Skeptic reporter John Stossel leaves ABC for Fox

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David in Davis (21:55:28) :
I don’t know whether to laugh or puke.
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You must not watch Fox News. Fox News Sunday, for example, ALWAYS has Democrats and Republicans on the show. So what’s to laugh at about that? The Dims get their say fair and square. I don’t watch O’Reilly much, but when I have I have seen him interview Dims and liberals. When he invites liberals on, they don’t come on half the time but that is their choice, not Fox News’. Even the Sat. morning stock shows have at least one liberal/dim for a counterpoint. I think maybe you need to watch Fox before you spew.

jeroen (10:39:31) : Bill O’Reilly often states that he is not a Republican . I can’t say that I like him , but it doesn’t bother me when he skewers someone or something with which I also have a beef . Yes , Fox is “conservative” but mainly in comparison to all the other media in the US . At least Fox allows differing points of view in their news broadcasting . “Special Report” (their evening news cast) is the only evening news worth watching . Ditto for Fox News Sunday .

Jim (09:31:39) :
I don’t watch O’Reilly much, but when I have I have seen him interview Dims and liberals. When he invites liberals on, they don’t come on half the time but that is their choice, not Fox News’. Even the Sat. morning stock shows have at least one liberal/dim for a counterpoint. I think maybe you need to watch Fox before you spew.
I think you’re confusing news analysts with news reporters, as is everyone else. By and large the Fox analysts are at the very least right leaning, and with good reason: there simply aren’t very many interesting left leaning analysts. Rupert Murdoch has stated many times that if he could find more good liberal analysts, he’d hire them in a heartbeat. Alan Colmes was really the token.
Fox news reporters, however, are not nearly as obviously right-leaning as their analysts. They carry the same crap as every other network, but manage to throw in the counterpoint views the others overlook. I have no idea where people get the moronic view that watching Fox you’d never know about AGW… it simply isn’t true. The only difference is that they occasionally throw in the skeptical story. They mostly carry AP/Reuters news feeds for the stuff on the web.
Anyway, that said, nobody in their right mind would expect an analyst to be anything BUT biased. That’s an analyst’s job, to present his opinion. By definition, that is bias. Fox tries hard to bring on liberal voices as guests for the analysts, and they do have about as many as conservatives. Those that don’t watch don’t seem to know this yet pipe up as if they are experts anyway. Shameful, at best.
Mark

Jim (09:31:39)
I confess, I hardly watch any television. I do often catch the News Hour on PBS. Admittedly, it has a liberal bias, but they at least try to be neutral and respectful and make an honest effort to present both sides on most issues, though certainly not on AGW. From what I’ve seen of cable news – Fox or CNN – if I can’t find something better to do with my Sunday, I’ll just sleep in or hang out here, thanks. Murdoch can have his ratings and rantings, I’ll stick with PBS and the internet.

The number one issue for me is the way that the AGW Alarmists threaten those who dissent from their view.
IMHO: A movement that has validated their own assumptions and stands strongly on a firm foundation of independently verifiable facts would not need to operate the way that the AGW Alarmists do.
If they were to really engage with the dissenters than I would have respect, and I would grant that they were making and honest attempt to put their case.
These threats at the end of the video are the biggest red flag with regard to the honesty of the AGW Alarmist movement.

Jim: “Certainly you are free to live in the dark as you choose ;)”
Ever heard of Plato’s cave?…

According to the NY Times, Stossel was hired by the Fox Business Network. He will make appearances on Fox News, but his main gig will be a 1 hour prime time show on FBN.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/11/business/media/11fox.html

Jim (20:15:12) : “Certainly you are free to live in the dark as you choose ;)”
I may be less ignorant than you think, being an independent voter with strong libertarian leanings. I don’t disagree with everything I’ve heard on FoxNews,
I just don’t like the way some of the folks there choose to say it and how they conduct themselves. I certainly don’t agree with a lot of what I rear on NPR talk radio either, and I’m well aware that the Rachael Maddows and Chris Matthews’ types on the left are not necessarily prone to fair and balanced either. I’ll try and catch the Sunday shows when I have the opportunity, but I’m not gonna buy cable to do it.
old conctruction (sic) worker (21:59:44) :
“Please name who at fox news are haters and what do they hate?”
Bill O’Reilly springs to mind. He seems to despise nearly everyone including his own crew, his teleprompter, and maybe even himself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tJjNVVwRCY
Although the clip obviously caught him on a bad day, anger seems a large part of his normal diatribes. What does anger bring to the debate? To me, he just just coarsens and cheapens it and makes us old white guys look bad to boot. How many of the liberal sheep you’d like to see converted are going to tune in to Fox when this angry egomaniac is their poster boy? And how many that may do so out of curiosity are going to come back?
Now guys, could we get back to something we can agree on, like the science of global cooling? Thanks.
David

David in Davis (10:40:11) :
Let’s not forget the human regurgitation know as “Bill Maher.”

Why the snip Anthony? What other word fits in that blank. Guess you feel it’s so obvious it doesn’t need to be stated. I wouldn’t want Jim to think what was snipped was directed at him.
[Reply: I snipped the part of the comment where you appeared to be accusing another poster of intending to use the n-word. ~dbstealey, moderator]