Media "bias"

[DrJohn]

The left says FoxNews is biased the the right says all MSM except Fox, is biased, with MSNBC being the main culprit.

Who's right?

Are Fox and MSNBC both biased?

Or are they both correct?

[Babba]

MSNBC's straight reporting is much less biased than FauxNews' straight reporting. Fox just can't report anything straight. Even the rightwing WSJ has some good straight reporting. Though I'm sure with Murdoch's influence over time the WSJ will become the print version of FauxNews. The MSM has been bending over backwards the past couple of decades to not seem liberal and so have given rightwing propaganda a pass or they make it seem as though some of the ridiculous things that come out of wingnut mouths have validity.

[mechurchlady]

The left says FoxNews is biased the the right says all MSM except Fox, is biased, with MSNBC being the main culprit.

Who's right?

Are Fox and MSNBC both biased?

Or are they both correct?

Bias means to have a set opinion. Media is biased. Both sides are biased. Even something like the Haitian disaster has bias in the reporting. A right wing minded media will report things to further right wing thinking and show the evils of left wing thinking just as the left wing minded media will report to show how left is good and right is bad.

Look at your opening statement. Left says right wing Fox is biased. Right wing says Fox is good and all others evil. Sounds biased to me.

[Caro]

Media does what works and makes money

[CookieParker]

The bias leans to whatever the corporations want it to lean. If something the democrats are doing favors the corporations controlling that particular corporations in the news, they are favored and vice versa.

Only 5 corporations own the media...that's pretty sick. But then, only the upper 1% (400 households) own about 70% of the wealth in this nation.

[RedstateBlues]

Both sides are biased. All sides are driven by profit motives, with the possible exception of PBS, but even they pander to a certain demographic.

I'd like to think Americans are savvy enough after a zillion years of television advertising to recognize when they are being led in the direction of one opinion or another.

What's disturbing to me is when things go unreported. Like the protests by college students, which was really significant but barely got any coverage by either MSNBC or Fox, I suspect because the concern over the ridiculous increase in the cost of higher education is an issue most of us would agree on, and hey, that's no fun.

A minute amount of hysterical crybabies took over the airwaves for weeks with the "I want my country back!" bullshit last summer, but thousands of kids who are being front-loaded with absurd amounts of debt just to get an education that will probably not even land them an assistant manager's job at Walmart take to the streets to plead for mercy and we barely hear about it.

[CookieParker]

It's because of the concentrated welath in thi snation. So few control so much. Many who own the TV stations ( and there are 5 corporations that do) own the health insurance companies ultimately.

So, you'll report the propaganda that gets you more money...defeat health care, you keep more money.