If you have AOL, take this poll: Is Fox News Fair and Balanced?

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Poll at bottom of article...current results:

Do you think Fox News is Fair and Balanced?

Yes
52%
No, and I don't like its viewpoint
36%
No, but I like its viewpoint
9%
I have no idea
3%


Do you think news reporting is generally biased?

Yes, to the left
49%
Yes, on both sides
25%
Yes, to the right
17%
No
9%

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Fox News Under Fire

Liberals Step Up Political Assault on Fox News

By JULIA ANGWIN Staff Reporter, The Wall Street Journal

July 20) - During presidential election years, conservative politicians have often attacked the media for their liberal bias. But during this year's campaign, liberals are fighting back with what they see as a powerful issue -- the alleged conservative slant of the Fox News Channel, a unit of the media conglomerate Staff Reporter.

The assault on Fox News started on July 8, with a report from media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting claiming that in the six months through Dec. 19, 2003, 57% of guests on Fox News's popular evening news show, "Special Report with Brit Hume" were conservatives.

The next week, left-leaning advocacy groups MoveOn.Org and Center for American Progress sponsored the release of a documentary "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism," which uses clips from the cable channel to show what the filmmakers claim is a pattern of right-wing bias and support for the Republican agenda.

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1. why is this even a question? fox news ADMITS it

roger ailes (fox news ceo, republican operative, former head of ronald reagan presidential campaign) has always maintained that "fair and balanced" meant that it was fair to present the conservative/republican view and balanced in the sense that they provided balance to the rest of the (liberal) media.

he has never maintained that fox news is, in and of itself, fair and balanced. it was always that they provided fairness and balance in the context of the media as a whole.

of course, you have to believe that the rest of the media is hopelessly liberal to buy this, but the point is, fox news itself acknowledges that their viewpoint is biased.

[LDS Jock]

2. I just voted

stats are still the same with just under 200,000 votes. Its hard to believe anyone who watches fox for more than ten minutes is unable to see the bias.

As an example of some aol minds, here is a joke from one of their bulletin boards.....


Caught a good one on the net today, wish I could send it to yoy. It's a bumper sticker . It reads KERRY/EDWARDS
when you're as full of s..t as these guys, you need two johns.....