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just curious to see who comes up the most biased.

It would be a close run between c and d.

EDIT: Well, it would be if you hadn't just removed the options.

Yeah, it was tough for me too between c and d.

Fox News, unlike CNN or BBC, consists almost entirely of editorial-style opinion segments and interviews. Especially during prime-time. Hosts like Hannity and Colmes and Bill O'reilly offer their opinions freely and openly and don't even TRY to remain objective. BBC and CNN have these as well(Lou Dobbs, for instance), but not with the frequency that Fox News does. And no, I'm not just saying that because Hannity and Colmes are asshats(I never watched O'reilly). I have shouted "Nobody gives a fuck what you think!" At television 'journalists' on many occasions, just nowhere near as often as at Hannity and Colmes. :p

Al Jazeera, I suspect I would have voted for them if I had actually watched them. But since I've never seen it, I can't really vote for it. But it annoys me that they show Osama's and other terrorist leaders' videos. That's not news. Televising that makes fringe radical non-muslims like them seem more newsworthy than they really are. It would be like giving Pat Robertson hs own weekly tv show. :eek: Oops! :p

Arrr, "Ninja News" be most biased!

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Fox. Hands down. I get all my info from CNN and Headline Prime.

Al Jazeera, I suspect I would have voted for them if I had actually watched them. But since I've never seen it, I can't really vote for it. But it annoys me that they show Osama's and other terrorist leaders' videos. That's not news. Televising that makes fringe radical non-muslims like them seem more newsworthy than they really are. It would be like giving Pat Robertson hs own weekly tv show. :eek: Oops! :p

Al Jazeera, (of course it is biased, do not get me wrong) do not turn Al Quaeda videos into news. CNN does that. Actually, I am assure you that the chiefs of CNN call from time to time to the Al Jazeera directives just to know if they have received some new videos.

Al Jazeera has a unique source, of course they are going to take advantage of that fact.

NSG of course

Al-Jazeera and Fox news have almost the exact same amount of bias. Just different directions of bias.

arrr! That be Al-Jazeera, the trice-damned scourge of the news! 'Tis only because Fox News ain't seaworthy. The only time the news comes across Fox is in the title of that channel.

I haven't watched Al-Jalzeera, so I don't know if it's more or less biased than Fox. Of the others, Fox is definitely the most biased.

"KKK Knews" is probably the most biased. =)

Close runner-up, Fox.

Since I don't watch Al Jazeera, I can't make a judgement about them. The only options I have left are the first three, which Faux News wins by a large margin.

Arrr, "Ninja News" be most biased!

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Silly. It don't be Toipe loik a Poirate Dei! :D

NSG of course

Arr! Ye be removin' that insult to the good ship NSG! We be having both sides of the issue hearrrr!

Anyone who would call the BBC "biased" would deserve a slap in the face.

Yay, a "Fox News is teh EVIL!!!!1one" thread... :rolleyes:

Yay, a "Fox News is teh EVIL!!!!1one" thread... :rolleyes:

To be fairrrrrr, he be giving other options to vote forrrr!

Anyone who would call the BBC "biased" would deserve a slap in the face.

All media are biased. Included the BBC. And I am a press manager and a editor in a media.

Come here and try to slap me.

Arr! Ye be removin' that insult to the good ship NSG! We be having both sides of the issue hearrrr!Yarr! We be dealin' in both de reason and de madness!

Silly. It don't be Toipe loik a Poirate Dei! :D

Tharrr it be, lad. Tharrr it be.

Silly. It don't be Toipe loik a Poirate Dei! :D
Arrrr! Look behind you! A three-headed monkey! (http://xfer.lfnetwork.com/scummbar.com/mi2/MI1-CD/04%20-%20LeChuck's%20Theme.mp3)

All media are biased. Included the BBC. And I am a press manager and a editor in a media.

Come here and try to slap me.

I was being facetious, silly.

I would have to say that I love Fox News Channel, I do feel that they are "Fair and Balanced" They show both Good and Bad versus's CNN's constant negativity and has always been one sided atleast Fox News shows someone from Both sides.

