“Fox News’ credit that they aren’t afraid to acknowledge criticism, and still engage with the source of it.”

I irremediably assumed you are taking a swipe at MSNBC.

He wasn’t taking a swipe at MSNBC. He was just trying to get in a link to the “FOX News viewers are stupid” propaganda.

Reality isn’t always wonderful to them, either,

I fail to see reality mistreating the network in any of those links.

Fox news has proven in the past it can take a hit (if justified), unlike MSNBC (as Olbermann is proving right now as we speak). Fox has also proven it can hit back.

http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/lachlan-markay/2010/12/20/study-claiming-fox-news-viewers-misinformed-fraught-errors

“Right back at you”
Colby….why….why ..why must you embarrass us like that…:(

I’m confused. Was the “10 Worst” list a guest column or a Mediaite production?

I think it’s better that idiotic right-wingers DON;’T appear on Keith’s and Rachel’s shows, and interrupt the flow of the programs with their inchoate rantings. Case in point: Anderson Cooper had Rene Ellmers on CNN to discuss her bigoted TV commercial, and entertaining as it mifght have been to view it on Mediaite and elsewhere, it would have stopped any show right in its tracks. Rachel occasionally has the rare RATIONAL Republican on, and that usually goes well…but one night she had Peter Fazio’s opponent Art Robinson as a guest, and that was a fiasco (for HIM).

Good for you ,I guess :)

Please Colby and this site are the biggest FAUX apologists.

I love when Colby slams FNC for repeating “right-wing talking points,” as he as done in the past… and then appears on the network! To some folks, that might looks like a questionable connection (if they’re all right-wing, why would they let you on), but we all know that honesty, fairness to all networks, and intellectual diversity isn’t really a priority at Mediaite.

As one who has several University of Maryland alums in the family, I was thrilled by Fox’s fair and balanced engagement with its critics following that recent study of TV news viewers. Nice work, Michael Clemente! Very professional of him.

But Mediaite is very, very, very kind to MSNBC — never even letting out a whisper when it was revealed that the Fed made secret cash bailout of $16 BILLION DOLLARS to MSNBC’s parent company. Can you believe that no mention was made on this site of that HUGE story? That’s quite a bit of cover-up for you. The folks at MSNBC really owe Mediaite in return — I wonder how the pay-off will be made.

Fact: Mediaite Not ‘Always Wonderful’.

Fact: You can’t look like you’re the expert news blog source when you walk around with your fly down and a booger hanging out your nostril!

da-wdc said:
As one who has several University of Maryland alums in the family, I was thrilled by Fox’s fair and balanced engagement with its critics following that recent study of TV news viewers. Nice work, Michael Clemente! Very professional of him.

I assume you were equally “thrilled” that UofMaryland was willing to put their name on such a flawed, and obviously biased study, right?

ImNotBlue said:
I assume you were equally “thrilled” that UofMaryland was willing to put their name on such a flawed, and obviously biased study, right?

By which you mean, you don’t like the results? It’s “obviously” biased? Somehow I doubt that you know more about how to assess the results of a study than those at a research university who are doing the work.

There was no need for FNC to take a juvenile potshot at an entire university. Really classless on their part. Did he go to Duke or something? Ugh.

Mediaite Not ‘Always Wonderful’ to Fox News

Should they be??? How about MSNBC? Or CNN? or even PBS? Inquiring minds would love to know….

http://www.mediaite.com/online/attacking-the-middle-mediaite-takes-fire-from-the-right-and-left/

I really can’t believe some of these people take Mediaite that serious. There are a considerable amount of errors, mistakes, and distortions. Mr. Hall needs to focus on actually editing the articles prior to posting instead of going on TV.

da-wdc said:
By which you mean, you don’t like the results? It’s “obviously” biased? Somehow I doubt that you know more about how to assess the results of a study than those at a research university who are doing the work. There was no need for FNC to take a juvenile potshot at an entire university. Really classless on their part. Did he go to Duke or something? Ugh.

Perhaps not I… but I didn’t write this either:
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/zontv/2010/12/survey_on_fox_news_who_defines.html

And are you saying that you’ll believe any study that comes out of a university? Really? You won’t question the methodology? You won’t look at who funds it? You won’t consider that perhaps they got it wrong?

Yeah, I believe that.

UofMaryland allowed themselves to be used for either their profit or notoriety. Neither is respectable.

Perhaps I’m missing it, but it appears the link to the “Fox Viewers are Uninformed” study was lost when the post was edited to provide proper attribution to the “10 Worsts” author and it may be nit-picking to point out, but the study was released by a consortium that is managed by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland, which is just one part of a large university.

Frankly, I felt it a bit unfair for the FNC spokesperon to belittle an entire college because they didn’t like something that was done by a couple of professors using grant money. Of course, if they wanted to hit back at the individual professors or WorldPublicOpinion.org that would be one thing, but I don’t see what it has to do with their School of Architecture, Computer Science Department or basketball team.

