How Can I Appear On Fox News

What is good about Fox News?

I am not a fan of Fox News. I don't care for their format, I do think they have an obvious conservative bias, and I generally get my news from CNN/HLN and NPR.

However, what is good about them is that the existence of Fox News is the third best news situation the US could have, and one step better than if they did not exist. Here is how I calculate this:


Best is no bias. Never gonna happen. Bias will inevitably come out both in what stories a news organization chooses to call news, and how they cover it.
Second best is a perfect balance. That is, as close to the same audience size for Liberal-leaning bias and Conservative as possible. This has never been the case in the US.
Third best is at least some voice for the media minority. In the US, that minority has been Conservatism at least since the 1960's if not longer. News media with a Liberal bias still has a much larger audience than conservatives.
Fourth best is nearly all one-sided bias. That's the situation we had before Fox News. There had been William F. Buckley, Paul Harvey, and a few others, mostly who called themselves "news and commentary," unlike the news organizations who were/are in fact news+commentary yet simply called themselves news.
Fifth best is no dissenting voice at all. Thankfully, no one side has ever enjoyed a full monopoly. I contend that a monopoly by either political side would be disastrous, and almost as bad as...
Worst is state-run media, as seen in nations where media can only report what the government approves.

I am convinced that anyone who is outraged by Fox News' conservative bias is most likely just a ranting partisan rather than concerned about media integrity. Unless they are equally outraged by NPR's and others' Liberal bias.

Why is FOX News turning on Donald Trump?

I tend not to think so. One thing we can do is just look at what they are reporting and how they are reporting it.

Let’s look at the first story I found on their site concerning Donald Trump:

Trump not asking about who he can pardon in Russia case, source says

First, remember how Donald Trump decries “nameless sources?” Guess who the source for this story is?

President Trump has had no discussions with his legal team about the prospect of pardons in connection with the Russia case, a source close to Trump's legal team told Fox News Friday.

The entire story appears to be “He hasn’t talked to anyone about it. He knows he can pardon himself.” This story goes hand-in-hand with Trump’s own tweets:

While all agree the U. S. President has the complete power to pardon, why think of that when only crime so far is LEAKS against us.FAKE NEWS

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 22, 2017

By the way, we don’t all believe that, Mr. Trump.

Okay… that’s one story which seems to back Trump. Let’s look a little more.

I clicked “Politics” at the top of Fox’s page. Their first story was: Trump blasts Clintons, NY Times, 'fake news' in lengthy Twitter rant. What follows? A long story which is basically a media retweet of Trump’s latest.

Next down is: Trump attacks Post story on Sessions, says 'illegal leaks' must stop. Now, they are at least saying that Trump is claiming that the leaks are “illegal” instead of calling them illegal themselves. Still, why not just say “leaks?”

Looking at the next few stories, I have yet to see Fox take Trump to task. This is unsurprising. Fox has shown themselves to be quite willing to adapt to new… let’s just say “moral realities.” I’m not going to say that they’re hypocrites, though Fox News was attacking Obama for using mustard at this point in his presidency.

After looking at a few comments and answers defending Fox (for instance, “It is the ONLY news organization that will allow both sides of a story to be presented”), please remember that they are quite clearly hard right. There’s nothing “fair” or “balanced” about them.[1]

Footnotes

[1] Fox News

How do I contact Sean Hannity from Fox News?

The Sean Hannity Show Contact Info: Number, Address, Advertising & More | The Sean Hannity Show

From this link you basically get everything from a phone number to social media pages. The phone number seems to be for advertising purposes, but it wouldn’t hurt to call it and ask how to get in contact with the secretary who could tell you the best way to get in contact with Hannity.

Additionally, you could go to his Facebook page and send a message then hope for a reply at some point in the future.

The third option is to use the contact form on the webpage, but I’ve generally found that these are the most inefficient ways to get into contact with a company or person. I’d try the other two options first before I use this one.

Is there a way to block all content from Fox News showing up in my Google News iPad app, Google News via Chrome browser, Google new tab recommendations and within YouTube?

For Google News, go to ‘Sources’ under the ‘Settings’ page and add Fox News and Fox News Insider to the block list.

For YouTube, there is a browser extension that lets you block certain channels so they never come up. I haven’t personally used this but I’m sure it (or something like it) exists.

Is it true that Fox News has a conservative bias and CNN has a liberal bias?

[Since I answered the question in 2015, the media landscape has changed a lot. Fox and MSNBC have radically altered parts of their lineup. They both have aspirations of being taken more seriously, i.e., mainstream, and in some ways they have improved. At the same time, these networks and media companies realize the ground is shifting. More than half the voters were for Trump or Sanders, a large group of people with less trust in institutions generally, and that includes the press.]

The answer to the question is “yes.” It’s so obvious in the case of Fox that it’s not worth discussing. I’ve never heard the network say a positive thing about Obama unless it was immediately followed by comments that dismissed the positive news. I would say worse things about Fox but I don’t want to alienate people who might read this answer

In general the media has a liberal bias. CNN also has a bias for incompetence since Ted Turner left. It used to be a network with 24-hour global news and now it covers mostly fluff and politics. CNN is liberal but is probably no more liberal than the media at large.