Bill O'Reilly Rocks.

I was being facetious, silly.

I know. Sorry if that looked like an outbreak ;)

I would have to say that I love Fox News Channel, I do feel that they are "Fair and Balanced" They show both Good and Bad versus's CNN's constant negativity and has always been one sided atleast Fox News shows someone from Both sides.

Bill O'Reilly Rocks.

Shiver me timber and call me pete! 'Course ye be thinkin' that of yon precious Fox News. 'tis the exact answer I be expectin' tha hear from scurvy dogs like ye.

If ye be thinkin' that Fox news is "fair and balanced", methinks there be no place for ye on the 'Informed' ship, ye might try yer luck yonder to the 'Propaganda' vessel. The talk of Tortuga is that they be looking for parrots.

Shiver me timber and call me pete! 'Course ye be thinkin' that of yon precious Fox News. 'tis the exact answer I be expectin' tha hear from scurvy dogs like ye.

If ye be thinkin' that Fox news is "fair and balanced", methinks there be no place for ye on the 'Informed' ship, ye might try yer luck yonder to the 'Propaganda' vessel. The talk of Tortuga is that they be looking for parrots.
Arrrr! I concurrrr! http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y223/GermanNightmare/forumsmileyparrot.gif

Whichever one is most opposed to the voter's view, of course.

Personally, I listen to NPR, read MSNBC.com, and read the New York Post.

This poll.

Yeah, it was tough for me too between c and d.

Fox News, unlike CNN or BBC, consists almost entirely of editorial-style opinion segments and interviews. Especially during prime-time. Hosts like Hannity and Colmes and Bill O'reilly offer their opinions freely and openly and don't even TRY to remain objective. BBC and CNN have these as well(Lou Dobbs, for instance), but not with the frequency that Fox News does. And no, I'm not just saying that because Hannity and Colmes are asshats(I never watched O'reilly). I have shouted "Nobody gives a fuck what you think!" At television 'journalists' on many occasions, just nowhere near as often as at Hannity and Colmes. :p

Al Jazeera, I suspect I would have voted for them if I had actually watched them. But since I've never seen it, I can't really vote for it. But it annoys me that they show Osama's and other terrorist leaders' videos. That's not news. Televising that makes fringe radical non-muslims like them seem more newsworthy than they really are. It would be like giving Pat Robertson hs own weekly tv show. :eek: Oops! :p
Yeah, my vote prrety much seconds this far to sensible statment. Whats wron LG are you sick this seriousness is worrying.

Why isn't American talk radio on the list?

I would have to say that I love Fox News Channel, I do feel that they are "Fair and Balanced" They show both Good and Bad versus's CNN's constant negativity and has always been one sided atleast Fox News shows someone from Both sides.

Bill O'Reilly Rocks.Remember kids, just because the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea calls itself democratic doesn't mean it is. :)

how many voted for Al-Jazeera have actually watched it? and is it really biased or just a middle eastern view of things, which is not the same as being biased.
I've never seen it so I can't say.

Fox on the other hand should re-name itself the Official Republican Party Propaganda TV.

I was totally disappointed when I clicked on this thread.

To the OP, you listed television networks not media types. All television news is incredibly biased. It's the nature of that beast. If you want fair and balanced, don't tune in Fox, get your news from a wide variety of print or electronic sources. Never rely on one source.

I was totally disappointed when I clicked on this thread.
And when you took your cap off, we saw you are bald! HaHa baldy!

and good point.

I was totally disappointed when I clicked on this thread.

To the OP, you listed television networks not media types. All television news is incredibly biased. It's the nature of that beast. If you want fair and balanced, don't tune in Fox, get your news from a wide variety of print or electronic sources. Never rely on one source.QFT.

Better still; sell that obnoxious peice of furniture.

And when you took your cap off, we saw you are bald! HaHa baldy!

and good point.You're obviously confusing me with someone else. I don't wear caps...





they muss up my full head of luscious curls.

QFT.

