Fox Sports= Fox Politics (Same game plan)

[AsahinaKimi]

Now if I am not mistaken, and you can correct me if I am wrong on this, but wasn't Fox originally just a Sports Network, before doing Politics?

IF so, then one can see how they treat Politics like its some kind of Sport. Their so called "News" people treat political events like it was a sports event.

Every response of the Republicans, the tea baggers, and all the crazy right wingers, after being handed a defeat, is just as if their team lost the Superbowl.


During the Bush Years, watching Fox was like watching the local Fox Affiliate cheer on their own local baseball team. Sports terms are often used on the network during political events.


Sports announcers were never supposed to be biased or rooting for their favorite teams, the exception being the local Team guy. (example Vin Skully, who is being paid by the Los Angeles Dodgers.)


The Fox Network has their team, the Republicans. The people who watch them, are like those who watch WTBS and the Atlanta Braves.

It makes me think, maybe when the Fox Network started their "News" channel they had to hire on all those extra Sports announcers that they couldn't fit in for their Sports Network.

The way the Republican base is whipped up, its as though they are rabid sports fans. They act like rabid sports fans. When they lose, its the end of the world..

When Bush won the election the phrase was "We Won, you lost, Get Over it". I have heard the same thing from Yankee fans after the World Series.

Fox and Friends seems like the ultimate "Sports Fan" show. Could you imagine JIM ROME doing Politics?

Fox Network even has their own Cheerleaders.


Tell me this is not just a coincidence.



Agree? Disagree?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. While the Fox empire also has a sports network, it started out as a regular broadcast network.

During the first decade of its existance or so it was the at the lowest rung of the broadcast networks, comparable to the UPN and WB. Probably the only programming of note it had was the beginning of The Simpsons and the cult hit Married with Children. The rest was replete with bad original programming and syndicated reruns.

In the mid 1990s, the Fox network began to rise in stations, ratings and quality, and got a contract with the NFL for football. At that point, Ruport Murdoch felt comfortable enough to branch out to cable sports and cable news channels. The cable sports channel was mainly a buy-out of numerous regional sports networks but really was not political by any means.

As for the news channel--Murdoch (who is an Aussie businessman and really whose main motive is profit, not politics) believed there was a "market" for conservatives who bought into the myth that the media was somehow blatantly liberal. Under the guise of "fair and balanced" but really as a means to blatantly pander to conservatives who wanted to hear the news reported the way they desired it to be heard (facts be damned), Fox News Channel was started. And surprise of surprises, gulible conservatives bought it hook, line and sinker.

But yes, Fox News Channel does act as cheerleaders for conservative and Republican thought.

[Arctic Dave]

2. I actually posted something similar a while ago.

I was at the gym on the treadmill when I noticed how they both had the same layout and "feel". I also noticed HLN and E did the same thing. It is as if they are trying to capture the same demographic for their channels.