Why does Fox News lie and distort the truth so much?

Money.

Basically, Fox is in business to make money. They make money by selling advertisement space/time. They sell the ads by guaranteeing a certain audience to the companies that purchase the time. If they pander to that particular audience, and tell them what they want to hear, they will be more likely to tune in to Fox programming. Then Fox can show the advertisers that they are reaching the promised target audience, so then the advertisers will buy more time, and give Fox more money, etc., etc. It's just a vicious, self-perpetuating cycle.

As for why Palin is such a cry baby, who knows? Except that she has obviously learned from past experiences that bellyaching gets results. If every time she opens her mouth to squawk about something, she gets some kind of reward for it (a bigger travel budget, better shoes, a VP nomination, media attention, public sympathy, etc., etc.) why on earth would she ever stop?

Hope this helps.
 
Its called "spin". Fox doesn't lie or distort to the conservative side any more than MSNBC or CNN lie and distort to the liberal side. If either side flat out lied, the opposite side would have a heyday pointing fingers and proving the lie. Instead they spin it to their point of view just far enough to bend, but not break the truth.

I'm pretty middle of the road. While watching the presidential conventions, I found both sides to be disgusting, but Fox was a little worse. I found PBS to be the least biased of either side. They gave a new meaning to Fair and Balanced. Not a negative word was offered about either the Obama/Biden or the McCain/Pailn tickets. I gained a new respect for PBS.
 
I think all forms of mainstream media are no-longer relevant in todays society. If you want real news try

http://Democracynow.org
 
It's a propaganda machine. Everybody with an I.Q. over fifty knows not to take it seriously. Look at the Fox News guy's inane ramblings on here. He's just another mindless drone.
 
because sometime in the 80s (okay, i'm not sure EXACTLY when), 'news' became entertainment instead of news, but in the form of news. any news station that covers the michael jackson story day after day is definitely for entertainment, as that does not constitute real, important news. nothing shady, just a facet of american life that is written on the wall. listen to the song 'rocked by rape' by the evolution control committee (i think it's by them..), and you will get it.
 
Because, News organization are owned by people. These people have there own views of the world. These people are finding out that they can drive the news coverage in one direction or another. Therefore FOX NEWS and others are changing the way NEWS is reported.

(2) Sarah wants to run for President. If, she wants to make a real go at it she needed to quit being govenor. So she thought... Sarah.... YOU JUST GOT PUNKED
 
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