Certain media outlets are labelled as being politically bias - so what does that mean? How can we tell if it is true? or which way they lean?
Let's start with Fox News and NPR.......
Let's start with Fox News and NPR.......
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Certain media outlets are labelled as being politically bias - so what does that mean? How can we tell if it is true? or which way they lean?
Let's start with Fox News and NPR.......
The way I see it is Fox News and NPR are extremes of both sides.
How so? What is conservative about FOX? What is liberal about NPR? How do you determine what you believe?
That is how they're perceived by both sides.
The liberals and Democrats view Fox as the far right, and conservatives and Republican's view NPR as the far left and most liberal of them all.
I use to listen to NPR but they got rid of my buddy Juan.
So now I watch or listen to them all except NPR and limit my intake of CNN on national issues because they are too compassionate towards the Muslim's.
If a person were honest they would acknowledge that Fox News puts more liberals in front of the camera ON A REGULAR BASIS than MSNBC, CBS, ABC, NBC, and CNN use conservatives COMBINED.
- Alan Colmes
- Bob Beckel
- Geraldine Ann Ferraro
- Susan Estrich (who herself has made this very point more than once)
- Ellis Henican
- Mara Liasson
- Ellen Ratner
- Juan Williams
- Giraldo Rivera (yes, he claims to be 'conservative' but supports illegal immigration, removal of gun rights for Americans, legalizing pot, and the lie that Clinton was impeached because he got oral sex, and not the truth - that it was because he lied under oath in front of a grand jury. Something that would get you or I jail time.)
This is the list just off the top of my head. There are two or three others, as well.
Yes, people like Hannity and even O'Reilly and Beck lean right.
But they are balanced by people such as Chris Matthews, Ed Schultz, Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O'Donnel, (recently fired) Keith Olberman, and scores of others on CNN and Headline News (offshoot of CNN) such as the lunatic Joy Behar who lean way left.
Why, I wonder, wasn't MSNBC chosen in addition to or instead of NPR.
Let me say it again in another way: I wonder why those who whine about FOX leaning right are not whining about those stations with these people leaning left.
NPR is in the spotlight because they have shown their prejudice (and even had it videotaped) and though they make millions every single year ($220 million just off Sesame Stree merchandising alone) for some reason the federal government is funding them with tens of millions of additional dollars every single year.
Say what you want about Fox News, but when you skip over the "commentator" shows such as Hannity, their straight news programs are very good.
That is why they have been the preference for the majority of Americans tuning into television to get information on election results, natural disasters, international conflicts, you name it.
Feel free to disagree, but you would have no choice but to admit that the news segments are AT LEAST as balanced as the straight news segments on CNN, MSNBC, or elsewhere.
Oh, and one question I would ask: Does anyone remember who broke the story of Bush's previous drunk driving arrest just days before the 2000 election and was the first to run it on their news? You guessed it: Fox.
How dare they be so bias!
I am skeptical, but....even if it was true, is this a good enough reason to form an opinion of your own? What information have you viewed on Public broadcasting that is "liberal"? How about conservative information or bias on Fox?
Why?
Ok - this is a good point - Juan Williams was fired from NPR for making statements on FOX News - NPR came up with their own reasoning, but far more than conservatives suspect that NPR really didn't like Williams association with FOX. I also suspect that office politics played a role in Williams firing, but how does this help you determine if the product of NPR is liberal?
So you have made your decision about NPR - I am not questioning your decision, but I am still trying to nail down some examples of liberal bias in the programing - also,since you still watch msnbc (I am assuming), have you noticed a liberal bias?
He got fired for a comment that I agree with him on. Muslim's often pull dry runs just to see how people react. Do you know what that is? What Juan expressed was a real concern to him as it should be to all American's.
NPR is definitely liberal because of their political correctness attitude toward homosexuality and religion.
I notice a liberal bias in MSNBC, ABC, and CNN. It's not always there but noticeable.
I'm a centrist and typically don't like extremes of either side.
And the more any of them show compassionatism toward Islam, the more I avoid them.
Muslim's often pull dry runs just to see how people react.
I notice that no one objected to this particular phrase. I don't either, but I am curious as to what you mean by it? Can you give me an example or two?
How so? What is conservative about FOX? What is liberal about NPR? How do you determine what you believe?
A dry run is when 6 to 8 Muslim's board a plane and two of them get in the very back of it on each side, then two in the middle, and then two up front, and maybe two in first class. You can tell that they make a point of it being noticed. Some people have objected to it while the plane was taxying to the runway and demanded to get off the plane because the Muslim's were chanting to Allah in Arabic. I have a good article on it if I can find it. I've seen other dry runs where a Muslim would go register hs car carrying a full size suitcase to the registry when all you need is a few documents. NPR fired my buddy Juan for having a concern about this.