Better still; sell that obnoxious peice of furniture.I haven't owned a TV for 2 years.

I was totally disappointed when I clicked on this thread.

To the OP, you listed television networks not media types. All television news is incredibly biased. It's the nature of that beast. If you want fair and balanced, don't tune in Fox, get your news from a wide variety of print or electronic sources. Never rely on one source.

there are levels of bias, some TV news outlets make more of an effort to be unbiased than others-FOX makes no attempt to hide it's extreme right agenda.
Here we have 3 major outlets Global,CBC and CTV. CBC & CTV are make an effort to be unbiased giving time to all sides of an issue. Global is quite rightwing.

I haven't owned a TV for 2 years.Me either. Haven't owned one for near 30 years.

I bought a video projector though. Rally games & horror movies are just so much better when the picture is 5'5". Besides, for the the price of a decent TV subscribtion, I have 2 newspaper subscribtions & pay for my cigs.

Back on topic though; the network newz is rubbish. Not only is it useless becauuse there's no time to actually report anything, but all of the offerings are plagued by either realpolitik agendas, party propaganda or corporate greed. All three usually. When combined with the lack of time to report anything, the propaganda is pretty much the sum total of what's offered.

*Shudders*

I can feel by braincells dying just from thinking about it.

I haven't owned a TV for 2 years.

I call mine 'that thing I plug the Gamecube into'

My only source of news is NSG and any links here I might be bored enough to follow. Shocking perhaps, but I treasure my ignorance of pop culture bs including the news.

I'm going to vote for Fox, because at least Al-Jazeera is somewhat honest about being biased.

fox news.

CNN? Biased? Do they even belong in the same sentence except an expression of the negative between the two.

AJ makes no bones about thier biased-ness. (is that a word?)

Fox makes the pretention of being "Fair and Balanced".

Anyone who would call the BBC "biased" would deserve a slap in the face.

Ah but have you ever watched the CBBC childrens news 'News Round' that is dreadfully biased, and whats worst is that its being watched by inpressionable kids :eek:

I would have to say that I love Fox News Channel, I do feel that they are "Fair and Balanced" They show both Good and Bad versus's CNN's constant negativity and has always been one sided atleast Fox News shows someone from Both sides.

Bill O'Reilly Rocks.

Is this actually a serious post? Really? Have you ever watched (for instance) the BBC news to know the difference?

Is there another planet that has a city called Tampa on it? You can't be from this one.

can't choose between c or d. i know fox news is diabolically biased and i don't really know much about al jazeera but i'd be surprised if it wasn't biased.
i think newspapers tend to be even more biased than tv or radio news anyway.

Fox. Hands down. I get all my info from CNN and Headline Prime.

Studies show that people who get their news from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart are more well informed that people who get their news from any of the 24 hour boys.

I would have to say that I love Fox News Channel, I do feel that they are "Fair and Balanced" They show both Good and Bad versus's CNN's constant negativity and has always been one sided atleast Fox News shows someone from Both sides.

Bill O'Reilly Rocks.

Balanced Media does not mean showing equal parts fact and fiction. They are biased. The fact that their viewers are the most uninformed people in the world is the best proof of that there is. There is an actual negative informative value to watching FOX news. That is, if you get no news at all, you have a better understanding of the world than if you get your news from FOX.

I don't offer this link as proof, I know that FOX news viewers are imune to things like proof, but it will illustrate what I'm talking about and serve as a starting point to those for whom this whole "FOX Ignorance" thing is news.

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/film/news/article50774.ece

However, I will agree that Bill O'Reilly has made a wonderful contribution to the Cable landscape. He inspired the Colbert Report.

Al Jazeera has a website (http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage); you can make up your own minds about it.

I heard once that it's banned in several Arab countries because it's considered to have a pro-Western bias.

can't choose between c or d. i know fox news is diabolically biased and i don't really know much about al jazeera but i'd be surprised if it wasn't biased.
i think newspapers tend to be even more biased than tv or radio news anyway.

FOX news is deliberatly designed to mislead people into supporting a neocon agenda.

