Pew Survey: Fox News Audience Much More Balanced

[AlphaCrab]

I found that the easy cure for this fantasy was to never listen to Rush and it has been successful for me for the past 15 years....

Of course, I've used that same approach with Chris Matthews as well.

I can't seem to find much difference in them....[/quote]
_______________________________________________________

Here you go.>>>>>

Rush Limbaugh: Slovenly and pompous, right wing nutcase with a penchant for large cigars and pain medication. A former sports reporter for ESPN (fired) he went from a moderate centrist to a right winger in the span of several years. A college dropout, he now runs a very profitable and successful right wing TV and radio show.


Chris Mathews:
Matthews was born in Somerton, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Irish American parents and is a Roman Catholic. He attended La Salle College High School.
He is a 1967 graduate of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, and did graduate work in economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Matthews served in the United States Peace Corps in Swaziland from 1968 to 1970 as a trade development advisor.
Matthews is married to Kathleen Matthews, who anchored News 7 on WJLA-TV, the ABC affiliate in Washington, D.C, before accepting a position as an Executive Vice President with J.W. Marriott. The couple has three children: Michael, Thomas and Caroline (currently a student at the University of Pennsylvania). His brother Jim Matthews, a Republican, is a County Commissioner in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
In 2002, Matthews was hospitalized with malaria, which he evidently contracted on one of his visits that year to Africa. He has also had other health problems, including diabetes and pneumonia.[2]
Political career and views

When Matthews first arrived in Washington, D.C., he worked as an armed officer with the United States Capitol Police.[3] Subsequently, he served on the staffs of four Democratic members of Congress, including Senators Frank Moss and Edmund Muskie. In 1974, he mounted an unsuccessful campaign for the Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, in which he received about 24% of the vote in the primary campaign..[4] Matthews was a presidential speechwriter during the Carter administration. Matthews later worked six years as a top aide to long-time Speaker of the House of Representatives Tip O'Neill, playing a direct role in many key political battles with the Reagan administration.
On November 6, 2008, after the election, he stated on the MSNBC television program "Morning Joe," that "I want to do everything I can to make [...] this new Presidency work [...] This is my job".[5]
After controversy following on-air comments that Matthews and Keith Olbermann made during the 2008 Republican National Convention, NBC News correspondent David Gregory replaced them, but Matthews and Olbermann continued as analysts.[6] On November 4–5, he teamed with Rachel Maddow, Eugene Robinson, David Gregory, and Keith Olbermann to cover the presidential election.
On the April 14, 2008, edition of The Colbert Report, Matthews alluded to a possible run for the United States Senate from Pennsylvania. When directly questioned by Stephen Colbert about his intentions, he stated that there is a difference between celebrities and those who work for the people, and it's a greater thing to work for the people. He also said that his boyhood dream was to be a senator. Four days later, on April 18, 2008, Matthews told Bill Maher that he has "made a commitment to covering politics in a liberal way, starting in 1987, and [he is] honoring that commitment, not getting involved in it."[7] The seat in question would be the one held by Sen. Arlen Specter, whose current term in the Senate ends in 2010. On November 28, 2008, Fivethirtyeight.com and The Politico reported that Matthews has been in contact with senior staffers of Obama's campaign about a possible run.[8][9] On January 7, 2009, The New York Times reported that Matthews told his staffers that he would not run for the Senate.[10] On May 25th 2009 Chris Matthews appeared on the Charlie Rose show where he stated that he was intending to run for Arlen Specter's senate seat in 2010 stating "I could see myself winning the democratic primary and I could see myself going on to face Arlen in the general [election]," but that he felt he had to decide between being a journalist and being a politician once Specter became a national figure by supporting the stimulus.
Author and talk show host


Matthews during a special edition of Hardball


Matthews worked as a print journalist for 15 years, spending 13 years as Washington, D.C., Bureau Chief for The San Francisco Examiner (1987 – 2000), and two years as a nationally syndicated columnist for The San Francisco Chronicle. Matthews covered the fall of the Berlin Wall, the first all-races election in South Africa and the Good Friday Peace Talks in Northern Ireland. In 1997 and 1998, his research in the National Archives produced a series of exclusives on the Nixon presidential tapes. Matthews has covered American presidential election campaigns since 1988.
In 1997, Matthews began his own talk show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, which originally aired on CNBC but is currently on MSNBC. Hardball features pundits and elected officials as guests.
In 2002, The Chris Matthews Show began airing in syndication. The show is formatted as a political roundtable consisting of four journalists and Matthews, who serves as the moderator. He is estimated to earn more than $5 million a year. He also wrote a book called Hardball[11]

 

[Just Curious]

I found that the easy cure for this fantasy was to never listen to Rush and it has been successful for me for the past 15 years....

