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Media Bias

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Which mainstream network is most biased?

Given how much trump complains I checked today.

Going off each sites top stories. + 1 for Trump means the story was Pro Trump or Anti Clinton. +1 Clinton means it was Pro Clinton or Anti Trump. Going off the top 10.


Fox News. + 10 Trump + 0 Clinton +0 Other stories in top 10. So EVERY top story on Fox right now is Anti Clinton or Pro Trump.

Cbs News. + 3 Trump + 1 Clinton + 6 Other stories.

MSNBC. + 3 Trump + 3 Clinton + 4 Other stories.

Cnn. +3 Trump. + 1 Clinton + 6 other stories.

Abcnews. +1 Trump. +0 Clinton. + 9 other stories.

Is the Media really rigged against Trump?
 
Which mainstream network is most biased?

Given how much trump complains I checked today.

Going off each sites top stories. + 1 for Trump means the story was Pro Trump or Anti Clinton. +1 Clinton means it was Pro Clinton or Anti Trump. Going off the top 10.


Fox News. + 10 Trump + 0 Clinton +0 Other stories in top 10. So EVERY top story on Fox right now is Anti Clinton or Pro Trump.

Cbs News. + 3 Trump + 1 Clinton + 6 Other stories.

MSNBC. + 3 Trump + 3 Clinton + 4 Other stories.

Cnn. +3 Trump. + 1 Clinton + 6 other stories.

Abcnews. +1 Trump. +0 Clinton. + 9 other stories.

Is the Media really rigged against Trump?

The media is rigged pro-sensational-headline.
 
I keep hearing how all the main stream media ignores Clinton, bashes Trump and is biased and unfair.

Is it?

As a whole? No. Obviously you can look at individual cases and see the narrative go in a very particular and consistent direction. But as a whole, "The Media," as this singular monolithic and to an extent anthropomorphic being goes, it just wants its red meat. And that red meat is sensationalism. And sensationalism tends to involve murder, intra-racial conflict, sex, mass death, terrorism and animal cruelty. That last one was actually a new revelation to me which I only realized while I was following some local online rag, and noticed that every single day a story was featured on its front page devoted to a dog or cat being starved or beaten. I later noticed that this was a pattern, albeit somewhat more subtle, in most other low quality news sites.
 
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Which mainstream network is most biased?

Given how much trump complains I checked today.

Going off each sites top stories. + 1 for Trump means the story was Pro Trump or Anti Clinton. +1 Clinton means it was Pro Clinton or Anti Trump. Going off the top 10.


Fox News. + 10 Trump + 0 Clinton +0 Other stories in top 10. So EVERY top story on Fox right now is Anti Clinton or Pro Trump.

Cbs News. + 3 Trump + 1 Clinton + 6 Other stories.

MSNBC. + 3 Trump + 3 Clinton + 4 Other stories.

Cnn. +3 Trump. + 1 Clinton + 6 other stories.

Abcnews. +1 Trump. +0 Clinton. + 9 other stories.

Is the Media really rigged against Trump?

What programs did you watch to come up with those statistics?
 
The only time anyone of a generally Democrat persuasion can see non-conservative media bias is during the Democrat primaries.
 
Yes.

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I keep hearing how all the main stream media ignores Clinton, bashes Trump and is biased and unfair.

Is it?
 
They don't. Your entire premise is wrong. The mainstream media with the exception of Fox is completely in the tank for Hilary. Pay attention.


When most mainstream news sites has either more stories that are in Trumps favor, or at worst even, how is it biased against him?
 
Dude, you posted numbers from what *you* saw in a day.


I posted the numbers from their site. What is more believable in your opinion numbers or rhetoric?
 
Dude, you posted numbers from what *you* saw in a day.

I posted the numbers they posted on their website for anyone to see.

I didnt pick and choose. It was the top 10 stories listed on their websites. The very first 10. Nothing selective. Go check it right now if you'd like.
 
They don't. Your entire premise is wrong. The mainstream media with the exception of Fox is completely in the tank for Hilary. Pay attention.

Go to their sites and check it. Tell me what you find. And i dont mean digging. Right on the front pages.

This may be a shocker, but just because a politician claims it, doesn't make it true.
 
I went directly to their sites and checked.

Their websites?

When evaluating media bias between the big 3 and cable news, you need to watch what they broadcast, not what's on their websites.
 
It is in the media's interest to see Trump win. If the media has any influence, it is in their interest to have a horse race where Trump comes from behind and wins. That is what sells advertising. It was in the media's business interest to make Trump's primary victories seem inevitable.

If Trump wins, he will be a money machine for four years for the media.
 
The only time anyone of a generally Democrat persuasion can see non-conservative media bias is during the Democrat primaries.

Paranoia is an integral component to a conservative ideology.
 
Well, THAT point flew WAY over your head.

No, that part has been scientifically proven. Oh wait, I forgot, "I'm a damn CONSERVATIVE, got no use fer no damn SCIENCE! Libtard liars!"

Conservative fears of nonexistent or overblown boogeymen — Saddam’s WMD, Shariah law, voter fraud, Obama’s radical anti-colonial mind-set, Benghazi, etc. — make it hard not to see conservatism’s prudent risk avoidance as having morphed into a state of near permanent paranoia, especially fueled by recurrent “moral panics,” a sociological phenomenon in which a group of “social entrepreneurs” whips up hysterical fears over a group of relatively powerless “folk devils” who are supposedly threatening the whole social order. Given that conservatism seems to be part of human nature — just as liberalism is — we’re going to need all the help we can get in figuring out how to live with it, without being dominated, controlled and crippled by it.
 
No, that parts been scientifically proven. Oh wait, I forgot, "I'm a damn CONSERVATIVE, got no use fer no damn SCIENCE! Libtard liars!"

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