In alt.fan.frank.mccoy Daytek <Daytek@This.News.Group> wrote:
>On Sat 11 Dec 2004 12:01:21p, Frank McCoy <mccoyf@millcomm.com> wrote:
>
>> In alt.fan.frank.mccoy Tim Merrigan <tppm@comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>>Frank McCoy wrote:
>>>> An open letter to Bill O'Reilly:
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Note cross-posting!
>>>
>>>(Leaving the cross-posting, as I'm in all three groups too)
>>>
>>>My reader won't let me cross-post
>>>
>>>I'm surprised to hear that FOX "News" puts out *any* legitimate news
>>>once you get away from sports and weather.
>>
>> Oh they do ...
>> And (once you examine it closely) it really isn't all that bad or even
>> much more slanted news than the other networks. The problem is: They
>> go from straight news right into commentary ... and people like Bill
>> give their "straight news" as if it WAS news; so unless you've got a
>> score-card, it's hard to tell where one leaves off and the other
>> starts. Particularly so, when the same people who give commentary
>> ALSO tell the straight news!
>>
>
>Your summary hit the nail on the head.
>Fox gives news.
>Fox gives commentary.
>Fox lets the viewer decide which is news, which is commentary.
And then they complain that, "The liberals are confusing commentary
with news."
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