FOX news no longer "fair and balanced"

[earendel]

FOX news has decided to change its slogan from "fair and balanced" to "Most Watched. Most Trusted." Apparently this is being done because the old slogan was too closely associated with Roger Ailes.

[flockofseagulls104]

wait for it.....

[mellytu74]

wait for it.....

I'll go first.

Actually, it is not unusual for a company/corporation to re-brand after some sort of major shake-up.

And since Ailes' death most definitely falls into that category, I think it's perfectly reasonably.

Although it is skooch too close to CNN's "The Most Trusted Name in News"

I would have just gone back to the little-used “Most Powerful Name In News.”

You can quibble over which network is most trusted but there is no doubting Fox News' power.

[Bob Juch]

FOX news has decided to change its slogan from "fair and balanced" to "Most Watched. Most Trusted." Apparently this is being done because the old slogan was too closely associated with Roger Ailes.

"Unfair and unbalanced" would have been more appropriate.

[franktangredi]

Early in 2008, when Hillary Clinton looked like a shoo-in for the Democratic nomination, I got a phone call from Fox News asking me to participate in a survey. (How they got MY name I'll never figure out.) At the time, I really knew very little about Fox News and had no prejudice against them.

The gist of what they said was this: "We'd like to ask you a few questions about the political scene. But first, we'd like you to listen to the latest shocking news about Hillary Clinton."

I gave the survey taker an earful about their methods and hung up. Maybe that was the wrong thing to do. Maybe that intro was a deliberate ploy to weed out people and skew the results their way.

In any case, that told me all I needed to know about how "fair and balanced" Fox News was.

Would anybody like to defend that method of taking a survey? I'd be interested to hear how you do it.

[Bob Juch]

Early in 2008, when Hillary Clinton looked like a shoo-in for the Democratic nomination, I got a phone call from Fox News asking me to participate in a survey. (How they got MY name I'll never figure out.) At the time, I really knew very little about Fox News and had no prejudice against them.

The gist of what they said was this: "We'd like to ask you a few questions about the political scene. But first, we'd like you to listen to the latest shocking news about Hillary Clinton."

I gave the survey taker an earful about their methods and hung up. Maybe that was the wrong thing to do. Maybe that intro was a deliberate ploy to weed out people and skew the results their way.

In any case, that told me all I needed to know about how "fair and balanced" Fox News was.

Would anybody like to defend that method of taking a survey? I'd be interested to hear how you do it.

It's called a "push poll" and isn't really a poll. I get those via email from time to time.

[franktangredi]

It's called a "push poll" and isn't really a poll.

You mean one of these?

[BackInTex]

Or this?



Who gets it?

[franktangredi]

Or this?



Who gets it?

Shame on you.