Hey Lefties. . . . And Righties Too.. . . . You've Got Some Splainin' To Do . -- When's The Last Time You

Question

When's the last time you took a long honest look at your News Network ?. . . .Or , better yet , when's the last time you took an honest look at what the other side is saying on the 'other' News Networks ?

Over the past two months or so I've been watching quite a bit of MSNBC and CNN and I've made some interesting discoveries . Some of their stories are good !! Some of their reporting isn't biased . And I benefited by seeing some stories that weren't on my favorite - FoxNews . I will also add that FoxNews has good stories that aren't covered on MSNBC or CNN either . Because I strongly dislike Olbermann , I had always associated MSNBC with Olbermann , therefore limiting watching that network at all . And it's very very likely that some of you on the left associate FoxNews with O'Reilly and Hannity too . And that's not accurate either .
I did this because I was sick of seeing some call Fox - 'Fox Noise or Faux News' . And that ain't true either . So I wanted to compare .

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Have You Allowed Yourself To Be Biased ?
Are You Willing To Do What I Did Over A Long Period Of Time(2 months) To Educate Yourselves ?
Or
Are You Happy Being One-Sided ? Hmmmm?

Answer 1

I'm one sided for the most part. Yes, I'm happy... but let;s not forget that ignorance is bliss. Yes, CNN has been imppressing me lately, allowing me to make my own decision on how to look at things...them not being bias and trying to do it for me

Answer 2

I miss the days when News was a source of information instead of entertainment. Now there is not a news program out there that doesn't look at the bottom line (like every other business).
If you can't trust them to just report the news without putting their own "mark" on it, how can you trust them to actually be telling you the truth? Any of them?

I know it been going on for some time but I really first noticed with the Mahr (sp?) show Politically Incorrect. What a joke that was! It was when liberal thinking was really taking off and anytime a conservative would start to out fox the man he would cut to commercial. It was more PC than the court hearing to remove the Ten Commandments.
I don't mind liberal shows as long as they will be up front about it and keep it out of the news. Just report the news, why is that so hard? Maybe most people don't want to watch the news anymore, they just want to be entertained. I, for one, would find it refreshing.
That being said, the local channel I watch is sometimes unbiased, and sometimes will swing from one side to the other.
They had a report on some of the good things that are taking place in Iraq, then the very next week decided to do a report on the losses of life.
Newspapers aren't immune either.

Answer 3

I don't watch CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, or MSNBC because they are all left wing Liberal Democrat bias. I watch Fox or I don't watch anything at all. I have cancelled all my newspaper and magazine subscriptions for the same reason. I get my news from the radio or internet. Fox may not be 100% accurate but it sure is less biased than the rest.

Answer 4

Obviously every news network is biased in some way. The majority of them lean to the liberal side. Obviously Fox News is the main conservative network. Each can offer decent reports. You just have to determine when you're being swayed one way or the other. I honestly think that Fox News, while conservative overall yes, is closer to objectivity and balancing in the middle than all the others. I just think they get more flack for it than do the liberal networks because most of the media is liberal anyway and it seems like they can more or less gang up on them.

Answer 5

I don't watch news on TV.
President Johnson reportedly said, " If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost Middle America."
after Having seen a report by Walter Cronkite that concluded that the war in Vietnam was unwinnable. He dropped out of the 1968 Presidential Race.

Now if a President realizes that the media is this important, it is only a matter of time, until the White House starts trying to sell us their own brand. Do some research on when all the groups that are being called mouth-peices of Washington DC started pumping out the so-called "biased reporting".

If you want an example of such, just look at all the stuff reported by right-wing media about Saddam Hussein. Most of it was tailored to conflict with the religious and politicial sensibilities of the religious right(i.e. taking babies out of incubators to use for developing WMDS etc.)
Not saying that any world leader that seeks to devlop biologicial weapons shouldn't be considered a possible threat, and that Saddam Hussein shouldn't have been taken out for some of the things he did, but some of the stories, that you'll never be able to disprove because you aren't in a position to look at the facts, are far too coincidental.

Answer 6

I don't watch much TV news. And the few times I watch, I've seen all of them have both biased and objective news reports. It doesn't take much discernment to differentiate between biased and objective, if you're willing to objectively analyze the content.

I'm not talking about stuff like O'Rielly or Olberman - those are commentary shows with obviously heavy bias - but regular newscasts.

Answer 7

The closest thing I watch to news on TV is japanimation. If it isn't going to be honest, true, and balanced, it might as well be entertaining.
I might catch a few things on the History channel, but the rest of the time my TV is used for playing netflix videos.
I quit watching news on TV when it became noticeable they obviously were too biased to be considered news. And regardless of what you think, FOX news is very biased. All you have to do is watch how they report a story vs how everyone else does.
They all might report the same thing, but you can obviously see their own brand of slant in almost every story.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

I'm not saying I don't try to listen to the other side sometimes but you don't have to even turn the tv or radio on to get the other side when you have a red heart and live in a blue state. The other side gets represented at school, in the paper, and in the conversations you end up in every day. Therefore it is my own side that I usually need input on.

Answer 10

I do watch more than one and cnn has made moves to improve (Glenn Beck)
they are better than they were a few years ago
I think thats because they freaked out when they lost so much market share to Fox.
then they fired lots of people. ( i live near Atlanta)
and adjusted to real life.
Is it a coinsidence that this happened over the 5 or so years since Ted Turner and Jane Fonda divorced?????