I absolutely loathe Fox News. And the problem is that people in the US believe them unquestionably and don't take their words with even a pinch of salt, let alone the dollop that is really needed. They may have their decent points, as some have said, but on the whole those few points are drowned out by the sheer lies that they tell, not just about things like video games (which aren't exactly important), but also about things like the US government, openly opposing anything that the conservative fringes of US politics are against, even when they would be a massive benefit to the people and to the economy (the health bill, for example).
Ah well, at least we don't have anything that stupid or biased here in the UK...
This man, Rupert Murdoch, is the reason why the only newspaper I trust is my student newspaper at university (because student journalism, thankfully, appears to be one of the few areas of journalism that still has relative journalistic integrity). Even those papers in the UK that aren't owned by Murdoch tend to be biased, simply in the opposite direction. My parents buy The Sun and News Of The World all the time, and something I noticed when I still lived with them is that both newspapers tend to put 'celebrity news' on the front page (particularly football stuff) unless there's a political scandal, instead of real news that we should actually care about (how much attention did they give the student protests except to call for student arrests of the idiots who were throwing stuff off the Conservative tower roof?). Also, they usually put all their support behind the Opposition, regardless of who's in power, except for right after an election.
The only news source I trust now, that isn't student journalism, is the BBC, and Reuters. At least with the BBC there's very little bias at all, and Reuters are completely independent anyway...
Ah well, at least we don't have anything that stupid or biased here in the UK...
Damn.The_root_of_all_evil said:The American version of our Tabloids. Never to be taken as anything other than biased claims unless you have two other reliable sources backing them up.
And you know why?
He owns both.
This man, Rupert Murdoch, is the reason why the only newspaper I trust is my student newspaper at university (because student journalism, thankfully, appears to be one of the few areas of journalism that still has relative journalistic integrity). Even those papers in the UK that aren't owned by Murdoch tend to be biased, simply in the opposite direction. My parents buy The Sun and News Of The World all the time, and something I noticed when I still lived with them is that both newspapers tend to put 'celebrity news' on the front page (particularly football stuff) unless there's a political scandal, instead of real news that we should actually care about (how much attention did they give the student protests except to call for student arrests of the idiots who were throwing stuff off the Conservative tower roof?). Also, they usually put all their support behind the Opposition, regardless of who's in power, except for right after an election.
The only news source I trust now, that isn't student journalism, is the BBC, and Reuters. At least with the BBC there's very little bias at all, and Reuters are completely independent anyway...
