fox news channel

RIVERRAT · #1 06-21-2003, 06:24 PM

I can't express how mad Iam at the FOX news channel. Did anyone see the commentary on teens in nude resorts. I have been a fan of FOX news for some time now, fare and balanced????? not tonight. they slammed nudist resorts for teens. They slammed AANR, and COMO, who we had reprasenting us on that program should be banded for life from all AANR activities, it was terrable. I could have done better drunk. We lost some ground there. Did anybody else see it?????

Capt\'n Bluz · #2 06-21-2003, 06:35 PM

I dont know if I saw the same thing as you, but I saw a little blurb this morning around 7 am about the youth camp at White Tail park. The showed some footage of elderly people there. (blurred out of course) and their commentary was just plain immature and stupid. The made fun of the name White Tail (should it be burned tail) and just totally talked bad about the camp. Then they went to some other lady who to go to another story and kept talking about it. Then the statement that totally pissed me off came up Im paraphrasing here..."How come these nudist people dont keep in shape?" "Kinda be like that guy in the exercise commercials?"

Now all this coming from a woman with considerable clevage showing...and looking like shes had more plastic surgery in her face than Zsa-Zsa.

I would say I had lost all respect for Fox News, but they had already lost it quite a while ago.

RIVERRAT · #3 06-21-2003, 07:15 PM

THANX I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST ME, I'M PISSED TO SAY THE LEAST.

**Bob S.** · #4 06-21-2003, 10:25 PM

I am not surprised at your description of Fox's report of the AANR teens camps. A couple of months back on their show "The Pulse" (on regular Fox affiliate) they did a cheesy report on the growing industry of nudist tourism. They had many juvenile tongue-in-cheek comments, an interview in poor taste, and a totally inappropriate comment after the piece ran.

After that, I have kind of been doing a one person boycott of Fox News, less so for the Fox affiliate, although I do not watch too many shows on that network anyway.

Bottom line, they are a conservative News channel that will more than likely take the traditional conservative societal values. Nudism is not generally accepted in the traditional conservatism (this I readily admit and yes, I am a conservative).

Bob S.

dancin\'bare · #5 06-22-2003, 05:16 AM

The moral-majority considers nudity as unwholesome,I would imagine any statement with the words naked teens are probably almost frightening in their minds.In defense of the people interveiwed,their comments were probably taken out of context.When tapes are rolling for a few hours a lot can be done in the edit room.
I'll bet that those people are probably very angry also.

Doug H · #6 06-22-2003, 08:18 AM

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Originally posted by dancin'bare:
[qb] The moral-majority considers nudity as unwholesome,I would imagine any statement with the words naked teens are probably almost frightening in their minds.In defense of the people interveiwed,their comments were probably taken out of context.When tapes are rolling for a few hours a lot can be done in the edit room.
I'll bet that those people are probably very angry also. [/qb]

A nationally known newspaper prints a reasonable story about an unusual activity. (Yes, a teen nudist camp is unusual. If it isn't, why are there only three in the US?) A Congressman reads it, and makes a public statement about it (ostensibly to champion one of his favorite causes, but he's also running for nomination to the US Senate. Coincidence, I think not.) The mainstream media, always hungry for a story (and ratings. Don't forget ratings.) gives plenty of coverage, which includes taped comments from everyday people. (Which can also be edited and replayed out of context)

Sounds to me like a nomal day in the "Age of the Sound Bite". Terrible, isn't it? Why do media outlets do this? It works. Will ranting and raving solve this problem? No, you'll only give the media people another story to exploit for ratings. Will switching TV or radio stations or newspapers? Possibly, if enough people do it. Can anyone make anyone else NOT tune in? If I have a right to "tune out", everyone else has a right to "tune in". Until American society, as a society, decides to tune this out, we'll keep getting more of it. So I guess I won't be watching much Fox News anymore (not that I was watching much TV News to begin with.)

Doug H.

#7 06-22-2003, 10:15 AM

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Originally posted by RIVERRAT:
[qb] florida david, now you've pissed me off, I watch FOX news because it's way better than network news, AND A WHOLE LOT SMARTER. I guess they just got this one wrong??? If you have problems with how stupid Iam, check your spelling. [/qb]

Fox News lost most credability with their crappy war coverage and is not a good source for unbiased reporting at any time. Better to find out now than to keep thinking they are giving you truth don't you think?

Please stop attacking other posters and stick with the issues.

dancin\'bare · #8 06-22-2003, 04:35 PM

Any Network that could hire Geraldo Rivera and calls themselves a serious news station is really ridiculous.It's unfortunate that ratings and the dollar has even tainted honest and solid reporting.By that I mean providing the general public with enough information that they can then form their own opinions.

RIVERRAT · #9 06-22-2003, 05:45 PM

The Media is biased, no mater where you pick it up.The papers, the regular channels, ABC, CBS, NBC, and the cable channels. I don't trust any of them.They will spin what pays the bills. I do like FOX better than the rest. Though I'm not happy with them either.
But when we sit down to our TV's, we have to watch something, I usually tune into the FOX news channel.
I'm not even going to respond to Cindianes statement.
My point is this, they have gone way out of bounds on this issue. They brought two idiots in on our side and an obviuos paid stuge for there side and ran this whole issue there way without anyone smart enough to answer the issue. Has anyone seen MTV or other programs that target the young. They are much more offensive than a weekend at a nudist outing, where these same kids are taught to respect there bodies, not to exploit or lust over them. It's a shame that the same people that teach this crap, about teen nudism being bad, would buy there kids some of these sexy videos and such, then critisize wholesome gatherings.

Falcon46 · #10 06-22-2003, 06:10 PM

You guys really hit on one of my pet-peeves when you talk about FoxNews...

For the most part, it barely qualifies as a news channel at all. Take away all the opinions and conjecture and what have ya got? (commercials lol)
Their style of "reporting", and I use the term loosely, in my opinion isn't newscasting and sure as hell isn't journalism. This broadcast is nothing but another example of "inventing" the news rather than reporting it. I've often thought of a parody about FoxNews in how they gather ideas for the "news"... which essentially would start with all the "reporters" hanging out at the water cooler trading gossip... lol I could go on for several hours/pages about this... but I won't. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] It's nice to see not everyone follows them like sheep...

I'll stick with CNN Headline News

Cheers! [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]