If in fact you really think Fox viewers would be wrong, other cable news media are not biased, surely you have something other than just a Hazelnut thinks so, which is worth nada as you know.
Now we're getting somewhere.
First of all define "biased" -- if you're talking across the board slant on all stories every single day, I'd say no. Absolutely not.
MSNBC offers counter-programming to FNC. Sort of. Many of their commentator/hosts are left-leaning counter-parts to those on FNC. Morning Joe is a mixed bag. Scarborough is a moderate, but Pat Buchanan is on a regular basis.
CNN -- Anderson Cooper, Campbell Brown - pretty straight forward news programming. Larry King -- interview show with softball questions. They have a mid-day guy, Rick something who is left-leaning. But you'd have a hard time showing a consistent daily slant on stories coming out of CNN.
Again, the qualification for bias is
consistent. Not one story or even one show--but a daily effort to produce a news "narrative" from a specific angle.
CBS, NBC, ABC -- local news highlight local stories. They cater to their audience and demos. The nightly network news shows cover stories from a variety of angles -- you'd have a hard time showing any consistent bias one way or another. I know Bill O'Rielly has got a hardon for NBC, but I don't see it.
Newspapers -- Front page, straight news. Columnists -- opinion. Editorial page -- varies from week to week. Basically, they bigger papers cater to a certain audience and stories are selected and edited based on how well they'll sell that paper to their audience.
IMO:
The ONLY BIAS, meaning
consistent slat on stories, you'll see is what I call a "conflict bias." Stories are framed around the most dramatic elements--the conflict between two sides.
In dramatic story telling, you engage your audience by punching up the conflict between two people or parties. In order to make their programming more compelling, MSM will frame or tell stories from an angle that implies some sort of conflict. Listen to the language used over the weekend when Cheney and Biden made statements on the Sunday shows.
Why does Sarah Palin get more coverage--because she's a polarizing personality--conflict comes naturally. Love her or hater her, viewers will stay tuned in.
The one bias I will give you -- On social issues, there is more tolerance among people who work in the media for gays.
A lot of "liberal media" bias arguments consist of finding fault in which stories were not covered. I have yet to see a legitimate relevant major story that was not covered by major outlets in some fashion.
The bottom line here is that no other outlet, not even MSNBC approaches News/Editorial cable programming in the fashion FNC does -- they have reinvented New/editorial programing and packaged it as a daily news 'narrative' told from a conservative angle.
This is nothing new. William Randolph Hearst ran his newspapers the same way.
