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Fox news watchers: can you explain to me your perspective regarding Jon Stewart on Fox News Sunday?

Asked by JLeslie (65446points) June 20th, 2011

Here is the link if you did not see the episode.

What I am trying to understand is why does the host think Jon Stewart is a news program and should be held to the same standard as a news program? He is on Comedy Central. The host even brings that up, that Comedy Central has shows like South Park for goodness sakes. Does the host in your mind actually make his argument for Fox news being the counterbalance to ABC, NBC, ans CBS? Jon Stewart says that MSNBC has begun scheduling programming in the same way Fox news does with a very liberal bias, same as Fox on a very right wing one. But, ABC, NBC, and CBS? Sure the news might have more liberals so there is some slant, but generally I think they are relatively balanced journalists, although Stewart points out a lot of the time the reporting is sloppy, lazy, and out of context, but, I don’t believe they are specifically trying to purposely influence votes or politics. People on Fox want to influence votes, they are not just simply reporting, with the exception of maybe one or two programs on the network. IMO.

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