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Exactly, every single media outlet, NBC, ABC, FOX, and CBS have clear biases. They have to cater to an audience to make money. It's the nature of the beast. And FOX dropped the "Fair and Balanced" moniker a while ago.

You can't just pick and choose, it doesn't work that way. It is also a poor political maneuver as showing favoritism to the left is a surefire way to lose the moderates.

And BBC News is biased in its own way (i.e., scathingly anti-Israel), so basically every news source you'll find has its own regional/political ideology.

I find it's best to read ALL news sources including Fox News, MSNBC, BBC News, J-Post, etc, so that you can see the big picture of what's going on in the world. Just sticking to one news source, be that conservative or liberal, will definitely turn you into a biased news-reader.

It's sad that the news is biased since it's basically up to us readers to figure out the BS from the facts. News is a business and it's rarely fair and balanced. Just read it all.

Agreed. Fox is CLEARLY biased 24/7/365.

So is MSNBC.

If you watch these two channels, you would have a dramatically different perspective of the world and specifically this president.

THANK YOU!
i was going to say this exact thing.
The democrat inside of me can't stand Fox News.
But I also know that MSNBC and CNN swing to the left, and something inside me can't stand seeing the obvious bias.

Just saying "oh, both sides are biased, so it's all the same" doesn't cut it. Yes, MSNBC presents a liberal view of the world. But even its opinion shows maintain a certain level of accuracy. Fox News has been pushing story after story that has no basis in reality at all--the Obama birth certificate "controversy", "death panels", Obama's supposed increase in the number of czars (Bush actually had more), and so on. As someone else here noted, Fox openly encouraged the 9/12 protests, then falsely reported that other networks didn't cover it. Most of the ACORN stuff was based on inaccurate information as well. Worse yet, most of these stories get picked up elsewhere and become major news even on the other networks.

As a result, virtually every network other than MSNBC ends up tilting coverage toward the right, not toward the left. How else to explain why these bogus "stories" got more airtime, even outside of Fox News, than legitimate scandals in the previous Administration? How else to account for Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers becoming household names while John Hagee and the Alaska Independence Party were barely talked about?

Wii60: "And FOX dropped the "Fair and Balanced" moniker a while ago."

That's funny. Right after their logo in the upper-left corner of foxnews.com, there it is "Fair & Balanced." Bad information coming from someone who support Fox News? Whoda thunk it?

17 of 24 hours of the Fox News programming day is filled with 1 hour opinion shows. Care to guess what kind of opinion not coming from Shep Smith is being rattled off? And that would put the percentage of "news" is about 30% and opinion is 70%.

6:00AM - 9:00AM (3 Hours) "Fox & Friends" - I think we can chalk these three hours as a normal morning show banter that rivals the big three network's own shows. It's mostly news - with guests from all various political backgrounds represented. (That is unless they decide to not accept their offer to do interviews such as the White House).

9:00AM - 11:00 AM (2 Hours) "America's Newsroom" Bill Hemmer and Megyn Kelly. This show is 90% news with 10% devoted to a segment called "Kelly's Court" where the hottest woman on cable news gives her opinion on day's court case of the day. The rest of the show is devoted to reporting the news.

11:00AM - 1:00 PM (2 hours) "Happening Now" - Jane Skinner and Jon Scott read off teleprompter for 2 hours regurgitating the news. Occasionally they will banter about Jon Scott's inability to pay parking tickets. They might get an interview - but when they do so it's usually Here is one side, then directly after here is the other side (again that is if the other side decides to end their ban).

1:00pm to 3:00PM (2 hours) "The Live Desk" Trace and Martha stand amongst the fox newsroom. For a 10 minute segment each hour Martha usually has one or two guests to talk about a specific news story. Occasionally she'll summarize the segments with her own opinion.

3:00 (1 hour) "Studio B" - Crash TV as it happens live with Shepard Smith. If there is a car chase its on the air, a balloon in the air it's on! Shepard Smith on air has stated he is for the Public Option in the healthcare legislation - hardly a conservative position.

6:00 (1 hour) "Fox Report" - It's the evening news, as on Fox News.

------ Total Uninterrupted Original Hours of News = 12
+/- 30 minutes of segments where hosts give their opinion.


4:00 (1 hour) - "Your World" - Neal has an opinion and political bias.

5:00 (1 hour) - "Glenn Beck" - Glenn has an opinion and political bias.

6:00 (1 hour) - "Special Report" - Bret Baier .. he's a reporter. His guests they have an political bias. He has both democrats and republicans on his show. I will put this show in the talk category based on the push of all political talk for the full hour.

7:00 (1 hour) - "The O'Reilly Factor" - Bill has an opinion and political bias - though a liberal is his normal fill-in host.

8:00 (1 hour) - "Hannity" - Sean has an opinion and politlcal bias.

------ Total Uninterrupted Original Hours of Opinion/Politics = 5

10:00 (1 hour) "On the Record" - Greta is Nancy Grace lite. Her show is all about sensational topics.

------ Total Uninterrupted Original Hours of Talk/Court-TV = 1

3:00 (1 hour) "Red Eye" - The secret sauce of the network. Andy Levy exposes his anti-colonization views every night. He wishes that the pilgrims were boarded on one-way rocket ships to a spacial anomaly where they can go and create run on sentences and plant seeds of discontent against all government agents and invaders of all people not originally from where they said they were, which might have something to do with those awful jumpsuits the women had to wear. Greg's there too.

------ Total Uninterrupted Original Hours of Shows people Don't watch = 1

------ Repeat Programing during the overnight hours = 5

== RECAP ==

------ Total Uninterrupted Original Hours of News = 12
------ Total Uninterrupted Original Hours of Opinion/Politics = 5
------ Total Uninterrupted Original Hours of Talk/Court-TV = 1
------ Total Uninterrupted Original Hours of Shows people Don't watch = 1
------ Repeat Programing during the overnight hours = 5
Total Hours = 24

Neither Beck nor Hannity have ever claimed the "Fair and Balanced" tagline. If there's anyone who still uses that at FOX, it's Bill O'Reilly and I'd have to agree with him. He has nearly an even split of conservative and liberal guests and he treats them both fairly and honestly. Both Beck and Hannity have always said they are opinion shows and I don't think either one of them attempts to be anything otherwise.

That is exactly it. Fox News reports negative things about the President, and his people get mad and say, "No More". Which makes me wonder... what else is Obama's admin. trying to keep quiet.

Don't forget that the CEO of NBC's parent company actually works on Obama's Economic Advisory Board. Don't tell me THAT doesn't trickle down to MSNBC and NBC news. If my boss worked as a white house advisor something tells me I might approach my job reporting the news in a little different manner. Lord knows that Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow seem to pepper their shows with just as much of their "opinions" as Beck or Hannity. The only exception is that no one really calls them out for it.