Carnanc Posted November 9, 2004 Share Posted November 9, 2004 We're watching in my CIS Composition class a movie called outfoxed which is a type of documentary about how Fox News has a strong conservative bias. The movie showed how Fox featured more conservative guests and gave more coverage to George W. Bush during the last 2 elections. It also discussed their policy being conservative such as being required to have 2 pro-war guests and one anti-war guests, and the same thing onther issues. I have felt that other networks tend to have a liberal bias, and that overall network news can give a single world view regardless of it being liberal or conservative, that is pretty consistant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Aluigi Posted November 9, 2004 Share Posted November 9, 2004 i don't know about "outfoxed," but i've seen unbiased studies that actually show fox is one of the mose unbiased, that the media stereotypes didn't hold this election and that both Fox and CNN were actually quite balanced Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
God Conquers Posted November 9, 2004 Share Posted November 9, 2004 If you want to see biased media, turn on Canadian Broadcasting COmpany, CBC. This channel is government funded and is so pro liberal it's ridiculous. They pumped Kerry like you wouldn't believe... and we're not even involved!!! 100 pro-kerry guests : 1 pro-bush guest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinner Posted November 9, 2004 Share Posted November 9, 2004 and a lone voice cried out in the desert............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petrus Posted November 10, 2004 Share Posted November 10, 2004 I think fox is actually kind of biased, but I hardly ever watch tv, so it was only after the election that I watched fox for a few minutes, and they sure seemed to like Bush. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dreamweaver Posted November 10, 2004 Share Posted November 10, 2004 I don't even watch TV, and I haven't had cable in years (man, must have been nearly a decade!) But I've noticed that newspapers have a HUGE bias in them. It saddens me to think of how many people read the news, or watch it on TV and don't even think twice about what kind of angle it takes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EcceNovaFacioOmni Posted November 10, 2004 Share Posted November 10, 2004 OutFoxed was as credible as Fahrenheit 9/11. I saw clips of it on the Fox News Channel (they did a story on OutFoxed's lunacy). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Good Friday Posted November 10, 2004 Share Posted November 10, 2004 [quote name='slywakka250']I have felt that other networks tend to have a liberal bias, and that overall network news can give a single world view regardless of it being liberal or conservative, that is pretty consistant.[/quote] I've found that Fox News has a slight conservative bias in its commentary, but not in its reporting of the news. I think it's rather obvious that Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, etc. are all conservative -- but that's commentary, and you expect some bias one way or the other in commentary. But then there's the news, and I don't think Fox News really has any bias in their news. On the other hand, you have CBS who reported outright lies about Bush when they reported on those phony documents alleging that he wasn't doing his job in the National Guard. You have CBS who was again prepared to report outright lies about Bush when they were going to report on the "missing bombs" in Iraq (which weren't really missing), and they were going to do it the weekend before the election so that the Bush Campaign wouldn't be able to respond in time. Fortunately, another news organization got it earlier than that and reported it earlier, giving the Bush Campaign time to respond and lay it to rest. Then you have the exit polls, which were clearly liberally biased, aimed at keeping Republican and conservative voters -- especially on the west coast -- from going to the polls because they would have been certain that Kerry was taking their state, when in fact he wasn't. Fortunately, the exit polls had the opposite effect: they mobilized even more Republican and conservative voters, who feared that Kerry would take their state and wanted to make a difference. As for the commentary, there's an obvious liberal bias. If you were watching election coverage on CNN like I was, you'd know it's true. The commentators on there looked like they'd had a death in their families when it became clear that President Bush had won the popular vote and was winning the electoral vote, and they tried to think of [b]any[/b] possible scenario in which Kerry could win -- and they did this all night long, even after other networks had projected Ohio for Bush and projected Bush the electoral winner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
God Conquers Posted November 10, 2004 Share Posted November 10, 2004 I think it is relevant that none of the networks, except NBC had the guts to call the election for Bush before the night was over. I don't think it's just post 2000 snafu jitters, but has to do with bias as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary's Knight, La Posted November 12, 2004 Share Posted November 12, 2004 I thought fox had called it for bush before the night was over too... perhaps i'm wrong i didn't get much sleep that night because i'm an election coverage junkie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D0RK4JP2 Posted November 13, 2004 Share Posted November 13, 2004 the media is biased because it's run by the devil and the devil doesn't like God, wants to smite God and wants to ascend 'to the north' and take the throne of God. that's why the media is evil, it is a puppet of the ape of God. JMJ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EcceNovaFacioOmni Posted November 13, 2004 Share Posted November 13, 2004 The media projected states for John Kerry that he only won by 10,000 or so votes; but refused to project Ohio to George Bush who ended up winning by around 95,000 votes. It might be bias. It might be the fact that networks make a lot of money on election night advertising... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tombone07 Posted December 7, 2004 Share Posted December 7, 2004 Every network is going to have a bais. If a dems. thinks they are being unbias then the they might only be a little bias and the same for reps. all in all no matter what if yo uare in charge of the network then your bias will be hear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagiDragon Posted December 7, 2004 Share Posted December 7, 2004 [quote name='tombone07' date='Dec 6 2004, 08:57 PM']Every network is going to have a bais. If a dems. thinks they are being unbias then the they might only be a little bias and the same for reps. all in all no matter what if yo uare in charge of the network then your bias will be hear.[/quote] agreed, and we ought to make it clear what our biases are. Fox does that. The other media giants only do that through accidents. (Such as looking like their brother got killed when Bush won the election! I still love to remember their ashen faces. =) Peace, Joe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phatmasser777 Posted December 7, 2004 Share Posted December 7, 2004 [quote name='slywakka250' date='Nov 9 2004, 06:13 PM'] We're watching in my CIS Composition class a movie called outfoxed which is a type of documentary about how Fox News has a strong conservative bias. The movie showed how Fox featured more conservative guests and gave more coverage to George W. Bush during the last 2 elections. It also discussed their policy being conservative such as being required to have 2 pro-war guests and one anti-war guests, and the same thing onther issues. I have felt that other networks tend to have a liberal bias, and that overall network news can give a single world view regardless of it being liberal or conservative, that is pretty consistant. [/quote] I bought that today [with the free stress box ]. Really good documentary, but I dont really think we needed a documentary to show us, how untrustworthy and how much propaganda is pumped out by Murdoch, but still I guess its good for those that dont know, or dont have cable. Fox [s]News[/s] [color=red][i]Right-Wing Drone Propaganda[/i][/color] The same guy who made Outfoxed made, "Uncovered: The Whole Truth about the Iraq War", which exposes the imperialism, and total straight out lies about the war. He's really getting a rep for spot-on docos. www.truthuncovered.com [ i think ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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