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Originally Posted by Geewiz

All reporting has an ideological component - in the same way that history texts are ideological.

Still - ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN (when Turner ran the place) attempt to be balanced. Fox never made an attempt at balance - it's so bad that now Ailes is trying to dial back some of his "stars" as they are losing market share. MSNBC has the same issue on the left (their market share is actually going up because the pendulum is starting to more from the right to a more centerest position - I hesitate to say left as there is no left left in this country).

Just because you agree with an ideological tilt...that doesn't mean the tilt is not there.

Remember - at ABC, the chief talking head is a former Nixon staffer (Diane Sawyer) and despite my left of center sensibilities ABC is probably the best at giving straight news. Kudos to them.

Of course there are always those who see snakes in their underwear and scream about conspiracy theories when they don't hear what they want to hear. Truth is always relative....just watch Rashomon.

FAUX NEWS viewers are the real "low-information voters." (click here)

Media outlets such as Fox News and MSNBC have a negative impact on people’s current events knowledge while NPR and Sunday morning political talk shows are the most informative sources of news, according to Fairleigh Dickinson University’s newest PublicMind survey.

“Ideological news sources, like Fox and MSNBC, are really just talking to one audience,” Political scientist and poll analyst Dan Cassino said in a press release. “This is solid evidence that if you’re not in that audience, you’re not going to get anything out of watching them.”

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