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Originally Posted by sperbonzo
None of them are even close. You need to include all of them, and you're wrong if you think you can "spot the bias". Bias can be easily pushed by simply ignoring stories that don't fit the agenda of whatever outlet you are monitoring. That's why you should watch EVERY type of source. INCLUDING Fox news, and MSNBC, or al jazreera and the Jerusalem post, etc,etc,etc... Whether you like, or agree with, the bias of a source, you are foolish to underestimate the bias of the sources that you DO like.
BTW, this has never been any different. Long before Hearst and yellow journalism, news is reported by people, and people always have a bias. We are just lucky now to have access to so many diverse agendas, if we choose to truly take advantage of them.
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These "people" you speak of are usually nothing more than puppets who say what they're told.
While this is sort of a trivial example, it's still an example:
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