CNN is the Cable News Network, the first (to my knowledge) national 24 hour news channel in the US. They're mostly unbiased (with some reporters/hosts with a liberal bias), and are falling hard in the ratings, since people would rather hear what lines up with their beliefs than the truth.Tubez said:
Fox news is good. We need more of it
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i dont see the problem with having right wing media.
i do see the problem with media that makes shit up/doesnt listen to opinions on NON-political topics.
i do see the problem with media that makes shit up/doesnt listen to opinions on NON-political topics.
To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the (Republican)Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself. That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word "doublethink" involved the use of doublethink.
You mean the same MSNBC that runs with Fox News stories without even so much as fact checking? That's your definition of extremely left wing?Zmerc said:
Fox News sued for the right to lie on the grounds they're not really news, but entertainment. MSNBC ran the controversies about ACORN and Sherrod without so much as checking for facts or context. If you're going to run with false equivalence, at least don't opt for such transparently false examples.
Which really makes them no different from any other network, Fox, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN they ALL lie. And I mean LIE, keep thinking that the one you prefer is somehow different and better, and it only makes honest mistakes... lolYvl9921 said:
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well the left wing tends to be more reasonable about things, fox tends to... well it wants to destroy the country if its not in power and it also really advocates for the rich and fuck everyone else. really fox is probably the most single damaging thing to america since a stupid number of people tend to take it as the truthZmerc said:
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I don´t really see the harm. I´m a norwegian and I can´t stand the bastards, but the only people who will watch the channel are the people who vote for them anyway.
Besides: Norway has very clear and strict rules regarding politics and media. One example is that political advertising in the media is ILLEGAL (Try wrapping your head around that one America), so a channel as obviously biased as FOX News would have to tread very carefully not to cross the line.
EDIT: Political advertising is only illegal on television. One of the reasons is that the use of the TV-ad format will "flatten" and "dumb down" the political message. (The norwegian words are "forflate" and "fordumme". If anyone can provide a better translation, please do so)
Besides: Norway has very clear and strict rules regarding politics and media. One example is that political advertising in the media is ILLEGAL (Try wrapping your head around that one America), so a channel as obviously biased as FOX News would have to tread very carefully not to cross the line.
EDIT: Political advertising is only illegal on television. One of the reasons is that the use of the TV-ad format will "flatten" and "dumb down" the political message. (The norwegian words are "forflate" and "fordumme". If anyone can provide a better translation, please do so)
It's written "Dagens Næringsliv". Just saying.
OT: That's downright stupid, but if they want that channel, go ahead. Might be funny.
OT: That's downright stupid, but if they want that channel, go ahead. Might be funny.
Hehe. Agreed!The_root_of_all_evil said:
There´s right wing, there´s RIGHT wing, and then there´s FOX.
Now, are they unbiased, or do they just fit your own bias? I doubt you can really tell.Pinkamena said:
Oh escapist, you and your liberal bias.
I'm not saying Fox news is a great news source, but anyone that thinks the other options are any better is lying to themselves.
I'm not saying Fox news is a great news source, but anyone that thinks the other options are any better is lying to themselves.
Yeah, this. There are two political parties I do not want to gain power here, and thats FRP and KRF (The Christian party). Why? Simple! They're batty-nuggets and, respectively, xenophobic and anti-science/PRO-JESUS!!!!!!!.Gardenia said:
Really? Because I can't. It's not because I'm left wing (I'm not) but what would be good for everybody, not just democracy, is a news outlet that has no left or right wing leanings, but is neutral and factual, and isn't as focused on making a profit via scare-mongering, sensationalising and just downright lying.Jonluw said: