Is Fox News Biased to the right?

Well lets see who is better. Ted Kennedy the protector of civil liberties and individual rights and freedoms or G.W. Bush puppet for religious conservates who would turn this country in to a christian theocracy where only evangelical christian values are taught and alll other beliefs are supressed. I think I will stick with Ted.
 
Yes, I do believe Fox is biased. I rarely watch network news in general but when I do I watch various networks.

Especially during the DNC. The difference was amazing and disgusting, frankly.
 
Networks are controlled by humans. Humans are biased. Networks are biased. I am biased.

You want my biased opinion or not?

...and bears do pooh in the wooRAB!:xclown:
 
Fox is absolutly biased. It is the CNN of the right. I think that MSNBC is probably the most balanced US network. Both sides tend to accuse MSNBC of bias, so they must be doing somethign right.

The "networks are run by humans" blah blah blah BS is just that. CNN and FOX are both targeting a specific market share, namely watchers on either the left or the right of the political spectrum that prefer to be told what they want to hear as opposed to listenign to the facts and making any kind of decision or judgement on their own. Sad.
 
Personally, I think that is a substantial part of the underlying problem in the US. Frankly, we have a poorly educated public that is entertainment driven. For a taste of reality in entertainment, they either turn on the news or Survivor. Its all the same.

If you are a third world country being run by a dictator or a closely held government, you can do just fine with a public that is ignorant. A country like the US requires an educated and knowledgable public in order to function becuase many of the issues that first world nations face are more complex than those faced by less developed countries. This spans everything from social issues to economic issues.

Unfortunatly what we have in the US instead of an educated and knowledgable public is an "edumacated group" of folks with a 3 minute attention span and absolutly no desire to involve themselves in "boring" political or economic issues.


This leaRAB to a situation where we essentiall have a closely held government with no accountability running things. Dictatorships and closely held governemtns work well in small third world countries, as long as the right people are in charge. Part of this seems to be because the elite in thos situations are generally MUCH better educated than their people, and they tend to run the country the way they would run a big business. There also tenRAB to be some degree of accountability in such situations because these guys know that if their people become too discontent, they will likely be drug intot he street and killed (exceptions to this tend to be when nations like the US step in and help the local tyrant maintain an iron grip on the populous).

Aomeplace like the US, a dictatorship or closely held government is not feasible for the long run becuase there are virtually zero consequences for misdeeRAB by the government regardless of the size or scope of the indeiscretion. The governemtn in the US is so big that there is really no hope whatsoever of dragging any politician into the street and executing them.

I guess what I am essentially saying is the same thing our founding fatehrs said hundreRAB of years ago. A governemtn like ours can only survive so long as the people remain vigilant and knowledgable. It is discouraging to me that they fail to do so.
 
Never, ever thought I'd be saying this, but with current administration removing civil liberties in a criminal manner, attempting to force Christian morality on states from a federal level and draining our treasury faster than any dictator ever dreamed of, even Kennedy looks better than these thieves.
 
I think it is, but I think most major news sources are. I'm very liberal. I prefer to get my news from indy sources, like indymedia.org or strike-the-root.org
 
I was doing a little reading on News Media Bias and I came a cross a model put forward by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman. This model is called the 'propaganda model'.

The bias of a Mass Media provider derives from 5 filters.

1. The first filter, ownership.
2. The second, funding, notes that the outlets derive the majority of their funding from advertising, not readers. Thus, since they are profit-oriented businesses selling a product
 
What I am essentially calling BS on is that any of the above is any kind of excuse. None fo the above are reasons that a network cannot provide both sides of a story or enough pertinent facts for a viewer to make an informed decision.

They don't becuase it is hard to manage a target audience by prviding information like that. MUCH eaier if your target audience can be defined as "right wing thinking drones with no ability or desire to make intelligent decisions" (same for left wing).
 
you would have to be assuming that the other polls where done by news stations in the center...besides Fox News doesn't conduct its own polls it uses Opinion Dynamics polling. They also are close to Rasumussen Reports which is probaby the most accurate polling group.
 
I'm with Jon Stewart on this one. Is there a right-wing bias on Fox? Sure. But more importantly, the bias in the media as a whole is power. Everyone in the media is trying to move up the ladder and the stories the produce and the way they produce them are done in such a way to best move them up that ladder.
 
Fox news did a story tonite on a protest I organized against Buju Banton. They claimed in their story that BUju Banton had renounced his anti-gay music......he hasn't never done any such thing! It was an outward lie!!!!!!

Fox news is so biased to the right it isn't funny. It isn't news it is propaganda.
 
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