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#1 Ugalde-
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I never really watch the news or anything so I dont know what is wrong with there news. I realised alot of people here disslike Fox news and was just wondering why.

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#2 Ace_WondersX
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Go to mediamatters.org and that will explain a lot.

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#3 duxup
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Most TV news is garbage, except for The News Hour.

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#4 battlefront23
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Because conservative news is bad news.

Duh...

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#5 CRS98
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Some guy on the radio said Fox News was telling the truth.
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#6 duxup
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A while back. I turned Fox on I thought I saw some important news scroll across the bottom of the screen (silly me) and stuck with it. Meanwhile some lady was talking about the election. The lady then proceeded to note how she wishes someone would assassinate Barack Obama before the election. The Fox news guy just said "Well tell us what you REALLY think." and they had a good laugh together. Professional stuff.
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It is extremely biased toward the republican party and passionately anti-obama, even when the 'opinion people' like O'Reily, Glen Beck, and Hannity aren't on. The straight up 'just the facts' reporters are even biased toward republicans.
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#8 PannicAtack
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Because Bill O'Reilly is a loudmouth.
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#9 pdevil21
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You have to ask?

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#10 Serraph105
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It is extremely biased toward the republican party and passionately anti-obama, even when the 'opinion people' like O'Reily, Glen Beck, and Hannity aren't on. The straight up 'just the facts' reporters are even biased toward republicans.rockon1215
*waits for the inevitable CSNBC is just as bad* as if that should let Fox off the hook for being biased.
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#11 -Sun_Tzu-
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Simple.

Propaganda = Bad

Fox News = Propaganda

Fox News = Bad

With that said, all the cable news networks are bad, except for a select few programs. I find Fareed Zakaria's show on Sunday afternoon on CNN to be excellent, Rachel Maddow has a nice show on MSNBC, and Shepard Smith on Fox News is pretty good. But if you want to watch quality news programs, just turn on PBS, and watch BBC World News and News Hour.

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#12 POPEYE1716
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BBC is the way to go.

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#13 yabbicoke
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All of the media is such utter ****.

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#14 Notsogr8one
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Screw you guys! O'Reilly still owns!
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#15 Acemaster27
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I dont like Fox or MSNBC. We need to talk things over without shouting at each other and having the preconcieved notion that the other side is inherently wrong forever.
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#16 mixmax5
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Mostly bias

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#17 I_am_george
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It's not bad, just that with every news source, you have to be skeptical and do your own research and not believe everything they say or print.

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#18 deactivated-5a79221380856
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It's not fair and balanced but good reporting never is.
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#19 Sirax0
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Simple.

Propaganda = Bad

Fox News = Propaganda

Fox News = Bad

With that said, all the cable news networks are bad, except for a select few programs. I find Fareed Zakaria's show on Sunday afternoon on CNN to be excellent, Rachel Maddow has a nice show on MSNBC, and Shepard Smith on Fox News is pretty good. But if you want to watch quality news programs, just turn on PBS, and watch BBC World News and News Hour.

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Quoting for the Truth!

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#20 Jfisch93
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All major news channels are just channels for their respective parties, the government is so jacked up it's not even funny.

Just stick with your local news channel, they report REAL news.

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#21 ferrari2001
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its not bad its equally as biased as most news stations
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#22 Rusteater
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Simple.

Propaganda = Bad

Fox News = Propaganda

Fox News = Bad

With that said, all the cable news networks are bad, except for a select few programs. I find Fareed Zakaria's show on Sunday afternoon on CNN to be excellent, Rachel Maddow has a nice show on MSNBC, and Shepard Smith on Fox News is pretty good. But if you want to watch quality news programs, just turn on PBS, and watch BBC World News and News Hour.

-Sun_Tzu-

FAIL

BBC and PBS are just as biased as any nooz program on the idiot box.

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#23 -Sun_Tzu-
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FAIL

BBC and PBS are just as biased as any nooz program on the idiot box.

Rusteater
Um, no, not at all.
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#24 bluezy
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Because they help give the media a bad reputation.
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#26 nimatoad2000
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Most TV news is garbage, except for The News Hour.

duxup
bbc america and PBS .. real news. CNN is also good , they are very very little liberal bias, but they never tell you their views. unlike the guys on fox news telling people what to think.
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#27 broken_bass_bin
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I'm a Brit, and I even know what's wrong with Fox News. Its right-wing bias is internationally renound.

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#28 nVidiaGaMer
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Its not bad they have Bill O' Reilly.

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#29 Rusteater
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[QUOTE="Rusteater"]

FAIL

BBC and PBS are just as biased as any nooz program on the idiot box.

-Sun_Tzu-

Um, no, not at all.

Wow, you need to get your info from other sources. You do know it's called an idiot box for a reason.

BBC liberal bias:

Link1

Link2

Link3

There's a lot more where that came from. Google is your friend.

