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Nomad
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Nomad asked in News & EventsMedia & Journalism · 1 decade ago

Exactly WHY do people watch Fox News?

Here's a good example of their professionalism and objectivity.

http://failblog.org/2011/01/31/epic-fail-photos-cl...

Update:

I'm highly amused by the responders that don't even recognize that Fox can't place Egypt on a map correctly, yet expect to hear 'the truth' from Fox.

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  • Power
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    It's like heroin. I don't known much about how people get started they may stop over to see a friend & the brainwashing gets them cause the tv is on & they watch it. They might go to grandma's house or family for dinner or a restaurant or I worked in a hospital where whenever the people who were addicted to it got there they put it on whatever tv they could. It really does use brainwashing.

  • 1 decade ago

    Most watch Fox News for a relatively unbiased news report. Liberals are unable to tell the difference between opinion and news, though Fox goes out of it's way to make the distinction. Not surprisingly, most of the lame stream alphabet media does not differentiate between the two. The map drawer in the link provided is obviously the product of liberal public school educators.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The other liberal stations praise Obama and democrats . Fox lets you know what

    bad things they are doing.

  • 1 decade ago

    Fox is for people who don't want to (or simply can't) think for themselves.

    A recent study out of the University of Maryland showed that Fox viewers are the MOST MISINFORMED in the country.

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  • 1 decade ago

    for the news.

  • 1 decade ago

    Why do people watch anything really is a better question. News, believe it or not is entertainment. I don't watch the news, unless it's local news. Fox news, Cnn, cnbc, msnbc, are all same politcal garbage that nobody really needs.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Because I like hearing the truth.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Not everyone wants objectivity. Some people want their beliefs to be confirmed. They want to see the world as simple, and they want to see themselves as smart enough to understand it all. Many also want someone to be angry at.

  • 1 decade ago

    LOL is that for real, and not photoshopped?!

    Oh, Fox News... XD

    Answer mine? http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ao_Be...

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    They watch it for the same reason they watch the Colbert Report, to laugh.

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