[Brian]

I was a little surprised when I visited NZ a few years ago that Fox News seemed to be available everywhere. Here in the US it's considered a fringe channel - entertainment aimed at a certain demographic rather than news.

Reading comments posted to political articles on the NZ Herald website and elsewhere many people seem to be repeating the same ideas and keywords they push on Fox News - lower taxes, no regulation, globalization, basically handing everything possible over to corporations and let the open market handle it.

Are these posters representative of most people or just a vocal minority?
Do people actually take Fox News seriously?

[DB]

... repeating the same ideas and keywords they push on Fox News - lower taxes, no regulation, globalization, basically handing everything possible over to corporations and let the open market handle it.

To be fair, Fox didn't invent this concepts; they are fairly standard right wing agenda items.

We have a National Party, with a right wing agenda, so you hear these same terms used in NZ. However, we have MMP elections, which one hopes will protect us from the worst of the right wing excesses when the Nats get into power (which is looking likely) as it has protected us against the worst of the left wing excesses during Labour's tenure.

The Nats have been forced to concede a number of things that as a right wing party they are pretty much mandated by ideology to deliver, such as sales of state assets. At least, "for the first term".

Anyone who doesn't understand that Fox News presents a point of view shouldn't be allowed to vote; It's like thinking the Guardian is without political bias :)

[Sam B]

I have never seen Fox news here, and I have never heard anyone talking about it. I haven't got Sky though.

[CityBlue]

I have never seen Fox news here, and I have never heard anyone talking about it. I haven't got Sky though.

Me neither and I have got sky.....suppose its just not a channel we flick to.

[Moorf]

I find Fox News very entertaining - infuriating but entertaining in a "car crash" stylee. That O'Reilly guy really winds me up .... :mad:

[M-Squared]

I find Fox News very entertaining - infuriating but entertaining in a "car crash" stylee. That O'Reilly guy really winds me up .... :mad:

They're all a bunch of *insert expletives here*. :laugh

When I lived in the US they were harangued, and rightly so, about their "Fair And Balanced" slogan they would trot out ad nauseam. Now the slogan is "We Report, You Decide". Yes, but they still report the same old biased drivel. And don't get me started on that ugly twig Ann Coulter...

[Sam B]

Sounds like the US version of The Daily Mail.

[dharder]

Sounds like the US version of The Daily Mail.

I think the Daily Mail is practically serious balanced reporting compared to Fox News...

But we don't actually get that either, no Sky.

Daniela

[M-Squared]

I think the Daily Mail is practically serious balanced reporting compared to Fox News...

But we don't actually get that either, no Sky.

Daniela

The Daily Mail is left-leaning compared to Fox News. ;)

[Potato]

To be fair, Fox didn't invent this concepts; they are fairly standard right wing agenda items.

We have a National Party, with a right wing agenda, so you hear these same terms used in NZ. However, we have MMP elections, which one hopes will protect us from the worst of the right wing excesses when the Nats get into power (which is looking likely) as it has protected us against the worst of the left wing excesses during Labour's tenure.



Or you could say that MMP can lead to policies being diluted.

[CJ22]

I read 'Lies and the Lying Liars who tell them' - great read ripping into Faux News :)

[Croft]

Fox News are also the numpties that tried to sue The Simpson's for a parody they did of the channel, until it was realised that they're both owned by the same organisation,

Think it may have been this, though The Simpsons have a pop at Fox news every so often.

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/49281/

[gonzo]

I must admit that I presumed the frequent cracks at the Fox network in episodes of the Simpsons were an American attempt at irony aimed to produce a wry smile in viewers who knew that they were produced by groups in the same ownership.