White House advisers say Fox News is not news

Monday 19th October, 05:53 AM JST

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cooperstown at 12:38 PM JST - 23rd October

Zurcronium. People here say you are Canadian. Judging from your posts I have to agree. But Fox was banned in Canada. So where did you form these opinions about Fox? In Japan? You actually pay for FOX?
Junnama at 12:39 PM JST - 23rd October

Shocking facts: 1. Opinions are for sale. 2. The media is not balanced and never has been.
cooperstown at 03:49 PM JST - 23rd October

The Stimulus has worked, heh heh heh:

"This year, the Fox News Channel will post the highest ratings in its 13-year history."

Mission Accomplished, Mr President.
zurcronium at 05:16 AM JST - 24th October

Something like 80 companies have dropped their paying for ads on the racist glen beck fox program. Fox is linking into the angry retired loser crowd and that is driving the numbers. Too bad for fox that no one cares about those people and supporting racism on TV.
cooperstown at 08:30 AM JST - 24th October

Is that the view from Canada, Mr Zurcronium? It was my understanding FOX so terrified the powers that be in Canada that they had it banned.
Mark_McCracken at 12:37 PM JST - 24th October

It's difficult to comment on US television networks, since I live in Japan.
rogerbentham at 02:38 PM JST - 24th October

good ol' foxy tending to the sheep.
smithinjapan at 03:56 PM JST - 24th October

cooperstown: "Zurcronium. People here say you are Canadian. Judging from your posts I have to agree."

I see your newest handle still hasn't changed the fact that you can't stop trying to undermine people's arguments by insinuating their nationality means they can have no valid opinion on American topics. Well, once again you prove that non-Americans at the very least have more valid and open-minded arguments than you do; but hey, this comes from a Canadian so I guess we know you'll simply deny the facts (and when it comes from an American you'll assume they are from somewhere else). Bye-bye credibility... again!

That Fox News is called non-news is news to no one but fools. Fox's motivation is sales, and sales alone -- they make wars into video games, and twist and skew statistics and facts like they were going out of style. Not surprising people like cooperstown jump up in their defense.
OneForAll at 06:30 PM JST - 24th October

This is news. A lot of emotionalism on FoxNews. But just for laughs. In jokes there is a bit of truth. I am glad the other news media stood up for FoxNews, for it is a sign of a healthy democracy, a free press. Lamar Alexander was right to advise the administration not to make an enemy list like Nixon did. FoxNews was the first to warn us about Van Jones and the ACORN scandals.
Blue_Tiger at 07:54 PM JST - 24th October

I like what Jay Leno has to say abut Fox News:

"At least they HAVE a point-of-view!"
zurcronium at 11:21 PM JST - 24th October

As with every issue that the wingers pose they have absolutely nothing to back it up. Cleary fox news is simply a propaganda agent for the republican party. Which is embarassing for any honest conservative who does not want to mix with angry loser teabagger crowd. That is why only 20% of Americans now identify with the failing republican party.

The only thing you can count on with fox news it that it will be a lie. Same can be said of bush republicans in general. Yes, those WMD in Iraq will soon be found.
tanglewood at 12:44 AM JST - 25th October

Looks like ACORN was the trigger that set Obama off.

NY TIMES (Oct 22, Politics page) reports:

“By the following weekend, officials at the White House had decided that if anything, it was time to take the relationship to an even more confrontational level. The spur: Executives at other news organizations, including The New York Times, had publicly said that their newsrooms had not been fast enough in following stories that Fox News, to the administration’s chagrin, had been heavily covering through the summer and early fall — namely, past statements and affiliations of the White House adviser Van Jones that ultimately led to his resignation and questions surrounding the community activist group ACORN,”

Adding insult to injury, it looks like El Rushbo is on the money when he says he is "living rent-free in Obama's head" because the man's vanity is just too powerful a force on him.
zurcronium at 06:47 AM JST - 25th October

drugs limbaugh would not fit into anyones head, and not in most bodies either other than a few sumo guys.

It so reassuring that the wingers focus on issues so small and petty that no one really cares about the issues or the republicans as a whole. That is why the party is falling apart and has been for the last few years leaderless and basically totally lost.
mtimjones at 03:41 PM JST - 25th October

Sad, very sad. Fox News has news reporting and opinion programming, just like all other U.S. news channels. Unfortunately, the far left wants to minimize Fox by labeling it so. But, that's what the left does. We on the right are used to it, and just ignore them as they should be. Obama's policies have been explored by Fox, which many in the U.S. want. Obama doesn't like this, so he plays his typical chicago-thug style politics. As I said, sad, very sad.
gmfranc at 05:21 PM JST - 25th October

Fox has a valid point in this continuing argument. Most of the programming objectionable to the Obama administration is editorial programming, rather than news programming. While these programs are formatted as news programs, anyone capable of analysis would recognize the comments and materials as expressing personal opinion. The last time I looked that aspect of freedom of speech is still protected under the US constitution. While I do not agree with Fox's commentaries, they are well within their rights to forward them. I would suggest that the administration limit appearances by non-policy makers to true news programs and vigorously pursue misrepresentations made in those news casts if any should appear - and that applies to any station, not just to Fox. Policy makers should appear on editorial shows to provide balance against ill-informed or intentionally skewed opinion on major issues (assuming there is balamce to be had of course). In response to accusations made by some posters against our neighbors to the north, Fox News was never banned by Canada. Fox News Canada was granted licenses/permission to commence broadcasting by the Canadian RTC on both Dec 14, 2000 and Nov 18, 2004. In both instances, Fox announced its intention not to implement the Fox News Canada service. Fox news is carried on major Canadian cable services, though Shaw has allowed subscribers to opt out of Fox in favor of other channels in response to remarks made by Fox personnel concerning Canadian troops deployed overseas. This is a matter of public record and could have been checked by anyone of intelligence and integrity.