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What is the least biased news outlet?

What is the least biased news outlet?


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Does BBC have a bias?

Yes. The question is what is that bias?

Fox, CNN and the rest bias towards what sells. When was the last time BBC devoted a whole week to a missing white girl in Aruba?

Being publicly funded has some benefits. You don't have to pander to the morons.

Fox devoted virtually a month. CNN too.

Does NPR have a bias?

Yes. The question is what is that bias?

I can't remember the last time Fox or CNN have a real report regarding the long term financial difficulties and fallout from the massive debt we've accrued over the past 8 years. NPR and PBS have these on a somewhat regular basis.

Less bias or more bias doesn't equate to better news. Fox and CNN (except for CNN world, but that's another animal) aren't news. They are entertainment. Don't expect to find relevant, complex issues on those stations.

They have them every day on Special Report and on the Neil Cavuto show and on Fox Business Channel.

You have no idea of what you are talking about.

Jon Scott & Jane Skinner - News
Neil Cavuto - Financial News & News Commentary
Special Report - News and News Commentary
Studio B w/ Shep Smith - News

And they have news updates at the top of the hour and on the half hour.

You have allowed your incomplete information about Fox to cloud your vision on this issue. What's worse is that you are perpetuating a stereotype just like the idiots who know no better.

But you should know better.
 
Amusing. The fundamental problem with that poll is that it assumes that the American public has any real understanding of what is "Conservative" and what is "Liberal."

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OIC. Everyone else is just so dumb. If only they could understand reality like you do. :roll:
 
OIC. Everyone else is just so dumb. If only they could understand reality like you do. :roll:

Actually. He is quite right. You do not understand what he is talking about which is just unfortunate for you..

The terms branded on people and various politics are at best times rather hilarious and ridiculous. Just following the agenda of someone else is actually quite stupid, but most people do have a variety of opinions about different things, that differ quite from the labels. In the end, the labels is just a mess, and in America conservative now means right, and liberal left, even though the words in reality means something completely different altogether.
 
Actually. He is quite right. You do not understand what he is talking about which is just unfortunate for you..

The terms branded on people and various politics are at best times rather hilarious and ridiculous. Just following the agenda of someone else is actually quite stupid, but most people do have a variety of opinions about different things, that differ quite from the labels. In the end, the labels is just a mess, and in America conservative now means right, and liberal left, even though the words in reality means something completely different altogether.

Wow what cerebral baloney. I prefer to let the factions themselves define their agendas.
 
They have them every day on Special Report and on the Neil Cavuto show and on Fox Business Channel.

You have no idea of what you are talking about.

Jon Scott & Jane Skinner - News
Neil Cavuto - Financial News & News Commentary
Special Report - News and News Commentary
Studio B w/ Shep Smith - News

Care to name how many times those shows have gone David Walker on the news?

lol. Maybe ZERO? It's not really their fault. Average Americans are too dumb to understand what that man is trying to get across.

And they have news updates at the top of the hour and on the half hour.

You mean "entertainment" updates. Again, David Walker. If Fox (much less anyone else) actually gave the word out as to how bad it is, he wouldn't have left his post and be on his road trip spreading the word about just how screwed we are.

You have allowed your incomplete information about Fox to cloud your vision on this issue. What's worse is that you are perpetuating a stereotype just like the idiots who know no better.

But you should know better.

See above.

Again, David Walker, not something covered on Fox.
 
OIC. Everyone else is just so dumb. If only they could understand reality like you do. :roll:

Everyone? Hardly. Those who actually understand think all of the media sucks.

And am I wrong about the average understanding of liberal/conservative?

Morons still think the GOP is Conservative. What a joke.

How about some arguments for a change rather then soundbites?
 
All those channels suck. PBS and NPR are good, as well as the BBC.

At least none of them hire Nancy Grace.
 
Oh, I also learned from Fox News that little blond girls are the only human beings who ever go missing.

lol.

Fox News (and CNN to a degree): The debt problems that will come to bite us in the future in ways most of us can't even begin to understand are less newsworthy then 1) missing teenage white girl OR 2) highly paid athlete kills a) wife, b) girlfriend c) related person.

Therefore, we will devote 500x the air time we commit to the debt problem to either missing white girl or murderous overpaid athlete.

American "news" (and I use that term loosely) outlets suck.
 
lol.

