nobody wrote:i'm not saying that Fox is right but look at NBC, CBS, ABC, New York Times, LA Tribune, MTV, Al Jazeera (sp)
etc etc etc....why do the liberals get all pissy when when they've been spewing leftist bullshit for God knows how long. i myself prefer CNN because i agree they do a great job of not picking sides. btw, i was kidding about the Al Jazeera part, lol, never know when you'll be taken seriously
gonna keep this brief.
NBC owned by General Electric
CBS owned by Viacom
ABC owned by Disney
CNN owned by Time Warner
Those are publically traded, high-profile companies.
There is only one bias that stretches across all media outlets in the US. That is the bias to make money. If any of the news groups from those companies doesn't make money, the executives from those companies are faced with a decision to either change the practices there, or to accept the losses from that unit because the overall benefits to the company may be served. Regardless, it is a strategic business decision, not a simplistic decision based on a dual-party world view.
As for "balancing" NY Times, in addition to the tabloid papers printed in NYC, the Wall Street Journal is at or near the same level of respect.
The myth of the liberal media comes from a statistic that had like 63% (or so) journalists answering that they are more likely to answer questions on political issues consistent with what would be expected from a stereotyped "liberal".
What isn't quoted is that something like 70% of their editors (the people who have the final say as to what is printed, the people who set the agenda for a newspaper's opinion pages) tend to skew "conservative".
And the executives who are the bosses of the editors also tend to skew "conservative".
Regardless those statistics don't really mean that much. The question on whether you can be a good journalist, editor, or news executive is not what party you vote for when you go into the booth. The question is whether or not they can perform their professional responsibilities - which include being objective.
Fox News Channel has made a business decision (see first paragraph) as a unit of Newscorp to persue a conservative audience. THey provide programming that is obviously slanted politically to provide entertaining and compelling news to their viewers. Basically, going after the massive audience that tunes into conservative talk radio all day. Oh wait, is that the media too? FNC is actually a very well done television channel. I think if you are looking for a quality news source though, this is the last channel to turn to, but if you want to watch entertaining political commentary from interesting personalities that is consistent with your conservative viewpoints, and are willing to sacrifice accuracy, veracity, etc, then FNC is your place.
anyway, most of the "liberal media" thing is propaganda from the right that's sole purpose is to make their extreme positions look more mainstream.
