Do you believe the media is fair and balanced?

Question

If you believe the media market is bias which political organization do you feel has the most coverage? Conservatives or Liberals? Explain...

Answer 1

The problem with the media is that there are no real journalists any more. Someone to go out and get the real story. Our media reports the "news" that it is provided, then it turns into a variety show with the latest dead starlet and health tips for a happy prostate. I rarely watch television (haven't owned one in 13 years), I prefer to listen to shows like Coast to Coast AM, there are some fascinating guests. The host, George Noory, is possibly the only interviewer I know who will let people say their piece, whether he agrees or not. I do a lot of research on my own and my BS detector is pretty fine tuned, I know when I am being lied to. That seems to be pretty much all the media and our Government is good for.

Answer 2

Most of the media is more liberal. It is set up that way. Where rating comes from is mans inhumanity to man. People want solutions to it. The liberals give a quick fix. Like most band-aids the quick fix causes as many problem, without positively affecting the cause.

The only entitlement that is different is education thru the 1st 3 grades. After the 3rd grade most of classes are recovering the same stuff & adding a little frosting. IF the student had the ambition (S)He could educate themselves the rest of the way in libraries. Examples Lincoln & Franklin. The teacher then becomes a facilitator.

Answer 3

I don't think the media should be "fair and balanced." The media should independently investigate, research and present the Truth to the best of their ability. Because contrary to the apparent popular wisdom, there is not a left and a right version of the truth, there is only Truth.

Short of that, I would rather have a press that was hostile to whatever administration was in power, than one that was government controlled , or owned by partisans of whomever is in power at the moment, because the people in power already have a pretty big soapbox, by default.

Answer 4

Hard-core Conservatives- have Fox News, pretty much all of talk radio, several newspapers and news magazines. And yes Fox News is very right-wing, just look at who's hosting, look at their guest list.

Hard-core Liberals have CNN, unwatched talk radio , most newspapers, a few news magazines

Truly fair and balanced is hard to come by. If you average out the ideologies of the hosts, MSNBC is pretty close to moderate. You'd have to go to the BBC to get really non-biased news.

Right-wing mag: The Weekly Standard
Moderate: Newsweek/Time/U.S. News
Left-wing: The Nation

Truth is, neither side overly dominates as a whole.

Answer 5

I think the media is definitely bias toward the left. It's easy to criticize when they feel safe but when the towers came down they rallied for the Government to do something, now that we have committed to fight terrorism they romanticize about the power they had in the Vietnam. They shouted stop the killing!!
But more people were killed in the 3yrs after we left than the 9yr war from both sides in Vietnam. Now they say we are loosing the war. When we have 3,000 +of our solders that gave their live in our place, and the death toll of the Iraqis stand at over 600,000. If that's what they call loosing a war perhaps they should check their math.

Answer 6

The liberals have every news outlet covered except FoxNews who is actually fair and Balanced, I also think that most talk radio has a pretty balanced opinion. but media in general is no where near balanced. How much bad do you hear about the war in iraq on the 5 or 6 o'clock news? then look at how many positives you hear( and yes there are positives for you liberals out there).

Answer 7

Set the before gadget for the day our troops broke into Baghdad. On Fox, that they had stay insurance of the form, I sat there watching as one among our infantrymen bumped into the city. Over on CNN, they have been completely ignoring this and working yet another rfile on some woman marine who harm her foot whilst she exchange into taken prisoner via Saddam's troops weeks earlier. Up till that element, CNN had made particular to rfile each and each mistake and set-lower back of our militia, yet whilst that they had a huge gamble to rfile a victory, they exceeded over it. Do i actually would desire to spell it out for you in extra element, the rationalization i've got self belief purely Fox information is truthful and balanced, to no longer point out professional-American?

Answer 8

Radio: Conservative dominated, the conservatives pretty much dominate talk radio with the exception of NPR and Air America.

TV: Liberal dominated, liberals pretty much dominate TV news with the exception of Fox News Channel.

Press: Fairly balanced, many major city newspapers tend to have a more liberal slant where small town newspapers tend to be more conservative.

Internet: You can find anything you want on the Internet. This is not usually a good source for real news unless you are using a reputable site which is usually connected to a TV, radio, or press outlet.

Overall, I think the media is fairly balanced. There is plenty of access to both conservative and liberal sources of information.

Answer 9

Until 1996, when Fox was started (If I recall correctly--I sat on an early focus group around then), the media was completely Liberal in their bias.

Now we have Fox, and the Liberals rant about it around here, all day and all night.

Whatever. It's the only thing close to "fair and balanced," because with Fox around, the Liberal media tries a little harder.

Answer 10

Generally, I think "the media" does a reasonably fair job but far from perfect.

There's far too much emphasis on "celebrities", etc. and far too little on actual news.

The exception is Fox "News". Utterly pathetic. Republican State Television masquerading as real journalism.

And, even someone a slow as Rush Limbaugh admits there is no such thing as "liberal media".