised.Look at Bob Beckel on the Five,taking on 4 adversaries gamely,shouted down every episode.Or O'Reilly's recent haranguing of Alan Colmes.Disgraceful.

[thegreekdog]

Fox News,Hannity is the worst recently,since Beck left.Their motto is 'fair and balanced',yet every slot is dominated by right-wingers,and the token left-wingers are regularly ridiculed and marginalised.Look at Bob Beckel on the Five,taking on 4 adversaries gamely,shouted down every episode.Or O'Reilly's recent haranguing of Alan Colmes.Disgraceful.

It boggles the mind why you would watch it. I'm pretty conservative and I don't watch that stuff (to be fair and balanced, I do read some of the stuff that comes from conservative commentators).

If we keep in mind that the ultimate goal of the Hannity, Beck, O'Reilly, Limbaugh crowd is to make money, sensationalizing and editorializing seem to be effective ways to reach those goals.

[chang50]

Fox News,Hannity is the worst recently,since Beck left.Their motto is 'fair and balanced',yet every slot is dominated by right-wingers,and the token left-wingers are regularly ridiculed and marginalised.Look at Bob Beckel on the Five,taking on 4 adversaries gamely,shouted down every episode.Or O'Reilly's recent haranguing of Alan Colmes.Disgraceful.

It boggles the mind why you would watch it. I'm pretty conservative and I don't watch that stuff (to be fair and balanced, I do read some of the stuff that comes from conservative commentators).

If we keep in mind that the ultimate goal of the Hannity, Beck, O'Reilly, Limbaugh crowd is to make money, sensationalizing and editorializing seem to be effective ways to reach those goals.

There is limited choice of English language news programmes in Thailand.On the positive side it has opened my eyes to what can pass as news journalism in your country,I only wish there were the saner alternatives available here to compare with.

[saxitoxin]

Fox News,Hannity is the worst recently,since Beck left.Their motto is 'fair and balanced',yet every slot is dominated by right-wingers,and the token left-wingers are regularly ridiculed and marginalised.Look at Bob Beckel on the Five,taking on 4 adversaries gamely,shouted down every episode.Or O'Reilly's recent haranguing of Alan Colmes.Disgraceful.

It boggles the mind why you would watch it. I'm pretty conservative and I don't watch that stuff (to be fair and balanced, I do read some of the stuff that comes from conservative commentators).

If we keep in mind that the ultimate goal of the Hannity, Beck, O'Reilly, Limbaugh crowd is to make money, sensationalizing and editorializing seem to be effective ways to reach those goals.

There is limited choice of English language news programmes in Thailand.On the positive side it has opened my eyes to what can pass as news journalism in your country

The Sun and the Daily Mirror don't do home delivery in Thailand?

[chang50]

Fox News,Hannity is the worst recently,since Beck left.Their motto is 'fair and balanced',yet every slot is dominated by right-wingers,and the token left-wingers are regularly ridiculed and marginalised.Look at Bob Beckel on the Five,taking on 4 adversaries gamely,shouted down every episode.Or O'Reilly's recent haranguing of Alan Colmes.Disgraceful.

It boggles the mind why you would watch it. I'm pretty conservative and I don't watch that stuff (to be fair and balanced, I do read some of the stuff that comes from conservative commentators).

If we keep in mind that the ultimate goal of the Hannity, Beck, O'Reilly, Limbaugh crowd is to make money, sensationalizing and editorializing seem to be effective ways to reach those goals.

There is limited choice of English language news programmes in Thailand.On the positive side it has opened my eyes to what can pass as news journalism in your country

The Sun and the Daily Mirror don't do home delivery in Thailand?

It is possible but very expensive,several bars I frequent have British papers for customers
Is the Sun even a newspaper?

[thegreekdog]

Fox News,Hannity is the worst recently,since Beck left.Their motto is 'fair and balanced',yet every slot is dominated by right-wingers,and the token left-wingers are regularly ridiculed and marginalised.Look at Bob Beckel on the Five,taking on 4 adversaries gamely,shouted down every episode.Or O'Reilly's recent haranguing of Alan Colmes.Disgraceful.

It boggles the mind why you would watch it. I'm pretty conservative and I don't watch that stuff (to be fair and balanced, I do read some of the stuff that comes from conservative commentators).

If we keep in mind that the ultimate goal of the Hannity, Beck, O'Reilly, Limbaugh crowd is to make money, sensationalizing and editorializing seem to be effective ways to reach those goals.

There is limited choice of English language news programmes in Thailand.On the positive side it has opened my eyes to what can pass as news journalism in your country,I only wish there were the saner alternatives available here to compare with.

I'm not sure I would call any of those shows "news journalism" no matter which country's definition you're using. They are more editorials than anything else. That being said, it is reasonable to assume that some people use those shows as their news (as another example - I thought I saw somewhere that 60-70% of college students watch The Daily Show to get their news; presumably after being indoctrinated by their professors).

[crispybits]

Do they watch the Daily Show with the intention of getting their news from it, or do they watch no other news shows and find the Daily Show entertaining and therefore when asked to list the news shows they watch only give the Daily Show as an answer? I don't watch news too much (prefer to read it), but I like Mock the Week and Have I Got News For You. If asked which news related shows I watch I would only be able to list those two, but I don't watch them in order to stay up to date on current affairs.

[thegreekdog]

Do they watch the Daily Show with the intention of getting their news from it, or do they watch no other news shows and find the Daily Show entertaining and therefore when asked to list the news shows they watch only give the Daily Show as an answer? I don't watch news too much (prefer to read it), but I like Mock the Week and Have I Got News For You. If asked which news related shows I watch I would only be able to list those two, but I don't watch them in order to stay up to date on current affairs.

I'm not sure why people watch the Daily Show, but I suspect it's the latter (entertaining, so they watch it). That's why I watched it.

I don't watch the news anymore. I don't even listen to news on the radio anymore. I read RealClearPolitics and occasionally cnn.com and will go to drudge sometimes. That's about it.

[Nobunaga]

Fox News,Hannity is the worst recently,since Beck left.Their motto is 'fair and balanced',yet every slot is dominated by right-wingers,and the token left-wingers are regularly ridiculed and marginalised.Look at Bob Beckel on the Five,taking on 4 adversaries gamely,shouted down every episode.Or O'Reilly's recent haranguing of Alan Colmes.Disgraceful.

It boggles the mind why you would watch it. I'm pretty conservative and I don't watch that stuff (to be fair and balanced, I do read some of the stuff that comes from conservative commentators).

If we keep in mind that the ultimate goal of the Hannity, Beck, O'Reilly, Limbaugh crowd is to make money, sensationalizing and editorializing seem to be effective ways to reach those goals.

There is limited choice of English language news programmes in Thailand.On the positive side it has opened my eyes to what can pass as news journalism in your country,I only wish there were the saner alternatives available here to compare with.

I'm not sure I would call any of those shows "news journalism" no matter which country's definition you're using. They are more editorials than anything else. That being said, it is reasonable to assume that some people use those shows as their news (as another example - I thought I saw somewhere that 60-70% of college students watch The Daily Show to get their news; presumably after being indoctrinated by their professors).

I find it fascinating though how many perhaps news-worthy happenings are only discussed by the radio talkers, while the "mainstream media" remains silent.

Goes back to my "bias by omission" principle.