Cable News Bullies: O'Reilly and Fox Rule Ratings

I"m not surprised that Oreilly has such high ratings. I know more people that watch fox for comic relief than as a source of news. I watch oreilly regularly because he never ceases to amaze me with his spin. He's a joke

Its no wonder the Fox News Shows are doing very well.  Fox gets accused of  having a conservative bias which is party true on perhaps a personal level but the network always encourages both sides of an issue to come on and explain their point of view.  We don't get that with CNN and MSNBC which are clearly biased to the left.  The real reason educated people watch Fox News is because they cover the stories that that the other networks refuse to cover.   If a voter doesn't know that Bush proposed and wanted to spend less than the Democats in congress, one could very easily believe Bush is the big spender and not know it was the Democrats that consistantly wanted to spend more. Many people that only  watch CNN and MSNBC think the only reason we invaded Iraq was for weapons of mass destruction.  The truth is we went in for many reasons.  Weapons of Mass Destruction was only one of many good reasons including Saddam's crimes against humanity, violations of  U.N. resolutions, rape rooms, genocide, mass graves, funding and support of worldwide  terrorism.  Many of these reasons were the very same reasons Clinton invaded Yogoslavia to remove Milosovic.  Anyone who supported Bill Clinton invading Yogoslavia will certainly support George Bush invading Iraq just to project intellectual integrity.  Most educated people agree Saddam was a worse threat to world peace than Milosovic.

Nicely done KW.    NK is "surprised" that FOX News and O'Reilly are top-rated?   There is no news program that comes as close to presenting both sides of an issue with the same manner of intellectual honesty.  CNN, NBC, and CBS are the news organizations with recent ethical and professional violations.     

Fox=fair and balanced no spin zone

Please for my education list the fair and balanced.

Who balances Karl Rove?

Who balances Ann Coulter?

Who balances Laura Ingraham?

Who balances Sean Hannity? Does no one get tired of his petulant squeaking and talking over guests?

No spin zone? Please get real

FOX News presents stories that the left-wing outlets (aka all the rest of them) will not.  It would be nice for another conservative, or better yet, a centrist media outlet to exist, but until one does, FOX will continue to dominate all categories.

I would like to see less sensationalism and less bantor on FOX but at least we get to hear the truth and the rest of the story that the liberal-bias media (NBC, MSNBC, CBS, ABC and most of the time CNN) refuses to broadcast.

douglass90120 - I understand that you have never watched FOX News.  Look at #2 on the list above: "Hannity & Colmes" - if you watched you would know that Alan Colmes courageously balances Sean Hannity.  Just last night at the RNC during one segment they interview Juan Williams.  Do you know who he is and that he came from NPR, arguably the most radical left-wing media outlet other than fringe "dailyKos" sites?  I haven't seen or heard Ann Coulter in months.  Have you ever actually listened to Karl Rove?  Obviously he will tow his conservative party line when necessary but most of his discussions are simply his personal opinion of the performance and significance of the people/events he is covering.

I like to watch all 3 of the big Cable news networks (FOX, CNN, MSNBC) to get a broader view, although MSNBC is sliding way too far to the left and may soon join NBC, CBS and ABC as a biased irrelevant worthless "news" outlet.

There is only one reason FOX news cable channel is number one, it is because if you are a conservative there is no where else to go.  If you want to get rid of FOX news, simply slant right and give people an alternative. If 4 cable channels would change direction and give a purely right perspective, MSNBC and CNN would most likely then rank 1 and 2.

MSNBC "news?" is a joke, they sit there with smirks on their faces and talk about Bush and Fox News for the majority of the time in a very disturbing manner.

At least when Fox presents the real news, they talk about everything, the good and the bad and the ugly.   They talk about what the other "news" channels fail to tell you or cover....and they are right.

If you watch MSNBC Rachel Meadow's Show for just 15 minutes, you will understand what I mean.  She smirks and chuckles on how Republican's lied and hurt America and then talks how no Republican's want to come on her show to give their points of view.  

Sean Hannity is somewhat the same toward the left, sometimes I have to click him off too.

But in general Fox's real news is non-bias because if Bush had been doing half the things Obama has done, they'd have called him on it too....in fact, they did with the first TARP plan Bush passed!

CNN and MSNBC know why Fox is #1 but they just refuse to report all the news and hide facts from their viewers because they are afraid of Republican's taking the Congress and Senate back being they are clearly Left...so when you debate with their viewers they only have half the story and don't know the whole truth.

Fox, fair? Only if you are a evangelical wing nut case. I'm surprised they haven't thrown Pat Robertson on there and announced the garbage that comes out of his mouth as news. I have to put up with Fox in places that push Fox on thier TVs. All be it MSNBC can be a lean a bit to the left, but I have not seen the extream ended bias views found on FOX. You get into the talk shows like KO and RM and they seem to have it out for FOX, can't say I blame them but I would rather see news, CNN is a good balance until they start they start repeating after 30 min. Some of thier talk shows are fruitcakes to boot, Nancy grace and Lou Dobbs, please. Seems like Blitzer is the only one worth listening to, and as far as actual news, not the talk shows, there isn't anything out thier that couldn't use improvments, Fox is all right wing, MSNBC is a little on the left and not enough news, they focus on thier talk shows too much, and CNN repeats too soon and relies on their iReports, I dont want to see junior wanna be jounalist bloggers that interject oprion in everything. Only way to get real news is to read it unfortunatly.