Fox News shows immaturity

[cameramano]

A couple CNN producers came to my campus to speak this week. In a sidenote, they said that Fox News has purchased two giant billboards outside CNN headquarters in Atlanta. They use them to mock CNN staff as they enter the building.

I work in the TV business and enjoy the humor that pervades the field... but this just juvenile. For the cost of those billboards, Fox could hire another reporter and do a service to its viewers.

Well... maybe by not hiring another reporter they're doing a service.

 

[Archer 007]

This just proves how fascist-like Fox News and their supporters are.

 

[Sinapus]

Originally posted by archer_007
This just proves how fascist-like Fox News and their supporters are.

Or perhaps your understanding of what 'fascist' means.

 

[Duke of Marlbrough]

That's a hell of a leap. They have billboards outside a rival companies building so they are fascist-like?

It will sound funny for people to start calling CNN fascist-like also then, since they have done the same thing.

http://www.ajc.com/business/content/business/cnn/1003/08billboard.html

Paula Zahn's new show on CNN is performing so poorly that even archrival Fox wants CNN to bring back Connie Chung.

At least that's what a comical new billboard Fox erected late Tuesday catty-cornered to CNN Center says.

"Come Home Connie. CNN Needs You," the billboard reads. "Brought to You by Your Friends at Fox News."

"We thought this would lift the morale and bring a few smiles to the faces of the CNN staffers in Atlanta," Fox News spokeswoman Irena Briganti said Wednesday.

CNN officials were not immediately available for comment.

CNN canceled "Connie Chung Tonight" in March, prompting Chung to leave the Atlanta-based network. The network canceled the show, which did relatively well in the ratings but took flak for its tabloid style.

CNN replaced the show with one that featured Zahn and was designed to to sharpen CNN's hard-news focus. Last month, the show, which airs at 8 p.m., was relaunched as "Paula Zahn Now."

But the show's ratings have been disappointing.

During "Paula Zahn Now's" first month on the air, the number of viewers has fallen about 19 percent from the time slot a year ago, when Chung's program was airing. Zahn's show drew an average of 575,000 viewers during its first four weeks on the air.

The O'Reilly Factor, hosted by Bill O'Reilly, dominated the 8 p.m. cable news time slot.

Though the billboard's tone is meant to be comical, the message should hit a nerve at CNN, which has bristled at its declining ratings.

The Fox billboard at Centennial Olympic Park Drive and Marietta Street has featured several messages during the past several years, including ones welcoming Greta Van Susteren, who left CNN for Fox in December 2001.

Other messages on the billboard have promoted the morning show "Fox and Friends" and announced Fox's ascent to the No. 1 position in cable news.

In Manhattan, CNN has erected a billboard of its own across from Fox News. In February, CNN's billboard featured a smiling Paula Zahn and read, "Real News Makes the Difference."

 

[Norlamand]

so you blindly accept the word of the CNN producers? and you think Fox news is immature?

 

[Archer 007]

I think ANYONE who will use those type of tactics is fascist. It's basically a scare tactic.

 

[cgannon64]

I find it funny that Fox mocks CNN for choosing lower ratings but journalistic integrity over a high-rating tabloid show.

 

[superslug]

Yeah, considering that 90% of TV viewers are idiots (since 90% of anything is crap), if I were running a network I'd want my ratings at 10% and nothing more. I'd put my hands behind my head, feet up on the desk, close my eyes and imagine I had the right 10%...

 

[Duke of Marlbrough]

A scare tactic? To mock them? But, they are choosing journalistic integrity over ratings, so why should they be scared? They are choosing the 'right' path. Ok, I guess CNN and Fox are both fascists; at least they have more common ground now.

And I would think the 10% station would be on the air as long as all the other people who thought the same way and aren't around anymore. Face it, all news networks are in it for the money. Ratings = Money, simple as that.

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

The Fox billboard at Centennial Olympic Park Drive and Marietta Street has featured several messages during the past several years, including ones welcoming Greta Van Susteren, who left CNN for Fox in December 2001.

Talk about adding insult to injury

In Manhattan, CNN has erected a billboard of its own across from Fox News. In February, CNN's billboard featured a smiling Paula Zahn and read, "Real News Makes the Difference."

I wonder if its still there...

 

[Shadylookin]

Originally posted by archer_007
This just proves how fascist-like Fox News and their supporters are.

mocking competition is facist? I'm quite certain a liberal would never do such a thing

if this is what a company wants to spend it's money on i see no reason it shouldn't

 

[MrPresident]

I'm sorry but this is bloody funny. Just another reason to watch Fox News.

 

[Sims2789]

why would a fake new station want to advertise their propoganda in front of CNN?

it doesn't suprise me that FAUX *cough* NEWS would do something like this.

 

[SeleucusNicator]

As much as I dislike FOX, I must admit that if I were in their position I would do the exact same thing with the billboards. And then some.

 

[Sims2789]

Originally posted by Duke of Marlbrough
That's a hell of a leap. They have billboards outside a rival companies building so they are fascist-like?

It will sound funny for people to start calling CNN fascist-like also then, since they have done the same thing...

first of all, CNN is telling the truth, since FOX doesn't show real news. also, the only big news stations on cable are CNN and MSNBC. CNN is neutral, while MSNBC is right-wing. FAUX is just a propoganda station that occasionally throws in news with their neo-Conservative rhetoric.

but i agree that it wouldn't be correct to say "fascist-like."

but CNN has the right to retaliate. but if i were CNN i'd retaliate by covering FAUX's immaturity on CNN and show the world that FAUX's true side, instead of playing FAUX's game.

 

[cgannon64]

I think you're taking it to the extreme, sims. Have you ever even watched Fox News? I find its usually not that biased, but there can be some little snippets and wordings that seem a little conservative. And all the commentators are very conservative, but that's not illegal or immoral, its their choice.

 

[superslug]

Originally posted by sims2789
but CNN has the right to retaliate. but if i were CNN i'd retaliate by covering FAUX's immaturity on CNN and show the world that FAUX's true side, instead of playing FAUX's game.

If CNN were to 'retaliate' they'd be best off doing so quietly and not broadcasting it so they could maintain at least the illusion of professionalism.

 

[Sims2789]

Originally posted by superslug


If CNN were to 'retaliate' they'd be best off doing so quietly and not broadcasting it so they could maintain at least the illusion of professionalism.

what i mean is if i owned CNN, i'd get a reporter to sat, "FOX shows immaturity by placing billboard next to CNN headquarters." then i'd show a picture of the billboards and that sort of thing so that people know how FAUX behaves

 

[superslug]

Then you'd be as unprofessional as Fox and lose my viewership.

 

[Sims2789]

Originally posted by cgannon64
I think you're taking it to the extreme, sims. Have you ever even watched Fox News? I find its usually not that biased, but there can be some little snippets and wordings that seem a little conservative. And all the commentators are very conservative, but that's not illegal or immoral, its their choice.

yes i have watched it. after they overturned the Texas Sodomy Law, a FOX headline said "Free to rape again" implying that allowing gays to have sex would also allow gays to go around raping children. they were also against the removal of the 10 commandments from that courthouse and the put the 2nd Iraq War in the "War on Terror" catagory and when the Dems tried to repeal the Bush tax-"cut", FOX said, "How much of your money have the Democrats managed to steal."