So I posted a question with a media article and majority of the people read it and simply gave an answer. Well an individual pointed out to me that I needed to "check" my source for credability. So I did and I also acknowledged his point. (This question had to do with O'Reilly(yes I know O'Reilly isn't a news reporter) and media outlets claiming their unbiased reporting.)
What it also did was make me wonder this.
Is there ANY media, including up to television, newspapers, scholarly journals, radio, nonprofit or profit, that will report simply the "facts?"
Whether or not it's the reporter, the media outlet providing the coverage, executive management and even the reader.
Think about it, whether intentional or not will there not always be "some" form of bias when media covers politics and news?
2007-08-01 12:29:54 · 8 answers · asked by Glen B 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Pretty much, no.
Everyone puts some spin on it -- the best you can do is try to find the sources with the least spin. Like Associated Press and Reuters who go a long way towards requiring their writers to not insert opinion or analysis, just data.
Or the sources that at least openly acknowledge their bias -- like the Daily show. They're not real news and they freely acknowledge that. Or Air America, who freely admits they are expressing biased opinions.
O"Reilly and Olbermann and Hannity and Colmes -- they all have a bias and they all claim they don't. Which is far worse than admitting when you do.
2007-08-01 12:39:56 · answer #1 · answered by coragryph 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It's super hard to get at the truth. I check several sources to get different views. Sometimes in doing that I get a little bit of facts here and a little bit of facts there. Also, go to quotes made in an article instead of some writers summary of what happened. Then you can see if the summary leans one way or another. Sometimes it is way off.
2007-08-01 20:01:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's always a bias, because the person writing it is human. Besides which, reading straight facts is boring, and often needs extra info to inform the reader what those facts mean.
2007-08-01 19:41:22 · answer #3 · answered by Uncle Pennybags 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everytime I hear the death toll of Americans in Iraq I know it's shear propaganda to wear people out. Because when you compare the statistics over the years it's almost inconsequencial. Not their deaths or what they voluntarily are fighting for but the numbers. 16, 000 teens die yearly in a car accident, 4700 miners die yearly in China's mines, 3600 Iranians die monthly from pollution. Since the war began 3025 Americans died in combat.
2007-08-01 19:38:33 · answer #4 · answered by Who's got my back? 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
very few people are actually unbiased , the media is to ge the word out . They report then we decide . The neolibs that scream faux news think they can watch cnn and believe everything they say , when in reality we should all make our own opinions
2007-08-01 19:36:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
You can get almost basic facts with the weather report and the sports scores. Everything else is suspect in my opinion.
2007-08-01 19:35:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, but with Fox news its an art form.
If your like me, you are fed up with the fourth estate (the press) they have failed the American people miserably again and again, by not keeping the pressure on this administration to come clean about 9/11 and what the hell hit the Pentagon.
Ted Koppel left night line in disgust, and who could blame him?
2007-08-01 19:34:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
sorry to say, I believe that all "news" is biased in one way or another
2007-08-01 21:16:35 · answer #8 · answered by julia j 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