Originally Posted by Hiro11

Exactly. Fox and, say, NPR are flip sides of the same coin. I agree with certain things they both say, but they both seem to go a few steps too far in introducing their own politicized bias into almost every story. It's like an arms race: every outlet is trying to differentiate themselves in an extremely crowded and competitive environment. The only way they can build a dedicated audience is by preaching to the converted and staying within their own editorial perspective. As more and more media outlets align themselves as "left" or "right", the outlets have to become more and more shrill in sticking to their own biases.

There's nothing wrong with this, it just means that you have to read both the Telegraph and the Independent (for example) to get an idea of what is actually happening. I'd actually prefer it if newspapers and TV networks were upfront about their own editorial position, that would make them easier to trust.

Originally Posted by Hiro11

There's nothing wrong with this, it just means that you have to read both the Telegraph and the Independent (for example) to get an idea of what is actually happening. I'd actually prefer it if newspapers and TV networks were upfront about their own editorial position, that would make them easier to trust.

Originally Posted by Patrick

I have 100 monkeys in my attic with typewriters and not one of them has come up with such a dumb sentence!

Originally Posted by BritGuyTN

Taken from FOX:

"Americans are shown to be greedy and corrupt while suicide bombers are presented as freedom fighters."

1980's England

"The UK goverment are shown to be oppressive imperialists while the IRA are presented as freedom fighters"


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Originally Posted by lionheart

My only question is why people on this site keep watching Fox news and then complaining about it?
BBC world news is on Public TV as is The Newshour with Jim Lehrer http://www.pbs.org/newshour/.
Here's a newsflash FOX NEWS IS SHIT

Originally Posted by Chorlton

Or if a news organisation would stick to presenting the facts, and letting us form our own opinions

Originally Posted by BigDavyG

One thing about FOX though that no-one has mentioned but that I think is glaringly obvious - they are so cack-handed about making their points that they actually turn people away from right-wing politics. Is it therefore not entirely possible that FOX are a secret left-wing organisation created to discredit the right ???

Originally Posted by Elvira

That would assume that most of its audience have brains...

Originally Posted by anotherlimey

I don't think you can compare NPR, a not-for-profit organisation, to Fox, run by News Corp.

Meaning, NPR would gain nothing by being bias whereas Fox would.

I'm not saying they're not bias though, just not as much as Fox.

Originally Posted by Hiro11

With all due respect, I don't buy it. NPR relies directly on contributions from other non-profits and private individuals. If anything, it's more important for NPR to keep their (primary liberal elite) listener base listening. As someone with fairly conservative/libertarian viewpoints, from my perspective NPR is extremely biased.

Originally Posted by anotherlimey

Well there we go, they have views to the left of yours so you consider them bias.

We could go around in circles all day!

Anyway....

Originally Posted by BigDavyG

How did your trip to chicago go by the way ??

Originally Posted by Elvira

Thanks for asking!

Work was exhausting, but my day off was lovely. Spent over 3 hours at the Art Museum - had a blast!

Hope to do this again before too long!

Originally Posted by Hiro11

Jesus, where to stop. Let's start with Matt Drudge, Little Green Footballs or Townhall online. The blogosphere is chock-a-block full of right-wing news sites with large readerships.
There are also tons of very powerful and influential right-wing non-profit think tanks like the Hoover Instititution or Heritage Foundation.