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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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You are correct about bias existing in the selection of...or the ignoring of stories. One can also spot bias by the adjectives used when presenting a story. I spend a lot of my time tuned into C-Span...because when it comes to a lot of the mainstream political stories one can see and hear the "words come from the horses mouth"...without later reading or listening to the biased slant put out by the mainstream media.
Sometimes when the mainstream puts their spin on events or what was actually said by someone...has little resemblance to the actual truth of the event or to what was actually said by someone.