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What can I say? Fox really is fair and balanced. Like you, they don't spew their opinion, they spread news. That's all any of us want. We all have opinions. We just want the facts.

There is no other News station. FOX is fair and balanced. Unlike all other news organizations, Fox doesn't have their lips glued to Obama's butt. Fox investigates and asks 'hard questions'. The others just pander and kiss Democratic as*^s.

So bad are the newscasters of other stations, I haven't watched a news report since the days following 9/11. There's no need to.

First, I want to give my most sincere condolences to the families that lost loved ones in this tragic event.

I would say great for FOX. Shepard Smith, and Bill O'Reilly obviously were on top of this story. Key demographic was watching this coverage. I missed the Thursday night coverage as I was out of town. I watched CNN on Friday morning.

Like I said yesterday I did see some of the coverage Shep did and I thought he was good at being careful and trying to get correct information out there. That cousin of the perpetrator just needed to leave his statements to the family is in shock and cannot imagine what to say. i.e. Like the Virginia Tech Killers parents did.

I have not always been the keenest on Foxnews. I realize I was judging the whole network though on what Oreilly and Hannity had to present to the world. The 7PM -10pm is when I watch the most tv. I have had a change of heart. When I flipped last night over to Joy Behar hoping to see her cover it...all I got in 2 minutes was Joy shuffling papers more than Kate G say "um" in that amount of time and she was talking to someone on a totally different subject. Maybe it was pretaped who knows. But, Joy I would go back to your day job.

Foxnews is gathering a following and they sure are not shy about bragging about it. Whether your left/right, christian/catholic, from the north, south, east or west, there are stories that catch this country and a glimpse of the war we have right on our homefront. That war I feel is that evilness and anger are seething in this country for reasons I cannot possibly understand. There was no excuse for Columbine,Oklahoma city, 9/11 And, I just do not possibly have the answers.

Sadly, it's probably because they knew that Fox would reinforce the negative Muslim stereotypes. There was another psycho shooting that day.... a guy in Orlando shot five people in an office building. Nothing has been made about his faith/religious beliefs. Similarly, we didn't talk about the religious beliefs of the Virginia Tech shooter (32 killed), Northern Illinois Univ. Shooting (6 killed), Westside Middle School Shooting (5 killed), etc. In other military shootings, no mention was made of Sgt. John Russell's religion when he killed 5 soldiers a Camp Liberty. None was made of Spc. Jody Michael Wirawan's faith when he shot another at Ft. Hood. Sgt. William Kreutzer shot 18 people at Ft. Bragg. "Between 1969 and 1971, the Army reported 600 fragging (attacks on other soldiers, usually officers, by other soldiers) incidents that killed 82 Americans and injured 651, according to the Associated Press." I doubt very few of those were perpetuated by Muslim soldiers.

In cases of domestic violence, we hear about it if the assailant was Muslim. (Think of the beheading of the woman in NY.. the Dad who ran over his daughter.) Yet, horrible acts of domestic violence happen every day--committed by people of all faiths. Being a majority Christian country, a majority of the victims and assailants are Christian. With all of the familicides of the past year... a crime so horrid...did we talk about the faith of the assailants? No. Often, one would say, "He seemed to be a good Christian man, who had financial problems, and then just snapped." Yet Dr. Hassan is not being given that courtesy. Immediately, he and Islam are on trial yet again.

I think if for one week, all TV stations and newspapers said the religion of all criminals--it might help people realize that it's not just Muslims who commit horrible acts in the U.S. Dr. Hasan's actions were horrible on so many levels--yet Fox News called for special screenings of Muslim soldiers, etc. Yet most attacks on soldiers have been perpetuated by White Christian men... not Middle Eastern Muslim men. I think the real lesson is that all soldiers are under extreme stress and need to be continually monitored. Something like 35% of the soldiers who commit suicide do it prior to deployment. That tells us something.

Not surprising when the rest of the media is dominated by the left. It television studios would remain unbiased, I believe you would have equal ratings.

As I recall, the heavy handed Obama administration said Fox was not a news network. Maybe they should eat those words?

I am just woundering if anyone is doing the math.
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One report gave three of the victoms acounting for eight rounds just that alone is 61 shots saying the outher 53 was only hit by onr round.

Fox calling itself fair and balanced is like TLC called itself The Learning Channel. LOL

ChickaBOOMer: Fort Hood Cable News Numbers
http://chickaboomer.blogspot.com/2009/11/fort-hood-cable-news-numbers.html

Although I do not feel Foxnews is completely fair and balanced, I have to agree with you Sarah about the Telling Lies Channels oops I mean TLC.

There were certainly some very brave people out there. I live between 2 bases in South Mississippi this could have happened anywhere. I do not even begin to know how these people feel.

I think a tragedy such as this brings the hawks out en masse searching for news more than the doves so I'm not too surprised the ratings for FNC were high.

The "fair and balanced" motto still bugs me though since "not liberal" does not automatically make you "fair and balanced." It can balance the liberal biases on other networks, but it does so through it's own bias (in ways that are often not very fair at all).