What media outlets do you thank are fair and balanced and which do you think are not?

Question

I am a high school senior and have always been curious about this. This is all your opinion, i am just curious about what people think about the media sources.

Answer 1

Tabloid papers like The Sun are usually biased and often make stories up. Broadsheets such as the The Times are usually more fair and better researched. As for tv, I'm not sure, they all seem to report the facts to me.

Answer 2

None! Media is largely owned by few corporations. Each media outlets push their own take on events. Take 'conflict in the middle ease' for example, and compare how channels(local, national & foreign) cover the events.

Their are obvious anomalies ie Fox news! Which is more a hype than actual news. I can't think of any channel as biased as 'Fox News'.

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Answer 3

I think the most profound bias as far as popular media goes is by far FOX News.

But ALL of them - CNN, MSNBC, et. - have their bias.  When Walter Cronkite went to journalism school, he said there were no adjectives.  How do you know that's a "pretty" woman?  That's for the viewer to decide.

That's an extreme example, but you can plainly see political, cultural, social, and even racial biases in all of them.  This doesn't make them "bad" or in need of serious reform as far as I'm concerned, but the bias is there and people need to recognize it before they let ANY media outlet sway their opinion.

Answer 4

all the media outlets are more or less fair and balanced EXCEPT Fox News, which caters exclusively to the Republican Party. that's why the station calling itself "fair and balanced" is so ironic

Answer 5

I think all corporate-owned media outlets are extremely biased. The least biased in my own opinion are BBC World News and PBS. I also love Democracy Now but I acknowledge there's a leftist edge to it.

Answer 6

All media is biased. If not in how they report, in what they report.

In fact it isn't how something is reported that has the most influence. It is what is reported. Through gatekeeping and agenda-setting the media can and do influence what is considered as important by 'the public'.

If the media report a lot about a certain topic, people will think it is important. The media mostly don't change our minds on how we think about that topic. If you're rightwing you'll watch fox, if you're not you'll watch another channel.