Al Jazeera is simply the honest product of people who live in the Middle East and carries their particular bias.

In terms of bias, it really isn't fair to compare FOX to anything else. It isn't news at all. It's just propaganda. Even the people running it don't believe their crap.

As one FOX host described it, FOX and it's viewership is "trailer trash pie."

CNN? Biased? Do they even belong in the same sentence except an expression of the negative between the two.

Well, they are biased.

They're owned by AOL and have a right-wing corporate agenda. But they're still nothing like FOX.

Why isn't American talk radio on the list?

Because its bias is so pronounced it's been upgraded to "larges."

In terms of bias, it really isn't fair to compare FOX to anything else. It isn't news at all. It's just propaganda. Even the people running it don't believe their crap.Well, to be fair, CNN and its American brethren are just as sensationalist and worthless as news sources. They just don't have a particular party they've sold their souls to.

They all are. In the words of Samuel Clemens "If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed." Same applies to TV, and then some.

Well, to be fair, CNN and its American brethren are just as sensationalist and worthless as news sources. They just don't have a particular party they've sold their souls to.

Perhaps, but all you have to do to get a realistic picture of what they're talking about is tell yourself, ok, what would I think if this were one tenth as serious as they're making it out to be.

They make things sound worse than they are, or more important than they are, but rarely do they make things sound the opposite of what they are like FOX does routinely.

Well, Al-Jazeera gets accused of bias from both Islamists for being western biased and from the West for being biased towards Islamists. So I'd say they are probably pretty neutral.

At least, that was the (shortened) opinion of my Critical Thinking essay :D

Perhaps, but all you have to do to get a realistic picture of what they're talking about is tell yourself, ok, what would I think if this were one tenth as serious as they're making it out to be.

They make things sound worse than they are, or more important than they are, but rarely do they make things sound the opposite of what they are like FOX does routinely.Of course. Not being atrocious just doesn't make them good.

Well, to be fair, CNN and its American brethren are just as sensationalist and worthless as news sources. They just don't have a particular party they've sold their souls to.

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Of course. Not being atrocious just doesn't make them good.

That's true. They're all just corporate mouthpieces. Even PBS is run by Bush appointees.

No wonder we have people who think that the BBC is biased. Everything is to the left of American media. Not just other media... everything. Rocks, trees, math, meteorology. All of it makes Republicans look worse than even the mainstream American media.

what a bunch of lib-tards
at least fox tries to have both sides - the others just bash bush and praise klintoons and other liberals

:headbang:

what a bunch of lib-tards
at least fox tries to have both sides - the others just bash bush and praise klintoons and other liberals

:headbang:

Fox never tried to have both sides unless they know they can ridicule the liberal side. Besides, everyone know that reality has a liberal bias.

And Lewiski-gate is a clear example that every single news organisation in the US isn't praising "klintoon". They were after him like there was no tomorrow.

Well, Al-Jazeera gets accused of bias from both Islamists for being western biased and from the West for being biased towards Islamists. So I'd say they are probably pretty neutral.

At least, that was the (shortened) opinion of my Critical Thinking essay :D

That's essentially what I've heard too and the conclusion I arrived at. ;) A quick look through their website seems to confirm it. Cries of "bias!" appear to come (paradoxically) from them being willing to interview pretty much anyone on all sides of any issue.

what a bunch of lib-tards
at least fox tries to have both sides - the others just bash bush and praise klintoons and other liberals

:headbang:

I've already acknowledged that FOX has both sides. The corporate far-right lies and the religous far-right lies. It would be nice if they have to completly lie about the left however that they at least make some time for the truth.

Cry all you like about "sides the other channels don't have." The simple fact is that people who watch FOX are less informed that people who don't. They believe things that aren't true. e.g. They believe that FOX has both sides portrayed fairly. They believe that Clinton is a liberal. They believe that Bush is portrayed in a light that makes him look worse than he is, when in fact all the media have, by and large, given him a complete free ride after spending 8 years frothing at the mouth to help the Republicans take Clinton down (with no success).