Fox attacks Barack Obama?

Ha. I haven’t even watched this “Fox Attacks Barack Obama” video yet, and I know that an Obama fan-boy who hates Fox is the one who uploaded it to YouTube. Of course, who are we kidding? Fox leans to the right. (Not to the “correct,” but the right). Watch the news during the next two years, and I think you’ll see that other big media outlets lean way to the left as well (um, CNN).

Big Media is Big Business
I have a hunch. I don’t have any proof, and I don’t want to sound like some conspiracy theorist. But, I am a firm believer that despite any “fair and balanced” claim ever made by a news property, they are still influenced by shareholders who want to keep a fair balance sheet. Isn’t capitalism great.

Fox is owned by a publicly traded company. CNN is owned by a publicly traded company. Most of the big media companies are. Do you think for one minute that if the Fox viewer demographic were more conservative than liberal that Fox would air tons of left-leaning journalism? And, do you suppose that if CNN had a viewer demographic that was more liberal leaning than conservative that CNN would air a ton of right-leaning journalism? Not in a million years.

The Profit, The Profit, The Profit
Despite claims of fair and balanced, media organizations are still businesses that change and adapt to their customers’ wants in order to maximize profitability. In “the business” we’re called readers, viewers and listeners. But we’re still customers. How many business owners do you know who would give their customers something they knew the customer wasn’t interested in? I think it’s fair for us to believe that the media isn’t that dumb either. Fox attacks Barack Obama? Are we supposed to be suprised?