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Is There Too Much Bias In The News?
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Fri May 03, 2019 5:11 pmby Aeritai
I decided to ask this question because ever since Trump was elected as President in 2016 I always hear and sometimes see bias in news articles or on television news mostly either from Fox News or CNN. Which thought me to thinking "Is there too much bias in the news today?"
And in my opinion I think there isn't that much bias in journalism mostly because when I hear something about biases in news I usually think of Fox News and CNN since those two support a party they are bias when it comes to talking about politics. The news I see like NBC never have any biases unless I never noticed it.
So what is your opinion NSG is there too much bias in the news in today's world or not?
Posted:
Fri May 03, 2019 5:12 pmby Khataiy
Yes
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Fri May 03, 2019 5:14 pmby Diarcesia
Yes. The more relevant question is "how sublime is their bias in the news?" It is imperative that one has to look at different sources.
On News Bias
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Fri May 03, 2019 5:29 pmby The Donald Trumpening
Yes, there is bias in the news. The best way to look at news is to see what both sides can agree on. If one side says x is good and another says x is bad, you can be sure that x is real. However, the best way to look at news is research: go to as many sources as possible, analyze the biases, and draw conclusions. For example, CNN is biased, but you can be certain that there is at least some truth to what they're saying, which is more than what could be said for MSNBC, which is biased and not very truthful. If it's about online drama specifically, go to the sources of the drama yourself and form your own conclusion. Be wary, though, since most of these communities have intricate memetics and layers of irony that will baffle "normies," as they call them. Although I do see a considerable bias in the mainstream news, I do lean right slightly and libertarian heavily ("you don't say," you're probably thinking), and by American standards (Europe's further left and more authoritarian than America despite the USA's surveillance programs), and most people can only name 1 right-of-center News source, even though more than one exists. (To be fair, those tend to be the same people who wouldn't care about politics until they or their kids are drafted and have their rear ends sent to the front line.) And frankly, I'd rather have that than a state-controlled press like China's (the country that banned Winnie the Pooh because it became a meme there).
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Fri May 03, 2019 5:32 pmby Aeritai
Diarcesia wrote:Yes. The more relevant question is "how sublime is their bias in the news?" It is imperative that one has to look at different sources.
It depends personally if a News Station keeps ranting on and on about the bad things Trump has done and doesn't talk about other news then I would go to a different news source.
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Fri May 03, 2019 5:37 pmby Diarcesia
Aeritai wrote:Diarcesia wrote:Yes. The more relevant question is "how sublime is their bias in the news?" It is imperative that one has to look at different sources.
It depends personally if a News Station keeps ranting on and on about the bad things Trump has done and doesn't talk about other news then I would go to a different news source.
It gets tiring. International news offers a different and fresh perspective, albeit because their bias tends to be foreign from what's around you.
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Fri May 03, 2019 5:50 pmby Aeritai
Diarcesia wrote:Aeritai wrote:It depends personally if a News Station keeps ranting on and on about the bad things Trump has done and doesn't talk about other news then I would go to a different news source.
It gets tiring. International news offers a different and fresh perspective, albeit because their bias tends to be foreign from what's around you.
Never seen any international news (I think) but I still wish we didn't have any biases in the American Media I prefer to hear a news story and not a journalist's opinion.
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Fri May 03, 2019 5:52 pmby Diarcesia
Aeritai wrote:Diarcesia wrote:It gets tiring. International news offers a different and fresh perspective, albeit because their bias tends to be foreign from what's around you.
Never seen any international news (I think) but I still wish we didn't have any biases in the American Media I prefer to hear a news story and not a journalist's opinion.
There are podcasts on the likes of BBC World Service and NHK World.
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Fri May 03, 2019 6:19 pmby Major-Tom
Of course - there are some major news networks that function as mouthpieces for political parties in much of the developed world. That said, the choice between having a plethora of news sources with questionable journalistic integrity and a state controlled media is an easy choice. I'll take the former - fundamentally flawed and imperfect is always preferable to downright draconian.
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Fri May 03, 2019 7:11 pmby Aeritai
Major-Tom wrote:Of course - there are some major news networks that function as mouthpieces for political parties in much of the developed world. That said, the choice between having a plethora of news sources with questionable journalistic integrity and a state controlled media is an easy choice. I'll take the former - fundamentally flawed and imperfect is always preferable to downright draconian.
I agree I guess having journalist with opinions isn't all that bad as long as they tell a different news story instead of going on a rant about politics for 20 minutes or something.
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Fri May 03, 2019 7:17 pmby Autonomous Cleaner Bot Cleaners
Major-Tom wrote:...That said, the choice between having a plethora of news sources with questionable journalistic integrity and a state controlled media is an easy choice. I'll take the former - fundamentally flawed and imperfect is always preferable to downright draconian.
I prefer the middle-ground that is the various anglophone
Broadcasting Corporations.
Although I have to rely on podcasts, which is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, I have reliable news. On the other, my suggestions screen regularly makes me despair for my species. Vox ignoramuses.
