Is the American press bias?

Question

Like I don't know already!

Answer 1

All press is biased. If you are talking about other countries, you call it "propaganda". If it's your own newspaper, you call it "critical reporting".

If you are the American public:
1. You are mostly too lazy to check the facts or think about the implications or the inconsistencies in the news reports;
2. You depend on the press to feed you in tiny bites without a great deal of substance;
3. You believe them because some pretty face said it;
4. If EVERY news organization is carrying the same stories, don't you think they must be collusion? No way, everyone thinks the same things are News!

Answer 2

Darn it I was having a good weekend, then you have to ask a very complicated question.

On the surface it seems to say yes they are biased, the whole game today is to make money, Bad news sells newspapers. It has to be relevant to the local readership, if the news is from another, county, state, country, continent then it is less relevant to you the local readership.

Ostensibly the journalist is trying to get the scoop and come out better than his siblings.

When he turns in the story it is then Edited in some cases arbitrarily by the Paper owner , then the editor. It is judged on saleability bearing in mind the political ramifications if the paper and the local readership is inclined one way or the other,

In a country as wide and long as the USA with 50 states to include in news plus the rest of the world it makes it virtually impossible for a local RAG (News Paper) to cover all and be profitable.

Any way when were you the local people concerned about the
corporate or local scene in any where other than your own back yard.

Today if you have a Computer and Internet service you can get all the news from all papers and news media in the world and it costs you nothing.

So a quick answer is Yes because.

Answer 3

Press is biased all over the world, if it's government owned ( such in Communist countries and dictatorships) press is their piece mouth, and if privately owned you can't veer off course depending on the political spectrum the outlet had designed for itself.

Answer 4

The press tell people what they already believe, that is how they make money.

Answer 5

Who - the biased liberal drive-by media ?What ? Sacrifice human dignity and the desire for freedom ? For job security - or risk liberal wrath ? For sure - or they are all scared they won't get work ...except for a few brave souls..of course , not in the mainstream media loop ..

Answer 6

Yes the American tell us what we should care about. Watch BBC on PBS or listen to it on the XM radio. What a difference!

Answer 7

They represent the interests they see as representing their profit strcuture and the regulatory interests they see as key to their expansion and domination of the media delivery systems.

Answer 8

My local newspaper is the most Liberal paper I ever used to read

Answer 9

Always has and always will be! That's the one and only thing they do right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 10

Duh