I don’t think this liberal tilt is intentional and I don’t think it applies only to news. It definitely applies to social issues. I’m generalizing but I’m pretty sure that to most people who work in journalism ideas such as tolerance for homosexuals, positive attitudes toward immigration, cultural diversity, a woman’s right to control her medical decisions (abortion), restrictive gun control, and a skeptical attitude toward fundamentalist religion seem rational and right. It’s hard to believe that such ideas do not ultimately affect coverage of issues a bit. This implicit or unconscious bias is why conservatives feel most media is biased against their views.

2018 update: It’s hard for me to believe it but both Fox and CNN have gotten much worse in the past two years: shallower, more divisive, more likely to interpret events in a way that is disparaging to views with which they disagree. In general, they are more likely to slant news. I watch them less and less and can’t say more than that.

How can I stop Fox News from being included in Google News results, or general search results?

First of all, I’m not a fan of Fox, it’s biased journalism in my mind. That being said, I feel the same sentiment towards abc, nbc, cnn etc. All U.S. news is seemingly biased, clickbait, if you will. That’s not the problem that’s never going to change.

The people that cannot look at other people’s opinions without being throw into some sort of temper tantrum are the problem.

This nation is a nation of immigrants, a nation of many cultures combining, diversifying, and evolving. If we become so closed minded that we refuse the news because the bias is conflicting with our own personal bias’ then forget about the Trump/Russian collusion. We are more like Karl Marx and Joesph “Steal from his own” Stalin then Putin or even Trump will ever be.

Lastly, no i dont think that you can have those removed.

Is Fox News registered as a news organization with the FCC?

In addition to what others on this page have noted, it’s important to note that “Fox News” is a brand name, just like “we report; you decide” is a slogan they have used. They are “Fox News” because they say so; that is the name they decided to call themselves when they debuted in 1996, and it’s still their name today. (We can debate whether they do enough news, or whether they do news at all, but they have every right to select a brand and then use it.)

While Fox News is best known for their commentators, they do have some actual news reporters (like Bret Baier, Shep Smith, and Chris Wallace). But as I have noted elsewhere, the main purpose of Fox News is to be the media voice of the Republican Party. However, the Republican Party does not own the network; Rupert Murdoch and his family own and operate it, and as private owners, they have every right to choose a format, choose a political stance, and broadcast those views. The first amendment says they can do it, since we have freedom of speech and freedom of the press. The FCC does not supervise a network’s content, nor does the FCC have a say over a network’s (or individual station’s) brand.

What is the average IQ of a Fox News viewer?

I would say somewhere around 98, which is the average IQ of a US citizen. The average IQ of a typical NBC viewer is probably around the same.

I suspect, but cannot confirm, that the statistical outliers on the higher end of the bell curve do not typically ascribe to strong partisan biases and do not (at least in recent years) trust highly political media sources. So while those outliers may help boost the mean IQ of liberal voters (in the studies mentioned by others here), I do not think we can reliably apply those statistics to media viewership.

I personally vote liberal more often than not, but I do not consume liberal media. I choose to consume the BBC and WSJ as both provide far more fact based coverage of current events and present far less bias in their political coverage. I make a conscious effort to watch Fox if I choose to watch NBC or CNN, as it is easier to discern the first principle facts of an event by looking for points on congruence in the two sources’ vastly divergent coverage of the same event.

I know quite a few academics like myself, who vote or would identify as liberal, but who likewise distrust biased media sources. It is all too easy to fall into a loop of confirmation bias if everything you choose to consume plucks at some ideological string in your mind or heart.

If anybody else here has an IQ at or above +2SD, I would be interested to know your sigma and whether you choose to consume news from a media outlet which is aligned to your political party (no need to include the party or source). I am interested to see whether or not there is a correlation between favoring unbiased news and higher levels of intelligence (at least judged by the term IQ that the question was referring to).

What do Americans think of Sean Hannity?

Some people like him, maybe highly (particularly conservative Americans, because he is a conservative commentator), some dislike him, maybe strongly (especially liberal Americans, again because Sean Hannity is a conservative), some probably hold mixed opinions, and others don't think too much about him.
My own opinion: I admit I read and enjoyed a book he wrote in 2002 (Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty over Liberalism, he called it), enjoying it partly because I myself lean right but also because I had heard from liberal friends that he was very combative on air, and I was pleasantly surprised to find his book was quite reasoned and civil. I didn't think much of him again until reading his 2010 book Conservative Victory, which unfortunately made him seem much more like the uncompromising airbag that my liberal friends saw him as, and since then I've paid him little attention. I'd like to add that Sean is one of several of the big-name right-wing media personalities (Limbaugh, Beck, etc.) whose content and attitude I felt deteriorated dramatically in the months following President Obama's election (I was a young teenager all this time) and helped inspire my own personal journey further towards the political middle.
But as for what Americans think, there are over 300 million Americans with a wide degree of opinions on everything, not just this single right-wing radio host.