News-You just can't make this up folks

By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 8/6/2004 2:22:00 PM
Time Warner
Inc. chairman Dick Parsons Friday described Fox News Channel as "crazy people
exchanging views," telling a group of minority journalists in Washington he felt
that the channel and his own Cable News Network are two different services.
When asked by Univision Anchor Jorge Ramos why CNN was losing the ratings
battle with Fox, he was not ready to concede that. He said that Fox was more
like talk radio on TV, which meant that its viewers stayed longer because people
tended to "come and sit down for an hour or two and listen to crazy people
exchange views." CNN actually draws more viewers, he said, but said they were
grazers who didn't stay long.
Parsons said he did not feel CNN was liberal,
but instead has a bias for the truth. He conceded that journalists are often
perceived as liberal because they tend to challenge the establishment. He did
not make an overt comparison with Fox, but he did say that his news operation
"does not give a corporate slant to its journalism. We don't tell them how to
report."

Ya know, i could point out their deceptive Bias in Iraq ( which they point out) but if *I* was a T-W Shareholder i would have to ask if some one views anyone who likes competition as watching "crazy people" maybe he has a bias against making good buisness choices