Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
Had an interesting experience at a friend's house. He tuned in Al Jazeera and demonstrated that Fox (as a corporate conglomerate) basically took Jazeera feed and added commentary. Never would have put it together that Fox's international coverage is mostly a rebroadcast product. Maybe Buzz can set us straight on my observations.
CNN (while sometimes slanted) is a terrific customer of Delta Air Lines and part of the home team business community in Atlanta.
Mostly, I get my news from the British press.
My experiences, and perspective, comes from this: I've done "hits" on FOX, MSNBC, CNN, CBS, and ABC News with Diane Sawyer. Off the air, 90% of the hosts I've dealt with have been very nice and accommodating. Chris Mathews was ok. We shared numerous interviews during a summer of discontent. He hasn't called back for quite awhile. I don't miss him.
Anyway, I think Fox does a good job but I've stopped watching except for The Five because I really like Greg Gutfeld's take on almost everything. CNN is doing a much better job with neutrality since they shifted their business strategy because they were getting their ass handed to them by Fox. I watch the alphabet networks when I can. MSNBC is a joke and continues to slit their wrists financially. I watch them, like Sharpton and Maddow, for comedic value. This might surprise you but I also watch the British networks and RF.
As to Fox, or any other network outsourcing footage like AJ.....they all do it in one form or another. When I embedded in Iraq to write "War Crimes," I ventured into the Green Zone once to seek out all of the major media "war correspondents" that I wasn't seeing actually covering the war. They were all hanging out at the bar and pool of the Al Rashid Hotel watching Al Jazeera drinking beer and writing their "battlefield posts." They never ventured out of the safety zone.
I look at media like I look at our current politicians. They're all pushing their agenda to sell ads and gain viewer or readership. Just ask the LA Times how that's working out. I choose to fly. I'll get back to writing someday but, right now, my stomach turns over the entire mess. People shouldn't fly angry.
