Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 11:58 pm
Hmm, well, personally I would prefer completely unbiased media either way. You know news sources that you can actually trust...
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Do you know such a person? Take that American paragon of objective journalism Walter Cronkite. He declared the Vietnam war lost exactly when the Communist thought it was lost too. Only they thought they had lost it.Skipjack wrote:Hmm, well, personally I would prefer completely unbiased media either way. You know news sources that you can actually trust...
Fox News is growing and the other networks are shrinking.Betruger wrote:If you're informed to some minimum and have some critical thought, you can know who's biased regardless what the amplitude of bias is for some news outlet. Given that, it's better to have news reported unclouded by shameless bias. That windowdressing is absolutely useless. It's nothing but a waste of time for the viewer. Ditch the hairpieces and over the top mannerisms and just spill the info beans. Newspeople should be held by the balls by the public as mercilessly as politicians.
Skipjack wrote:I find it absuletely hillarious, that the republican candidate for vice president, Sarah Palin is now working for the oh so unbiased Fox news...
I guess that influence can go both way, cant it?
The previous president was NOT a conservative. He made conservatives grit their teeth with anger because he campaigned as a conservative but spent money and expanded government programs like the worst big spending Liberal since LBJ.Skipjack wrote:Hey, I was not the one who started a thread about the medias control of the election(s).
I am well aware of the bias of the media and what direction each of them comes from. It is pretty obvious in all cases anyway.
I was just simply stating, that IDEALLY they would all be unbiased and that this would make life a lot easier and politics a lot more fair.
Dont you think?
Besides, I want to point out that the previous president was a conservative and he was elected twice. So the power of the media can go both ways I guess (as in Fox versus ABC).
Anyway, I dont like it either way. Give me my news without some prechewed and easy digestable opinions.
I think that's impossible. In the absence of truly objective people, I would prefer that the News people announce their political preferences so people can understand they are on one side or the other. I have long said that News anchors should be required to have a "(D)" or "(R)" next to their name the same way they do with Politicians. When people started noticing that everyone who isn't on Fox news always has a "(D)" next to their name, then they would get the idea of how things really work in the Newsrooms of America.Skipjack wrote:Hmm, well, personally I would prefer completely unbiased media either way. You know news sources that you can actually trust...
I like that thought!I would prefer that the News people announce their political preferences so people can understand they are on one side or the other.
Chris Mathews is on NBC I think. He was former assistant to Democrat Tip O'neil, idiot liberal speaker of the house in the 1980s.Skipjack wrote:I like that thought!I would prefer that the News people announce their political preferences so people can understand they are on one side or the other.
One more thing and that is an honest question (because I dont know):
Do Kerry, or Al Gore have a show on ABC, Cnn, etc?
Is there a former Dem candidate with a show on Fox (in regards to "It's fair and Balanced")?
Nope, I was referring to Sarah Palin's future show on Fox, actually.I presume you are asking about this in the context of Mike Huckabees show on Fox ?
I guess we will finally meet "Bill the plumber" and "Joe sixpack"The former Republican vice presidential candidate will do political commentary for Fox News and be occasional host of "Real Americans," described as inspirational tales of ordinary citizens overcoming setbacks.
Skipjack wrote:Nope, I was referring to Sarah Palin's future show on Fox, actually.I presume you are asking about this in the context of Mike Huckabees show on Fox ?
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2010/jan/1 ... ahoo_feeds
I guess we will finally meet "Bill the plumber" and "Joe sixpack"The former Republican vice presidential candidate will do political commentary for Fox News and be occasional host of "Real Americans," described as inspirational tales of ordinary citizens overcoming setbacks.
Bias is inherent in the choices of what to cover and the words used to describe what is covered. It would be a fine razor indeed that could cut precisely down the middle.Hmm, well, personally I would prefer completely unbiased media either way. You know news sources that you can actually trust...
TV news is just too low-bandwidth for me. I can absorb data much faster reading it over the Net that I can hearing it spoken on TV.Since I don't watch any of the news programs and instead get my news off the internet,