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The White House on this one; Fox News isn't "fair and balanced." 46% (155,855 votes)

Fox News on this one; it asks questions others don't and the White House should be able to handle them. 52% (178,779 votes)

Neither side. They're both trying to play this "feud" to their advantage. 2% (6,337 votes)

Total Votes: 340,971

The White House on this one; Fox News isn't "fair and balanced." 46% (155,991 votes)

Fox News on this one; it asks questions others don't and the White House should be able to handle them. 53% (179,839 votes)

Neither side. They're both trying to play this "feud" to their advantage. 2% (6,351 votes)

Total Votes: 342,181

Orig post had 133,387 for WH 57%
Now is at 156,335 - for a gain of 22,948 votes now 45%

Orig post had 96,470 for FOX 41%
Now is at 183,473 - for a gain of 87,003 votes! now 53%

so since this morning, the additional votes of 109,951 were 20.8% for WH and 79.1% for FOX news.

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The White House on this one; Fox News isn't "fair and balanced." 45% (156,562 votes)

Fox News on this one; it asks questions others don't and the White House should be able to handle them. 53% (187,072 votes)

Neither side. They're both trying to play this "feud" to their advantage. 2% (6,453 votes)

Total Votes: 350,087

Orig post had 133,387 for WH 57%
Now is at 158,481 - for a gain of 25,094 votes now 42%

Orig post had 96,470 for FOX 41%
Now is at 214,949 - for a gain of 118,479 votes! now 57%

so since this morning, the additional votes of 143,573 were 17.4% for WH and 82.5% for FOX news.

GO! GO! GO!

Of course Fox News isn't fair and balanced, but neither are any of the other "news" agencies. Every "news" agency has an agenda; the difference here is, Fox News is one of the very few major "news" agencies that leans to the right on the political scale, and why it's the target of such Presidential heartburn. It's one of the few major "news" services asking questions that the President isn't willing or able to answer.

Now, is it "wrong" that "news" agencies are anything but fair and balanced? No, so long as you realize that, as part of understanding where each "news" agency is coming from and why it writes news stories a particular way, and why each one deliberately ignores some stories.

BTY I say this as, at one time, a journalism major in my undergraduate days. I only lasted part of a semester before realizing that I couldn't deal with the college version of journalism, not only because I couldn't "write down" to the 8th grade reading level required by my instructor (I was an English major before this and was taught to write at or above college reading level), but because I was the only conservative in the room, and couldn't deal with the overt liberalism the instructor tried to indoctrinate me with.

Orig post had 133,387 for WH 57%
Now is at 165,389 - for a gain of 32,002 votes now 32%

Orig post had 96,470 for FOX 41%
Now is at 340,912 - for a gain of 244,442 votes! now 66%

so in 24 hours, the additional votes of 276,444 were 11.5% for WH and 88.4% for FOX news

In the case of the increase in popularity of FoxNews and other conservative news providers, I get the feeling (and I admit, I could be wrong on this) that people are becoming increasingly unsatisfies with Pres. Obama's non-answers and the sycophantic "reporting" of CNN/MSNBC/et al that they're turning to other sources who're not only asking the Executive and Legislative branches uncomfortable questions, but who're actually coming up with some answers.

FoxNews isn't just refusing to drink the Kool-aide, it's asking what's in the stuff and why anybody would want to join the drinking party.

The White House on this one; Fox News isn't "fair and balanced." 29% (167,317 votes)
Fox News on this one; it asks questions others don't and the White House should be able to handle them. 69% (392,502 votes)
Neither side. They're both trying to play this "feud" to their advantage. 2% (9,228 votes)
Total Votes: 569,047