Citing Media Matters on the Fox News topic is akin to asking a vegetarian to taste test a hamburger. The burger might be frozen lips and bungholes or made from Kobe beef, but you’ll never know for sure due to the reviewer’s bias.
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The Pew Research Center released an interesting poll recently. It showed Fox News as the most idealogical of the networks, which is what’s got everyone in a twist, of course.
But notice all the other networks mentioned? And how they all uniformly are perceived to lean left/liberal. In a way, might it be considered that Fox News is attempting to make up for the “equal time” the other networks apparently aren’t doing.
Also of interest to me is not the farthest point (right or left) but the inside graph portion for the opposite political view. If I read it right, that could be considered the network’s attempted at “equal time”. Now, see how Fox News gets a “14” for left/liberal bias… which is tied with ABC and CBS whereas CNN, MSNBC, and NBC only got “11”.
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My $0.02. I think journalism is failing the test across the board. Cable, network, local news doesn’t matter. There’s a fundamental shift away from finding the facts. It’s all about hit-whoring to drive traffic/advertising.
That, and never trust nifty-looking charts with statistical breakdowns of opinion.