Bunker Mulligan "Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." ~Mark Twain

October 9, 2004

Anniversary

Filed under: Media — Bunker @ 9:44 am

When I watch television news, I watch FOXNews. They have now reached the 8-year point in their history. And it has been some run. As Neil Cavuto writes:

Our only saving grace was our only singular saving philosophy: News, fair and balanced.

People once laughed at that tag line. Little did they know it would tag quite a line and start a revolution among a nation of viewers sick of news being spoon-fed them and open to a news channel respectful of them.

I’ve written emails to various of the FoxNews Team–Neil Cavuto, Brit Hume, Mara Liasson, Juan Williams, Bill O’Reilly–and all but one have responded. I’ll let you guess which one.

They care, about the news and about Americans. I don’t get that same sense from the other major networks. I think MSNBC comes closer to being like FoxNews than any of the others–attempting to present the news in a factual, interesting way. They just don’t have quite the quality of people that FNC has.

Happy Birthday.

8 Comments

  1. Was it Liasson?

    Comment by david — October 10, 2004 @ 12:34 am

  2. I would love to know what the Networks think of the recent FOX ratings for political events. Do they think this is just a passing fancy? Do they recognize the stench of death around their news operations?

    Comment by Nickie Goomba — October 10, 2004 @ 12:42 am

  3. No, Mara replied.

    Comment by Bunker — October 10, 2004 @ 5:25 am

  4. I watch Fox and some MSNBC but I am still driven to the internet to get a more complete picture. I am less inclined to view any NBC station since Brokaw saw fit to compare those of us who read and comment on blogs to Jihadists. That in today’s world is unforgiven by me. I wrote to Brokaw–guess what, no response.

    Comment by Pat in NC — October 10, 2004 @ 1:07 pm

  5. My guess would be that Juan Williams didn’t reply.

    Comment by Alex — October 10, 2004 @ 4:38 pm

  6. Actually, Juan wrote one of the best replies.

    Comment by Bunker — October 10, 2004 @ 7:10 pm

  7. My guess is O’Rielly.

    Comment by Slice — October 11, 2004 @ 2:18 pm

  8. An educated guess by my eldest is…correct!

    Comment by Bunker — October 11, 2004 @ 2:47 pm

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