Objective Voice

Sam W illustrates very clearly the media bias FoxNews shows towards the left and in particular towards Pres. Obama. The Conservative talking heads do it on their radio shows all the time. Let's take this issue of cap-N-trade, for example. Rush, Hannity and Mark Levin have all used the argue that a cap on energy will cost the American household over $1,000 a year. But what they don't tell you is this figure is an estimate based on expenditures and possible inflationary cost projected at over 35 yrs into the future! So, when people here this extra expenditure to their home energy cost they immediately look at their wallets and think about today's hard economy.

Very misleading indeed!

Granted, media outlets for both sides do this, but at least those who are in support of the Obama Administration will from time to time speak on the negatives of his Administration, whereas FoxNews goes out of its way to take their jabs at the OA at every turn.

It's not that I'm gah-gah over this president, but rather I really don't see anything "fair and balanced" about FoxNews. I mean, where was the negativity over G. W. Bush during his 8 years in office? Rarely did they have anything bad to say about "Dubyah", yet we all know he wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed. And still when Clinton was in office FoxNews jumped on every mistake he made no matter how slight.

Fair and balanced my ***. FoxNews is what it is - a media outlet for the right. And before anyone starts bashing CNN, NBC or MSNBC, let me be clear:

CNN does place panelist from both sides of the argument on their news segments all the time.

NBC has always tried to be fair in the news stories it covers.

MSNBC goes far more indepth in their analysist of a given situation than most other cable news agencies.

I find these news agencies far more fair and balanced in their reporting than anything FoxNews has to say. I've tried to watch them over the years, but find their views are just to far to the right...not objective enough, IMO. No, I'm not looking for just liberal points of view. But I do look for the pros and cons on a indepth story, and where there are two-sides to an issue I want the media outlet I've tuned into to provide me with information on both sides. I just don't see where FoxNews does this on a regular basis.

Objective Voice

Rev,

I think the point WillRockwell was trying to get at is FoxNews rarely, if ever, has apologized for any story they've done that was reported in error or found to have been fabricated or "doctored" by its reporters or commentators, whereas, the example you provided above clearly shows that MSNBC apologized for their error soon after reporting the story.

So, you're point really hasn't been validated...at least not with this example (from 2 years ago! Can we get something more recent?).