ETA: Publish or perish; We all know the drill.

The left is twitterpated over a new survey which claims that regular Fox viewers were misinformed about a number of issues related to the 2010 elections:

they found that regular viewers of the Fox News Channel, which tilts to the right in prime time, were significantly more likely to believe untruths about the Democratic health care overhaul, climate change and other subjects.

I’ve read the report and what it shows is significantly less impressive than what the summary claims it does. While it does show some misinformation on questions about Obama’s birth certificate and whether or not taxes were raised or lowered, the survey does nothing to demonstrate that Fox has promoted the false answers. In this case, as in others, correlation is not causation. In the case of Obama’s birth certificate, I’m certain that issue has been dismissed by Fox hosts.

But there are also a number of cases in the report where the numbers don’t really demonstrate what the authors claim they do.

snip

I’ve given four examples of serious problems with this survey from badly phrased questions to questionable analysis of facts and “right” answers which are undercut by anything but the most superficial analysis. There are more problems, but this should suffice to demonstrate that this survey is of little value beyond the reassurance it will no doubt provide to liberal bloggers and viewers of MSNBC.

http://www.verumserum.com/?p=19990

And it should be even less surprising that despite all the inaccuracies, omissions, and distortions in this study – despite even a direct warning against using the study to condemn single media outlets – it’s been received by a frenzy of Fox-hatred from the left.

Read more: http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/lachlan-markay/2010/12/20/study-claiming-fox-news-viewers-misinformed-fraught-errors#ixzz18jZOzMR0

ModerateMan says:
“He wasn’t taking a swipe at MSNBC. He was just trying to get in a link to the “FOX News viewers are stupid” propaganda.”

It’s not propaganda; it’s a case of Fox viewers being routinely misinformed for political reasons. Fox is a political operation, and the only stupid people are the ones (like Sarah by the looks of it) who think that it is a source of news. This does involve propaganda starting with Fox being fair and balanced and getting to the depths of propaganda: giving a liar, hypocrite and charlatan like Beck a stage to perform his act on.

Beck is living proof that you can fool some of the people all of the time and
Beck is proof that Fox is a political operation. He’s often disinterested in the news.
Beck is always interested in Glenn Beck and promoting Glenn Beck and building the brand name: Glenn Beck Inc.
Fox will never be accepted as a news outlet so long as Beck is allowed a stage there on which to perform.
Shep Smith and any other person there who considers themselves as real journalist need to understand that Beck is a stain on their brand (Fox “News”).

Beck isn’t doing a news broadcast. He’s doing an opinion show. Just like Olbermann. But Olbermann’s opinions come from the left, so he gets a pass.

Can’t believe you deleted it. I guess the truth hurts huh Tommy.

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writer says:
“Beck isn’t doing a news broadcast. He’s doing an opinion show. Just like Olbermann. But Olbermann’s opinions come from the left, so he gets a pass.”

Do you ever have a clue of what you write here, or are you just inclined to spout baseless opinions? Countdown with K.O. is a countdown of the day’s top 5 stories. It’s news presented from a liberal’s POV.

You act like Beck doesn’t offer fictions as facts. Beck was deceiver of the year last year and should have gotten it this year.

Your comment was another example of how people who watch Fox have become too stupified to express their views without being the butt of other, informed people’s jokes. I doubt that you’ll take my suggestion, but you can read about how you harm yourself with closed-minded backlash against actual facts. Although I covered that story earlier in the year (“Why Beck’s followers can’t understand that he deceives them,” ) that was just the news coverage of it. You don’t have to sweat your panties thinking it’s a link to The Glenn Beck Review.

If Beck was just doing an “opinion show,” I’d be downstairs watching television.

Fox will never be accepted as a news outlet so long as Beck is allowed a stage there on which to perform.
Shep Smith and any other person there who considers themselves as real journalist need to understand that Beck is a stain on their brand (Fox “News”).

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Dream on, LOSER! Shep Smith can only DREAM about having ratings as high as Glenn Beck. Glenn kicks Sheps butt every single day. Do you really think we give a big rats ass what idiots like YOU or Shep think? Rupert Murdock and Roger Ailes know the gold mine they have in Glenn Beck and he is HERE TO STAY. Deal with it, chump! You are an IDIOT if you don’t know the difference in a Hard News Show, like Bret Baier the BEST IN THE BUSINESS, and Glenn Becks opinion show. No one can touch his ratings in his time slot. He is a freaking ROCK STAR! Shep is just another LIBERAL LOSER.

Sunnyr says:
“Dream on, LOSER! Shep Smith can only DREAM about having ratings as high as Glenn Beck.”

Ratings do not equate to either relevance or credibility. Smith is a reporter of the news; Glenn Beck is a performance artist.
As such, he’s a rodeo clown exposed as a liar, a charlatan and a hypocrite. Smith honestly conveys the news; Beck is a dishonest, yellow propagandist.

Sunny, you’re comparing rotten apples (Beck) or oranges.

You heard him Mediaite… better get in line