Fred Thompson attacks Fox News for being biased

Barcalounger · #1 11-27-2007, 02:50 PM

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CNN/MSNBC are no where near as biased towards the left as Fox News is biased to the right.

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i was just about to post this.

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I think this depends on where you consider the middle to be. Lots of people think their news sources are unbiased because they agree with their sources.

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I don't think anybody who's thinking critically about it thinks that their cable "news" source is "unbiased". The general dislike of Fox News for me is more about their brand of bias. At a high level, CNN seems to be "left" because they feature and highlight more stories with a natural liberal lean. Fox seems to be "right" because they take all stories (liberal, conservative, a-political) and twist them until they have a conservative lean. One is selection bias and the other is manipulation.

vulturesrow · #2 11-27-2007, 03:02 PM

Dont all political news stories have both a "right side" and a "left side" to them?

Barcalounger · #3 11-27-2007, 04:21 PM

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Dont all political news stories have both a "right side" and a "left side" to them?

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Fact: 12.6% of people in the US live in poverty.

This doesn't need commentary or spin to be a liberal leaning story. CNN could run with that fact straight up and it will have the effect of making many people want to help poor people with social programs. Which would get them labeled a "liberal news outlet". Fox could then run the headline of "Bush Considers Introducing Poverty Relief Bill" and that could be true but it took them a little more effort to twist it into a conservative slant.

That's a simple fictional illistration of what I meant by selection bias vs manipulation.