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Originally posted by Zkribbler
I was watching CNN.
I was watching CNN.
As for the US media...its loud, brash and annoying. Less news, more reality TV show with rolling headlines.
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The CNN you guys in America get isn't always the CNN we in the Rest of the World get.
As for the US media...its loud, brash and annoying. Less news, more reality TV show with rolling headlines.Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
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Not so much reality show as commercials.Originally posted by Starchild
As for the US media...its loud, brash and annoying. Less news, more reality TV show with rolling headlines.
A U.S. news program leads with something burning or someone bleeding; then there's a lot of stories about new products and/or services we should buy, and it ends with some cute human interest story.Comment
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thats spefically an invention of the all news cable networks, first CNN, then Fox, and MSNBC.Originally posted by Starchild
The CNN you guys in America get isn't always the CNN we in the Rest of the World get.
As for the US media...its loud, brash and annoying. Less news, more reality TV show with rolling headlines.
TV news, back when it was a half hour or hour thing in the evening, plus 60 minutes and specials, was NEVER like that. And of course PBS isnt it.
And obviously radio, newpapers, mags were entirely different worlds.
Conclusion - the furriners judge US media purely by the cable networks - understandable in that thats all they see, but youd think such Sowphistycaded Yuropeans would realize what a limited picture theyre getting."A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin BuberComment
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MSNBC is more left-leaning than CNN.Originally posted by Alexander I IMHO CNN and FOX are the more blatant extremes.
CNN seems to be more moderate. Its main bias is towards alarmism. Every day there's a new crisis, every segment focuses on what we should fret about next. It's like Kyle's mom from South Park. (Plus the talking heads are insufferably smug. I especially can't stand the morning people: Soledad O'Brien, Miles O'Brien, John Roberts, and Kiran Chetry. John Roberts is especially irritating. I also hate Sanjay Gupta, Ali Velshi, and Anderson Cooper.)
Fox is blatantly biased to the rightLast edited by Wycoff; May 25, 2007, 15:43.I'm about to get aroused from watching the pokemon and that's awesome. - PekkaComment
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Re: The US media
An NYC/East Coast bias.Originally posted by Colon™
...do they have a right-wing bias or a left-wing bias?I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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That's because you are seeing CNN through a bias towards your own views.Originally posted by Wycoff
MSNBC is more left-leaning than CNN.
CNN seems to be more moderate. Its main bias is towards alarmism. Every day there's a new crisis, every segment focuses on what we should fret about next. It's like Kyle's mom from South Park. (Plus the talking heads are insufferably smug. I especially can't stand the morning people: Soledad O'Brien, Miles O'Brien, John Roberts, and Kiran Chetry. John Roberts is especially irritating. I also hate Sanjay Gupta, Ali Velshi, and Anderson Cooper.)
Fox is blatantly biased to the right
Yes, I believe that Fox is biased towards the right, but I don't think it's blatant. Still, it's more close to my views than CNN so I see it as more moderate than CNN. It's all a matter of perspective...Founder of The Glory of War, CHAMPIONS OF APOLYTON!!!
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I'm actually a right winger, and I still think that Fox is blatantly biased.Originally posted by Donegeal
That's because you are seeing CNN through a bias towards your own views.
Yes, I believe that Fox is biased towards the right, but I don't think it's blatant. Still, it's more close to my views than CNN so I see it as more moderate than CNN. It's all a matter of perspective...
CNN is all over the map. You have people ranging from Lou Dobbs to Anderson Cooper. Fox has Alan Combes as a token Democrat, but the rest of their talking heads have basically the same viewpoints and take the same positions.I'm about to get aroused from watching the pokemon and that's awesome. - PekkaComment
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Fixed.Originally posted by Wycoff
Fox has Alan Combes as a token mindless, spineless Democrat ...
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absolutely. on the other hand where does bias begin to diverge from the center?Originally posted by Donegeal
The left or right bias of the media is dependant on your left or right bias.
As a righty, I see the media (in general) as extremely left balanced, and they do so on purpose to get the all important tv rating. I also prefer FOX news because they more frequently spin the news the way I like it spun.
I am fairly certian that a lefty would fell almost the same way, only with the lefty/righty bias being switched and they prefer CNN."I hope I get to punch you in the face one day" - MRT144, Imran Siddiqui
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It' all more or less right-wing on average.Comment
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You like to be lied to?Originally posted by Donegeal
I also prefer FOX news because they more frequently spin the news the way I like it spun.
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Fox is about as reliable and trustworthy as a GOP campaign ad, the rest of the big media outlets have biases that don't necessarily fit nicely in a right-left spectrum. All American media has an annoying nationalist, isolationist, anti-globalization bias. Also, most of them tend towards alarmism and sensationalism. From a political perspective they act like sharks, once there's blood in the water due to some sort of scandal, the feeding frenzy begins, regardless of who is the hapless victim."The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists."
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the real question is without oreily and sometimes hannity when does fox news ever beat every other "liberal" media outlet in ratings?
i think if you look at the way fox news is viewed by most viewers coupled with where most viewers put the station, it makes it seem like fox really is way out there.
where does the majority of the population reside and where do they think their viewership resides in terms of bias?
(if the majority of people get their news from left wing sources are they really that left wing?[I know I know, you could argue theres not that many right wing outlets but then youd be selling yourself short and essentially saying the audience doesnt dictate what producers decide is news worthy] and if they are what does that say about the country as a whole?)Last edited by MRT144; May 25, 2007, 17:53."I hope I get to punch you in the face one day" - MRT144, Imran Siddiqui
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You know, extreme as Fox is, they could at least try to be as amusing as Pravda is
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