Of course, I've used that same approach with Chris Matthews as well.

I can't seem to find much difference in them....[/quote]
_______________________________________________________

Here you go.>>>>>

Rush Limbaugh: Slovenly and pompous, right wing nutcase with a penchant for large cigars and pain medication. A former sports reporter for ESPN (fired) he went from a moderate centrist to a right winger in the span of several years. A college dropout, he now runs a very profitable and successful right wing TV and radio show.


Chris Mathews:
Matthews was born in Somerton, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Irish American parents and is a Roman Catholic. He attended La Salle College High School.
He is a 1967 graduate of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, and did graduate work in economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Matthews served in the United States Peace Corps in Swaziland from 1968 to 1970 as a trade development advisor.
Matthews is married to Kathleen Matthews, who anchored News 7 on WJLA-TV, the ABC affiliate in Washington, D.C, before accepting a position as an Executive Vice President with J.W. Marriott. The couple has three children: Michael, Thomas and Caroline (currently a student at the University of Pennsylvania). His brother Jim Matthews, a Republican, is a County Commissioner in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
In 2002, Matthews was hospitalized with malaria, which he evidently contracted on one of his visits that year to Africa. He has also had other health problems, including diabetes and pneumonia.[2]
Political career and views

When Matthews first arrived in Washington, D.C., he worked as an armed officer with the United States Capitol Police.[3] Subsequently, he served on the staffs of four Democratic members of Congress, including Senators Frank Moss and Edmund Muskie. In 1974, he mounted an unsuccessful campaign for the Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, in which he received about 24% of the vote in the primary campaign..[4] Matthews was a presidential speechwriter during the Carter administration. Matthews later worked six years as a top aide to long-time Speaker of the House of Representatives Tip O'Neill, playing a direct role in many key political battles with the Reagan administration.
On November 6, 2008, after the election, he stated on the MSNBC television program "Morning Joe," that "I want to do everything I can to make [...] this new Presidency work [...] This is my job".[5]
After controversy following on-air comments that Matthews and Keith Olbermann made during the 2008 Republican National Convention, NBC News correspondent David Gregory replaced them, but Matthews and Olbermann continued as analysts.[6] On November 4?5, he teamed with Rachel Maddow, Eugene Robinson, David Gregory, and Keith Olbermann to cover the presidential election.
On the April 14, 2008, edition of The Colbert Report, Matthews alluded to a possible run for the United States Senate from Pennsylvania. When directly questioned by Stephen Colbert about his intentions, he stated that there is a difference between celebrities and those who work for the people, and it's a greater thing to work for the people. He also said that his boyhood dream was to be a senator. Four days later, on April 18, 2008, Matthews told Bill Maher that he has "made a commitment to covering politics in a liberal way, starting in 1987, and [he is] honoring that commitment, not getting involved in it."[7] The seat in question would be the one held by Sen. Arlen Specter, whose current term in the Senate ends in 2010. On November 28, 2008, Fivethirtyeight.com and The Politico reported that Matthews has been in contact with senior staffers of Obama's campaign about a possible run.[8][9] On January 7, 2009, The New York Times reported that Matthews told his staffers that he would not run for the Senate.[10] On May 25th 2009 Chris Matthews appeared on the Charlie Rose show where he stated that he was intending to run for Arlen Specter's senate seat in 2010 stating "I could see myself winning the democratic primary and I could see myself going on to face Arlen in the general [election]," but that he felt he had to decide between being a journalist and being a politician once Specter became a national figure by supporting the stimulus.
Author and talk show host


