Is the American Media Biased?

[Ariovistus Maximus]

MULTIPLE CHOICE POLL

Pretty obvious. What do you think?

[Da Skinna]

They're privately owned, so yeah.

Rupert Murdoch told his biographer if fear sold less than love, he'd sell love in his media.

[Ariovistus Maximus]

Yes.

And beyond individual companies too.

Basically, considering all the information you get from all the news sources, is one side better represented than the other?

[The Devil's Sergeant]

They're privately owned, so yeah.

Give me state run media any day of the week.

[YukonTrooper]

Give me state run media any day of the week.

Dude, publicly funded.

[2-D Ron]

Give me state run media any day of the week.

Tax Paid Media is more accountable to it's people, we pay their bills; threaten the jobs of your Politicians and the BBC steps into line.
Not to mention the many Media Watch Dogs that the BBC wish to avoid.

[Da Skinna]

PBS represents the "real America" in my opinion.

MSNBC is used to counter-weight FOX and the two are basically political pawns, the mouths of their respective parties. Historically though the Republicans have been better at courting media and making outrage an institutional quality. Republicans will say different and say its Democratic media pawns who are better, but it's really a pot/kettle thing and I'm talking by history they have more adept handling of propaganda and demagogy.

Give me state tun media any day of the week.

I'm talking publicly funded with oversight in the pursuit of truth-value. Not government media, which is just as bad if not worse.

[Frankie88]

Yes all media is.

[Ariovistus Maximus]

I'm talking publicly funded with oversight in the pursuit of truth-value. Not government media, which is just as bad if not worse.

Agreed. If the media was state-run, then it would just be a bunch of bobbleheads repeating whatever the President says.

[Marie Louise von Preussen]

Since its inception, the press everywhere has been a tool of political parties, ideologies, private individuals and the government alike to brainwash the masses, so yes. It is, and everywhere.

[Tiberius Tosi]

They're all bias, and it is only natural. It always has been, always will be...and State run Media is NOT the answer. Even if the news network is trying not to be bias, the anchors (sp?) will be.

I usually flip between FOX and CNN (I stay the hell away from MSNBC) and usually say "ok the right answer is smack dab in the middle of what they're saying".

CNN picks down to Earth conservative correspondents who aren't that concerned with party lines but usually just say "ok this is what Obama should do if he wants to get this passed", but then you have guys like Roland Martin who just love Obama to death and anyone who talks bad about him is a blasphemer (also his damn speech the night Obama won was, to me, pathetic in the utmost sense...he just went on and on with his prepared speech about race, even though no one really cared about Obamas race that much in my opinion).
On the flip side you have FOX, who has some sensible anchors but you also have those that anytime Obama does something good or someone says something good about him, they spew out crap and rant and rave. Then you have O'reilly (sp?), who is just funny to watch because you can tell hes almost like a half Stephen Colbert where he knows what he is saying is rediculous but people actually believe it 100 %.

My favorite news though is still the 6 O'clock news on major networks that lasts a half an hour, they usually just say the important stuff and you don't have to listen to 50 people give their opinion and start arguing via laggy satellite TV's.

[Aldgarkalaughskel]

Name a media that is unbiased.

[Ariovistus Maximus]

Name a media that is unbiased.

Ummmmm... um-um... duuuuhhhh,... ummmmmm... uhhhhhh....

None come to mind.

[Hilarion]

EDIT: Nevermind, didn't see that it was a multiple choice poll.

[FuZe]

Media is money biased. They are in the business of giving people what they want. And in the last 20 years, they have realized that people aren't really interested in being informed, they just want to be told why they are already "right". Fox News saw a large untapped market of people who believe the media, government, schools, etc. are out to get them so they created a channel to pander to these beliefs. MSNBC pinpointed the market segment on the other side and then shaped their programming to bring them the stories that make them feel "right". This isn't new. The US media was just as polarized 100 years ago. (though some of those poles have shifted)

[Shi Huangdi]

Are you kidding? All the mainstream media (except for FOX) works overtime kissing Obama's butt. Of course there's a liberal bias.

[Viking Prince]

OK -- the media is biased.

What now?

[Aldgarkalaughskel]

OK -- the media is biased.

What now?

People can claim that the media is biased, so they can express their own biased and truistic political opinions as unbiased and true, all in all well-established.

[Shi Huangdi]

OK -- the media is biased.

What now?

We need to end all government funding of media outlets. Otherwise, there is nothing we can do without violating the First Amendment (except boycotting the lib media by not watching).

[bushbush]

We need to end all government funding of media outlets. Otherwise, there is nothing we can do without violating the First Amendment (except boycotting the lib media by not watching).

wait, aren't american medias (newspaper, tv, radio and etc) owned by 4-5 big corporations already?