What is the difference between CNN, Fox New and the BBC?

Question

I personally find myself watching Fox New because I am republican, and my democrat friends watch CNN. The BBC I don't know who watches that. How can three networks stand next to each other and report three different views consistently. Is it the Journalists or is it the network.

Answer 1

Fox News – Fair and Balanced.

Let’s start with the very moniker of the network. “News – Fair and Balanced”. “News” is “news”, it is a simple report of recent events. It CAN NOT BE FAIR OR BALANCED! It is information! Only “Opinion” or “Commentary” can be described as fair or balanced! Before they even get to their coverage they have discredited themselves as journalists. If you are at all aware of the principles of journalism you will understand how outrageous this next observation is; I witnessed with my own eyes, live on Fox News, Britt Hume, the Managing Editor for Fox News Washington Bureau, mock the accent and make fun of Hans Blix, the chief weapons inspector for UNMOVIC. Simply outrageous. Rupert Murdoch has successfully lowered the standards of journalism for the entire industry. Here is another observation; FOX’s motto is “We report, you decide”. Well, this does not exactly instill confidence does it? If they reported accurate news what is there to decide? News is news. I don’t see what decisions have to be made? Now if you are talking about opinion, bias opinion, (all opinion is bias), then there may be a decision to be made as to how you feel. So as you see between the “Fair and balanced” and the “We report, you decide” monikers, these guys blatantly discredit themselves as journalists. You can not have it both ways. You can not have journalism and imply balance and you can not claim to report news, which is simply the telling of recent events, and imply that there is a decision to be made. If I were the managing editor for a news organization and someone came to me with those mottos for my “news” network I would fire them for incompetence. FOX would give them a raise

CNN – The Most Trusted Name in News or the Comedy News Network?

“Most Trusted”? According to whom? You can not simply declare yourself most trusted? CNN is responsible for the demise of TV Journalism. “Truth” is a word of which the people at CNN need to learn the definition. They do indeed report some news; but for the most part they mainly talk about some of the events of the day instead of reporting the rest of the events. Of course all the News Entertainment Networks are guilty of this as well.

* CNN = “Contains No News”- 1 Hour of CNN Yields Less Than 5 Minutes of News - A Detailed Analysis by TvNewsLies.org
* CNN’s Hard News - Serving 0.0001% of America
* Attempted Coup to Topple CNN Unsuccessful in the Netherlands
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Why Were Government Propaganda Experts Working On News At CNN?
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Paris deputies in tune with plans for state to fund 24-hour 'French CNN'

BBC:
the BBC is a foreign news source with a well-deserved reputation for independent journalism, we expected similar preferences for the BBC label among Democrats, Republicans and non-partisans alike. We further expected that the effects of the source manipulation on news story selection would be strong for political topics where partisan divisions are intense, but would have little impact on neutral topics such as travel and sports.

Answer 2

It's both ...
BBC is professional organizations subsidized by the public but not owned. It is based in London and during it's inception was formed on slightly different journalistic principles.(Integrity and professionalisms) Since, the BBC has a more global audience it tends to cover at times more international issues.

CNN was formed by Turner and thus private money. It is based in Atlanta and tends to cover only American issues. Fox is also private and tends to focus almost exclusively on American content. Both CNN and Fox were founded on entirely different journalistic standards. Part of it is a cultural difference, American news tends to be very insular despite accusations of bias. Thus the formation of these news networks have a slightly populist agenda as opposed to the traditional.

In general terms you would never hear a BBC journalist say something like "no spin, just truth" it would sound ridiculous to them and rightly so.

With all due respect to my American friends your debates over news being bias one way or another entirely miss the mark. There are far more problematic issues relating to focus and the overall level of integrity. I fear there is so much more going on in the world that you are missing out on.

sigh....

Answer 3

How people percieve events often depends on their view point. Fox News has a reputation for having more of a conservative view, which was not coincidental. A lot of conservatives complained, in focus groups, that CNN's coverage leaned to the left. Fox News made a marketing decision (afterall, it's all about the bottom line) to cater more to conservative viewers. Comparing either of the two, however, to the BBC is like comparing apples to oranges. BBC's stories are obviously told from a Brittish perspective, so American political issues aren't as much of a factor.

Answer 4

The difference between CNN, Fox and BBC...is most probably...their names.

Answer 5

BBC is not in America, and CNN and Fox News have different political agendas.

Answer 6

Probably the accents then of course the pay checks each year CNN/FOX higher paid than BBC I expect.

Answer 7

Fox News is more republican, CNN is more democrat and BBC is more for the English.

Answer 8

The big lesson I got from a required public speaking class at my college is that it takes two to communicate--one to talk and one to listen. The listener's mind is going to filter things in unique ways depending upon their viewpoint, religion, where they sat (could they hear you clearly?), how well they were paying attention, etc. What the listeners say about your speech later could be very surprising--so often I and my classmates hollered, "I didn't say that!"

It happens in real life, too. These journalists are professional listeners; it is their job to filter through everything they hear and say and give it to you. Their filters will be different. As you have seen, Fox is very Republican/conservative and CNN is a bit more liberal. (Not much, though--some of my liberal friends call it conservative!) And the BBC comes from another country.

Ultimately, the network will employ people who share their viewpoint, so I'd say it's the network if the journalists stay on.

A bumper sticker I used to have says, "The media is only as liberal as the conservative businesses that own them."

Answer 9

The journalists, I think. (I also watch Fox)

The BBC is really far-left, and the Clinton News Network is pretty leftist, too.

I have very little faith in ANY of the media, to be honest. All the pictures that have been faked by Reuters photogs, the AP stories that have NO backup, the CBS memo disaster.....

I used to want to be a journalist, but not any more. I just find the whole thing.....sleazy.

Answer 10

Interesting! Never really gave this much thought