Michelle answers:

100% true. Fox News Channel beats CNN and MSNBC combined. Fox has more Republican, Independent, AND DEMOCRATIC viewers than all of cable news. It is truly Fair & Balanced. Did you know that Fox’s lowest-rated show is STILL higher than all the shows on the other networks?

Ratings Surge At Fox News Under Obama Administration
http://www.thehotjoints.com/2009/02/06/ratings-surge-at-fox-news-under-obama-administration/

to all those who give me thumbs down: you are afraid of the truth. The statistics don’t lie and you are in denial!!

Michelle answers:

Fox does spin Right, yes. It is the ONLY Right wing voice on the TV. Fox is also the most fair and balanced outlet, they have many left wing voices on there as guests, and the Fox people give them a fair opportunity to represent the left side of things. This element of fair and balanced does NOT exist on any of the other media outlets, which by the way all others spin to the left.

And the libs are always bad mouthing Fox News. They fear Fox, so they ridicule it and created ridiculous spins about it.

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Michelle answers:

FOX News and FOX Business are the News Department. FX, NatGeo, FOX Sports and the local FOX channels are under Entertainment. Different departments and different contracts.

Sorry to hear your FOX channels got cut (let me guess–you have either DISH or Cablevision).

We’ve already lost FOX Sports and Prime Ticket here, so no LA Kings opener for me. If no deal is reached before 01 November, DISH will stop carrying the local FOX stations (channels 11 and 13).

Michelle answers:

I saw a good chart of who owns what as to mainstream media yesterday and will try to find it and link it here for you.

In answer to your comment ..”I need to find out whether they have any control over news or what goes into the articles from those sources and what political beliefs they have.”

Mainstream media has ALL CONTROL OVER THE NEWS and they manufacture news. The mainstream media has changed because of concentration of media ownership.

It is no longer the fourth estate. Rather, it has become a propaganda agent for the interests of government and large corporations. When the government and the media are both controlled by mega-corporations, it is in the best interests of the media to voluntarily undertake the government’s censorship and propaganda distribution.

These two films explain that:

Orwell Rolls in Grave
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1179175516550155628

Globalization and the Media

Outfoxed
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6737097743434902428

The mainstream media is a very serious threat to our liberty, economic well being and our health.

EDIT
Here is a cool site where you can choose the name of the parent company and get a list of what they own.

Http://www.cjr.org/resources/index.php

As expected, the list for General Electric is nothing short of alarming – that corporation has far, far too much control over public access to information. As a big player in the alternative energy industry, and as a Pentagon supplier, General Electric is in a conflict of interest when it comes to reporting about foreign policy or global warming.

Isn’t it grand when a a corporation can use its extensive media holdings to create public opinion favorable to the profit agenda of other aspects of its business. No doubt GE views its media holdings as a “cost of doing business”.

I haven’t used this site before so recommend you get independent verification of the result it produces. I eye-balled the results and they seem to be reasonably what I would expect.

Choose “News Corporation” to search for Fox’ owner and see what else they own. Here are the search results as of August 2008:

Television

Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Television Stations
WNYW – New York City
WWOR – New York City
KTTV – Los Angeles
KCOP – Los Angeles
WFLD – Chicago
WPWR – Chicago
KMSP – Minneapolis
WFTC – Minneapolis
WTXF – Philadelphia
WFXT – Boston
WTTG – Washington D.C.
WDCA – Washington D.C.
KDFW – Dallas
KDFI – Dallas
WJBK – Detroit
KUTP – Phoenix
KSAZ – Phoenix
WUTB – Baltimore
WRBW – Orlando
WOFL – Orlando
WOGX – Ocala
WAGA – Atlanta
KRIV – Houston
KTXH – Houston
WTVT – Tampa
WHBQ – Memphis
KTBC – Austin
DBS & Cable
FOXTEL
BSkyB
Sky Italia
Fox News Channel
Fox Movie Channel
FX
FUEL
National Geographic Channel
SPEED Channel
# Fox Sports Net
FSN New England (50%)
FSN Ohio
FSN Florida
National Advertising Partners
Fox College Sports
Fox Soccer Channel
Stats, Inc.

Film
20th Century Fox Español
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
20th Century Fox International
20th Century Fox Television
Fox Studios Australia
Fox Studios Baja
Fox Studios LA
20th Century Fox
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Fox Television Studios
Blue Sky Studios

Newspapers
United States
New York Post
The Wall St. Journal
Dow Jones
United Kingdom
News International
News of the World
The Sun
The Sunday Times
The Times
Times Literary Supplement
Australasia
Daily Telegraph
Fiji Times
Gold Coast Bulletin
Herald Sun
Newsphotos
Newspix
Newstext
NT News
Post-Courier
Sunday Herald Sun
Sunday Mail
Sunday Tasmanian
Sunday Territorian
Sunday Times
The Advertiser
The Australian
The Courier-Mail
The Mercury
The Sunday Telegraph
Weekly Times

Magazines
InsideOut
donna hay
SmartSource
The Weekly Standard
Big League
ALPHA

Books
HarperMorrow Publishers
HarperMorrow
General Books Group
Amistad
Caedmon
Avon
Avon A
Avon Inspire
Avon Red
Collins
Collins Design
Ecco
Eos
Fourth Estate
Harper Mass Market
Harper Pakerbacks
HarperAudio
HarperBusiness
HarperCollins
Perennial
Perennial Modern Classics
HarperCollins e-Books
HarperLuxe
Rayo
William Morrow
William Morrow Cookbooks

Children’s Books Group
Amistad
Greenwillow Books
Joanna Cotler Books
Eos
Laura Geringer Books
HarperAudio
HarperCollins Children’s Books
HarperFestival
HarperTeen
Katherine Tegen Books
Julie Andrews Books
Rayo
Trophy

HarperCollins International
HarperCollins Canada
HarperCollins Australia
HarperCollins UK
HarperCollins India
HarperCollins New Zealand
Zondervan

Other
Los Angeles Kings (NHL, 40% option)
Los Angeles Lakers (NBA, 9.8% option)
Staples Center (40% owned by Fox/Liberty)
News Interactive
Fox Sports Radio Network
Broadsystem
Classic FM
Festival Records
Fox Interactive
IGN Entertainment
Mushroom Records
MySpace.com
National Rugby League
NDS
News Outdoor
Scout Media
Rotten Tomatoes
AskMen
FoxSports.net
WhatIfSports
kSolo
Fox.com
AmericanIdol.com
Spring Widgets
News Digital Media
News.com.au
FoxSports.com.au
CARSguide.com.au
Careerone.com.au
Truelocal.com.au

ITS PRETTY SCARY SO SEE HOW VERY FEW CONTROL THE ENTIRE MAINSTREAM MEDIA!!!!! No wonder there is little diversity of opinion in mainstream media these days.