The real Media Bias

milkrun · 06-08-05, 07:22 PM

If you want to understand what the real media bias is in America, go to this website and listen to John Perkins interview. www.globalpublicmedia.com/interviews/332

The liberal/conservative thing is just a diversion. The real news never gets reported.

stsburns · 06-14-05, 03:20 AM

Exactly. Conservative/Liberal spin makes people yell at their TV's, and keeps them tuned in.

ITS ALL RATINGS. Is there really a difference between Entertainment and News? I doubt it!

akyron · 06-14-05, 06:25 AM

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Originally Posted by stsburns

Is there really a difference between Entertainment and News?

Yes. You can usually tell by the names of the show.
Most with the name News in the heading are at least making a half ass-ed effort at informing. Names or catchy phrases like crossfire,factor,Air America, Hannity, Wolf, Savage, Rush,etc are merely entertaintment based on a news story.It is sort of like a a movie about a book. If you read the original book you can see the similarities but often "artistic license" is taken to the point where the two products are different as night and day.

Where the hell did that bird come from in Disney's Aladdin adaptation anyway?

jpwright · 06-23-05, 10:48 PM

Sad but true. I occasionally watch FOX at primetime just to laugh at it and yell at Bill O'Reilly a bunch.

NoobieDoobieDo · 06-24-05, 08:34 PM

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Originally Posted by jpwright

Sad but true. I occasionally watch FOX at primetime just to laugh at it and yell at Bill O'Reilly a bunch.

I've been watching a lot of Fox recently. I don't count on the TV for my "news".

quarterback7 · 06-29-05, 11:17 AM

There is one very good unbiased source for TV news. The BBC is on every night on PBS at 10 Central time. It's got great coverage of events you wouldn't hear anything about on the networks.

jakurus · 07-17-05, 04:49 AM

I agree that TV is all ratings, but what do you expect? Maybe a flash-in-the-pan movement of journalists for truth?

I'd rather have a free press that goes for the money and on the way does some reporting than any other system that's feasible. Plenty of these papers rely on the public trusting them. Sometimes that involves deception, but the easiest way to do that is to hire honest reporters who report the facts.

Not so bad, eh?

As for ripping off poor countries, yeah, that really sucks for them, but think twice before you decide the United States should lay down and let the rest of the world catch up to it economically. Always a balance, always.

debate_junkie · 07-17-05, 10:03 AM

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Originally Posted by quarterback7

There is one very good unbiased source for TV news. The BBC is on every night on PBS at 10 Central time. It's got great coverage of events you wouldn't hear anything about on the networks.

True, the BBC is good. On my cable, I also get the BBC channel, which gets alot into Britain's culture with tv shows, news programs, documentaries. I find myself watching quite a bit. I'm STILL trying to catch a show they're run as of late concerning the history of Great Britain. One of these days I'll catch it from the beginning.

ban.the.electoral.college · 08-16-05, 12:04 AM

I've been doing some research on who controls the media. Here are some links. Let me know what you think:

http://www.socialistworker.org/2002-...aLapdogs.shtml

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/040227.html

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1...ter_friendly=1

freethought6t9 · 08-16-05, 05:04 AM

If you want to get a really in depth look at the true biases in the media you should look into "The Propaganda Model of News" by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky. Theres a 1hr documentary about it floating around online called "The Myth of the Liberal Media" and it is fascinating. "The Corporation" or at least the 2nd hour of it also contains some relevant information. If you just want a quick laugh at O Reilly's expense the Outfoxed is always good for a laugh.