As for PBS, I'm not even going to get started. It's a joke, a very old joke. Has been, always will be.

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#30 awsss
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Because most of the content on it is biased conservative propoganda.

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#31 gamefan67
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Because they take the Republican agenda and push it to the extreme. I love when Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert make fun of them. And their anti-Obama agenda disgusts me a lot.
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#32 Zeromus1337
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I'm guessing because it's so conservative. OH NOES!

But, when you think about, the majority of news networks are biased, because they already have a set political standing. If you don't like Fox News, just don't watch it. :P

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#33 -Sun_Tzu-
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[QUOTE="-Sun_Tzu-"][QUOTE="Rusteater"]

FAIL

BBC and PBS are just as biased as any nooz program on the idiot box.

Rusteater

Um, no, not at all.

Wow, you need to get your info from other sources. You do know it's called an idiot box for a reason.

BBC liberal bias:

Link1

Link2

Link3

There's a lot more where that came from. Google is your friend.

As for PBS, I'm not even going to get started. It's a joke, a very old joke. Has been, always will be.

Is BBC biased? Of course it is. I don't need to do a google search to find that out. The same is true for PBS, which at times sacrifices journalistic integrity for superficial neutrality.

Now, are they as bad as the likes of Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC?No.

Fox News, and to a lesser extent MSNBC and CNN, broadcast propaganda throughout most of the day. BBC and PBS are exponentially more informative than any of the three big U.S. cable news networks, who don't only have an agenda, and who don't only sacrifice journalistic integrity for superficial neutrality, but sacrifice it for ratings. They aren't really even news networks in the conventional sense - they are entertainment networks first and foremost, which offer only a very small amount of quality news programming.

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[QUOTE="-Sun_Tzu-"][QUOTE="Rusteater"]

FAIL

BBC and PBS are just as biased as any nooz program on the idiot box.

Rusteater

Um, no, not at all.

Wow, you need to get your info from other sources. You do know it's called an idiot box for a reason.

BBC liberal bias:

Link1

Link2

Link3

There's a lot more where that came from. Google is your friend.

As for PBS, I'm not even going to get started. It's a joke, a very old joke. Has been, always will be.

The irony in your sig is hilarious. Do you watch much Fox news? :lol: Loaded terms are fun.
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#35 I_am_george
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[QUOTE="Rusteater"]

FAIL

BBC and PBS are just as biased as any nooz program on the idiot box.

-Sun_Tzu-

Um, no, not at all.

BBC = government funded

PBS = government funded

Do you think they're unbiased considering who controls their paychecks?

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#36 Sajo7
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Because Fox News found a niche where they get views based off shock value and absurdity.
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#37 I_am_george
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Because they take the Republican agenda and push it to the extreme. I love when Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert make fun of them. And their anti-Obama agenda disgusts me a lot.gamefan67

Did MSNBC and CNN's anti-Bush agenda disgust you? Does their pro-Obama agenda disgust you? Perhaps they disgust you because they have an opposing view and you don't like opposing views, which is normal for a Liberal.

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#38 -Sun_Tzu-
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[QUOTE="-Sun_Tzu-"][QUOTE="Rusteater"]

FAIL

BBC and PBS are just as biased as any nooz program on the idiot box.

I_am_george

Um, no, not at all.

BBC = government funded

PBS = government funded

Do you think they're unbiased considering who controls their paychecks?

I don't believe I ever said that they were unbiased.
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#39 duxup
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Simple.

Propaganda = Bad

Fox News = Propaganda

Fox News = Bad

With that said, all the cable news networks are bad, except for a select few programs. I find Fareed Zakaria's show on Sunday afternoon on CNN to be excellent, Rachel Maddow has a nice show on MSNBC, and Shepard Smith on Fox News is pretty good. But if you want to watch quality news programs, just turn on PBS, and watch BBC World News and News Hour.

-Sun_Tzu-
Power to The News Hour. I don't know anyone who has spent actual time watching it and didn't come away admitting it was darned good.
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#40 I_am_george
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[QUOTE="I_am_george"]

[QUOTE="-Sun_Tzu-"] Um, no, not at all. -Sun_Tzu-

BBC = government funded

PBS = government funded

Do you think they're unbiased considering who controls their paychecks?

I don't believe I ever said that they were unbiased.

However you did deny that they were biased, and that's the same thing.

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#41 -Sun_Tzu-
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[QUOTE="-Sun_Tzu-"][QUOTE="I_am_george"]

BBC = government funded

PBS = government funded

Do you think they're unbiased considering who controls their paychecks?

I_am_george

I don't believe I ever said that they were unbiased.

However you did deny that they were biased, and that's the same thing.

I never said that either.
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#42 broken_bass_bin
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[QUOTE="-Sun_Tzu-"][QUOTE="Rusteater"]

FAIL

BBC and PBS are just as biased as any nooz program on the idiot box.

I_am_george

Um, no, not at all.

