There is a huge difference between real news reported by anchors, and TALK SHOWS like O'Reilly!
Is the idea of media bias overblown when it comes to hard news?
There are shows like O'Reilly that are bias.....but it is a TALK SHOW, NOT REAL NEWS.
There are stories that are shown, that I don't agree with. That does not mean it's bias.
What do you think?
2006-09-23 02:33:24 · 15 answers · asked by Villain 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I'm talking real news. Talk shows are biased, I know that!
2006-09-23 02:39:31 · update #1
I watched "outfoxed" and there is bias.
2006-09-23 02:40:22 · update #2
Exactly, it is one thing to report the news and another to comment on it. I do not see any bias's except on faux news and that is definitely a repuglican propaganda machine.
2006-09-23 02:37:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 5⤋
I would say that Fox news is bias. But so is CNN, ABC, NBC, and a host of other "news" shows. It is rare to come across a news program that isn't bias.
An example of this is the way the Israel/Lebanon war was portrayed in the different media outlets. Fox showed pictures of Hezbollah with rockets and almost all the others showed pictures of ruble with crying women. Both are true, but they are not giving a full story, just painting the picture the way they think it should be told. Even camera men got in trouble on those stories for "fixing" photographs to make a point. I hardly ever hear real news anymore.
2006-09-23 09:38:24 · answer #2 · answered by AT 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
O'Reilly is not news neither are Rush and Hannity.That Liberals try to say they are is absurd.
As to the major Media ,yes it has been and is biased since the mid '60's.That was when Journalist started thinking it was their job to change the world instead of report the news.
Journalism has always struggled with bias it would be hard not to be somewhat biased but when over 85% are registered Democrats you have to wonder.
2006-09-23 09:42:26 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think it is all crap. I agree that showl like O'Reilly are talk shows, but even the news has bias. It's all negative. Murders, rapes, train wrecks, death, destruction, disasters.....you would think nothing good ever happens. Last year the slant was that hurricanes were getting progressively worse, but so far this year, the hurricane season has been relatively mild. Typical media paranoia. Bird flu? Tsunamis? Shark attacks? It is all biased in some respect.
2006-09-23 09:38:59 · answer #4 · answered by Leader Desslok 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think the media is VERY biased.
How many times have we heard about the abortion clinic bombings?
SIX persons died total, this took place in 1986, ONE nut took his twisted fantasies and made them reality when he attacked the abortion clinics...HE does NOT represent the Pro Life movement....at all. BUT according to newspapers and television, he does. All of the Pro Life'rs are crazy religious zealots who use violence against others to promote the message....forget that this was ONE person, insane and probably a true zealot.....they make US to be the bad guys, WE are the ones trying to wake everyone else up to the fact that abortion DOES destroy a REAL baby, not some blob or piece of tissue or cluster of cells.
The same number of persons who died from killer bee stings in the US since 1973 is SIX.
Over HALF A BILLION Americans have been wiped out of history from abortions since 1973.
TWENTY years later we still get to hear about the abortion clinic bombings.
2006-09-23 10:52:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Please do yourself a favor and watch the documentary "Outfoxed"
You will see how the "news" on some networks are skewed not only through the reporters words but also by what is reported on, Maybe if you bothered to pick up a newspaper then you would understand the difference beween real news and "fox news"
2006-09-23 09:39:31 · answer #6 · answered by Sillira 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
When the White House press are told if they ask certain questions they will no longer have access to the White House and they give in to the threats they are then giving bias reporting. Where are the hard nosed reporters. If they can't stand the heat they should get out of the kitchen.
2006-09-23 09:38:47 · answer #7 · answered by unforgettable_1 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Our media in America is liberal biased. I like to listen the CNN, Christian news channel and occasionally Limbaugh and Hanity, I'm not familiar with O Reilly.
2006-09-23 09:41:12 · answer #8 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have yet to find an unbiased news show. I usually look at many and come to my own conclusions.
2006-09-23 09:49:18 · answer #9 · answered by The Hell With This Constitution 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Would you know bias when you see it?
Do you know that it can be done in the most subtle of ways...and yes all are guilty...but FOX is a IN-YOUR-FACE lie.
2006-09-23 09:43:54 · answer #10 · answered by dstr 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