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Originally posted by Ronn_Bman:
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Originally posted by Pikachu_PM:
while news agencies as a whole do tend to lean towards the left, there is general agreement by most people (dems and Reps alike)that they are very unbiased in their reportaing.
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Not true, while most people do recognize that the traditional US news media leans to the left, the overwhelming majority of those who believe the media leans to the left but is still very unbiased in it's reporting are very much on the left themselves.
After all, you can't lean either way and still be unbiased. That doesn't mean individuals working for the media can't have their own leanings, but it does mean they can't show it. If leaning is recognized, then the reporting cannot be unbiased.
EDIT - While I recognize that Fox is biased, my initial response in this thread was sarcastic. Unsuccessfully so obviously, but sarcastic none the less. 
[/QUOTE]Don't take this the wrong way, but now you're just irritating me. Every opinion ever made by anybody is biased. No news station, tv show, speech, journal, or conversation between two people can be made with complete unbias. There is a difference, however, between being bias and being maniupulative. More to the point, the degrees of biasness are quite relative...traditional news shows may be biased...but they make an honest attempt not to be--and do so quite well according to the majority of Americans.
The reason you are irritating me is two fold. (a) you seem to disagree with me just for the sake of disagreeing and (b) by your statements you seem to be suggesting that it is ok for FOX to broadcast 'no spin' news without any regard for the truth because the other news agencies lean a bit to the left. It's not that FOX leans to the right, its that FOX is so far on one side of the rainbow that the color purple is starting to hit the ultra violet spectrum.
Believe it or not, i am a Republican at heart (when it comes to Economic theory, not moral values and the 'actual' republican economic policies) and what forever keeps me from voting that way is the incesent manipulation of the average American by the party. FOX news is just one example of an epidemic in American society where a political party takes advantage of the idiots and pats themselves on the back for a game well played.
I was a young republican in college my first semester...I switched to a young democrat when the leadership of the young republicans held strategy sessions on ways to keep down the black and gay votes on campus and villainize rival student body members by intentionally and recklessly qouting them out of context---and it was nothing but a stupid student body elections!!!!
There are only two kinds of people who vote consitantly Republican--really rich people, and really stupid people.
What angers me about the republicans (in general) isn't there policies, it's the manner in which they enact such policies---by decieving the public.
*Disclaimer--this is a biased opinion...intentially generalized to state a point and invoke commentary---I do recognize that there are many wonderful and honest Republican Reprentatives and leaders whom I hold in the highest of regard.
[ 11-21-2003, 02:30 PM: Message edited by: Pikachu_PM ]