Matthews during a special edition of Hardball


Matthews worked as a print journalist for 15 years, spending 13 years as Washington, D.C., Bureau Chief for The San Francisco Examiner (1987 ? 2000), and two years as a nationally syndicated columnist for The San Francisco Chronicle. Matthews covered the fall of the Berlin Wall, the first all-races election in South Africa and the Good Friday Peace Talks in Northern Ireland. In 1997 and 1998, his research in the National Archives produced a series of exclusives on the Nixon presidential tapes. Matthews has covered American presidential election campaigns since 1988.
In 1997, Matthews began his own talk show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, which originally aired on CNBC but is currently on MSNBC. Hardball features pundits and elected officials as guests.
In 2002, The Chris Matthews Show began airing in syndication. The show is formatted as a political roundtable consisting of four journalists and Matthews, who serves as the moderator. He is estimated to earn more than $5 million a year. He also wrote a book called Hardball[11]

 

[Bob]

Cybercast News Service - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Background

CNSNews.com sees its role as serving an audience which puts a "higher premium on balance than spin" by covering stories that mainstream news organizations ignore.

"In response to these shortcomings, MRC Chairman L. Brent Bozell III founded CNSNews.com in an effort to provide an alternative news source that would cover stories that are subject to the bias of omission and report on other news subject to bias by commission. CNSNews.com endeavors to fairly present all legitimate sides of a story and debunk popular, albeit incorrect, myths about cultural and policy issues." [1]

CNSNews.com's editor from 1998-2005 was Scott Hogenson, who also worked as the chief of radio operations for the Republican National Committee in 2004. CNSNews.com has staff in Washington, D.C., London, Jerusalem and the Pacific Rim. Editor-in-chief David Thibault (deceased) became top editor in April 2005. He died on July 20, 2007.[2]

Terence P. Jeffrey became editor-in-chief in September 2007. Jeffrey was and remains an editor-at-large for the conservative weekly newspaper Human Events. He wrote editorials for The Washington Times from 1987-1991 and was research director for the presidential campaign of Patrick J. Buchanan in 1992. Jeffrey was Buchanan's national campaign manager in his 1996 campaign.

CNSNews.com trumpets its focus on presenting news in a non-biased manner [1]. CNSNews.com's motto is "The Right News. Right now."[3]
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[mtlinscomb]

I found that the easy cure for this fantasy was to never listen to Rush and it has been successful for me for the past 15 years....

Of course, I've used that same approach with Chris Matthews as well.

I can't seem to find much difference in them....[/quote]
_______________________________________________________

Here you go.>>>>>

Rush Limbaugh: Slovenly and pompous, right wing nutcase with a penchant for large cigars and pain medication. A former sports reporter for ESPN (fired) he went from a moderate centrist to a right winger in the span of several years. A college dropout, he now runs a very profitable and successful right wing TV and radio show.


Chris Mathews:
Matthews was born in Somerton, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Irish American parents and is a Roman Catholic. He attended La Salle College High School.
He is a 1967 graduate of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, and did graduate work in economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Matthews served in the United States Peace Corps in Swaziland from 1968 to 1970 as a trade development advisor.
Matthews is married to Kathleen Matthews, who anchored News 7 on WJLA-TV, the ABC affiliate in Washington, D.C, before accepting a position as an Executive Vice President with J.W. Marriott. The couple has three children: Michael, Thomas and Caroline (currently a student at the University of Pennsylvania). His brother Jim Matthews, a Republican, is a County Commissioner in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
In 2002, Matthews was hospitalized with malaria, which he evidently contracted on one of his visits that year to Africa. He has also had other health problems, including diabetes and pneumonia.[2]
Political career and views

