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Thread #99339   Message #1981094
Posted By: John Hardly
27-Feb-07 - 04:11 PM
Thread Name: BS: Faux news
Subject: RE: BS: Faux news
"...you will see actual clips that show it all.   You watch and then decide."

There have been groups who have done exactly the same thing (actual clips) to show the bias of the major networks (ABC, CBS, NBC).

I think perhaps the most telling thing regarding media bias is that people from a more progressive POV have no trouble pointing out those whose bias they disagree with -- they can name pundit, after journalist, after columnist who are "right wing". But ask them to describe all the rest of journalism, they can't seem to find a liberal in the whole lot of 'em. Just unbiased journalists all.

The answer to Kendall's initial question is that Kendall is, indeed, wrong. Fox is bigger than all the others. Bee-Dubya-Ell probably distilled down the main reason -- it is the one alternative to the rest who are in agreement. If one or more of ABC, CBS, or NBC decided to be unbiased they could gain back some of that viewership they lost through the nineties.

Truth is, things will tend to balance out soon I think. One of the early strengths upon which Fox and other alternative media sources drew upon was the fledgling and growing new internet...

...That's because the biggest strength of the left's stranglehold on media was not because of what they wrote or covered, but rather the fact that they could spike stories and no one was the wiser. The internet has made spiking stories almost impossible. That's why the right saw the greatest gain from the new technology.

The left has started to gain back some ground with its own use of the internet for the disemination of information. Curiously, that empowerment has only caused greater problems for the mainstream media. Even though the mainstream media tells the story from the liberal POV, now the liberal is seeking ever more information that is available on the 'net, thereby making even their own major media a redundant source.