Merged Thread: Romney Drops Out; Can McCain Defeat Democrats?

[mheisig]

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.

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.

[Sheriff Gonna Getcha]

Originally Posted by mheisig

That seems like a rather silly statement to make since it's virtually impossible to quantify.

I think it's perfectly reasonable for me to believe that Fox is more biased in its reporting than the other networks.

[mheisig]

Originally Posted by Sheriff Gonna Getcha

I think it's perfectly reasonable for me to believe that Fox is more biased in its reporting than the other networks.

I definitely agree with you there, but the original statement wasn't phrased to lead the reader that is was an opinion or belief, but that it was a statement of fact

[Beemnseven]

I think the "right" misunderstands the nature of news. This is specifically regarding the reporting of violence in Iraq. The right will say, they're not telling us the good things that are happening in Iraq.

If a plane takes off in Chicago and safely lands in New York -- that's not going to make the news. If it crashes, then it's going to be on the front page. Now, is that mainstream media bias when they don't tell us about safe landings? Generally speaking, "good things" that happen isn't news.

Listening to Rush Limbaugh compain about the "drive by media" is like listening to someone complain that the sky is blue. It's just the way it is (to quote Cronkite).

Deal with it.

[wolfeskins]

Originally Posted by Sheriff Gonna Getcha

I think it's perfectly reasonable for me to believe that Fox is more biased in its reporting than the other networks.

when your pretty much the only network that leans to the right, your going to stick out and be noticed.

[Monksdown]

Fox is most assuredly more supportive of the "old time" values that are favored on the right. I like the perspective though, a majority of the rest of the country's media outlets are owned by former hippies.

[70Chip]

Not all Democrats are bad people. Today there is one fewer in the good column, unfortunately. RIP Rep. Lantos.

Tom Lantos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[dmek25]

Originally Posted by 70Chip

Not all Democrats are bad people. Today there is one fewer in the good column, unfortunately. RIP Rep. Lantos.

Tom Lantos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

huh? what a statement

[70Chip]

Originally Posted by dmek25

huh? what a statement

Is it your position that all Democrats ARE bad people? I was trying to be generous.