Is the media coverage of the election fair and balanced or is it lop sided?

Question

Is the media coverage of the election fair and balanced or is it lop sided?

Answer 1

MSNBC: In the bag for the DNC

Fox: In the bag for the RNC

The Major Networks: Lean towards the DNC.

Print Media: Irrelevant.

Answer 2

Those in the media tend to be more liberal than the average citizen therefore they tend to slant the news in that direction. Some try to be fair with the news, but you are always going to present a subject the way you believe it. Always consider the source.

Answer 3

I believe there are some news outlets who try to be more balanced, but some, like MSNBC, don't even make an attempt to be fair, it seems.   Every media has a viewpoint;  they should just acknowledge their inherent bias and them proceed from there.

kathy

Answer 4

It is a bunch of lies on both sides.  I was wondering if they were trying to get palin elected for saint hood.  Is she mother Teresa or what?

Fox news is what I would call the TV version of a sleazy tabloid.

Complete with religious extremists.

Answer 5

Lop sided by far.  All the networks have hearts above there head when they talk about Obama besides Fox News.

I love how liberals say Fox News is so biased but yet obama, hilary, howard dean all go on that network and talk.  I never see McCain or any other republicans on MSNBC or CNN.  Must be why Fox News has the best ratings.

Answer 6

So if you watched Cindy's intro last night-Rawanda-smiles-a drift racer-

so far all I've seen about her on the 'News' Is that her outfit cost $300,000

Nuff said

Answer 7

All the networks are in the tank for Obama.  That is all except FOX. The liberal media just about drools when they say his name.  Some of them get tingles down their legs when they hear him speak.  I can't watch them they make me vomit.

Answer 8

From the answers it seems the only bias people see is when it effects their ideology. Dems see no abuse except from Fox and Rep. see abuse everywhere except Fox. Fox has very little real news anymore and most of their commentary is from the right side of the brain, but they make allot more sense because of that at times. I like headline news for the current news and have internet and read books about the issues that concern me. Why anyone would sit and let one talking head on any network inform you is beyond me. Being a serious citizen of the country means you have to work a little to get the facts.  

Answer 9

Heavy liberal slant - just like always.

CBS runs a LIE with FAKE DOCUMENTS to try to influence the last Presidential election, and there are no legal repercussions for them? That's treason. They should have lost their license and someone needs to be in jail.

Where's the public outcry? I'm sure if FOX were to make up documents showing that BO isn't an American citizen, there'd be real repercussions.

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Answer 10

Fox News Channel is the only fair & balanced channel for media coverage of the elections & generally all politics.  

Answer 11

Yahoo's coverage of McCain has skyrocketted to the point that it's obvious the top execs swung some kind of deal to promote McCain. That would be in line with Yahoo's obvious pro-war agenda as well as their vested interests in seeing big business continue to rule the U.S. as an oligarchy. Yahoo was only pretending to care about Obama in the beginning, but that's what people will forget about when they continue plastering McCain's smiling face on their home page. It's so obvious how biased they are.

What's really funny is that these Answer boards themselves are swarming with anti-liberals and republican supporters who may be paid by Yahoo to keep the public thinking there's a large majority that support McCain, disparages the term "liberal," want a pro-war agenda to continue, wish Bush could do a third term, etc.

Answer 12

It'd be difficult to get a fair and balanced view. 3 of the 4 major networks are owned and run by Republicans.

Answer 13

I'm not sure how to measure the coverage in a one line answer.  I suppose the answer to your "either or" question is "yes."

Did you know that 3 million MRE's have been handed out in Louisiana since the hurricane went through?  Did you know that 900,000 homes are without power OUTSIDE of New Orleans?  Did you know that many many gas stations are out of gasoline in Baton Rouge, or out of commission from storm damage? The seriously BAD situation left behind by the storm has be glossed over on every mainstream station I've watched in the last few days, because the Republican Convention had everyone's attention.

Media coverage goes in waves.  It will pick at something, carried by its own weight and momentum until it reaches some sort of crescendo, and then ebb away like a wave on the shoreline after it breaks.

A story has a life of its own.  Was too much attention given to a pregnant teen?  Yes.  Was too much attention given to a misstatement here or there?  Yes.  Was a "feel good moment" given too much attention for the coverage to be "balanced"?  Yes.  Every glasses frame, fist bump, and peck on the cheek has been addressed, analyzed, and talked to death, at the same time providing little information of any substance.

That's why we need more sources for our news than any single channel, any single medium, or any single news feed.  The internet has great promise here, but it can be very difficult to weigh the value of "news coverage" that is nothing other than partisan sniping.  Read the papers, read the blogs, listen to the pundits, and listen to the news, but remember that they are all trying to sell you something.  It is difficult, but none-the-less imperative that we sort through the verbiage to get to the actual facts.

Answer 14

Just watch FOX only. All the rest of them are in the tank for Obama so much it actually sickens me.

Answer 15

The major networks are in bed with Obama and that can be one sick sight.

Answer 16

Dont ask the obvious..... 90% media is rooting for Obama.....

Palin--- very  inexperienced, what was MCCain thinking!

But the media has no problem with the #1 man on the dem ticket having even less executive experience than Palin.....

Answer 17

they want obama to win so bad,,,....

that would be the biggest news story to hit since world war 2...