According to the RealClearPolitics website, Newt Gingrich recently told a Tea Party meeting in Delaware, “I think Fox has been for Romney all the way through. In our experience, Callista and I both believe CNN is less biased than Fox this year. We are more likely to get neutral coverage out of CNN than we are of Fox, and we’re more likely to get distortion out of Fox. That’s just a fact.”
Fox News swung back hard and released a statement attacking Gingrich saying, “This is nothing other than Newt auditioning for a windfall of a gig at CNN — that’s the kind of man he is. Not to mention that he’s still bitter about the fact that we terminated his contributor contract.”
Obviously, there is no affection between Fox News and Gingrich.
But Gingrich isn’t alone in his complaints. In March, Rick Santorum complained on air about Fox News bias. Santorum said of Romney: “He’s had Fox News shilling for him every day.”
Fox News holds a special place in Republican primaries. The network was built as an alternative to overtly biased news dispensed at competing mainstream networks. Roger Ailes, the programing genius that constructed Fox News, understood the power of counter-programming against an overtly biased and monolithically liberal competition.
Fox News programing builds a large and loyal audience with Republican sympathies. Thus, a charge of bias in the primary is a significant allegation.
We speak to many conservative activists around the country with fears similar to Gingrich. Some activists make the even more serious charge that Fox News is morphing into just another liberal- leaning voice similar to their mainstream cousins, CNN and MSNBC.
These activists point to the sacking of Glenn Beck and Judge Andrew Napolitano as examples of conservative and libertarian voices being silenced.
Some pro-Israeli organizations also believe that Fox News Middle East coverage has changed also.
Fox News is an important vehicle for sharing right-leaning ideas with a large audience. In our opinion, they have never been pro-conservative, but they allowed conservative ideas to get equal billing. Conservative ideas don’t need promotion by any news outlet, but they do need expression in an outlet.
If Fox News does change, it will lead to the growth of more alternative media. The Internet is the future of news, and if Fox alienates its current right-of-center constituency, then they will move to places with a fairer and more balanced approach.
Fox News is number one because of fair and balanced coverage, but if they become one sided (or don’t allow competing views), they will soon shrink and lose their preeminent position.
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I have given up on Fox News, they are biased..O'Reily and Greta are Liberals…I no longer tune into the channel. I am for Gingrich…His personal life is his personal life. But he has the brains needed to lead this country…Sarah Palin and Chuck Norris and many evangelicals agree…Romney cannot win…He is a wimp.
Fox news cheats…They are more left than right…I do not believe any of them anymore…they fire good guys and hire the worst ones…O Reilly is as arrogant as Obama
Fox was in the tank for Romney from the beginning. I was very disappointed with O'reilly!! He would not even listen to any thing bad for Romney. Romney ran a very Dirty Campaign! Told half truths and lies and Fox backed Romney Up in this.
My wife is a big Fox News supporter, or I should say was. She couldn't stand it anymore because she felt they were AGAINST Romney and were in the tank for Gingrich and Santorum. How many times have we seen Gingrich get his airtime on Fox? or Santorum from Hannity? Don't believe this hogwash being touted in this article. It is complete and utter BS!
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I don't think Newt plays with a full deck sometimes,I watch Fox and only Fox and it seems all 3 republican candidates had a good run with Fox.Newt is a whinner and this comes naturally to him about the only thing he would be good at is debating Bojangles Obuma
Show how much you know ! Newt Gingrich is the smartest one of the GOP Candidates and you better believe the DNC dose not want Gingrich to be the GOP nominee . I suggest you check out Newt Gingrich web sight and educate yourself before making such statements . On the other hand you are probably an Obot on here to put more you know what into the game . Oh! and by the way this is not a game we are talking about our country's future !
Chuckie Let me straighten you out,I live in SC and I voted for Newt so you stick your Obot crap up your butt.What I was refering to was his comment on Fox being for Romney,he was on more then Romney and Santorum plus Fox hired the man to be a commentator.I would like to see Newt become secretary of statebut even you have to admit sitting with that old bag Pelosi or bashing the Ryan plan wasn't a smart thing to do especially someone as smart as he's suppose to be.I don't need to check out a web site because all politicians lie like a rug and you surely have to know they can't do everything they say they're going to do.
I too am beginning to wonder how "fair and balanced" FOX is. For a while I heard some major pro-Romney B.S. from Ann Coulter. I have heard many of the FOX people tell us that Romney is the only one that can beat Obama. They don't take Rick Santorum very seriously. They dismiss Ron Paul as an insignificant flake. They do seem to give Gingrich some air time but they always seem to marginalize him somehow and undermine his credibility in some way. Sean Hannity is totally in love Marco Rubio. One of Sean's panelists pointed out that Marco Rubio is not a natural born citizen to which Sean replied "nobody will buy it – good luck with making that stick". Obviously Sean doesn't give a damn about our constitution. The really big one for me was O'Reilly's video. He doesn't "watch out for the folks" anymore. Check out the following link and you will see what I mean; http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/oreilly-im-too-busy-to…
Bill O'Reilly has been in the tank for the fraud obama sense day one because he think the fraud obama actually graduated from Harvard . How can some one with less then a C average get into Harvard ? Oh ! that's right affirmative action and the all mighty dollar got the fraud obama into Harvard . So you can buy a Harvard degree !
HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU HEARD OREILEY SAY (I THINK OBAMA WAS BORN HERE AND HE SAYS OBAMA IS DOING HIS BAST FOR THE COUNTRY) IF THAT' NOT IN THE TANK I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS.
fox has been paid off by the gop. Murdock and gop are nothing but communist who are delighted to see USA fall into Muslim society.
the fact that you have to ask an obvious, rhetorical question is perplexing.
they obviously, except for hannity, for the time being, have a script in which to read from. rumor was this has to do with whom has stock in fox.
I think they were just watching the commentators and other guests (contributors) do their jobs. There may have been one or two who were not but, I think they were pulling for Romney overall.