In 2008, some 50 per cent of the Faux News viewers were over 63, the oldest demographic in the cable-news racket, and the majority of viewers of Hannity's and O'Reilly's shows were men. Yep, that's the Fox News demo – the cranky old guy who stormed out the front door and shouted at you to quit playing outside his house. He's still angry. Except right now he's angry about Obama.

LOL...the "old guys". Yep...the ones who were around before the liberals began the brainwashing of the populace through the education system in this country. Now the liberals like Obama have threatened to shut down the station...or at least certain personnel there. Interesting...liberals 35-45 years ago were all for freedom of the press...now they wish the networks not on their payroll (owned by other flaming liberals) would go away. What happened the idea of the "freedom of the press" they used to talk about? It became no longer convenient for them. They want only their own songs sung on TV...a complete monopoly on what the public sees. Seems I've heard that line somewhere before.

Make no mistake...there are no more democrats or republicans...there are only liberals and the rest of us. And todays liberal is nothing more than a thinly-veiled socialist. So was Hitler and Stalin...who together were responsible for the deaths of over 100,000 of their own people. The writing is on the wall for those who are not blind and their heads not (yet) in the sand.

Thank you for bringing this up Mr u...keep 'em coming.

I can tell you what happened to Freedom of the Press:
The right abused it. Told too many lies. Became domestic terrorists, rather than honorable opponents.
While it makes me very sad to even think about the prospect, if this domestic terrorism does not stop, I see no other alternative. You are not allowed to say just anything you want under free speech and, unfortunately, it's not limited to truth.
But, you are not allowed to yell fire in a crowded theater and it should not be slanderous or libelous.
But, the right doesn't care. Fox makes lies a network policy. Anything, ANYTHING it takes to bring down the opposing party.
How long do you expect domestic terrorism to be allowed under the guise of Freedom of Speech?
I know, I know!!! You'll say it's me lying and you telling the truth, but I do believe statistics do back me up.
Whether it's severe enough to take action? I don't know, but I fear it's getting to that point!
So, it's the right that is brainwashed and being subversive to the US government.
So, that's what has happened to freedom of the press.
Thank you, thor, for bringing it up for discussion for the 50th time.

Now the liberals like Obama have threatened to shut down the station...or at least certain personnel there

LOL...the "old guys". Yep...the ones who were around before the liberals began the brainwashing of the populace through the education system in this country.

source please

Can you imagine the outrage that would have ensued had former President George W. Bush declared off-limits those media outlets he thought (correctly) treated him unfairly?

to silence talk radio and shut down another source of opposition to the Obama agenda"

bias? what bias?

as Faux News has been a bee in my bonnet lately, I've been looking a little deeper.

ya know, they don't even describe themselves as being a serious news source. They state that only 6 hours a day is dedicated to actual news. The rest is opinion. Quick math - 3/4 not news.

Glenn Beck doesn't claim to be a journalist. He doesn't even claim to be a pundit. He's a comedian and in his own words, he is a "rodeo clown"

Oh, and all the big names that we associate with Faux News, Hannity, O'Riely, Beck, etc., are not part of the 6 hours of news. They are the 18 hours of opinion, though they are often quoted as "sources say" during the little news bits. That's cute

Defence Minister Peter MacKay to marry CTV news executive

if you'd taken a moment to read my post on the changes in the FCC and it's effect on news in general, you'd see that I have done the research.
Editorial bias has been an issue since the first news paper was printed. Don't assume that my criticism of fox is a defense of the others. But if you turn to fox as a source of information, you should be outraged at their insult to your intelligence

It is...but is really much closer to center than any of the other networks.

Sky News also fell into the same trap a few years ago.

Its much closer to your centre, but not really to any logical centre.

>>>It has to do with historical positions on issues and how they have changed over the years...not some logical calculation of any sort. This is where being around for awhile has an advantage; trends can be witnessed first-hand. Some of the socialistic stunts the liberals are pulling these days would have likely landed them in jail 40/50 years ago.

Couldn't the same thing be said about letting them Negroes serve in an integrated military or go to integrated schools or vote or marry our women.

Shit changes with time. Just because something was one or the other in the past doesn't make it better or worse. The argument is about the merit of the change in this time, and whether it adequately serve the desires of the populace or overreaches and infringes on the rights of the populace against their will.

Horse shit.
You mother fuckers moved the center so far to the right that it made the center the left.

This is where being around for awhile has an advantage; trends can be witnessed first-hand.

Some of the socialistic stunts the liberals are pulling these days would have likely landed them in jail 40/50 years ago.

But now we have some of the "news" outlets pushing it as centrist, with a near-centrist view being touted as radically conservative. Some folks honestly don't know any better, though.

...all the while to fucking dumb to ever consider that they could be wrong.

If nothing else, it should leave her standing silent, flabbergasted, unable to point a counter attack, and giving me time to throw a leash on the dog and take her out for a walk. By my return she will have forgotten all about it.
Brilliant!

Just for fun Thor, id like you to watch a movie.
ITs not political, it is however a dark, disturbing little film.
After you see it, lets have a chat.

OK...as long as you try to leave the foul language out of our discussion

hmm, I've never heard of this movie but I'll see if I can dig it up at the indie film place.


is that because you don't like those dirty little words or are you trying to prudently save time by cutting his word count in half?