Is There Too Much Bias In The News?

[Bezkoshtovnya]

So blatant bias is fine as long as yours, and banning media that you disagree with due to opposing bias or otherwise is fine?

Yes.

Yeah fuck the first amendment.

[Mystic Warriors]

Yes.

Yeah fuck the first amendment.

Unless it's the government doing it, the 1st amendment mean Jack shit. It doesn't apply to private businesses.

[Caracasus]

Of course it is. Every media outlet is owned by someone who has a particular political agenda to push and aside from stuff like immediate reporting on accidents or natural disasters damn near everything can be spun or viewed through a particular lens.

Don't bother looking for unbiased reporting. It doesn't exist.

[Bezkoshtovnya]

Yeah fuck the first amendment.

Unless it's the government doing it, the 1st amendment means Jack shit. It doesn't apply to private businesses.

I mean how else is a news network going to be banned unless by the government? Another news network can't really ban another one.

[American Pere Housh]

Yes.

Yeah fuck the first amendment.

Typical socialist thinking.

[Mystic Warriors]

Unless it's the government doing it, the 1st amendment means Jack shit. It doesn't apply to private businesses.

I mean how else is a news network going to be banned unless by the government? Another news network can't really ban another one.

I didn't say government, I just agreed with the concept.

[Bezkoshtovnya]

Yeah fuck the first amendment.

Typical socialist thinking.

You...seriously failed to grasp that was sarcasm?

[Mystic Warriors]

Typical socialist thinking.

You...seriously failed to grasp that was sarcasm?

That and he incorrectly labeled it socialism.

[American Pere Housh]

Typical socialist thinking.

You...seriously failed to grasp that was sarcasm?

Wasn't directed at you more towards Mystic

[Bezkoshtovnya]

I mean how else is a news network going to be banned unless by the government? Another news network can't really ban another one.

I didn't say government, I just agreed with the concept.

Again though, how would this concept happen though if not through government means? Unless there are going to be news networks fighting to eliminate each other in which case....I approve.

[Mystic Warriors]

You...seriously failed to grasp that was sarcasm?

Wasn't directed at you more towards Mystic

Doesn't make your comment any less ridiculous.

[Mystic Warriors]

I didn't say government, I just agreed with the concept.

Again though, how would this concept happen though if not through government means? Unless there are going to be news networks fighting to eliminate each other in which case....I approve.

How can news networks get on air if all services refuse to air them due to popular demand? Cable TV services dont have to pick up channels, and if they do it needs to be dropped.

[Bezkoshtovnya]

Again though, how would this concept happen though if not through government means? Unless there are going to be news networks fighting to eliminate each other in which case....I approve.

How can news networks get on air if all services refuse to air them due to popular demand? Cable TV services dont have to pick up channels, and if they do it needs to be dropped.

That makes sense. Certainly don't support basically making the news one sided propaganda though through blatant discrimination.

[Mystic Warriors]

How can news networks get on air if all services refuse to air them due to popular demand? Cable TV services dont have to pick up channels, and if they do it needs to be dropped.

That makes sense. Certainly don't support basically making the news one sided propaganda though through blatant discrimination.

Tell that to Republicans who are laying the groundwork for it.

[Bezkoshtovnya]

That makes sense. Certainly don't support basically making the news one sided propaganda though through blatant discrimination.

Tell that to Republicans who are laying the groundwork for it.

But you just said it's okay to do and you approve the concept so why do you care?

[Mystic Warriors]

Tell that to Republicans who are laying the groundwork for it.

But you just said it's okay to do and you approve the concept so why do you care?

You are the one against it, if so complain to those doing it. I am on no position to do shit, so I am not really important.

And trust me, I would love to take advantage of that.

[Bezkoshtovnya]

But you just said it's okay to do and you approve the concept so why do you care?

You are the one against it, if so complain to those doing it. I am on no position to do shit, so I am not really important.

And trust me, I would love to take advantage of that.

Considering I see a plethora of news networks across the spectrum, I don't see why I should be concerned.

Oppression of opposing ideas and speech is okay, as long as it is not being done be something you personally dislike I guess.

[Mystic Warriors]

You are the one against it, if so complain to those doing it. I am on no position to do shit, so I am not really important.

And trust me, I would love to take advantage of that.

Considering I see a plethora of news networks across the spectrum, I don't see why I should be concerned.

Oppression of opposing ideas and speech is okay, as long as it is not being done be something you personally dislike I guess.

Ok, stay asleep. But money talks and silences.

[Bezkoshtovnya]

Considering I see a plethora of news networks across the spectrum, I don't see why I should be concerned.

Oppression of opposing ideas and speech is okay, as long as it is not being done be something you personally dislike I guess.

Ok, stay asleep. But money talks and silences.

I mean feel free to prove the apparently blatant increase in conservative bias news and the disappearance of liberal bias news instead of just making claims without evidence and I might be inclined to believe you. That is sort of how it works.

[Saint Ignis]

There's bias in everything, like it's kind of how being human works. Our thoughts and values leak into the things we make. There's no such thing as "unbiased" or "objective" news. That said: CNN and Fox News are more similar than they are different. They both have a distinct interest (it's money) in the U.S. staying the most powerful empire to ever exist and therefore don't question anything to a meaningful extent that could make viewers really think about everything we've been taught to believe over the years.

[Dumb Ideologies]

Always awkward when some news slips in to the morning polemic.

[Erythrean Thebes]

It's that the human mind has two radically different ways of engaging with a story or a scene that they observe: an empathetic approach or a self-separating approach. The liberal media takes the empathetic approach as if they share the thoughts and feelings of the people involved in news stories - the conservative media takes a self-separating approach as if the self-interest of the individual persons viewing the news is what's relevant to the news story

[Aclion]

The Gold Standard of Journalism is to attempt to relay information to the reader in a clear and concise way which allows the reader to form their own opinions and thoughts on reported events. However, humans will always be biased and as such, News organizations will always have biases. To interpret the news nowadays, I believe the general public ought to look at multiple sources of both supporting and dissenting viewpoints. Not only this but the reader ought to engage in personal research into newsworthy events to better grasp and understand what is being reported on. This allows for consumers of news to develop their own thoughts and beliefs with a bigger picture than say if they were to simply watch one news source.

On a side note, what are peoples' thoughts on subscription based news services like the Wall Street Journal? Do you believe they are less biased/more biased than other news organizations such as Fox News or CNN?

In this age you no longer have to rely on new organisations. Thanks to digital media journalists are able to self publish so you can get news directly from them, at least until legacy media moves to deplatform them.

[Lesliei]

Yee. Stupid Fox News


Lesliei



Pro-Choice, Socialist, Democrat, LGBT Rights, Reduce, Reuse, Climate Change is Real

[Free Arabian Nation]

Yes, but it's not just leftism or rightism

CNN and Fox News are both shills who would gleefully support whoever gave them the most money. Really, the only "Unbiased" news source you can get is just seeing it yourself, but even then your only seeing your story, your part of the whole thing.

Overall, I am not stopping you from reading CNN, Fox News, Buzzfeed, Cosmopolitan, or even the Alex Jones show. Just, take everything with a grain of salt.