When Matthews first arrived in Washington, D.C., he worked as an armed officer with the United States Capitol Police.[3] Subsequently, he served on the staffs of four Democratic members of Congress, including Senators Frank Moss and Edmund Muskie. In 1974, he mounted an unsuccessful campaign for the Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, in which he received about 24% of the vote in the primary campaign..[4] Matthews was a presidential speechwriter during the Carter administration. Matthews later worked six years as a top aide to long-time Speaker of the House of Representatives Tip O'Neill, playing a direct role in many key political battles with the Reagan administration.
On November 6, 2008, after the election, he stated on the MSNBC television program "Morning Joe," that "I want to do everything I can to make [...] this new Presidency work [...] This is my job".[5]
After controversy following on-air comments that Matthews and Keith Olbermann made during the 2008 Republican National Convention, NBC News correspondent David Gregory replaced them, but Matthews and Olbermann continued as analysts.[6] On November 4?5, he teamed with Rachel Maddow, Eugene Robinson, David Gregory, and Keith Olbermann to cover the presidential election.
On the April 14, 2008, edition of The Colbert Report, Matthews alluded to a possible run for the United States Senate from Pennsylvania. When directly questioned by Stephen Colbert about his intentions, he stated that there is a difference between celebrities and those who work for the people, and it's a greater thing to work for the people. He also said that his boyhood dream was to be a senator. Four days later, on April 18, 2008, Matthews told Bill Maher that he has "made a commitment to covering politics in a liberal way, starting in 1987, and [he is] honoring that commitment, not getting involved in it."[7] The seat in question would be the one held by Sen. Arlen Specter, whose current term in the Senate ends in 2010. On November 28, 2008, Fivethirtyeight.com and The Politico reported that Matthews has been in contact with senior staffers of Obama's campaign about a possible run.[8][9] On January 7, 2009, The New York Times reported that Matthews told his staffers that he would not run for the Senate.[10] On May 25th 2009 Chris Matthews appeared on the Charlie Rose show where he stated that he was intending to run for Arlen Specter's senate seat in 2010 stating "I could see myself winning the democratic primary and I could see myself going on to face Arlen in the general [election]," but that he felt he had to decide between being a journalist and being a politician once Specter became a national figure by supporting the stimulus.
Author and talk show host


Matthews during a special edition of Hardball


Matthews worked as a print journalist for 15 years, spending 13 years as Washington, D.C., Bureau Chief for The San Francisco Examiner (1987 ? 2000), and two years as a nationally syndicated columnist for The San Francisco Chronicle. Matthews covered the fall of the Berlin Wall, the first all-races election in South Africa and the Good Friday Peace Talks in Northern Ireland. In 1997 and 1998, his research in the National Archives produced a series of exclusives on the Nixon presidential tapes. Matthews has covered American presidential election campaigns since 1988.
In 1997, Matthews began his own talk show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, which originally aired on CNBC but is currently on MSNBC. Hardball features pundits and elected officials as guests.
In 2002, The Chris Matthews Show began airing in syndication. The show is formatted as a political roundtable consisting of four journalists and Matthews, who serves as the moderator. He is estimated to earn more than $5 million a year. He also wrote a book called Hardball[11]

I notice they left out the part where he became the biggest dbag in America when he said BHO made a tingling sensation run up his leg. If objective nonpartisan journalism is the goal then Matthews gets the industry @ss clown award.

 

[Winnie]

I found that the easy cure for this fantasy was to never listen to Rush and it has been successful for me for the past 15 years....

Of course, I've used that same approach with Chris Matthews as well.

I can't seem to find much difference in them....

_______________________________________________________

Here you go.>>>>>

Rush Limbaugh: Slovenly and pompous, right wing nutcase with a penchant for large cigars and pain medication. A former sports reporter for ESPN (fired) he went from a moderate centrist to a right winger in the span of several years. A college dropout, he now runs a very profitable and successful right wing TV and radio show.


Chris Mathews:
Matthews was born in Somerton, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Irish American parents and is a Roman Catholic. He attended La Salle College High School.
He is a 1967 graduate of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, and did graduate work in economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Matthews served in the United States Peace Corps in Swaziland from 1968 to 1970 as a trade development advisor.
Matthews is married to Kathleen Matthews, who anchored News 7 on WJLA-TV, the ABC affiliate in Washington, D.C, before accepting a position as an Executive Vice President with J.W. Marriott. The couple has three children: Michael, Thomas and Caroline (currently a student at the University of Pennsylvania). His brother Jim Matthews, a Republican, is a County Commissioner in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
In 2002, Matthews was hospitalized with malaria, which he evidently contracted on one of his visits that year to Africa. He has also had other health problems, including diabetes and pneumonia.[2]
Political career and views

