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Date Posted: 12:00:08 01/12/08 Sat
Author: EJet
Subject: Re: Bill's wife losing again
In reply to: Deep Diction 's message, "Re: Bill's wife losing again" on 06:50:11 01/11/08 Fri

>
>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.



http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

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