Sigh.

I just assumed al jazzera would be completely biased. I started watching their live feeds when some of the Middle Eastern countries fell, and much to my surprise... I discovered they were pretty good.

It actually is a big deal. Maybe you didn't know but only like 3 companies own all the news channels, radio channels, and newspapers.

The public is fed lies and propaganda through all of these venues.

You think Fox is different from CNN and MSNBC and CBS when there's really no difference at all.

Wake... the fuck.... up....

I...am...awake

And as I said...it's ALWAYS been that way in the U.S.

And I never said a word about "Fox is different from CNN and MSNBC and CBS"

You didn't understand what I was saying. I said they are ALL biased. And always have been. It's just easier for you to see it now because they don't even hide it on Cable News anymore.

They still try to pretend to be unbiased on the major networks. But of course they aren't. They just use more subtle (and better) ways of promoting their particular bias. Voice inflections, facial expressions, etc.

Obvious troll is obvious.

The fact that they all push the 2-party paradigm, whether "right" of "left" shows that they are all biased in the same way. They are all keeping the public divided and distracted. You think they're different because some are republican and some are democrat but they're all pushing the same damn agenda.

I agree.

But the worse thing is...even though the network news organizations were pretty liberal biased when I was a kid in the 1960's and 1970's...at least they still did REAL journalism. They investigated stuff. And they did the job of the free press: they QUESTIONED the govt.

When I was a kid watching coverage of the Vietnam War, you would see Dan Rather at CBS and even Geraldo Rivera for ABC reporting from places they were NOT supposed to be. With bullets flying. And they would openly show our troops doing "good" AND when they did "bad". And they questioned the validity of the war every step of the way.

Fast forward to the last couple of decades: Not only do they NOT question the govt., but they don't investigate anything. They are handed press releases by the feds and read them on the news like it's all fact.

And the wars? The freakin' journalists were "Embedded" with the troops. Thus insuring that we would only see the "good" and there was never any questioning during the wars.

Remember when we went into Iraq? And the "journalists" were riding "triumphantly" into Baghdad practically bragging about it instead of reporting.

It's a disgrace.

Yahoo front page.

www.Infowars.com
www.prisonplanet.tv
http://www.corbettreport.com/
http://www.globalresearch.ca/
http://www.naturalnews.com
http://www.rense.com/
www.rt.com
www.presstv.com
www.maxkeiser.com
www.tarpley.net

does an unbiased news source even exist? cnn claims they are...but really?

The intelligent people will actually go to those sites and try to learn something. The rest will say "Ah whatever, that's a bunch of kooky conspiracy bullshit" and go turn on CNN.

lol. I even read that in his voice.

huh? As far as I know, Geraldo was a vietnam war protester.

Why do you have Noam Chomsky in your avatar? Because you like him or because you dislike him? If you like him you should listen to what he has to say.



It's a fact: they hate us because we have been occupying their countries for years, not because "we're free." lol

Didn't Bin Laden himself say that thru either a press release or video statement a few days before the 2004 elections? Something like "If I hated freedom I would have attacked Sweden."

He has said a lot of things, like this:

"I would like to assure the world that I did not plan the recent attacks, which seems to have been planned by people for personal reasons."

In a 1997 CNN interview, bin Laden called the U.S. military presence an "occupation of the land of the holy places."

http://articles.cnn.com/2001-09-16/u...-omar?_s=PM:US

"I have already said that we are not hostile to the United States. We are against the [U.S. Government] system, which makes other nations slaves of the United States, or forces them to mortgage their political and economic freedom. This system is totally in control of the American-Jews, whose first priority is Israel, not the United States. It is clear that the American people are themselves the slaves of the Jews and are forced to live according to the principles and laws laid by them. So, the punishment should reach Israel. In fact, it is Israel, which is giving a blood bath to innocent Muslims and the U.S. is not uttering a single word."

The 5 Dancing Israeli's on 9/11:

Your own Vice President admits that he is a Zionist, and believe me, he ain't the only one!! lol

This just goes to show that any thread on GFY, no matter how well intentioned, will always veer off into outright insanity by the second page. :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Auntie Beeb used to be good but it got a noticable left-wing bias now. Their London news is dreadful now. A shame as it used to have a world wide reputation.

Yea you put smiley faces and talk shit but offer nothing of substance. Which part is insane, exactly?

Did you even watch the video about the 5 dancing Israeli's on 9/11?

Did you even know 5 Israeli's were arrested on 9/11 for having vans filled with explosives?

No, you probably didn't, because our media is controlled... which is what this thread is about.

Oh man

Absolutely no bias at any of these. :1orglaugh

The press turned away from so much stuff. Think Kennedy vs Clinton, Marilyn vs Monica. Hell, Kennedy had secret tunnels. Obama would have no such luck.

The press was a lot more muzzled/considerate than today.

What about when Obama and Hillary went to Bilderberg in 2008 in Chantilly, Virginia?

Total media blackout on that.

Wasn't my intention. I thought we could agree on something w/out the reply being nutbaggery.

:1orglaugh

Why are you laughing? Because you think it's crazy and not true? Or because Robert Gibbs is a douchebag? lol

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:

(skip to 1:20)

Reuters is pretty neutral
http://www.reuters.com/

intelligence services run media campains and control/create social media phenomena. they do do have informants everywhere. some critical websites/blogs are surely created by intelligence sources to spread disinformation and to create confusion.

None of the above. What's so weird/nefarious/horrible about people in positions of power looking for ways to improve the world? There's probably as much political and economic clout at any dinner Bill Gates holds at his house. What, powerful people might be hypocrites in private to others? What a shocker. What makes you think the meeting is so sinister? There are a bunch of these going on every year with people of similar stature and a lot are way more scary than the mixed bag of people who attend the Bilderberg meetings once a year who all come from different places with different motivations.

OMG Conan is a reptilian from Middle Earth. It all makes sense now.

It's a violation of the Logan Act for our government officials to meet secretly behind closed doors with government officials from other countries. That's what's so weird/nefarious/horrible about it.

Not to mention they are planning eugenics and a dictatorial world government at Bilderberg.

What are you talking about?

Did you even watch the video? Why are you talking about reptilians?

The point of the video is that news agencies are all fed the same script to read.

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.

C-Span...in the mornings also has a period when they read the headlines from a variety of papers across the nation (and this is a mix and not always the same papers) which one can get a feel for the different presentations/slant on a story...as well as a call in period...where one can get a feel for the thinking of ordinary people. They also have a period for guests...politicians...experts etc. that discuss different events in the U.S and the world.

The C-Span moderators...seldom interrupt or inject their own opinions. It is about unbiased as one is going to get.

Easy. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.