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Originally Posted by Sheriff Gonna Getcha
Buster,
I don't think anyone is claiming other news agencies don't make mistakes or that they are totally unbiased. In my opinion, most major networks and newspapers are center-left (e.g., biased in favor of Dems). For example, nearly all mainstream newspapers endorse Dems during Presidential races.
HOWEVER, Fox News is far and away more biased than the "mainstream media." Fox News' support of the right is far more extreme than the mainstream media's support of the left.
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That seems like a rather silly statement to make since it's virtually impossible to quantify.
I liked Fox News when it first came out, but over the past two years I've come to realize every major news network out there is pushing nothing but propaganda.
I had a few friends who were on a SWAT team that went to New Orleans during Katrina and several friends who served in Iraq. In other words, I've heard first-hand stories from guys who have been at the center of some of the major news stories in recent years, and to a man they tell me that almost everything on the major news networks is crap.
At best it's full of gross factual errors, at worst they're flat out lying and know damn well what they're doing.
CNN, Fox, NBC, ABC, whoever, it's a giant steaming crock of propaganda.
Bottom line: if watching CNN makes you feel better because they may lie a 95 times out of a 100 when Fox lies 96 times out of a 100, then I guess that's your choice. Personally I don't waste my time with network news any more.
My advice: do your own research and take everything with a grain of salt.