Originally posted by rwarn17588And as for bias, I've got to tell you, Conan that there're worlds of difference between the bias that Fox News is spouting and what the NYT runs with. I can agree that bias exists in all of our media, but that doesn't mean that the bias is obscuring the facts 100% of the time and in all places. It's a matter of degree. Having read the NYT off and on for years, I wouldn't say that its bias obscures the reporting of fact, and they work hard to keep their opinion separate from their fact. Believe it or not, the Wall Street Journal is the same way. Good reporting, lousy opinion.
Fox News, though, is entirely different. They don't give a rip about fact at all.
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News is actually pretty balanced. If you are thinking about commentary programs like Hannity & Colmes (Colmes is just the set up guy for Hannity) or O'Reilly, no those are stacked decks for the RNC, just like Olbermann is for MSNBC.
Just because one news outlet reports on, or does more feature stories on let's say some positive things happening in Iraq, and another tends to focus only on the negative aspects of war, which one is more right? Which is least biased? Neither if we throw out our personal paradigms.
Yes, NYT has published a few positive stories on the last year on Iraq, but those have been few and far between.
I tend to get my news from a variety of places and question what I'm reading and hearing. I'm a cynic by nature, can't you tell? [
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