{"id":1294,"date":"2009-06-09T13:14:58","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T20:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2015-11-09T12:27:51","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T20:27:51","slug":"rupert-murdoch-defends-the-fairness-of-fox-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1294","title":{"rendered":"Rupert Murdoch Defends The Fairness Of Fox News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neil Cavuto went out on limb to interview his boss, Rupert Murdoch, again. I don&#8217;t know of any other network that conducts this type of incestuous self-promotion with such frequency. But we are talking about Fox News, so&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>In this clip Murdoch defends the notoriously false slogan that Fox News is <em>&#8220;fair and balanced.&#8221;<\/em> Murdoch says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If we weren&#8217;t fair and balanced, we wouldn&#8217;t have the number one network in news &#8211; by a very wide margin. People believe we&#8217;re fair and balanced, and they love us.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eUX6vb-DUrc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>However, people do not watch Fox News because they believe it&#8217;s fair and balanced. They watch to have their right-wing preconceptions validated. What&#8217;s more, many more people <a href=\"http:\/\/people-press.org\/report\/?pageid=1353\" target=\"_blank\">hate Fox News<\/a> than love it. Twenty-three percent of the public report being regular Fox viewers. That means that 75% are not. And being the number one network is no measure of quality. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=555\" target=\"_blank\">As I have said before<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;McDonald&#8217;s is the #1 restaurant in America. I don&#8217;t think that anyone interprets that to mean that they have the best food. What they have is the cheapest crap that is loaded with filler and seasoning to appeal to the largest number of consumers with the least sophisticated taste.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And that&#8217;s a pretty good description of Fox News too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neil Cavuto went out on limb to interview his boss, Rupert Murdoch, again. I don&#8217;t know of any other network that conducts this type of incestuous self-promotion with such frequency. But we are talking about Fox News, so&#8230;.. In this clip Murdoch defends the notoriously false slogan that Fox News is &#8220;fair and balanced.&#8221; Murdoch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,16],"tags":[33,135,30],"class_list":["post-1294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-wankery","tag-fox-news","tag-neil-cavuto","tag-rupert-murdoch"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-kS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1637,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1637","url_meta":{"origin":1294,"position":0},"title":"Neil Cavuto Romances Rupert Mudoch, Investors Get Screwed","author":"Mark NC","date":"5\/5\/2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The News Corporation released their quarterly earnings yesterday after the market closed. 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