As you can see from the posts. it's at best an opinion. I happen to think Brooks and Lehrer are biased to the left as is the NY slime. I agree a little bit on O'Reilly. He is leaning right but goes after both sides with an equal hard hitting approach. Friedman seems to lean both ways depending on the issues, but make no mistake he is still reporting his agenda. Brit Hume does seem to report the news. I know him somewhat personally as we belong to the same golf club and he does frequent discussion groups and business mixers there. However he does add his own views to most topics. Bottom line is they all do and you need a variety of inputs to make informed decisions. Just never read any as fact.
I remember many years ago 60 minutes did a show on Illinois Light and Power about their nuclear program. After that show you thought the state was about to be a nuclear waste zone and was not safe to drive across. A week later the company bought prime time and showed clip by clip what was reported and what was actually provided. Interview after interview, 60 minutes took statements out of context, they even pieced together sentences to make it appear someone said something that was not even close to their original meaning. It was blatant false reporting to support their personal view. They did the same exact thing to Caterpillar Tractor. This was 20 some years ago and since then I believe less than 10% of the so called news. Get as many different views as possible to be informed.
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