VoyForums
[ Show ]
Support VoyForums
[ Shrink ]
VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

[ Login ] [ Contact Forum Admin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 1, 2, 3, [4], 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 ]

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 06:50:11 01/11/08 Fri
Author: Deep Diction
Subject: Re: Bill's wife losing again
In reply to: EJetson 's message, "Re: Bill's wife losing again" on 06:32:27 01/11/08 Fri

>
>>Well, CBS, NBC, and CNN are dead center. ABC pulls a
>>little to the right. Can you give me some examples of
>>routine bias you see on the major networks to justify
>>your claim that they're liberally slanted?
>
>
>
>Yes, I have compiled an extensive library of just such
>a thing just in case this ever came up on this board.
>
>One example that comes to mind is Tuesday's coverage
>of the NH primary. How much coverage was given to
>McCain's victory compared to the in depth coverage of
>Obama/Clinton?
>
>How much coverage was given the other day to Hillary's
>"touching" weeping episode in order to make her appear
>more non-bitchlike?
>
>I'm sure you're going to spin this somehow into
>something it isn't, though, so I'm not sure why I
>bothered. I'm still floored that you think that CNN
>especially is "dead center". Even Ted Kennedy would
>think that CNN is a little left.

I can't really comment on the recent stuff, as the past few months I've been working nonstop and have spent maybe 5 minutes watching non-sports television. All I know is that when I watch the regular broadcasts, the anchors always sound completely impartial to me, whereas when I watch Fox, within 60 seconds I can tell that the anchor is a right-winger (or is being told to speak as if he/she is).

As far as asserting bias based on the amount of coverage given to something, I think that can be a stretch sometimes. I won't disagree that news directors will sometimes try to bury a story, but I think 99.999% of the time, they just run the stories that they think will generate the highest ratings, regardless of which "side" the story benefits. The more damaging sort of bias, in my opinion, is when a story is reported in a way that spins it in one direction or the other. I wasn't asking for examples of reporting bias to try and stump you or anything... I just wanted to know what it is that you see when you turn on CNN that makes it seem biased to you. Because it seems awfully fair to me (excluding guest blowhards, of course).

Lately I've resorted to getting most of my news on my cell phone over lunch from the Yahoo news national and political sections, and the coverage there seems balanced as well.

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Replies:

[ Contact Forum Admin ]

Forum timezone: GMT-8
VF Version: 3.00b, ConfDB:
Before posting please read our privacy policy.
VoyForums(tm) is a Free Service from Voyager Info-Systems.
Copyright © 1998-2019 Voyager Info-Systems. All Rights Reserved.