![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chipotleQuoted from Scot Hacker's blog:
Protests clog NY, Philly, Washington. In San Francisco more than 1000 are arrested. Fox brushes up against this news, does all it can not to treat it with revulsion. I mean with Shock and Awe. How can anyone protest at a time like this?, the reporter asks. Our boys are halfway across the world at risk of dying to protect our very right to protest, and they're protesting? The irony is thick like chemical weapons gas, the reporter nearly coughs. Fox puts convicted war criminal Oliver North in the field as a reporter--that's what credibility is all about. 16 die in a helicopter crash--12 brits and a 4 yanks. Or so I hear on CNN. When Fox does the same story a few minutes later, they tell us that four people have died. If you're not American your life isn't worth prime-time mention. The info graphic tells me the cruising speed and gas mileage of the Abrams tank and I feel informed.
Remember, kids, the Liberal Media™ is biased--Fox is there to set things right for us!
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2003-03-22 12:14 (UTC)1.) They are conservative, they'll admit it and that's half the point. They admit it, so you know where they're coming from. CNN seems to be stealthy about it, you have no idea where its coming from unless it's obvious. (Larry King).
2.) They always let the other side speak. Take Hannity and Colmes for example, Hannity does not host the show all the time, sometimes he hardly speaks even. They take turns wearing the pants so to speak.
3.) Self-discrimination by the left. There are many on the left that _refuse_ to ever go on the network, thus they never have their views expressed. O'Rielly talks of this often, he's requested certain upper echelon of the democratic party, but their underlings basically gave him the middle finger and tell him to screw off. They're constantly rude, so he gave up ever trying it again.
Balance can be achieved only when you know your data. CNN offers no data what so ever, thus you cannot make any calculations. Fox welcomingly exclaims what they are, including the liberals on there and there are alot of them, people just seem to ignore that fact. You know where they're coming from and can adjust for your own personal political scale.
no subject
Date: 2003-03-22 13:42 (UTC)Actually, CNN says about every half-hour or every hour, as well as posts all over its website, that it's an AOL Time-Warner Company. Everyone who knows politics knows who Ted Turner is, and what party he's a member of. Also: Not all reporting has to be conservative or liberal. It's reporting -- it's not SUPPOSED to be bias. Where as Fox says it's conservative, other news agencies are trying to preserve neutrality and just -report- as opposed to -influence-, which Fox news does a good job of attempting.
"2.) They always let the other side speak. Take Hannity and Colmes for example, Hannity does not host the show all the time, sometimes he hardly speaks even. They take turns wearing the pants so to speak. "
Ever see the show 'Crossfire'? Or 'Larry King Live'? They have BOTH Conservative -and- Liberal dialogue, shows, reports, reporters, and material. CNN shows both sides and makes it a point to be somewhat fair.
"3.) Self-discrimination by the left. There are many on the left that _refuse_ to ever go on the network, thus they never have their views expressed. O'Rielly talks of this often, he's requested certain upper echelon of the democratic party, but their underlings basically gave him the middle finger and tell him to screw off. They're constantly rude, so he gave up ever trying it again."
Maybe they know that Fox News is crappy reporting and doesn't draw in the ratings that CNN does. So why bother? :)
"Balance can be achieved only when you know your data. CNN offers no data what so ever, thus you cannot make any calculations. Fox welcomingly exclaims what they are, including the liberals on there and there are alot of them, people just seem to ignore that fact. You know where they're coming from and can adjust for your own personal political scale."
Read what I said about Crossfire and the answer to number one. I think that's sufficient.
Note: I'm not a supporter of CNN, FoxNews, MSNBC, or any of the networks. But at the same time, I'm a supporter of all of them. I believe that you can't ever get your news from just -one- source. To do so would be to deliberately limit your own viewpoint to those who present them. Remember that when you decide ONLY to watch Fox News and ONLY read from Conservative magazines and news sources. By purposely cutting yourself away from the liberals, you're letting people mold you into the conservative they want you to be.
Hell, we spend so much on education in both primary and secondary levels getting people to think for themselves and to -research-, one would think Americans would never resort to this. So, the answer to the problem/debate is simplified: Read more than one source, get more than one viewpoint, and draw your own conclusions.