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Fri May 03, 2019 7:21 pmby DeltaSource
Waaaaaay too much bias against Republicans, the dems control the media y'all.
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Fri May 03, 2019 7:47 pmby Mystic Warriors
The Donald Trumpening wrote:Yes, there is bias in the news. The best way to look at news is to see what both sides can agree on. If one side says x is good and another says x is bad, you can be sure that x is real. However, the best way to look at news is research: go to as many sources as possible, analyze the biases, and draw conclusions. For example, CNN is biased, but you can be certain that there is at least some truth to what they're saying, which is more than what could be said for MSNBC, which is biased and not very truthful. If it's about online drama specifically, go to the sources of the drama yourself and form your own conclusion. Be wary, though, since most of these communities have intricate memetics and layers of irony that will baffle "normies," as they call them. Although I do see a
considerable bias in the mainstream news, I do lean right slightly and libertarian heavily ("you don't say," you're probably thinking), and by American standards (Europe's further left and more authoritarian than America despite the USA's surveillance programs), and most people can only name 1 right-of-center News source, even though more than one exists. (To be fair, those tend to be the same people who wouldn't care about politics until they or their kids are drafted and have their rear ends sent to the front line.) And frankly, I'd rather have that than a state-controlled press like China's (the country that banned Winnie the Pooh because it became a meme there).
You bash "liberal" news sources while ignoring the verified lie factory of fox news. Your x/y line is comical, how could you know x is real? Why couldn't y be real?
As for only 1 known right wing news source, that is 1 too many.
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Fri May 03, 2019 7:48 pmby Mystic Warriors
DeltaSource wrote:Waaaaaay too much bias against Republicans, the dems control the media y'all.
Good
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Fri May 03, 2019 7:49 pmby Tetradimensional Overworld
Yes, but Fox News has the most bias
I'm also NOT denying the left-wing bias in other medias
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Fri May 03, 2019 7:58 pmby US-SSR
The facts have a liberal bias.
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Fri May 03, 2019 8:00 pmby Sanctum and Ultima
US-SSR wrote:The facts have a liberal bias.
Nope. Rather, the distorted truths have a leftist bias.
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Fri May 03, 2019 8:00 pmby Azlaake
There's nothing wrong with bias as long as they give you the tell
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Fri May 03, 2019 8:02 pmby Kannap
The question isn't is there too much bias in the news, because the answer is obvious. The questions are how long has the bias been there? How deeply ingrained is it? Can we do something about it?
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Fri May 03, 2019 8:02 pmby Tetradimensional Overworld
Azlaake wrote:There's nothing wrong with bias as long as they give you the tell
There's nothing wrong with bias indeed...
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Fri May 03, 2019 8:03 pmby Ostroeuropa
Any news organization is always going to be biased because this:
https://youtu.be/NX45hc0aZt0?t=177They use this cynically and pretend they aren't being willfully biased and using this as an excuse. But since awareness of this problem is now out of the box, the only alternative is for journalists to be ignorant and not know their own profession and how it works. Necessarily they are going to select which facts are relevant and be aware they are creating a narrative by doing so.
Ironically the editorializing is making it explicit what that narrative is, which is arguably much more honest than merely presenting selected facts and risk creating the perception that it is an objective and complete story.
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Fri May 03, 2019 8:03 pmby Mystic Warriors
Sanctum and Ultima wrote:US-SSR wrote:The facts have a liberal bias.
Nope. Rather, the distorted truths have a leftist bias.
Wrong. Reality has a liberal bias. Lies have a conservative bias
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Fri May 03, 2019 8:05 pmby Aclion
US-SSR wrote:The facts have a liberal bias.
You say that, but the Conservative new outlets aren't tanking in the ratings because they spent the last year and a half covering a bogus narrative, the "liberal" outlets are. The conservative outlets aren't slandering their competitors in order to get them censored, the "liberal" media is. I think when you can't differentiate fact from what's good for your party and you need to attack you competitors to even stay relevant then you've got a serious bias problem. Fox New is in fact less biased then the rest of the legacy media, if only because they're moved to the center to gobble up all the viewers who've given up on CNN and MSNBC.
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Fri May 03, 2019 8:05 pmby Tetradimensional Overworld
Mystic Warriors wrote:Sanctum and Ultima wrote:Nope. Rather, the distorted truths have a leftist bias.
Wrong. Reality has a liberal bias. Lies have a conservative bias
Really? Even though I consider myself as slightly far-left, yeah...
We shifted the Overton window far to the left, for the betterment of the world, but some reactionaries just reversed it
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Fri May 03, 2019 8:10 pmby Aeritai
Kannap wrote:The question isn't is there too much bias in the news, because the answer is obvious. The questions are how long has the bias been there? How deeply ingrained is it? Can we do something about it?
Well I'm pretty sure bias has always been there in American Media ever since the first newspaper here. My guess is that bias has always been there it just wasn't as noticeable back then as it is today.
And how to stop it? I'm not sure if anyone can stop news outlets from telling biases. If we tried doing that it would violate Freedom of Speech.