re: #145 BigPapa

You seem to be making an assumption that Fox is a public relations firm coordinating communications and talking points as opposed to a media company selling a product to a target market. OReilly and Hannity have their own shows and for the most part I think say and do what they really want: same for Alex Jones’ buddy Napolitano and Beck. If you care to look for it in between the partisan hacks’ shows there is some more moderate fare there.

It’s all a product, which is why they don’t accept blame or change much: it’s not what their biggest consumer group wants. They want Coulter to call people fags and roll their eyes at Franken, and cut Breitbart a HUGE amount of slack. That’s the problem, not so much as Fox is simply peddling BS.

I think the problem is the circular nature of the cycle. What happens at Fox is that Hannity and/or Beck and/or O’Reilly will make some outrageous claim with no basis in fact. Then the news side will report that “Some people are saying that President Obama is really a little green martian” but not note that the people saying that are employees of the same network. They are making the news they’re reporting on and that’s wildly inappropriate.