Democrats: have you watched Fox News lately?

I get it on a news feed on my tablet, it is so slanted and distorted, I wonder how the people that work there can look at themselves in the mirror.

Their hosts come across as viscous, mean, angry,ill tempered, against anyone or anything that doesn’t see it through their fright wing eyes.
And the truth seldom matters to them.

^^That’s how MSNBC seems now. I usually watch MSNBC.

I only saw about 30 minutes of Fox yesterday. It was much more pleasant than MSNBC. Fox was positive about Trump, and what he was doing, saying he condemned the shooter at the synagogue. Kellyanne Conway was interviewed and talked about her spin on the president. Much easier to watch than MSNBC, which is a little terrifying.

In this day and age, we know these networks both spin. It’s not straight news, 99 percent is opinion. Just depends on which opinion we prefer.

Not sure if MSNBC lies but Fox does.

How do we really want the media to deliver news and is it even realistic that there’s a slight chance they might actually do it?

We prop them up by watching them obsessively for various personal reasons. We could just hope the media we choose don’t make fools out of us and that we can separate spin from facts. Or if we are being incited to hate and go insane.

I have not seen any unbiased news in years. These networks are so partisan and predictable that it’s comical and sad.

@JLeslie …. Fox was positive about Trump, and what he was doing, saying he condemned the shooter at the synagogue. Kellyanne Conway was interviewed and talked about her spin on the president.

But that was all lies, and you fell for it. Kellyanne Conway blamed “late night hosts” but not her boss who called White Supremacists and Nazis “good people”. And Trump’s condemnation of the shooter was half hearted and blamed others instead of accepting responsibility for his support of anti-Semites.

Fox continually creates stories that are false, like saying Democrats want the Centarl American refugees to come here. And Trump parrots what he heard on Fox and blasts it out on twitter.

Not a Democrat and I have too much respect for myself to watch cable news.

@zenvelo I didn’t fall for shit. I just see why republicans have their POV. Especially why they have their POV of left leaning media outlets. I want the news to call Trump our in his lies and antics, I just want them to go back to being more civil, and willing to hear both sides. Not that I feel Fox shows both sides, I don’t. That’s why I have never been a Fox News watcher.

@JLeslie “left leaning media outlets”

None of the cable news stations are “left leaning.” That’s fake news. ALL of them are pro-corporate, pro-advertiser. Some may be friendlier to the Democrats on social issues, but all of them will go to war to prevent a true progressive from winning the Whitehouse. See: “Bernie Blackout”

@gorillapaws It’s all fake, even “right wing” media like Fox.

I don’t “watch” any news, but if there is a major story that I want to check on, I always include Fox when I look it up just to see the perspective being sold on all sides.

@JLeslie

In many instances, news outlets shouldn’t be interested in hearing both sides, especially when one side is correct on an issue. CNN once featured a debate about climate change with Bill Nye the SCIENCE GUY and Marsha Blackburn, a person who profits off of denying climate change. Utterly ridiculous. Perfect example of the neutrality bias in corporate media.

@rockfan I don’t consider that both sides necessarily. One is a scientist, the other a politician. I am interested in knowing how Marsha’s side looks at the issue though, but Marsha certainly isn’t a scientist. You can’t even try to sway the other side if you don’t know how they think. We keep hitting our heads against the wall with climate change, because there is an additional message Democrats want to push that most Christians don’t believe in science. Most do care and believe in science, but this issue has been turned into a political wedge issue, and now the topic doesn’t fit into their world view so they reject it. Harping on the science is t the way to influence them, we need a message that fits in their works view.

@jleslie I can’t really get a feel of what you are asking here. First it seems you think Fox News is “amazing and interesting”, then a few posts later you seem to be saying Fox News doesn’t tell both sides. No news outlets tell both sides, but in my opinion, Fox is the worst by spinning Trumps words into something he didn’t say, but they want to put him in a good light.

Wait…wait…@Jleslie, you find it “pleasant” so you like it? I, too, am confused, here.

I am just saying I see why the Fox News followers think MSNBC is so hateful and mean. I can’t explain it well I guess. I personally think Fox News lies and puts out a ton of propaganda, but I’m so bothered with the delivery on shows that I used to really like on MSNBC. For example,
I used to think Morning Joe was great, now I’m disgusted by Mika’s eye rolling, and I miss hearing both sides. I want to know what the other side is thinking.

Watching Fox News felt calmer, because the sky was not falling on Fox News the half hour I watched. The sky is constantly falling on the news programs I watch. It’s tiring and stressful.

Probably, the sky is falling, is a bad expression, because I do think there are real things to worry about right now. I do have a passport—check, I am probably going to pull some more cash out of the bank, hoping nothing crazy happens when I perform at the menorah lighting here in town, hoping lots of Democrats get in this election cycle.

This Q isn’t about my opinion anyway, I wanted to hear from others.

^^ Once the eye rolling in MSNBC and Scarborough’s incensed yet still tempered diatribes on the ridiculousness of trump stop…that means trump and his voters have won and their dark and evil Reich begins.

I hope people like Mika and Joe continue to act like real human beings who are pissed off for the right reasons rather than play civil while the other side gains more power.

Other journalists could and should do the civil thing.

I think if one compares Mika and Joe to Fox’s Carlson, Ingraham and Dobbs one would see critical differences.