When Matthews first arrived in Washington, D.C., he worked as an armed officer with the United States Capitol Police.[3] Subsequently, he served on the staffs of four Democratic members of Congress, including Senators Frank Moss and Edmund Muskie. In 1974, he mounted an unsuccessful campaign for the Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, in which he received about 24% of the vote in the primary campaign..[4] Matthews was a presidential speechwriter during the Carter administration. Matthews later worked six years as a top aide to long-time Speaker of the House of Representatives Tip O'Neill, playing a direct role in many key political battles with the Reagan administration.
On November 6, 2008, after the election, he stated on the MSNBC television program "Morning Joe," that "I want to do everything I can to make [...] this new Presidency work [...] This is my job".[5]
After controversy following on-air comments that Matthews and Keith Olbermann made during the 2008 Republican National Convention, NBC News correspondent David Gregory replaced them, but Matthews and Olbermann continued as analysts.[6] On November 45, he teamed with Rachel Maddow, Eugene Robinson, David Gregory, and Keith Olbermann to cover the presidential election.
On the April 14, 2008, edition of The Colbert Report, Matthews alluded to a possible run for the United States Senate from Pennsylvania. When directly questioned by Stephen Colbert about his intentions, he stated that there is a difference between celebrities and those who work for the people, and it's a greater thing to work for the people. He also said that his boyhood dream was to be a senator. Four days later, on April 18, 2008, Matthews told Bill Maher that he has "made a commitment to covering politics in a liberal way, starting in 1987, and [he is] honoring that commitment, not getting involved in it."[7] The seat in question would be the one held by Sen. Arlen Specter, whose current term in the Senate ends in 2010. On November 28, 2008, Fivethirtyeight.com and The Politico reported that Matthews has been in contact with senior staffers of Obama's campaign about a possible run.[8][9] On January 7, 2009, The New York Times reported that Matthews told his staffers that he would not run for the Senate.[10] On May 25th 2009 Chris Matthews appeared on the Charlie Rose show where he stated that he was intending to run for Arlen Specter's senate seat in 2010 stating "I could see myself winning the democratic primary and I could see myself going on to face Arlen in the general [election]," but that he felt he had to decide between being a journalist and being a politician once Specter became a national figure by supporting the stimulus.

So their difference is between an opinion of Mr. Limbaugh and the Wikipedia entry of Mr. Matthews? :scratch:

 

[Andy A]

You should be able to watch any of those networks without being unduly swayed if you get your news from enough sources as I do. I find something to disagree with on all networks.

I don't see the basic news being much different among the networks. It's the editorializing, and speculation, and opinion that is different. I don't see a problem with this. I think most progressives would agree, and that's why you see liberal bleed over to Fox News. Progressives tend to get their news largely from the Internet, but tune into infotainment networks like fox, msnbc, and CNN to hear what spin the talking heads put on it. Honestly, Fox news iinfinitely more funny and entertaining when you already know the real story and have had time to form your own opinion.

You get the real story from internet blogs and consider it absolutely true? Wow!!

 

[AlphaCrab]

So their difference is between an opinion of Mr. Limbaugh and the Wikipedia entry of Mr. Matthews? :scratch:

Basically, anyone here can do their own research on the two--but, very simply put--Chris Mathews has the educational credentials, the resume and the intelligence, as well as the background and the skills to be a great T.V. moderator, journalist, or editorialist, which he is! He is someone who has enough of the right kind of background experience that he could also reinvent himself and become a great elected official.

I don't see any of that in the Rush Limbaugh Story?

 

[Blair]

Basically, anyone here can do their own research on the two--but, very simply put--Chris Mathews has the educational credentials, the resume and the intelligence, as well as the background and the skills to be a great T.V. moderator, journalist, or editorialist, which he is! He is someone who has enough of the right kind of background experience that he could also reinvent himself and become a great elected official.

I don't see any of that in the Rush Limbaugh Story?

Yeah...Chris Matthews has everything....except ratings!

 

[AlphaCrab]

Yeah...Chris Matthews has everything....except ratings!

You are right about that--he is not up there ratings-wise with both Rush and Glenn Beck. At the same time, I have no way of comprehending the intelligence (including emotional I.Q. level) of the general American TV/radio or Sowal audience--I can only make some personal assumptions from experience at this point, and those will go unmentioned.

 

[mtlinscomb]

Basically, anyone here can do their own research on the two--but, very simply put--Chris Mathews has the educational credentials, the resume and the intelligence, as well as the background and the skills to be a great T.V. moderator, journalist, or editorialist, which he is! He is someone who has enough of the right kind of background experience that he could also reinvent himself and become a great elected official.

I don't see any of that in the Rush Limbaugh Story?

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He's Thrilled: MSNBC's Chris Matthews Wins MRC?€™s 'Quote of the Year' | NewsBusters.org

The Media Research Center today announced its Best Notable Quotables of 2008: The 21st Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting, and MSNBC's Chris Matthews "won" the dubious honor of Quote of the Year for gushing over a Barack Obama speech back in February: "I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don't have that too often….And that is an objective assessment."

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