To some who rarely watch it, it’s both mysterious and outrageous that the Fox News TV channel dominates its cable TV rivals in ratings, and keeps growing.
The prejudice and mind-set against Fox is mainly among those who consider themselves intellectually elite but who, in fact, are less informed about what’s going on in the world than … than Fox viewers.
Fox’s supremacy over its main competitors, CNN and MSNBC, grates on the lib-left. But for most of this 21st century, Fox News has proven the fairest and balanced of TV channels, both in hard news coverage and commentary.
Those who dislike Fox (and say they never watch it) consider it too conservative — that it is mindlessly anti-Democrat and anti-Barack Obama. This is unfair and wrong. As one who increasingly relies of Fox for world and American news, I find it fair to Obama without being sycophantic — especially Bill O’Reilly who is hated with a passion by liberals that defies understanding.
Mainstream TV channels ABC, CBS and NBC also resent Fox, which is wooing their audiences away. But when the Obama White House gang attempted to exclude Fox News from coverage, the mainstream media felt forced to rally to Fox in defence of the First Amendment (freedom of the press).
The previous Canadian government was no friend of Fox and the CRTC seemed to go out of its way to make it difficult for Canadians to have the same access to Fox News as they had to CNN, beloved by the left.
In Canada, the most virulent enemy of Fox and its contributors seems to be the Globe and Mail’s TV writer, John Doyle, who at the moment is relishing the Obama White House’s “war” against Fox.
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Good article. The people who criticize Fox News obviously don’t watch it, and don’t want to hear anything dug up about Obama.
Well, ignoring the fact that there’s a lot of nefarious hirings/goings on in the O admin does not make it go away. It’s there whether Fox haters want to believe it or not. And that’s a tough thing for progressives to take.
I love Fox news and am a big fan of Bill O’reilly. Canadian news channels could learn a lot from Fox news. Canada MSM has no where to go but up!!!
What I found interesting in Mr Doyle’s Globe and Mail column is this argument by smear. Fox viewers are cranky old men (like myself, I guess) who, according to Mr Doyle, can, summarily, be written off. I have a question though. What would his argument based on good, old-fashion reason look like?
Evidently, a few Americans are reading Worthington by the looks of the comment section…
Sitting in Tim’s on the Halifax waterfront this morning reading the local paper and came across this article…..about says it all I figure.
‘OBAMA vs FOX: White House war unwinnable’
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Columnists/1150102.html