False Balance - something the media in the USA are often guilty of. When opposing viewpoints are presented as being more equally balanced than they actually are this is not objective reporting and is misleading.
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“The reason you won’t see me on Fox is, as I said to them: ‘I don’t mind that you call it Fox, but I do mind that you call it News.’ There’s no resemblance to news. It has nothing to do with news. News is a report of something that happened. Fox has opinions and agendas; that’s not news. It isn’t just a bias or a slant either, it’s propaganda, pure and simple. I doubt there’s ever been a true thing said on Fox. Maybe the weather report, maybe not.” ~ Fran Lebowitz
THE LIBERAL MEDIA.
Another fun/sad fact from this: Trivial news on campaign “strategy” has dominated the media coverage over actual policies by 6:1.
Freaking liberal media trying to force us to like socialist, Muslim, terrorist, gay, union members by reverse psychology!
Romney Profits Mightily from Right-Wing Radio
Now tell me which media sources are “biased”…
If Fox News was covering the Civil Rights Movement…
EXTREMISM
OHMYGODITSWORSETHANWETHOUGHT!
(Context: The dumbest controversy of
all timeprobably just this week.)
I’ve hugged homophobes before. Doesn’t make me one of them.
Chart of the Day: Republicans Don’t Trust Anyone (Except Fox News)
Public Policy Polling is out with their 3rd annual TV news trust poll. Among Republicans, as the chart on the right shows, the shape of the river is simple: they don’t trust anyone except Fox News, who they adore. These numbers are spreads, with NBC, for example, garnering 17% trust vs. 69% distrust. Fox News, conversely, garners 73% trust vs. 17% distrust.
Well, you say, maybe this just means that trust in the media is really low these days? Nope. Democrats and Independents may not trust Fox, but they do trust everyone else. The percentages vary, with more skepticism toward some outlets than others, but what non-Republicans don’t do is simply dismiss television news en masse as a bunch of lying corporate shills.
(Source: diadoumenos)
The truth of the matter is… .
You don’t have to be a diehard Obama supporter to recognize that there is racism against the man. Even if you disagree with some of his policies or strategies, you know the loudest and most vicious against him haven’t arrived to that opinion from great reflection and reasoning about his platform, but kneejerk reaction to the color of his skin (not to mention his name and his father’s heritage).
Police Allegedly Trap #Occupy #Oakland Protesters
I try to read as many sides of a story as possible.
Our only exit was toward the police. On our way, an officer told us to turn around. I held out my homemade press pass and said we just wanted to leave. He told us we couldn’t and said, “You choose to be here.” He sounded pretty angry, and we were getting worried.
