{"id":2161,"date":"2012-11-13T13:18:10","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T18:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/changingchannels\/?p=2161"},"modified":"2012-11-13T13:20:31","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T18:20:31","slug":"fox-news-report-card-center-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/2012\/11\/fox-news-report-card-center-right.html","title":{"rendered":"FOX News Report Card: Center-Right"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had to do it.<\/p>\n

I had to “unfriend” a former associate on Facebook<\/em> a few weeks ago for “accusing” me of only watching FOX News<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Although I “lean right” on many political and social topics, I have spent my career as a journalist trying to be fair …\u00a0 probably even to the point of overdoing it at times!<\/p>\n

(Although, let me be clear that Changing Channels is a blog post based on my opinions of the news, television, etc… an important distinction, esp. after my Joy Behar<\/strong> posts)<\/p>\n

This supposed “friend” doesn’t know me and the fact that I watch plenty of CNN<\/em> and even dabble a bit in MSNBC<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Sean Hannity<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

However, if I was to do a “report card” on the latter network’s “personalities” it would be: left, left, far left and even FURTHER left for all of them.<\/p>\n

CNN too leans left, though not as strongly as MSNBC.<\/p>\n

FOX News takes\u00a0 a beating in some quarters for being a tool of the right wing of the Republican party, but when you break down the anchors’ presentations the network comes in “only” center-right.<\/p>\n

In my opinion, Shep Smith<\/strong> is actually center-left, while Bill O’Reilly<\/strong> makes painstaking steps to stay in the center on his very popular ‘Factor’<\/em> program.<\/p>\n

Bret Baier<\/strong> and Greta Van Susteren<\/strong> are arguably right-leaning, while Sean Hannity<\/strong> is further-right, like his radio show, but also regularly argues it out with liberals like Juan Williams.<\/p>\n

All in all, not a bad report card, especially when compared to other media outlets.<\/p>\n

What say you? Feel free to comment, whether to agree or disagree.<\/p>\n

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