re: #6 researchok
I don’t disagree- as you know, I’m no fan of FOX.
That said, MSNBC has more than enough baqggage.
See this report on a Pew Study.
Yes, the Pew study is talking about partisanship and negative tone, not truthiness (to borrow from Colbert). There’s a big difference between being partisan and telling outright lies.
From the study, page 20, emphasis mine:
MSNBC was especially negative in its treatment of Romney’s policy prescriptions. Fully 75% of the stories focused on Romney’s policies were negative compared with 1% that were positive. For Obama, by comparison, 32% of policy stories were favorable while 18% were negative.
Romney’s policies. How many times did he do the Etch A Sketch thing WRT to policy? Five, ten, twenty? I lost count. He also jumped on board with most of the really draconian stuff to please the GOP base. Is it any surprise that coverage of that crap would be negative when even sane conservatives wanted no part of it? Oh, and let’s not forget the tax policies that Ryan said they weren’t going to tell us about until after they were elected.