Since FOX News is clearly conserviative (they don't even try to hide it) and CNN, CBS, ABC, & NBC are liberal, where can I go to get truly objective news coverage?
2006-07-09 09:06:56 · 13 answers · asked by arvis3 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
It doesn't exist. All media is controlled by one side or the other. All one can do is listen to the limited biased reporting of both sides and try to reach conclusions on their own with the main elements of the story usually left out. Sort of like ordering a salad without knowing the ingredients.
The media selectively reports what it wants people to know, whether conservative or liberal, and thereby controls how we think - i.e. in a soundbite mentality because they look at the public as too stupid to make correct value judgements based on all the available facts - so they only tell us part of any story - the part they want you to believe. They lie by omission, which is still lying.
We are doled out doses of pap to pacify what we think is a need for news. Anyone who has paid attention to the big 3 networks should have noticed by now that, with the exception of some meaningless human interest story, all the news reported is the same by every network, like nothing else happens in the world except the decided upon reports, and these days, there's not much difference in spin. It truly is disgusting.
Fair and Balanced news? I don't think such a thing exists in any society of the world today. Truth has become the greatest victim of journalism.
2006-07-09 09:19:24 · answer #1 · answered by amartouk 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I've found that the most nuetral, fair, well-balanced news comes on Monday through Friday for one hour on PBS The Newshour. Go to pbs.org and find your local pbs station listings and check it out. You will see what I'm talking about.
Btw, they recently changed the name. I don't think it is called Jim Lehrer Newshour anymore but instead just The Newshour.
They tell you stuff there that you won't hear anywhere else. Like on Sept 18 and 19th, 2001, they talked about how the Taliban had offerred to hand over B.Laden but Bush said no. This was after 911 and before we invaded Afghanistan. The Newshour is the only place I heard this option even discussed.
2006-07-09 09:10:19 · answer #2 · answered by BeachBum 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yahoo! News is where I get all my info. Most of their articles are feeds from AP or Reuters. I find that most televised news is garbage, either because it is biased, sensationalized, or both. Really, what is even the point of televising news anyway? I'd rather just decide what to read for myself instead of having some guy on TV read it to me.
*EDIT*
As a response to previous comments, the BBC has admitted to having a liberal bias. Nice try guys, but you should seriously look somewhere else if you are looking for non-biased news - preferably to non-televised/radio news.
2006-07-09 09:11:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The News Hour with Jim Lehrer on PBS
2006-07-09 09:10:16 · answer #4 · answered by SAGAL79 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you develop a fair and balanced discretion, you will be able to sift through any opinion and any news account and reading between the lines, draw a fair and accurate picture of your own world. Whenever a person relies on any media to do the thinking for them, one errs mightily. "The media is the massage."---Marshall McCluhan
2006-07-09 09:25:27 · answer #5 · answered by UCSteve 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Find web sites with live street cams. They have no announcers, so they can't give you their opinion.
As long as people are involved in giving the news, it will be given with a "point of view."
Just keep in mind, you have your own point of view, also. Just watching a street cam you are formulating your own point of view with your own conservative/liberal twist. (Nice car. Ooo they're going too slow. What kind of lane change was THAT? They're a bunch of IDIOTS!)
In short: You can't find objective news coverage, not even if you yourself are the newscaster.
2006-07-09 09:15:21 · answer #6 · answered by scavenger_meat 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you can get the BBC, they represent your best bet. If I'm not mistaken, some PBS stations carry BBC news. Good for you for wanting to know and looking for news which is the most accurate.
2006-07-09 10:47:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely nowhere, everyone has an agenda and an angle. As soon as anything happens and it gets exposed to the system, the "facts" are just twisting in the wind alongside "truth" and "integrity".
2006-07-09 09:14:31 · answer #8 · answered by cobra 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no such thing as "objective" news coverage. Your local news broadcast isn't. Your local newspaper isn't. History books aren't even objective.
2006-07-09 09:13:20 · answer #9 · answered by kalakas81 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would be leery of any government sponsored news (NPR, PBS). If you are looking for strictcly political articles, try 'RealClearPolitics'.
2006-07-09 09:21:31 · answer #10 · answered by )))))))))event~horizon((((((((( 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