Is Fox news the only source you can go to for unbiased, truthful reporting of the news?

Question

Following two weeks of investigation, re-reporting and fact checking, it appears that the writer in question has not been precisely honest.

To briefly recap: Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp was writing stories for The New Republic (TNR) under the pseudonym, Scott Thomas -- allegedly relating insider stories from the front lines. Some of Thomas' stories, appearing in TNR didn't ring true to close readers, some of whom had been in Iraq at the times and places where Beauchamp's tales supposedly took place.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KathleenParker/2007/08/08/a_million_little_piece_of_truthiness

Are you libs mad just because Fox news is cleaning the clock of the major news networks??....or because they don't portray our military in a negative way??......hey, sounds like another question.....

Ken...O'Reilly makes no bones about his leanings and doesn't try to portray himself as unbiased...unlike the CNN reporters who claim to be unbiased....THAT is dangerous..

Answer 1

There are two parts to Fox News.... one would be the news coverage of an event that happened and second would be their opinion shows. I believe Fox will bring more stories of a optimistic nature and show America in a good light vs. the others which only look to bring Bush down... oh.. mixed with some weather... (which if bad is blamed on Bush as well)

Second... the opinion programs are more conservative leaning simply because they have very bright people who do their homework and prepare for their shows... they also allow the opposing view on their shows on a DAILY basis. No other news channel does that.

Talk radio is also another excellent source along with certain web sites.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Only if you are narrow minded and can't accept a variety of news sources. Some will slant one way and others will slant the other way. The trick is to get the same story from several and what you come up with is a middle road more truthful story than one single source would give you. So by itself I would not say Fox is fair and balanced at all. It is slanted to the Right. Others are slanted Left. If one looks at both the truth is there.

Answer 4

Can you say non-sequitur? You take one example of dishonest reporting and conclude that Fox News is the only trustworthy news channel? The news on Fox is probably presented in a fairly accurate manner with a conservative twist. However, when people mistake the opinions of commentators such as Bill O'Reilly for news, that is the problem. Much of Fox's primetime programming is editorial content which is by definition opinion, not news.

Addtional Comment: I agree with you on O'Reilly and I like him. I disagree with him often, but I like him. It is not O'Reilly that I have a problem with it is the people that quote him as some kind of authority or spew his rhetoric as fact. The same with Rush Limbaugh, who I do not like. It seems when either of them says something controversial, the next day you see it all over the net as if it were fact.

Answer 5

NO You can get the truth from all the news sources, you just have to use your brain and filter through the facts from the opinions. I think all the networks try to be unbiased in their basic news reports; it's when you get to the talk shows like Bill o, Hannity & Co, Glenn Beck (CNN), Keith Olbermann that you find some bias, but a keen person can still glean truth from what they say, and see the holes in their arguments.

Answer 6

Fox give a voice to a the conservative side of the story which seems to be a bad idea for liberals.

Liberals can't even admit that they are liberal on the air they claim to be "progressive".
Liberal media doesn't even admit they have a liberal bias.

As far as I can tell now they way it is going down. You want the truth there are two outlets of news.
Fox and NPR
NPR spends more time explaining a story than any other.
Fox because they atleast have different views on their shows because one.

Answer 7

Foxnews IS bias and thats ok. The sooner we can all start admitting that ALL news agencies are biased one way or the other, the sooner we can stop living that lie.

But what makes Fox great is that they are NOT afraid to hide who they are. The liberal media IS. They are NOT afraid of debate. The lib media IS. They are NOT afraid to give the other side a fair hearing. The lib media IS and as a matter of general practice does not. In 2-3 years of listening to lib NPR, I only heard one single voice ever defend Bush.

Fox bias? Yes. Fair and balanced? YES!

Answer 8

It's hard to tell. I watch MSNBC the most, followed by Fox News. MSNBC I believe is very fair. They have a Libertarian commentator; Tucker Carlson, a Democrat commentator; Keith Olberman, and a Republican commentator; Pat Buchanan and therefore, you hear many viewpoints. Fox News is pretty fair, most of the time. Although Fox News can be fairly biased.

Answer 9

Ha ha!!!!! I'm pretty pro-Republican, and even I wouldn't call them UNBIASED!! FOX simply found a market where all the other more liberal outlets weren't addressing.
Funny thing is NOW, these same outlets all deny that there's a liberal bias, where BEFORE FOX News came along, they never denied this at all. In fact, they used to admit it a bit proudly!

Answer 10

This is a joke isn't it? You are joking aren't you?

Because everybody knows that The Fox Corporation and "unbiased" & "truthful" just don't go together.

So, yes, this is a joke.
Not that funny. You will probably need to work on you technique. But keep trying.