Fox Tabloid

Why does Fox News insist on saying they are "Fair & Balanced?" It seems that they may be more like a tabloid, catering to "junk-food" news. Another example of this is the lead story on their website this morning focusing on Vice President Joe Biden's many blunders. Sure, he may have made some mistakes, many of them quite glaring, and maybe he should be taken to task for some of them, but is this really a major story worthy of reporting, but making it the main story on their website seems a bit extreme. I guess it was there to appeal to their predominantly right-wing audience, much like their involvement in hyper-promoting the "Tea Parties" which occurred on April 15.


And as if that is not enough to show the bias of Fox News, they also have a link on their website to something they are calling "The Fox Nation," prompting people to "join the community that believes in the American Dream."


Looking at the Fox Nation website, it seems to me to be primarily an anti-Obama, anti-Democrat, rabid pro-Republican, pro-conservative, pro-head-of-the-Republican-Party-Rush Limbaugh (even utilizing his term "drive-by media" to refer to network news and non-Fox cable news) website. Apparently only conservatives believe in the "American Dream." The Fox Nation's website states that it "was created for people who believe in the United States of America and its ideals, as expressed in the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Emancipation Proclamation." I wonder how its users feel about unconstitutional actions carried out by the Bush administration.