FOX NEWS HAS GONE DOWN HILL OVER THE YEARS.

THE KUHNS REPORT

Hello America- and how is the world treating you?

Why people still watch the Fox News Channel is very perplexing to me. They steered away from a very good news organization and turned it into the (FNC-Funny News Channel) when  they began to run Jesse Watters and Dennis Miller segments on the O'Reilly Factor. To me, those segments are a waste of valuable air time. It appears all Fox News is doing is trying to fill time between excessive commercials and promos. All the programs on FOX basically do the same thing.They follow the same format. It appears Fox has everything scripted out for these teleprompter readers to the exact second for a commercial break.

To illustrate some of the complaints I have heard about Fox: They have film cuts  already cued up to insert into their conversation that are supposed to be a spontaneous, natural discussion,with a guest. They also shut down conversations with their guests to run FIVE minutes or more of commercials and promos.

As I mention in earlier blogs FOX is running approximately FIVE minutes of time with the narrator and the guests, THEN they run FIVE minutes of commercials. At times they only spend THREE minutes in discussion before they run FIVE minutes of commercials. I challenge anyone to time the commercials on the FOX NEWS programs like O'Reilly, Kelly, Hannity, etc.----

I believe it's a rip off folks. It's a race for the commercial break. You can hear the moderators say, "We're coming up on a hard break. I gotta go." Folks, it's not about the news or guests. I have an opinion and since every one's entitled to an opinion, mine is: "IT'S ABOUT THE MONEY PEOPLE." I believe what FOX is doing by running FIVE minutes of program and then running FIVE  MINUTES of commercials and promos is outrageous. It is total outright GREED.

I stopped watching FOX weeks ago when I caught on to their money grab with the commercials. Come on! Five minutes of supposed show and then FIVE minutes of commercial. They squeeze in at least TEN or more commercials in that five minutes. When is enough, enough?

Basically, out of the hour program we, the consumer, are subjected to at least THIRY MINUTES  or MORE of commercials. The teleprompter readers on the O'Reilly Factor, the Kelly file and Hannity and all the others at FOX are making big bucks for THIRTY minutes of info- commercials.Could it be because they may not be able to carry on a  conversation without the FOX executives setting up each and every word they spout out? It's like a dog and pony show. "Here's your cue -- read it." And, like a fifth grader they read what's in front of them, like little robot.

How dumb does a person have to be to sit in front of a television set and watch the same old narrators talk to the SAME, old worn out talking heads  night after night?  You already know what each guest is going to say before they say it. It appears they pay some of these guests by way of saying, "A FOX CONTRIBUTOR."

To my thinking FOX is selling  "commercials. When I watched FOX it appeared to me that it was nothing more than an infomercial of commercials. Folks, I do not believe there is anything "fair and balanced" at FOX. That is why I stopped watching the Network. However,if ever the "greedy executives" running the show for these teleprompter readers get back to having them read NEWS and current events WITHOUT pausing every FIVE minutes or less for FIVE minutes or more of commercials I and many of my friends around the world  might consider viewing the shows again.  Let's see if they (FOX), can once again offer good shows without an over-saturation of COMMERCIALS.- And, that's my opinion. Make up your own minds. You decide.

BRADLEY W. KUHNS, Ph.D., O.M.D.
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