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Post by FIFI on Jun 3, 2004 13:47:08 GMT -5
How much of the nightly news is unbiased news reporting?
It's a sad world to live in when you cannot believe almost 50% of the people whose jobs should be to converse thruthful facts about a situation or person WITHOUT any opions or farce added to help the world make informed, intelligent descions with the aid of the television. Especially about poor Bush. Ok, I may not agree with all that he says or does, and what president will fufill everyones wishes, whinings, and demands I do not know, but the man is obviously suffering from some bad P.R... and most of it was fueled by the liberally bull crape flinging reporters. I think it is unfair and slightly disterbing that I must always guard my mind from every fact I learn from the news, because I am always unsure of it truth.
Does anyone else feel this way... or against?
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Post by MO on Jun 3, 2004 22:25:46 GMT -5
I try not to watch any news from CBS, ABC, or NBC. The three networks are the worst offenders. They are the free, people's airwaves that have the most responsibility to be non biased. FNC is a pay station, but they do a better job of presenting all sides.
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Post by rush22 on Jun 6, 2004 14:21:51 GMT -5
Really? I thought they just did a better job at presenting your side.
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Post by JesterCerberus on Jul 27, 2004 12:44:46 GMT -5
The more I read and write on this forum the less I can belive any "facts" anyone presents on this board. All I can do is belive in what I think is right and take soloace in the fact that some others feel the same way and I'm not totally crazy. I don't really like watching the news cause I feel it distorts your sense of reality wheter its biased or not because there is so many terrible things that you can't relate it to your own life. Instead I watch the Daily Show with Jon Stewart where they make fun of the political going ons and you feel free to know that it will be okay cause at least one other person sees how absurd it all is. Sort of like MO's bar it allows us to relax instead of to be angry and sad.
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Post by scummybear on Jul 28, 2004 8:59:30 GMT -5
This is the crux of the problem. It's shows like this (Jon Stewart),
the late shows, etc. . . that a great number of people are watching, and while it is supposedly sattire, there are pieces of an agenda in there, and many people get their whole political education via Comedy Central and the mainscream press.
These are important issues that effect our lives directly and indirectly. There's nothing wrong with humor, but not when most of it seems to be at the expense of the truth.
This year, I see that there is an even stronger tone of "rock the vote" or "vote or die" directed toward young people who get their views and opinions from MTV. Messages that are packaged in "hip" ways, that appeal to that age group. The trouble is, it's pathetically shallow, using words such as "hate", "discrimination", "racism" while implying that this is what you vote for when you cast for the conservative side. It's too bad that they will only see one side of such topics.
History has shown that most of these kids don't bother to vote at all, despite predicited high percentages of young voters. A lot of them are too busy watching MTV or too hung-over from "rock the vote" parties to go to the polls.
You can't stay in the bar your whole life.
Well. . . I guess you can.
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Post by TNRighty on Jul 28, 2004 18:10:25 GMT -5
Every single anchorman and personality on TV has a political affiliation or ideology. They are, after all, Americans, no different than you or I. No matter how hard they try to hide their political persuasion, it eventually presents itself. No reporting is without bias, whether its their commentary about what happened or what they choose to report. Anyone who gets their news exclusively from one source, be it CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX, or CNN, will subscribe to the slant each network has and will know only what that network wants you to know. With sources like the internet, talk radio, and TV, we can all access the facts, but we must be skeptical of the commentary and analysis that comes along with them. Commentary should be viewed as nothing more than entertainment. When you rely on commentators for education, you've taken your brain out of the equation. What we choose to make of the news should be up to ourselves. The best way to understand and break down the news you hear is to be educated, particularly when it comes to history and economics. Don't let someone else do your thinking for you. Get the facts, and come to your own conclusions. Don't let politicians tell you what's right or what's wrong. With freedom comes great responsibility, and as citizens of a free country, its our responsibility to be educated when it comes to domestic and international matters.
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Post by Mike on Nov 23, 2004 20:52:49 GMT -5
This is the crux of the problem. It's shows like this (Jon Stewart),
the late shows, etc. . . that a great number of people are watching, and while it is supposedly sattire, there are pieces of an agenda in there,
>>A perfect description of Limbaugh
and many people get their whole political education via Comedy Central and the mainscream press.
>>How awful! They should be getting it from hate radio; a lot of people say that's where they get the 'facts,' hahaha.
These are important issues that effect our lives directly and indirectly. There's nothing wrong with humor, but not when most of it seems to be at the expense of the truth.
>> Limbaugh again. Perfect.
This year, I see that there is an even stronger tone of "rock the vote" or "vote or die" directed toward young people who get their views and opinions from MTV. Messages that are packaged in "hip" ways, that appeal to that age group. The trouble is, it's pathetically shallow, using words such as "hate", "discrimination", "racism" while implying that this is what you vote for when you cast for the conservative side. It's too bad that they will only see one side of such topics.
>> Limbaugh has HIS favorite words for the Left, and like the above, it's too bad that his listeners (and Laura's, Sean's, Bill's, Ollie's, Neal's, etc.) will only see one side of such topics as well.
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Post by USA50 on Aug 12, 2009 14:50:50 GMT -5
FOX News is a joke. There is little or no news there, and everything is biased - that's why it was created. They shouldn't even be listed with the other broadcasters. Rush is just an offense to reason and mainstream thought. Bias is one thing, but lies from O'Reilly, Hannity, and Beck are plain insulting and dangerous. These guys have spouted such a history of inanities and nonsense so far outside the mainstream of reasonable discourse that they can no longer be considered a straight source of anything.
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