Fox News (and CNN to a degree): The debt problems that will come to bite us in the future in ways most of us can't even begin to understand are less newsworthy then 1) missing teenage white girl OR 2) highly paid athlete kills a) wife, b) girlfriend c) related person.

Therefore, we will devote 500x the air time we commit to the debt problem to either missing white girl or murderous overpaid athlete.

American "news" (and I use that term loosely) outlets suck.

I recently got cable and was so disgusted with the news that I'm not continuing the service this month. It wasn't even "news," really. It was really nothing more than anything you'd find in the supermarket checkout line, though I'd have to say that Fox News was a bit more of a culprit than most. I simply lack the literary skills to express my contempt for television news. BBC is obviously a league in their own (it was the only station I watched that said boo about the Gaza mess) but one station can't justify a big cable bill for me.
 
We all know FOX News leans to the right and NBC/MSNBC leans to the left. Any argument against this would definitely be a losing one. So my question is, which of the major US TV media outlets do you consider to be the least biased?

Fox doesn't pay lip service to having balance.
They have a balance of left and right.
It seems further right compared to the others because you get a rightward and leftward slant daily, whereas the other networks it's a welcome shock when you hear something that slants rightward.
It's one big reason why FOX has a larger audience than CNN with fewer homes.

This is a great interview.
Q & A
Q&A: Roger Ailes


Where are the righties on the other networks?

They're virtually non-existent and when debates occur they're at a 2:1 or 3:1 disadvantage in bodies... but mental power it's about even... they'd actually need more libs.

Ailes makes a great point about other networks pitting journalists against spinners. Spinners can say anything, journalists can't.

He doesn't do it.

I find CNN getting so many votes hilarious. ABC is a very poor second place.
 
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They have a balance of left and right.

It seems further right compared to the others because you get a rightward and leftward slant daily
Here is what I don't understand. Why should news coverage be "balanced" at all? Why would you even want it to be? Why a slant at all? It should just be accurate.

Even if you have a nonbiased anchor, whom goes to the Dem and repeats what he thinks, and then goes to the Rep and repeats what they think, all that's happening is partisan opinions are just being parroted. It's possible in many instances to cut the bull**** altogether and just report on what happened, like they often do on the PBS newshour. cable news is rife with bs ... it's much less boring. the point is to get more viewers to see the advertising, not to get the story right.

It's one big reason why FOX has a larger audience than CNN with fewer homes.
No, the reason Fox has a larger audience is that it it's much more sensational. The lure of infotainment is strong. my mother in law watches Fox, and she can tell you all about the latest blonde headed girl that fell down the well, or the latest high speed chase to apprehend the purse snatcher, or whatever. jeezus, there's so much drama on that channel. she and millions like her have it on every waking hour to see what is going to happen next.
 
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Like most others on this thread I'll say which ever news outlet agrees with my political lean is the least biased. :)
 
That poll is quite insane.. 17 people, a majority actually thinks Fox is leased biased, thats just amazing, completely stunning, actually have global ironic proportions written all over it..

We are headed for the end of the world.. Goodbye. :2wave:
 
The least bias news outlet is whatever one you identify with most, duh!

heh.
 
For "real news" ??
Ha!
All of these have an agenda, they could care less about the news..they, nor I, would know the truth, even if bitten...

Oh, I don't know about that. Whenever I need to know if a little blond girl has gone missing, I know I can rely on Fox News to report on it for weeks straight.
 
That poll is quite insane.. 17 people, a majority actually thinks Fox is leased biased, thats just amazing, completely stunning, actually have global ironic proportions written all over it..

We are headed for the end of the world.. Goodbye. :2wave:This pessimism can be replaced with patience and tolerance...

IMO, all of the news is biased, and based on sensationalism, so I take it with many molecules of salt.
 
Oh, I don't know about that. Whenever I need to know if a little blond girl has gone missing, I know I can rely on Fox News to report on it for weeks straight.

If I were interested in missing little blond girls, I would then make FOX my station of choice...
I'm more interested in why...why do men behave in such an evil manner.....what is amiss with our society..
 
If I were interested in missing little blond girls, I would then make FOX my station of choice...
I'm more interested in why...why do men behave in such an evil manner.....what is amiss with our society..

...and why do men only kidnap little blond girls?
 
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