Is Fox 5 news right-wing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fox 5 is actually a delightful local news station - very similar to the small town news I came from. NBC4 seems super high budget, and that's fine too. I love Fox 5 because it doesn't switch over to national news at 7AM... it just keeps going with the same low budget, but very local news you need. It's my go to in a snow/traffic emergency. FWIW you ever get the chance, check out Fox 5 on Sunday morning - boy - it's like a high school news channel. They legit don't give AF. And it's awesome.

NBC 4 is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo boring.

Seriously, I can’t watch them. They put me to sleep.

I like channel 9

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fox 5 is fine.

Sinclair's WJLA 7 news is partisan junk. Sinclair makes local affiliates run segments of right wing disinformation and opinions. Here's a stunning montage of local news anchors reading Sinclair's statement all over the country -- clearly not their personal viewpoint. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHfgU8oMSo

I fail to see the scandal here? What’s wrong with journalists making a pledge of objectivity and promising to be free of bias?

Isn’t that sorta the point of journalism? Reporting the facts - JUST the facts - and letting people decide for themselves?



What’s wrong with that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fox 5 is fine.

Sinclair's WJLA 7 news is partisan junk. Sinclair makes local affiliates run segments of right wing disinformation and opinions. Here's a stunning montage of local news anchors reading Sinclair's statement all over the country -- clearly not their personal viewpoint. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHfgU8oMSo

I fail to see the scandal here? What’s wrong with journalists making a pledge of objectivity and promising to be free of bias?

Isn’t that sorta the point of journalism? Reporting the facts - JUST the facts - and letting people decide for themselves?



What’s wrong with that?

Not the poster who shared that link, but I guess nothing's wrong with pledging to be free of objectivity...except it wasn't something the journalists were saying for themselves, it was mandated that they read that statement on air by higher ups who were pushing back on "liberal" media bias.

[Anonymous]

There is one of their shows on fox5 that is annoyingly pro trump (one of those talk shows with a couple of their on air personalities), but I never got that from the news portions.

I guess I don’t watch enough of 7 to catch the Sinclair nonsense. I know I have seen that statement elsewhere. Is the news presented actually slanted?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t watch TV. Is this local channel considered apolitical/neutral?
Thanks

Are you seriously asking this? It’s a Fox channel, what do you think?

Fox Broadcasting is not actually the same as Fox News. Both are owned by the Murdochs but leadership is totally different. Fox Broadcasting channels are local news affiliates; Fox News is straight up meant to be right-wing propaganda.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fox 5 is fine.

Sinclair's WJLA 7 news is partisan junk. Sinclair makes local affiliates run segments of right wing disinformation and opinions. Here's a stunning montage of local news anchors reading Sinclair's statement all over the country -- clearly not their personal viewpoint. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHfgU8oMSo

I fail to see the scandal here? What’s wrong with journalists making a pledge of objectivity and promising to be free of bias?

Isn’t that sorta the point of journalism? Reporting the facts - JUST the facts - and letting people decide for themselves?



What’s wrong with that?

You don't see the hypocrisy in forcing their local news anchors to read the exact same statement that pretends they are independent journalists? I don't know how to help you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Remarkably, Fox 5 news is not rw. They are a good local news station. They are very different than cable Fox News.

This.

[Anonymous]

Do people really watch local news?

I'm 30 years old and I don't know anyone in my generation who watches cable news. I have a WaPo subscription and read news online, for the most part, it's WaPo, The Economist, 538 (Nate Silver), sometimes BBC, and then Bethesda Beat and Maryland Matters for local. I guess WAMU counts as a local station I'll selectively stream online.

But who actually watches broadcast cable networks? Do y'all have a landline too? A rotary phone? Are these the people voting for Joe Biden?

[Anonymous]

No, they are not right wing. But Channel 7 was recently bought by a right-wing company and it's like watching Fox News. They are totally right-wing. They other night they had a story about how the Catholic church was training more priests to be exorcists because otherwise the demons will get a toehold here on earth. After the story, the two anchors just looked at each other like they were embarrassed. Can't blame them.....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do people really watch local news?

