Quote:1. It's news segments are legitimate news I'm sure. Opinion/Entertainment not so much. The perceived problem with FOX is the blurring of the lines between the three towards the target audience. I think all the major news networks are guilty of this to some extent as television news seems to have moved to entertainment/editorial over actual news.

 

2. I do not watch any of the TV news networks so I do not know. If I had to guess I would I would say 70% right / 10% left / 20% fake left. This could be due to the perception, I'll admit.

 

3. Again I don't watch much television let alone television news and don't know really any actual journalists by name. Like is O'reilley/Maddow types journalists? I don't think so. I'm also just bad with names and in fairness I'm not going to google to answer these. 

 

1.  It is a legitimate news source and was actually "backed up" by the other news organizations when the White House tried to exclude them from certain press conferences.  Serious journalists will "protect their own" when it comes down to access and treatment by the government.

 

2.  IIRC from a couple of the books that I have read, it's more like 47% right leaning, 40% left leaning and the remainder being self-identified as Independents.  Most "die-hard" journalists, and the good ones check their political leanings at the door when it comes to doing their job.  This is not only at FOX, but other media outlets as well.  Walter Cronkite didn't reveal his political ideology until well after he retired.  Going back over the history, you never would have guessed it.

 

3.  Most people know who Shepard Smith and Greta Van Susteren are.  It was revealed that they both really like Barack Obama.

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