Alex Pareene Quotes

I think people have an idea of what Fox News is. If people don't watch Fox News, then it's just a caricature, it's not real, they have it in their heads that it's something very different than what it actually is.

I only watch MSNBC for the news.

'Political junkies' and liberals will watch MSNBC, and angry, old right-wingers will watch Fox.

In 2010, one in four Americans got the news from Fox News.

In 1996 or 1997, out of nowhere, Fox News comes on and it's on channel 360 on Direct TV, and out of 300 million Americans, on every single night, anywhere from 3 to 5 million watch it, we're talking about at no more than 2 percent of the American public is watching Fox at any given moment. Yet, ABC, CBS, NBC, the New York Times, the institutional left, CNN, MSNBC, the record companies, Hollywood, all seem to be committed towards aligning their minds and their money and their other resources to try to shut up Fox News.

I do watch a lot of Fox News. I like Charles Krauthammer and Bill O'Reilly.

I'm liberal, but I watch the three majors. Obviously I watch MSNBC, also CNN and Fox, which is what I would call ridiculously to the right.

Don't overstate Fox News. It's still much smaller than the least of the network niches.

I'm not always up to date on everything that's going on, but I am somewhat informed. I listen to NPR. And I actually watch Fox News, because I believe, if you just listen to the things that agree with you, you're not really seeing anything else.

Depending on what state you live in, you may only have right-wing talk radio and FOX or CBN with MSNBC three hundred channels down the dial.

Because I have an opinion, I have become public enemy number one to the Fox News Channel and the right wing.

There has to be news at a place called Fox News.

I think if you're a regular viewer of Fox News, you're among the most cynical people on planet Earth. I cannot think of a more cynical slogan than 'Fair and Balanced.'

The people who watch Fox are not going to watch CNN. You know, let's be honest.

Conservatives watch Fox News and read 'Breitbart.' Liberals watch MSNBC and read 'HuffPost.' When we agree, it's the truth; when we differ, it's fake news.

You can debate when the conservative movement became a racket - I nominate 1996, the year Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes created Fox News Channel to monetize right-wing outrage - but there is no doubt it has long since passed that point.

I think that 'Fox News' is fair and balanced.

There are more conservatives on Fox. But we are not a conservative network.

Liberals watch MSNBC; conservatives watch Fox. They don't want to hear ten seconds of a liberal on Fox, and they don't want to hear ten seconds of a conservative on MSNBC.

I think that Fox News is a bit schizophrenic.

It is well documented that Fox News has the audience demographics that other networks thirst for.

Chris Wallace is probably the most of an exception because his program, 'Fox News Sunday,' also airs on Fox broadcast stations. So he doesn't feel as many of the same ratings pressures to please the right wing audience versus all the rest of the programs.

I still quite enjoy watching Fox News because I think it makes me think through my arguments and make sure I'm on the right side.

Fox News is a virtual public square for conservatives.

Now that I'm not running, I can appear on Fox. Let the cabinet members do the low-ratings shows on MSNBC.