2007-01-13 07:08:24 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Media & Journalism
Fox News is good for entertainment (especially for us, the rest of the World).
If you want a slightly more balanced view on the world, watch BBC News or if not available, you are still better off with CNN (INTERNATIONAL edition!). If you want to go all alternative, go for Al Jazeera (English version) or France24 (english version).
2007-01-13 07:15:06 · answer #1 · answered by Nuppo 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not at all 'Fair and Balanced'...I've found the best way to get all perspectives is to watch a combination of news channels, blogs, newspapers, magazines, etc. Some are biased to the right (Fox News, talk radio, etc.) and some to the left. Basically, vary your new sources to get the most well-rounded ideas about news, then make up your own mind.
2007-01-13 10:50:53 · answer #2 · answered by mu 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
None of the news sources we have are fair and balanced. So in that regard fox is similarly fair and balanced as the alternatives. They all have their agendas and issues. Some of them merely by conditioning - our media generally reports the death of civilians abroad as minor issues and statistics whereas a tourist dead in a ferry accident can get hours of footage.
If you're a UK news reader www.medialens.org is a good site, questioning the 'liberal' media to justify some of their stances.
news.yahoo.com is easily the best source for news, as it's straight off the newswires. No articles censored or edited by selection by the news paper or channel of choice. I'd recommend news on tv as entertainment and those who want real news to make more of an effort to find it.
2007-01-13 07:19:25 · answer #3 · answered by freenatur 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont trust any sorce of news to be fair and balanced... If you think you're gona find a fair news sorce then you are probably the dunce of the year award contestant number one. No news sorce is ever fair or balanced and the only way to check that reality is to get your news from as many sorces as possible. I dont buy into anything they put in the news untill I have seen it with my own eyes. Of course this means I dont buy into alot of the events that happen over any given day 100%. So that leaves me in a constant state of paranoia something I find to be a blessing rather then a curse.
2007-01-13 08:20:58 · answer #4 · answered by magpiesmn 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, I don't know of a fair and balanced news media. All news media are selling you on the national agenda that is set by whoever pays them the most, The little people just get screwed because they have no real voice.
2007-01-14 09:02:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If Fox News Channel broadcast from the UK, not only would it be prosecuted for being politically biased, but it would be prosecuted under the Trades Description Act for calling itself fair and balanced.
It's a right-wing, neo-conservative mouthpiece that Adolf Hitler dreamt about.
It's good for a laugh (particularly Bill O'Reilly, who proves that people can survive without a brain) and for Fox and Friends, where none of the presenters can read the autocue, but don't ever take it seriously.
2007-01-13 11:25:51 · answer #6 · answered by Timothy M 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Fox is a 'propaganda organ' for the Republican party. It not in any respect pretended to be something else. 'honest and Balanced' is meant in a virtually ironic way. how are you going to be honest and balanced once you cutting-edge purely one fringe of each and every mission? If Fox somewhat had to be honest and balanced, that they had cutting-edge not basically 2 aspects yet -numerous- aspects to each and each and every tale. they have not in any respect somewhat even tried to attempt this. on each and every occasion they have liberals or Democrats on, they p.c.. somewhat incompetent spokesmen, they interrupt and talk over them, and on some shows they finally end up basically telling them to 'close up'. Fox is acquainted with what it is target market needs. They honestly do not favor 'honest and balanced'. they favor information tuned to their own reviews. they don't favor to be informed or edified or knowledgeable. They already understand what they believe and they favor their own unlucky prejudices bolstered and inspired. Why does Fox say the 'fairness Doctrine' might want to destroy their precise to loose speech? because requiring the community to cutting-edge somewhat a range perspectives might want to destroy them. Their audiences might want to dwindle to not something. As for Colbert, are you previous adequate to save in recommendations All contained in the relatives? component to that educate's mythical fulfillment changed into that liberals pronounced Archie Bunker as a parody of conservatives on the time, at the same time as conservatives pronounced him as their spokesman. It shows you which ones side is better knowledgeable and open minded. 8^)
2016-12-02 05:26:31 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no american news channels are balanced, they are all biased because in one way or another they are governmentally owned. News will never present a clear answer for you or present you with the whole story, if you look for like British news or BC itll be more balanced then american
2007-01-13 07:21:38 · answer #8 · answered by d_skate2000 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well fox news is owned by Rupert Murdoch, of who owns the times and sun newspapers and they take an incredibly right-wing stance in their news reporting. so therefore it is not fair or balanced because it is a republican and labour party, not to mention a blair and bush supporting news corporation
2007-01-13 08:10:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
the notion is laughable in the extreme....fair and balanced? dear God time to start thinking - this is one of the most unpleasant and unbalanced news organisations in the world. For a blanced view watch more than one channel, read more than one paper and start thinking!
2007-01-13 21:57:15 · answer #10 · answered by Gilly S 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