{"id":2264,"date":"2010-01-28T20:04:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T01:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=2264"},"modified":"2010-01-28T20:04:18","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T01:04:18","slug":"fox-news-really-is-fair-and-balanced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2010\/01\/28\/fox-news-really-is-fair-and-balanced\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Really is Fair and Balanced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So says a poll by PublicPolicy Polling (PPC)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Our newest survey looking at perceptions of ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, and NBC News finds Fox as the only one that more people say they trust than distrust. 49% say they trust it to 37% who do not.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What are we to make of this?\u00a0 It suggests that trafficking in polarization is good for business.\u00a0 Logically if you can fill a consumer niche like Fox does, you&#8217;re going to make money and develop a brand loyalty.\u00a0 It reminds me of the interesting work that Jonathan Haidt is doing on<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/3rd_culture\/haidt08\/haidt08_index.html\"> conservative and liberal morality. <\/a> He suggests that conservatives view loyalty as part of their morality system while liberals disregard loyalty as important to their moral order. \u00a0 So MSNBC&#8217;s attempt to be a &#8220;liberal FOX&#8221; is going to be of limited success.\u00a0 You never hear a conservative say &#8220;if Obama wins, I&#8217;m moving to Canada&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pheedcontent.com\/click.phdo?i=55053990c07ec3da4ccbdcd968c3ca69\">Andrew Sullivan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So says a poll by PublicPolicy Polling (PPC) Our newest survey looking at perceptions of ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, and NBC News finds Fox as the only one that more people say they trust than distrust. 49% say they trust it to 37% who do not. What are we to make of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2265,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264\/revisions\/2265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}