I'm 30 years old and I don't know anyone in my generation who watches cable news. I have a WaPo subscription and read news online, for the most part, it's WaPo, The Economist, 538 (Nate Silver), sometimes BBC, and then Bethesda Beat and Maryland Matters for local. I guess WAMU counts as a local station I'll selectively stream online.

But who actually watches broadcast cable networks? Do y'all have a landline too? A rotary phone? Are these the people voting for Joe Biden?

Do you have kids? Sitting down and reading the news sounds like a freaking luxury. Having local news on in the background and catching it piecemeal is about the best I can do. I either listen to local news with an antenna, or WAMU on Alexa.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do people really watch local news?

I'm 30 years old and I don't know anyone in my generation who watches cable news. I have a WaPo subscription and read news online, for the most part, it's WaPo, The Economist, 538 (Nate Silver), sometimes BBC, and then Bethesda Beat and Maryland Matters for local. I guess WAMU counts as a local station I'll selectively stream online.

But who actually watches broadcast cable networks? Do y'all have a landline too? A rotary phone? Are these the people voting for Joe Biden?

I'm 45 and this sounds like me and my immediate peer group. Too busy to sit around watching local news or cable news. Seems like most listen to NPR or read similar news sources online.

The only people I know for sure watch TV news are my ILs. They play FoxNews all day, every day. Which is why we don't go over there anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do people really watch local news?

I'm 30 years old and I don't know anyone in my generation who watches cable news. I have a WaPo subscription and read news online, for the most part, it's WaPo, The Economist, 538 (Nate Silver), sometimes BBC, and then Bethesda Beat and Maryland Matters for local. I guess WAMU counts as a local station I'll selectively stream online.

But who actually watches broadcast cable networks? Do y'all have a landline too? A rotary phone? Are these the people voting for Joe Biden?

I don’t understand why it’s brag-worthy to boast about not knowing what’s going on in the city where you live.

I mean, you’re crowing about being dumb. That’s just weird.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do people really watch local news?

I'm 30 years old and I don't know anyone in my generation who watches cable news. I have a WaPo subscription and read news online, for the most part, it's WaPo, The Economist, 538 (Nate Silver), sometimes BBC, and then Bethesda Beat and Maryland Matters for local. I guess WAMU counts as a local station I'll selectively stream online.

But who actually watches broadcast cable networks? Do y'all have a landline too? A rotary phone? Are these the people voting for Joe Biden?

I'm 45 and this sounds like me and my immediate peer group. Too busy to sit around watching local news or cable news. Seems like most listen to NPR or read similar news sources online.

The only people I know for sure watch TV news are my ILs. They play FoxNews all day, every day. Which is why we don't go over there anymore.

Well, they’re better informed than you, for one thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fox 5 is fine.

Sinclair's WJLA 7 news is partisan junk. Sinclair makes local affiliates run segments of right wing disinformation and opinions. Here's a stunning montage of local news anchors reading Sinclair's statement all over the country -- clearly not their personal viewpoint. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHfgU8oMSo

I fail to see the scandal here? What’s wrong with journalists making a pledge of objectivity and promising to be free of bias?

Isn’t that sorta the point of journalism? Reporting the facts - JUST the facts - and letting people decide for themselves?



What’s wrong with that?

Not the poster who shared that link, but I guess nothing's wrong with pledging to be free of objectivity...except it wasn't something the journalists were saying for themselves, it was mandated that they read that statement on air by higher ups who were pushing back on "liberal" media bias.

A journalist that balks at pledging objectivity is someone that has no business being a journalist


- a 27 year journalist

[Anonymous]

Fox 5 routinely airs national Fox News segments and had notorious right-winger Emily Miller as their Chief Investigative Reporter. Pretty clear where their bias lies.

Plus their over-sensationalization/misreporting of local news seems high, even by typically bad local news standards.