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Originally Posted by Eboni Khan  The majority of programming on Fox News is not news it is political commentary. All of these complaints came from commentary shows, not news shows. |
I see this a lot. Fox probably has more commentary than CNN or MSNBC - but the fact that people like Sean Hannity or Bill O'Reilly have regular shows on Fox seems to bring out the polemicists who think the whole network is a cesspool of rightwingers.
Some years ago, someone did a detailed analysis of the different news outlets to decide whether there really was a leftwing bias in the news overall. What they found was that Fox isn't necessarily "rightwing", but some of the other major networks were far enough to the left of Fox it made them LOOK more rightwing than they really were. In other words, it's a relative perception.
I don't have a problem with Fox, but then I don't generally watch it - what I have seen is that they're either the same level of shallow eye candy as USA Today or they're showcasing Sean Hannity's idiotic pablum and posing opinionless Alan Colmes next to him as "balance". lulz.
As for news, they report it like everyone else. Then they show 8 hours of commentary and opinion and everybody gets confused.