Re: FoxNews ...

["Joseph Pappalardo" <joepappalardo2001@yahoo.com>]

I think Dan is right....Most of the time Fox is doing "news analysis"
programming...with lotso people with lotso opinions.  Let's face it...the
days after the tragedy, people had very stringent opinions.

Like Dan said...Fox is mostly 'talkradio' on TV.

Fox is probably showing more of what's really out there...and is probably a
tad more 'pedestrian' than the gray hairs on CNN.

While we may see CNN as old ond boring...apparently they are winning the
ratings race in this time of turmoil.  I think they lack flash...but DO have
credibility in the public mind.

The only time Fox is doing actual 'news' is during the top and bottom hour
'capsule'.

IMHO, I will say that the big 3 networks have shined ....I think this kind
of thoughful, credible coverage is what they are all about.  They have the
bodies & resources to cover it, they have access to the best analysis....and
they have maintain the integrity & credibility that people come looking for
in times like this.

$.02


JP



----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Billings" <dib9@gwi.net>
To: "Bill O'Neill" <billo@shoreham.net>; <RadioTony@aol.com>;
<boston-radio-interest@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 6:01 PM
Subject: Re: FoxNews ...


> I haven't watch much of Fox during the crisis so I can't offer any
opinion.
> I rarely tune to Fox for news.  I see them as talk radio on television.
> Entertaining, and sometimes informative, but not the place to tune to for
> the news.
>
> One problem that I did see last week was that all the anchors made little
> distinction between the various talking heads.  There were various former
> Secretaries and former Ambassadors on TV.  They were simply offered as
> experts and little was done to make it clear to the average voter what
> administration the person had served in.  The former foreign policy types,
> of both parties, all have an ax to grind because they don't want people to
> think that the policies of their administration helped get us to where we

> are today.  It is probably still too soon to ask such questions but I
think
> people like Bill Cohen and Jim Baker, for example, are as interested in
> defending their own records as they are offering information and analysis.
> Less known faces, such as academics and private sector foreign policy
> experts, might provide analysis without the political baggage.
>
> -- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine
>
>
>


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