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No, I can deny that because I actually want to be educated when I watch news. I admit that I sometimes watch Fox News or MSNBC, but it's because I'm interested in seeing just how blatantly biased they can become while still being somewhat believable to, say, my next door neighbor. There is an alarming absence of substantive news in the U.S. Try watching BBC, CBC, PBS, C-SPAN, or even Al Jazeera. It's very matter-of-fact reporting, but you might actually learn something by watching it.
But one of the biggest fallacies I keep reading about and hearing is the notion that we need multiple perspectives, which presumes that there is going to be an outrageous level of bias among individual news outlets and that individual viewers should be left to decide what is fair and balanced. This flawed notion proposes that individuals triangulate between the various sources of factual distortion to come up with their own version of truth...which is bunk.
News should be reported factually and followed up with deeper analysis, but without editorializing. It's nonsense to suggest that there are always two sides to every story.
I read multiple sources for news, not Fox News or MSNBC and I'm a very conservative person. I look for factual reporting in the most non-biased form possible. I'm smart enough to see that all media outlets have bias in some direction, the problem is those of you on the left insist that Fox is biased but the rest of the media isn't and that stems from the fact that liberals really do believe the BS they're fed by MSNBC and the rest of the left leaning media outlets that cater to them.
People on the Right watch Fox exclusively while people on the Left, like myself, will skip around and watch all the news sources---including Fox---for balance.
And I respectfully point out that this isn't the way to go about it. If Fox News is blatantly biased then they're not worth watching - period. If MSNBC is blatantly biased and if they're distorting the facts to cater to their audience, then they're not worth watching. Personally, I don't think any of the major cable networks comes across as truly credible these days. And even if they get the facts right, they are waaaaay short on analysis. CNN at least tries, I guess, but I would rather watch PBS or even international news services.
No Faux News won't be damaged...You have to realize who their audience is. Every rational, stable person with any common sense can already see what partisan garbage the network spews.
Their core audience are the brain-dead, extreme right-wing talk-radio sheeple...There's nothing in this world that would shake those people's rabid faith in the Faux News/talk-radio propaganda machine...even if Baby Jesus told them Faux News is garbage!
The exact same things can be said for those idiots on the left who believe Media Matters, MSNBC, Maddow and the rest of that crew. Why is this so hard for the *******s to accept?
Very much a symbol of the Faux News/talk-radio right...Rupert, Rushbo, Coulter, O'Reilly, Boortz, Cheney, Bachmann, Dumsfeld, Cantor, Trump...Am I seeing a theme here? To be a successful right-wing idol you have to be very creepy looking?
Kind of a special blend of serial killer/cult leader/CEO look to them...????
I read multiple sources for news, not Fox News or MSNBC and I'm a very conservative person. I look for factual reporting in the most non-biased form possible. I'm smart enough to see that all media outlets have bias in some direction, the problem is those of you on the left insist that Fox is biased but the rest of the media isn't and that stems from the fact that liberals really do believe the BS they're fed by MSNBC and the rest of the left leaning media outlets that cater to them.
Where did I say that the rest of the media isn't biased? That wasn't my point at all.
Very much a symbol of the Faux News/talk-radio right...Rupert, Rushbo, Coulter, O'Reilly, Boortz, Cheney, Bachmann, Dumsfeld, Cantor, Trump...Am I seeing a theme here? To be a successful right-wing idol you have to be very creepy looking?
Kind of a special blend of serial killer/cult leader/CEO look to them...????
More brilliant and meaningful information from the intelligent left.
I'm on the right, far right to be exact and I don't watch Fox News at all, all of my fellow right wing friends don't watch Fox News and never listen to Rush. Once again, you watch and listen to what you want to hear just like a good little liberal.
ROFLMAO...I'm going to have to call B.S. on this...UNLESS...UNLESS you are so far-right that the only news you follow is the extreme right-wing conspiracy stuff on youtube, white supremacist news, or you are a member of that Westboro church in Kansas.
Like the birthers, and extreme religious nuts, think Faux News is too left. Are you a birther?
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