their news source? I'm sure that if I watched FOX News for a week, I'd see a very diff view of world affairs. Try changing your news sources for a week and see what happens. Libs try watching Fox and Cons try almost anything else other than FOX or one of the God stations...try PBS, or NPR, MSNBC with an open mind, as if they were more accurate....
2007-09-12 01:57:08 · 16 answers · asked by amazed we've survived this l 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
No, that's not true at all.
The only time when the news source matters is when people decide to accept the reporting without the necessary skepticism. Because all news sources are biased, one has to be able to detect and filter out that bias.
I'm conservative and I listen a lot to NPR, but I also recognize their biases, and account for those, just as I recognize Fox News' biases and NBC's biases.
In all of these, it is actually quite easy to distinguish fact from editorial. One can sometimes even figure out what information was withheld from the news story in order to create the bias.
2007-09-12 02:11:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I watch Fox at home and listen to NPR on the car radio on long trips.
Fox? It's a lot of work. It's like an old Bugs Bunny carton. You have to pay close attention because the facts are hiding somewhere between the jokes.
NPR went out of business in my local area so not so much anymore.
MSNBC? Tried that. It's sort of like Cotton Candy. You could eat it all day and still be hungry before bed.
PBS? Use to love it. Now, unless you are gay, black, a resident of New Orleans, a jazz musician or an endangerd species, they have nothing to say to you.
NY Times? I can't get motivated to read anything that you need a hand truck to get into your house.
CNN? If you believe New Orleans is still under water, Global Warming is going to flood NY tomorrow, the US military has rape squads, George Bush personally tortures arabs, the US is controlled by Zionists and everyone must own a Volvo, you should never turn CNN off.
BBC? It's like watching paint dry on a stick.
ABC, NBC, CBS? Sorry, Anna Nicole Smith and Brittany Spears are not an important part of my life.
What's left? The traffic and weather. They get that wrong too.
2007-09-12 09:21:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I try to get all sides of a story. I watch Fox and even Pat Robertson (who claims to be presenting the news) on occasion. I like Bill O'Reilly; one of my favorite commentators is George Will. I also watch Bill Moyers, Frontline and I like Bill Maher's show. BBC and Christian Science Monitor are great sources for an outside view of the US. After all that, you can digest the information and make up your own mind. If you watch only one news channel, you never get a full story. Fox is very biased toward the administration having a neocon slant. I think that thinking people of all political persuasions know that (although many will not admit it).
2007-09-12 09:06:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
I'm a conservative and I listen to NPR most mornings on my way into work. I also watch PBS's program "Frontline" because I think they do excellent work digging behind the scenes. About all I watch on FOX is Shepperd Smith's show and that's about it. Every once in a while I'll watch O'Reilly, but I hardly ever watch Hannity and Colmes. Either way, if you listen to both sources and you know there is a bias, it is easy to pick it out.
2007-09-12 09:01:58 · answer #4 · answered by civil_av8r 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I wish the differences were as simple as a news source. Then we could all get on the same channel and things would be hunky dory. Unfortunately this is a fundamental difference in mentality. People who support this war are convinced of its validity regardless of what sources or facts you may show them. There were no weapons of mass destruction and Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. (Which was the original reason we were supposedly going there.)
When this was brought out in the open (On every major news source.) people were still ok with the fact that they were misled and just as anxious to see us blow the hell out of the evil doers. (Even though the so called evil doers did no evil to America and had no intention of doing so.)
The whole reason for going to war was based in misinformation and blatant deception and if this doesn't matter to people then switching to NPR isn't going to do them much good. They are sold on the outright goodness of the good ole' US-of-A
and it borders on blasphemy to suggest that our nation could be capable of being wrong about anything. God forbid you suggest that our intentions were monetary and not based in some false ideal of American compassion for the suffering Iraqis. If we really cared about human attrocity and suffering we would have gone in and liberated the suffering children of Northern Uganda. Too bad there isn't an oil field over there.
2007-09-12 09:15:28 · answer #5 · answered by sleepydad 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Its not going to happen for me. I am frankly not intersted in televised journalism - left or right wing focused. I have studied this medium in college and have sufficient skepticism as not to watch news presenters with anything less than critical detachment. You need to watch all of them if you are looking for a general sense of whats happening, Understand some one is paying for the programing and has some influence on the finished message. Either by ommision or deliberate distortion, there is a lot of dis information out there. For what its worth I never supported Bush* or Bush's war.
2007-09-12 09:14:58 · answer #6 · answered by planksheer 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I watch shows no matter what station when they have the politician on the program and I listen to what comes out of their mouths and make my decision from that. Not what a reporter or talk show host tells me what I should think. Cons should try thinking for themselves instead of being told what to think.
2007-09-12 09:07:06 · answer #7 · answered by David R 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Who really knows. Who? Your media? LOL Fox news? LOL
Americans need to learn some CIVICS. Revisit our way of operating in this nation. The US Constitution runs this nation. Our system and our courts run this nation. Lest we forget!
The media does not run the place unless we let them. Let's not.
ADDED: JimSock, your answer is priceless!
2007-09-12 09:04:37 · answer #8 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I get my news sources from all over (except Fox because it's biased). I also read tons of political blogs. It helps to see different views, including how other countries view us.
2007-09-12 09:12:35 · answer #9 · answered by Big Bear 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I form my own opinion by watching all of the above, as well as reading and listening to the politicans and the soldiers speak.
2007-09-12 09:00:37 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