Fox news

jkelly5762 Active member

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13 years ago

Can I get Fox News in Saigon? The hotel I've stayed in does not offer it. Suggestions?

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perry88 Serial expat

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13 years ago

You may want to save time and watch Comedy Central for the relevant parts. It's hard to sit through the boring stuff, waiting for the really outrageous lies.

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jkelly5762 Active member

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13 years ago

You mean they like MSLSD? Fox News is the only thing close to reality, other than Mike Savage.

jkelly5762 Active member

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13 years ago

Oh, no. Please don't tell me the MSNBC lovers and the liberals have infiltrated Vietnam??????? Please don't ruin that country. It's beautiful. Or at least, keep the liberal stuff to yourself.

jamesquanhai Member

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13 years ago

HA HA HA.

Do you understand the government of the country you are staying in? I don't think you need to worry about the liberals infiltrating.

I really hope Fox News isn't available anywhere outside of the bible belt.

jkelly5762 Active member

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13 years ago

Ha! Good one, James. Yes, you're right. USA government is run by a bunch of candy-a**es. By the way, did you find Fox for me?

perry88 Serial expat

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13 years ago

Repeat: You do understand the type of government in Vietnam? And you do understand what Teapublican morons say about Liberals?

Parmyd Serial expat

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13 years ago

jamesquanhai wrote:
HA HA HA.

I really hope Fox News isn't available anywhere outside of the bible belt.

Why? Would you prefer MSNBC, which has been determined by Pew Research in a recent study to be the most dishonest network, be broadcast everywhere instead?

Parmyd Serial expat

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13 years ago

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jkelly5762 wrote:
Can I get Fox News in Saigon? The hotel I've stayed in does not offer it. Suggestions?

You can download XBMC and the addon Navi-X for your computer and stream Fox News onto your computer. Although I have found it to be hit or miss with streaming Fox News. Some days the links are down and other days it works just fine.

perry88 Serial expat

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13 years ago

#11

Did you actually see the Pew report or did you read that somewhere? I'd just like to read it for myself.

Parmyd Serial expat

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13 years ago

#12

perry88 wrote:
Did you actually see the Pew report or did you read that somewhere? I'd just like to read it for myself.

You should be able to find it at the Pew Research website.

perry88 Serial expat

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13 years ago

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PARMYD: Well, I searched Pew Research between 1/1/2012 and 4/23/2013. I used search words "ethics" and "MSNBC." There was one report during this period. The table I saw was called "News Organization Believability" and was dated July 19-22, 2012. MSNBC was rated as 50-50, 50% positive and 50% negative. Faux News was rated 49-51, 49% positive and 51% negative. This tied Faux News with USA Today, with the same percentages, at the bottom of the table. Local news and the CBS program "60 Minutes" were rated at the top of the chart. The results can be found at:http://www.people-press.org/2012/08/16/further-decline-in-credibility-ratings-for-most-news-organizations/.
It seems as if Faux News is actually the loser here. I'd be very interested in seeing the source you stated.

Parmyd Serial expat

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13 years ago

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"A separate analysis of cable in late 2012 finds that, over all, commentary and opinion are far more prevalent on the air (63% of the airtime) than straight news reporting (37%). CNN is the only channel to offer more reporting (54%) than opinion (46%), though by a small margin. By far the highest percentage of opinion and commentary is on MSNBC (85% to 15% reporting). Fox was in between at 55% commentary and 45% reporting."

Clearly any new outlet pushing their agenda 85% of the time is being anything but honest. I am not saying that Fox News doesn't do the same but they are far from being as bad as MSNBC.

Personally I try to watch both and figure somewhere in the middle is the actual truth.

Here is the link.
http://stateofthemedia.org/2013/overvie … s/#content

saigonmonkey Serial expat

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13 years ago

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I consider myself politically conservative but do NOT watch FOX News because whenever I have in the past, I always felt like they were just telling me what I wanted to hear, rather than what I needed to know.

jkelly5762 Active member

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13 years ago

#16

Whoa, big fella. Sounds like I struck a nerve. I understand it's very easy to do with Nobama lovers, so please forgive me.

ancientpathos Serial expat

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13 years ago

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I long for the days when the facts were presented without the spin. The news stations are really just using facts to promote an agenda, it may be in favor of US policy, a conservative or liberal view, or any agenda of a so called special interest group. I prefer to just have the facts, I can form my own opinion. Just my 1000 dong worth...

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saigonmonkey Serial expat

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13 years ago

#18

jkelly5762 wrote:
Whoa, big fella. Sounds like I struck a nerve. I understand it's very easy to do with Nobama lovers, so please forgive me.

If you're addressing me, no nerves here. I just think there's better ways to get the news than from FOX. If you want to watch it, it's fine with me.

Like others here, I have a Slingbox connected to Time-Warner cable on the East coast of US. I've got a choice of about 200+ channels to watch, so FOX News is very low on my viewing priority. I'm more into sports than news anyway.

Parmyd Serial expat

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13 years ago

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ancientpathos wrote:
I long for the days when the facts were presented without the spin. The news stations are really just using facts to promote an agenda, it may be in favor of US policy, a conservative or liberal view, or any agenda of a so called special interest group. I prefer to just have the facts, I can form my own opinion. Just my 1000 dong worth...

Couldn't agree more.

perry88 Serial expat

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13 years ago

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PARMYD: I had to read the section of the report you referenced a few times but could not find the word "dishonest." The paragraph only dealt with percentages of commentary and opinion vs. news. If you want to assume that commentary and opinion equals "dishonest" then Faux News is dishonest more than half the time. But you know what happens when you assume.

Christine ViP

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13 years ago

#21

Hello > some off topic posts have been moved to a private mod forum.

VungTauDon Serial expat

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13 years ago

#22

Does that mean deleted...lol

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Parmyd Serial expat

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13 years ago

#23

perry88 wrote:
PARMYD: I had to read the section of the report you referenced a few times but could not find the word "dishonest." The paragraph only dealt with percentages of commentary and opinion vs. news. If you want to assume that commentary and opinion equals "dishonest" then Faux News is dishonest more than half the time. But you know what happens when you assume.

Perry88,

I just got home and have been drinking so I will defer until tomorrow to respond.