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Re: Media Bias-Fox News or MSNBC

Postby Seculartopia » Tue Jul 21, 2009 4:13 pm

Fox is biased in all of its shows and news.
MSNBC only in shows like Keith Olberman, etc.
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Postby Greater Americania » Tue Jul 21, 2009 4:13 pm

I say MSNBC. From what I've seen, it's very very liberal. Fox News leans right, but outside of the conservative shows such as that of Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly, it occasionally manages to stay neutral on some issues.
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Re: Media Bias-Fox News or MSNBC

Postby Ryadn » Tue Jul 21, 2009 4:50 pm

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Poliwanacraca wrote:I don't have cable, and so my contact with both stations has been fairly limited. I've seen a great deal more of FOX than MSNBC, however, largely because my grandfather tended to leave it on in the background for hours on end, so I couldn't really help hearing a good deal of it when I visited my grandparents every week or two. Its bias was painfully, ridiculously, makes-me-want-to-throw-things-at-the-TV obvious, and so I really can't imagine MSNBC being more biased unless its commentators typically open every news segment with, "We want Republicans to DIE!" It might manage equally biased, though, and if I'd seen more than about ten minutes of MSNBC in my life, I'd have an opinion on whether or not that's the case. :p

It's not. I mean, it's awful at times--Keith Olberman's "Worst in the world" segment comes to mind :palm: --but it's definitely not at the level of Fox News. After all, Keith Olbermann may be annoying, but at least he understands civil rights.


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Re: Media Bias-Fox News or MSNBC

Postby Ashmoria » Tue Jul 21, 2009 6:46 pm

fox is.

fox has editorial bias even in its news programs. its analysis programs are driven by lies.

so while msnbc is as liberal as foxnews is conservative, msnbc spends less time lying to its viewers.
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Re: Media Bias-Fox News or MSNBC

Postby Chrobalta » Tue Jul 21, 2009 7:07 pm

Ashmoria wrote:fox is.

fox has editorial bias even in its news programs. its analysis programs are driven by lies.

so while msnbc is as liberal as foxnews is conservative, msnbc spends less time lying to its viewers.

The truth has a liberal bias.
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Re: Media Bias-Fox News or MSNBC

Postby Maurepas » Tue Jul 21, 2009 7:15 pm

Chrobalta wrote:
Ashmoria wrote:fox is.

fox has editorial bias even in its news programs. its analysis programs are driven by lies.

so while msnbc is as liberal as foxnews is conservative, msnbc spends less time lying to its viewers.

The truth has a liberal bias.

The Truth is a liberal attempt to block Conservatives...

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Re: Media Bias-Fox News or MSNBC

Postby Cameroi » Tue Jul 21, 2009 8:42 pm

Brewdomia wrote:I am wondering which is more biased, Fox News To the right or MSNBC to the left. All opinions are welcome


i'm a bit curious as to what msnbc is supposedly to the left OF?

it's all corporate media and it's all controlled ultimately by the same corporate economic interests.
they may try to give each of them the appearance of a little bit different spin, to try and hook different audiance segments, but the pap they're feeding each persues the same complacency and maliability, to assume prevailing assumptions are somehow inevitable and that anything else would have to be worse.

the only real news, aside from pacifica and the like, is from bloggers, whom, taken as a whole, may be almost as unreliable, but at least there's enough real diversity out there that truth can sometimes be extracted by interpolation.

no guarantee this will always be accurate, or even resemble reality, but that's about what there is.
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Re: Media Bias-Fox News or MSNBC

Postby Desperate Measures » Tue Jul 21, 2009 9:15 pm

I can't stand shrill. Which means I cannot watch a minute of Fox News and I can watch maybe ten minutes of MSNBC. I tend to get any news from various sources off the Google News page or from NPR.
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Re: Media Bias-Fox News or MSNBC

Postby Surote » Tue Jul 21, 2009 9:23 pm

There both bias and should be ashamed

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Re: Media Bias-Fox News or MSNBC

Postby New Central Europe » Tue Jul 21, 2009 9:47 pm

Cameroi wrote:
Brewdomia wrote:I am wondering which is more biased, Fox News To the right or MSNBC to the left. All opinions are welcome


i'm a bit curious as to what msnbc is supposedly to the left OF?

it's all corporate media and it's all controlled ultimately by the same corporate economic interests.
they may try to give each of them the appearance of a little bit different spin, to try and hook different audiance segments, but the pap they're feeding each persues the same complacency and maliability, to assume prevailing assumptions are somehow inevitable and that anything else would have to be worse.

the only real news, aside from pacifica and the like, is from bloggers, whom, taken as a whole, may be almost as unreliable, but at least there's enough real diversity out there that truth can sometimes be extracted by interpolation.

No wonder the Daily Show and the Colbert Report viewers are more politicaly educated.

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Re: Media Bias-Fox News or MSNBC

Postby San Guillermo » Tue Jul 21, 2009 10:11 pm

They are both to the extreme of what they represent and I don't use either one of them to get my news. All of the yelling and bickering I hear gets in the way of what's really going on. It's like...this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q2EPKKVrqI

News today is far from Uncle Walter's news style.
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