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02-08-2008, 03:30 PM
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| Media Bias [Continued from the McCain/Romney thread] Firstdown, I don't agree with your claim that PBS is as biased to the left as Fox News is to the right. I think PBS is pretty balanced and far better than, say, CNN or Fox News. Keep in mind, I am an independent who leans right on about 50% of the "issues" and left on the other 50% of the "issues." As for Fox News' bias, I wasn't referring to the O'Reilly Factor, I was referring to their "news segments." |
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02-08-2008, 03:43 PM
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| Re: Media Bias I often struggle to see why it is simply accepted that Fox News is right wing fanatic while mainstream media is simply cneter-left. For my money watching Fox News I often wonder if the fact that they are not left simply makes them appear so much more conservative than they really are. Alas I do find myself having to work to keep my opinions in check while watching the networks and CNN because I am so ingrained to be skeptical of their reporting. Bernie Goldberg's book on media bias is great and he wrote it before he ever started working for Fox News. His point is essentially that the media culture is one of liberals and that they do not intentionally turn the news left but they simply see the world through that view and their reporting reflects it. I have less a problem with media bias than I do with with people who seem to want to assert that it doesn't exist or those who minimalize it. |
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02-08-2008, 03:48 PM
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As a centrist independent, I think it's pretty clear that Fox is more biased than most news outlets, even if there are more numerous left-leaning media outlets. Do you really disagree with that statement? | |
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02-08-2008, 03:55 PM
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02-08-2008, 04:03 PM
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| Re: Media Bias Honestly I don't really care much for CNN or Fox or MSNBC for that matter. I expect news outlets to report the news not have some talking head telling me their opinions as if they were fact. My main problem with Fox is that they claim to be "Fair and Balanced" which I find very insulting. Seriously, that has to be a joke. They often dumb down their news, almost to a Jerry Springerish level. And yes, there is biased everywhere. To be human is to have bias even if you don't think you have none.
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02-08-2008, 04:05 PM
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02-08-2008, 04:08 PM
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02-08-2008, 04:09 PM
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I find PBS by far the best source for pure news. They truly report the news, news that really matters.
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02-08-2008, 04:30 PM
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02-08-2008, 05:01 PM
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| Re: Media Bias Just a pet peeve, but why not throw it in here: appropriate use of the term "bias." Good: Fox News has an incredible right-wing bias. Bad: Fox News has an incredible right-wing biased. Good: CNN is biased. Bad: CNN is bias. Good: Everyone has a little bias. Bad: Everyone has a little biased.
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02-08-2008, 07:38 PM
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| Re: Media Bias The thing people don't realize about Fox News is that it's actually run by a Republican - Roger Ailes. Just do a quick profile search on the guy and you see that he spent most of his career as a Republican political operative (like Karl Rove) and only later got into media. That's totally different from other news stations and should be pretty revealing about where Fox is coming from.
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02-08-2008, 09:29 PM
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| Re: Media Bias The quality of newscasts has dropped through the floor. The only factor keeping me from throwing objects at my tv in disgust is the amount of money it costs. How people can watch the pure drivel that FOX broadcasts and accept it as anything approaching fact appalls me. I'm an effing republican and I just don't get it. Do people just like hearing their own viewpoints coming out of the television so much that they are not only completely willing, but EAGER, to completely suspend disbelief and nod along, slack-jawed with whatever talking head is spouting off? It's pathetic.
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02-08-2008, 09:32 PM
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02-10-2008, 02:33 PM
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| Re: Media Bias At least Fox never pushed phony documents on the public in an attempt to discredit a politician they didn't like. Dan Rather is still telling people he thinks they were real. But what am I saying. CBS did an internal investigation and determined that nothing that happened there was the result of bias. So, CBS has spoken and CBS says that CBS is not biased.
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02-10-2008, 02:45 PM
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