Has Anyone Else Completely Lost Faith In The Media?

[MTK]

Fox News the least biased?

Probably the funniest thing I've heard in a really long time.

[firstdown]

They are all bias in one way or the other. Its like the left saying MSNBC is not bias. Funny people here use a bias source to prove the other one is bias.

[RedskinRat]

The only vaguely unbiased news outlet I recommend is al Jazeera as their bias is blatant and easily filtered. A very good source for news, in all seriousness.

No US outlet is untainted.

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by RedskinRat

The only vaguely unbiased news outlet I recommend is al Jazeera as their bias is blatant and easily filtered. A very good source for news, in all seriousness.

No US outlet is untainted.

Al Jazeera is one of the most bias.

[NC_Skins]

Originally Posted by RedskinRat

The only vaguely unbiased news outlet I recommend is al Jazeera as their bias is blatant and easily filtered. A very good source for news, in all seriousness.

No US outlet is untainted.

NPR : National Public Radio : News & Analysis, World, US, Music & Arts : NPR

Originally Posted by firstdown

Al Jazeera is one of the most bias.

Examples?

[RedskinRat]

Originally Posted by NC_Skins

NPR : National Public Radio : News & Analysis, World, US, Music & Arts : NPR

I'll make an effort to listen to NPR some time, but the sound of the interviewer/host almost put me to sleep last time.

[mlmpetert]

MSNBC Has Become Almost Entirely Saturated With Opinion, And Fox News Is Doing Much More Factual Reporting

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by mlmpetert

MSNBC Has Become Almost Entirely Saturated With Opinion, And Fox News Is Doing Much More Factual Reporting

Most people believe it to be the other way around.

[BaltimoreSkins]

Originally Posted by NC_Skins

NPR : National Public Radio : News & Analysis, World, US, Music & Arts : NPR

I do love my NPR. Especially morning edition and science fridays. I am not surprised about bias in the news. All of our media outlets, at least the major ones, are corporations and whether they swing left or right all corporations have an agenda.

[RedskinRat]

Originally Posted by firstdown

Al Jazeera is one of the most bias.

Every moslem suicide bomber is referred to as a 'martyr'.

There are many more, but this nugget always infuriates me.

[saden1]

You should never have faith in any organization whose sole objective is to increase value for its shareholders. Your faith should be reserved for people around you you love and respect, and those who are selfless in their actions.

[Daseal]

Also, lets look at the sample size of that graph. The graph looks at each network on 3 days (Mon 11/26, Wed 12/5, Tue 12/18). Far from a definitive source on either side. I'm not familiar with each channel's 'lineup' on those days of the week, but day of the week can greatly skew opinion vs fact.

It doesn't matter which news source it is, I don't consider this poll very reliable. I also am curious what they consider opinion vs fact and how they split the two up. What we should really be concerned about is that 2 out of 3 are more opinion than fact, and the one that has more facts is closer than I'd like.

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by Daseal

Also, lets look at the sample size of that graph. The graph looks at each network on 3 days (Mon 11/26, Wed 12/5, Tue 12/18). Far from a definitive source on either side. I'm not familiar with each channel's 'lineup' on those days of the week, but day of the week can greatly skew opinion vs fact.

It doesn't matter which news source it is, I don't consider this poll very reliable. I also am curious what they consider opinion vs fact and how they split the two up. What we should really be concerned about is that 2 out of 3 are more opinion than fact, and the one that has more facts is closer than I'd like.

Its not too hard to look at their line up and see it mostly opinions.

MSNBC TV Schedule | LocateTV

[Daseal]

Originally Posted by firstdown

Its not too hard to look at their line up and see it mostly opinions.

MSNBC TV Schedule | LocateTV

I'm not saying anyone did, but it's also easy to cherry pick days to monitor and days not to monitor to influence a poll. I'd like to see a span of 7 consecutive days, at a minimum, to really get a full picture of any news outlet. As I said, I'm really not trying to get into Fox vs MSNBC vs CNN, just that I don't consider 3 days a significant sample size.

[CRedskinsRule]

Originally Posted by Daseal

Also, lets look at the sample size of that graph. The graph looks at each network on 3 days (Mon 11/26, Wed 12/5, Tue 12/18). Far from a definitive source on either side. I'm not familiar with each channel's 'lineup' on those days of the week, but day of the week can greatly skew opinion vs fact.

It doesn't matter which news source it is, I don't consider this poll very reliable. I also am curious what they consider opinion vs fact and how they split the two up. What we should really be concerned about is that 2 out of 3 are more opinion than fact, and the one that has more facts is closer than I'd like.

The full research did take more than just those 3 days to analyze trends and topics, I would imagine pew used a representative sampling for graphing purposes:

Originally Posted by from graph's article

To get a sense of the long-term trends in coverage, Pew’s researchers analyzed more than 700 hours of cable news programming consisting of more than 15,000 individual stories from 2007 and 2012.