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Fox News Bias
- Thread starter Temerit
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All national news channel's are biased to either one party or the other. Where do you think those stations get the funding? From the government.
So... which network isn't biased?
I guess the bias only counts if you don't agree with the point of view being expressed.
I guess the bias only counts if you don't agree with the point of view being expressed.
DrLeftover said:
Exactly my point. It's not hard to YouTube CNN Biased and find a biased segment of the news network:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SHG_Ib8-o8
Are certain people on Fox News biased? Yes. Is the network biased? No. Are certain people on CNN biased? Yes. Is the network biased? No.
I watch both networks commonly and I've found that you will have biased people, but as far as Fox News go, they're not biased as a network. Sure, they have biased people, but that doesn't mean it classifies them as a biased network.
From what I've read (from various more and less credible sources, so some probably don't quite hold up to standard, but do your own Googling, I'm not your waiter); the psychological problem with bias, is basically that if you view something as biased, it is because you are biased against it. Summed up, all this means is you more or less don't agree with the context in which whatever is being delivered to you is being delivered. Thus, even if it was factual, and there was all the solid evidence in the world to prove it - the receiver that is biased against the source would disregard the fact as untrue, until they heard it from a source in which they were unbiased to.
So, someone who is a fan of FOX News, could be mistaken about the first president of the United States; as far as he is concerned, it was Oliver Cromwell. MSNBC could do an entire special on George Washington, mentioning how him being the first president, etc., and the person would not accept that, and still believe that Oliver Cromwell was the first president of the United States, but upon viewing a similar special on FOX News, the person because of bias would accept the message, and accept George Washington as the first president of the United States (...sadly, in a few years with the education system going the way it is, kids could actually be confused about the hypothetical example here...).
...it all has to do more or less with basic instincts retained from earlier social tendencies when it came to tribal organisation. There was a choice of two chieftans, perhaps, and survival was literally on the line, so you had to choose the better chieftan, whichever one sounded better to you, and if you managed to survive and pass along your genes, your children were coded (either through genes, or by social mores passed along the lineage) to know to be biased in the same regard in order for survival.
Strangely, from what I've been told, in molecular physics (some far out stuff, not the basic stuff we learn in school), there are some [atomic, etc.] bonds that aren't initially possible because of bias, but given a different environment, the same chemical bond previously not possible, become possible. So perhaps our bias issues as humans are even more hard-coded than DNA, etc...weird...
So, someone who is a fan of FOX News, could be mistaken about the first president of the United States; as far as he is concerned, it was Oliver Cromwell. MSNBC could do an entire special on George Washington, mentioning how him being the first president, etc., and the person would not accept that, and still believe that Oliver Cromwell was the first president of the United States, but upon viewing a similar special on FOX News, the person because of bias would accept the message, and accept George Washington as the first president of the United States (...sadly, in a few years with the education system going the way it is, kids could actually be confused about the hypothetical example here...).
...it all has to do more or less with basic instincts retained from earlier social tendencies when it came to tribal organisation. There was a choice of two chieftans, perhaps, and survival was literally on the line, so you had to choose the better chieftan, whichever one sounded better to you, and if you managed to survive and pass along your genes, your children were coded (either through genes, or by social mores passed along the lineage) to know to be biased in the same regard in order for survival.
Strangely, from what I've been told, in molecular physics (some far out stuff, not the basic stuff we learn in school), there are some [atomic, etc.] bonds that aren't initially possible because of bias, but given a different environment, the same chemical bond previously not possible, become possible. So perhaps our bias issues as humans are even more hard-coded than DNA, etc...weird...
Jughead said:
I can't tell you how many times that one clip has been thrown out as proof of CNN bias. All cable news sucks and is biased toward the corporate elite.
If you watch Fox and you think it isn't a biased network you are dead wrong. It simply is. It presents everything in a way that benefits a conservative agenda and omits information that would cause viewers to ever doubt that sanctity of their beliefs.
And CNN and MSNBC present everything spun in favor of the liberals.
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So?
What's your point?
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So?
What's your point?
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