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geoforce Donating Member (108 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-03 12:30 PM
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FOX News: Fair and Balanced? You Decide.
This is a petition for people to express their views on the FOX News Channel. Are you familiar with this channel? Do you have any opinions to express about it??? If so please post your comments on the link below. What is Your Take on Bill O'Really, Sean Hannity-Insanity, and other FOX ancwhors? The results will be sent unedited and unexpurgated to FOX anchwhors.

This is really more like a man on the street interview than an typical petition or poll. This is about Your Ideas. If you would like, you can post your name online as "anonymous" or just your first or last name (though full name is preferred), but please post only once. This is a fair and balanced petition.

Some people have informed me that this petition has been "freeped," because there are Pro-Fox views. Actually I tried to post the link to the petition on freerepublic.com myself to get a full range of opinion, since this is a free country. Immediately after posting the link my post disappeared and my posting privilage was revoked. For some reason The Free Republic doesn't want freepers to express their views on this issue.

I also feel it's my duty to inform womenfolk and kinfolk that this link contains some strong and suggestive language which may be considered inappropriate, so viewer discretion is advised.

If anyone is concerned that posting on this petition will let Fox know that you are watching, which is what they want, you should know that they don't really care. FOX News is the #1 Cable "News" channel. During the Second Gulf War a poll said that about 37% of Americans said they relied on FOX News for most of their war coverage.

Did I mention I can also send the results of the petition to media outlets throughout the nation through gopteamleader.com?

If this petition gets enough posts it will be put on the front page of petitiononline.com, where John and Jane Q. Public will be able to have their say.

Note: If you have signed this petition and would like this message "kicked up" to the top of the page, please click reply, and also share what you wrote. Lotta People Here!

Good Luck and GODSPEED!

http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?q51286

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roughsatori Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-03 12:37 PM
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1. I wouldn't be surprised if Faux is behind this petition
Edited on Sat Aug-09-03 12:38 PM by roughsatori
They love hate mail and petitions from libruls (sic). It helps them attract the core Freeper audience they have. There's no such thing as bad publicity in the entertainment world.

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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-03 12:43 PM
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roughsatori Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-03 01:10 PM
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5. I never whine about Faux news
Edited on Sat Aug-09-03 01:15 PM by roughsatori
I avoid companies that advertise on Faux; and I don't watch them anymore at all. They have become too predictable and boring.

I did not realize till now that you wrote that petition. I thought you were sniping and linking to someone else's work. If I had realized it was your petition I would not have made the remark about Faux being behind it--but I still believe they will love your petition. I can see them reading it on the air and laughing. I hope I am wrong.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-03 01:13 PM
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-03 01:16 PM
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8. only idiots watch FOX "news"
I cannot EVEN imagine the mentality of the defects who WORK FOR THEM.
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Iris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-03 05:28 PM
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11. Skittles, you consistently crack me up!
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-03 12:39 PM
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Born_a_Democrat Donating Member (329 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-03 12:51 PM
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4. State Run Television
That is what Fox News is. Fair and balanced means you cover both sides of an issue and don't offer your "opinion" while reporting. But opinions seems to be the only thing FOX can offer. And one sided opinions at that. FOX isn't a news channel it's a propaganda channel and that's what it will always be. If at one point enough people that watch the Propaganda discover that it is just that ideological babble, and hence stop watching, FOX will sell the network to someone else rather than have to report events from both sides.

Murdoch will just run with his money and hide for another generation or two until it's time to rear his ugly head behind another Reich power when it emerges.

Their mantra should be "FOX News, Bought and paid for. We decide...what to report"

That's my take...
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Iris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-03 05:29 PM
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12. hmm - so FOX is what middle America THINKS PBS should be?
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-03 01:12 PM
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6. LOL...............................ANCWHORS
I LOVE IT :7
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-03 01:37 PM
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-03 05:21 PM
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Iris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-03 05:30 PM
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13. I admit
I'm caught up in the "cesspool of liberal insanity."

It's a bitch being educated.
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Nebucadnezzar Donating Member (4 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-03 06:20 PM
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14. kick
kick

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whoYaCallinAlib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-03 06:25 PM
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15. I f people don't like Fox, why don't they watch another channel?
I don't get it. I never watch Fox. That way, I have nothing to complain about it. If people on this board don't like Fox, why do they keep tuning in? It makes no sense to watch something you don't like. If you watch Fox, that means you have cable. If you have cable, you prabably have 150 other channels you could watch. Why torture yourself?????
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Nebucadnezzar Donating Member (4 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-03 06:26 PM
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16. I guess you don't get it.
never mind.
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