Poll: Why all the hate?

[WhamBamSam]

As little as I like Fox, I would still pick Fox above all the others you have on the poll there. I refuse to watch MSNBC anymore because of Maddow and Olbermann.

Maddow is not that bad. She is an opinion pundit, and she certainly is liberal, but she will debate like a civilized human being, which cannot be said for Beck, O'Reily, Hannity, or any of the things hosting Fox and Friends. Olbermann's vitriol would be a very suitable alternate opinion to O'Reily, but he bogs himself down over semantics. His hour-long special commentary on Health Care a while back was really, really good, it's just that after he finishes ranting about something that actually matters he starts scraping around for little trivialities again. Though, as others have said, the Daily Show/Colbert are the best news sources by a wide margin, partly because the world is too ridiculous to examine straight-faced.

Here is a good Daily Show clip that really does a great job of showing how the Faux News propaganda machine works. The stuff relevant to our topic at hand starts at about 3:30.

 

[rokkolpo]

Obvious troll is Obvious. American news is pathetic, and Fox is the worst of the worst.

look who's trolling now.

don't be a hypocrit.

 

[ModsDeleteThisAccountPlease]

Fox News earns my scorn for acts of bullshit committed through ignorance and a will to never learn about new technology. I'll give the Report on Anonymous, Bill O'Reilly vs Eminem and Mass Effect Scandal as 3 examples.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

CTV because I'm not American!

 

[Ph0t0n1c Ph34r]

I'm an American and I watch the BBC. Best coverage all around I've noticed.

 

[Mortons4ck]

NPR and PRI are my major news venues. Since BBC contributes, it gets my vote.

 

[cuddly_tomato]

No bbc? I would have thought that would be an option.

USA-centric poll. But yeah, the beeb've been scoring about as many credibility points as the Daily Mail recently...

Urgh. Did you see the story about the sexualization of children through the modern media the other day? The BBC news responded the only way they know how - by having a rolling news report featuring Shakira swinging around a poll every 15 minutes.

Idiots.

More on topic; Al Jazeera. I am serious, it is a mighty fine news station.

 

[Shock and Awe]

And I'm American.

 

[internetzealot1]

Same deal with the Reagan thread the other day.

Internet = Liberals

Fox News = Republican (or somewhere between that and not-completley-liberal-dominated on the political orientation scale.)

Also, Fox has a pretty bad history with video games, and considering we're on a video game website...

 

[escapistraptor]

American journalism is a joke. The punchline being its making more money than ever by actively and knowingly misleading it's viewers. FOX murdered journalism and revealed to everyone else the amount of money to be made from pissing on the corpse.

I'm also half tempted to report this as trolling, since I refuse to believe anyone could honestly believe the initial post.

Also, FOX news (and by extension, every 24 hour "news" channel) gets away with so much shit because the FCC doesn't regulate "cable" television. Not mentioning repeal of the fairness doctrine.

Yup, because any opinion that isn't yours is either stupid or trolling.

You ask for other peoples' views and then dismiss them since they aren't you own? Rather confusing.

I don't think the OP is dismissing other people's views, he's defending his own views from being called trolling. Because people have other viewpoints. Because we're all... like snowflakes.

 

[Orcus The Ultimate]

The BBC is the only news network that still has some neutrality and integrity.

 

[Lonan]

Only one third of the users on this site are American. Two thirds of us have not heard of the vast majority of those channels. I don't know if the U.S. gets BBC, (I assume from you're poll it does) but it is easily better than any American channel.

 

[katsa5]

Best place for news: Comedy Central.
Its true, CNN has been bashing video games lately. But unlike Fox News, it balances itself with different views. "Hooray for Nancy Grace!"

 

[Arkhangelsk]

They all suck. Swedish news is the real thing.

 

[Desert Tiger]

BBC.

 

[Paperplanes79]

I can't believe no one has brought his up yet.

Bill fucking O' Reilly.

Seriously just that this bigot/fear monger receives a pay check from a new corporations is terrible. But he has a whole fucking SHOW.

Just think of that.

NPR is my vote.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Because people on the Internet seem to enjoy hating things, which really can't be healthy.

 

[escapistraptor]

As my liberal friend concluded at the end of a several month long debate about the legitimacy of Fox News, "Look, I don't really care how Fox News compares to all the other news networks. The real point is they all have an agenda, which is why I don't trust any mainstream news." I tend to side with that conclusion at the end of the day. Still, it annoys me people are willing to pick out Fox News as though they're worse than all the other news organizations, when they're the exact same... just on the different side of the "aisle"

This. So much this. Most every news channel is biased, for some reason Fox is the only main conservative-based TV channel, while the rest of them are predominately liberal. It's the opposite way for radio, NPR is the only respected liberal station I can think of. Of course people of one ideology are going to hate the other side's main media outlet. And of course they're going to think the enemy's tactics are much more foul then theirs. That's why being a political moderate that has equal disdain for everyone is the only way to go.


As for my vote, I'm going to say The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. I used to be ashamed of the fact that I was added to the statistic of people aged 18-25 who get most of their news from a comedy news program, but I've come to realize that it's justified because all the "real" news networks have become a laughable, ratings obsessed joke within the last 20 years.

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