BBC = government funded

PBS = government funded

Do you think they're unbiased considering who controls their paychecks?

BBC America is funded by advertising revenue, and in the UK is funded by the British public.

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I remember they were bashing on Notre Dame because the university was allowing Obama to make a graduation speech. Considering Notre Dame is a private school (which my father graduated from law school), conservatives disliked the idea of Obama making a speech there because he supported Gay Rights (which he didn't even elaborate on the speech to begin with...) My dad was watching he thought that it was just absolutely absurd (being a very loyal Notre Dame alumni) Honestly, I just don't get it...
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[QUOTE="Rusteater"]

[QUOTE="-Sun_Tzu-"] Um, no, not at all. -Sun_Tzu-

Wow, you need to get your info from other sources. You do know it's called an idiot box for a reason.

BBC liberal bias:

Link1

Link2

Link3

There's a lot more where that came from. Google is your friend.

As for PBS, I'm not even going to get started. It's a joke, a very old joke. Has been, always will be.

Is BBC biased? Of course it is. I don't need to do a google search to find that out. The same is true for PBS, which at times sacrifices journalistic integrity for superficial neutrality.

Now, are they as bad as the likes of Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC?No.

Fox News, and to a lesser extent MSNBC and CNN, broadcast propaganda throughout most of the day. BBC and PBS are exponentially more informative than any of the three big U.S. cable news networks, who don't only have an agenda, and who don't only sacrifice journalistic integrity for superficial neutrality, but sacrifice it for ratings. They aren't really even news networks in the conventional sense - they are entertainment networks first and foremost, which offer only a very small amount of quality news programming.

You could say there is more disinformation on PBS or the BBC. They do spew out more disinformation than the other 3. It doesn't change the fact that the quality is crap. I could give you a bag of feces or a truck load. It's all still crap. Worth the same in the end.

You could say that FOX, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN...etc. are brainwashing with a bit of fun.

The BBC and PBS take it seriously.

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#45 Ugalde-
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I was realy hoping for some examples of them being biased not just people telling me there biased.
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#46 Sajo7
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I was realy hoping for some examples of them being biased not just people telling me there biased.Ugalde-
I'm sure a quick youtube search will satisfy you.
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#47 GTALoco
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I was realy hoping for some examples of them being biased not just people telling me there biased.Ugalde-

Step one: Go to the nearest TV.

Step two: Turn on Fox News.

Step three: ?

Step four: Profit!

Or just watch the Daily Show/Colbert Report.

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[QUOTE="-Sun_Tzu-"]

[QUOTE="Rusteater"]

Wow, you need to get your info from other sources. You do know it's called an idiot box for a reason.

BBC liberal bias:

Link1

Link2

Link3

There's a lot more where that came from. Google is your friend.

As for PBS, I'm not even going to get started. It's a joke, a very old joke. Has been, always will be.

Rusteater

Is BBC biased? Of course it is. I don't need to do a google search to find that out. The same is true for PBS, which at times sacrifices journalistic integrity for superficial neutrality.

Now, are they as bad as the likes of Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC?No.

Fox News, and to a lesser extent MSNBC and CNN, broadcast propaganda throughout most of the day. BBC and PBS are exponentially more informative than any of the three big U.S. cable news networks, who don't only have an agenda, and who don't only sacrifice journalistic integrity for superficial neutrality, but sacrifice it for ratings. They aren't really even news networks in the conventional sense - they are entertainment networks first and foremost, which offer only a very small amount of quality news programming.

You could say there is more disinformation on PBS or the BBC. They do spew out more disinformation than the other 3. It doesn't change the fact that the quality is crap. I could give you a bag of feces or a truck load. It's all still crap. Worth the same in the end.

You could say that FOX, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN...etc. are brainwashing with a bit of fun.

The BBC and PBS take it seriously.

Okay, but that is nothing more than your opinion - an opinion that isn't really reflected by reality. By simply looking at various studies that have been conducted, you find that viewers of stations like PBS are much more informed on the issues than viewers of Fox News and networks like it. The Iraq War is a perfect example of this, where 80% of those who regularly watched Fox News had at least one significant misconception about the war, compared to only 23% of those who regularly watched PBS.

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[QUOTE="Ugalde-"]I was realy hoping for some examples of them being biased not just people telling me there biased.GTALoco

Step one: Go to the nearest TV.

Step two: Turn on Fox News.

Step three: ?

Step four: Profit!

Or just watch the Daily Show/Colbert Report.

Eh, it's like that if you happen to turn on when one of the Republican talking heads (Hannity, Beck) are on. Watch O'Reilly (Granted he leans right a lot but it's pretty clear he's an independent) or even just most of their normal reporters and they usually try pretty hard to bust both sides balls. And that Stewart thing, did you see their whole episode on CNN the other day? Yeah, not exactly golden. Just watch everything with a grain of salt and you're good to go. Be informed ftw