Fox News and Media Bias

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Sam Donaldson was a Young republican but after several years in the media covering politics and current events his political allegiance swung to the left. I believe it was he became better informed. I know personally another fellow who was a republican until he worked for a newspaper and again, as he became better informed had his political views swing to the left.
It is less significant what reporters might believe than it is what media outlets choose to cover and what their editorial policy is. Again the reporter (and later editor) for the New York Times whom I knew was of the opinion that the Times, which is often pilloried by the right as a Northeastern bastion of left wing bias, took a moderately conservative stance on most issues.

Craig B. Olds of WA 2:17AM March 21, 2012

By the way, Newsvine never activated my account or published my posts either and I assure you they were not mistaken for right wing diatribes. I think their just slow on the uptake.

Craig B. Olds of WA 12:27AM March 24, 2010

There may be some intrinsic bias in the mainstream media, in fact I am sure there is. Generally I think it comes from the fact that big media outlets have parent companies that have axes to grind. GE owns MSNBC- they may make some coin marketing some of their news programing to the left but they still fawn over Ronald Reagan, they still trot out Joe Scarborough and they still choose what gets covered. Little comparative examination of our health care system in relation to health care in other wealthy nations was seen on MSNBC or any other mainstream media. The money just was not behind it.
FOX may be symptomatic of a media system driven by profit and not by substance but it is still worth pointing out, over and over again if necessary that this very popular media outlet is not only not fair or balanced but can hardly be called news at all, so blatant is it's political stance. It is an irresponsible use of the airwaves to wield that kind of power with no allegiance to the truth and the only reasonable answer to it is for other media outlets, like the Washington Post, to call FOX out on it.

Craig B. Olds of WA 12:21AM March 24, 2010

I blog on most of the mass media blogs, including the web, television and some radio. CNN is getting worse than they used to be and sometimes Fox is slanted and CBC and ABC are slanted too but the absolute worst in MSNBC, NBC, and Newsvine. Newsvine is a joke I registered and then posted comments on Newsvine twice. My account was then left in limbo. I contacted them twice to activate my account but no response from them. I then went on the web and found that hundreds of other people who submitted comments (which Newsvine did not agree with) had their accounts closed, inactivated, or their contacts ignored by Newsvine. Just a difference of opinion? Think so? I thought even Socialists believed in a free press. Apparently not. I voted for President Obama (like many Independents) hoping he was a centrist but I was wrong. It doesn't matter anymore anyway because the gravy train is almost over for the "Progressives." I can smell the fear ozing out of the TV screen. This time in history is just like when Woodrow Wilson was in office. The Progressives always thought they were smarter than the old dumb masses. The American people know when
something is wrong. Gee, now I realize why I don't watch NBC or MSNBS. Now I know not to respond to news stories on Newsvine (MSNBC, owned by MSN and NBC, owns Newsvine.) So remember people, every time you send an email on Hotmail (which is MSN) or you make a comment on Newsvine (which is NBC), you may never get your message thru. And we thought the Democrats were liberal.

call me Roy of SD 3:14PM February 15, 2010

Excellent research on this subject was conducted by a Political Science Professer at UCLA. Check it out (Media Bias Is Real,Finds UCLA Political Scientiest/UCLA Newsroom)...

j di stasio of CO 10:35PM December 09, 2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I0QN-FYkpw
art's career in a flash... I mean, a career gone in a flash

tom of CA 3:26PM November 15, 2008

The media was so bias, and it didn't take Fox news to tell us that, the whole world saw it. They carried the left-wing illuminati the entire election.

Ms. Know of GA 10:00PM November 14, 2008

FACTS:
1) Editor Newsweek Evan Thomas ..quote:
"There is a liberal bias. It's demonstrable. You look at some statistics. About 85 percent of the reporters who cover the White House vote Democratic, they have for a long time.There is a, particularly at the networks, at the lower levels, among the editors and the so-called infrastructure, there is a liberal bias.
There is a liberal bias at Newsweek, the magazine I work for -most of the people who work at Newsweek live on the upper West Sidein New York and they have a liberal bias....[ABC White House reporter] Brit Hume's bosses are liberal and they're always quietly denouncing him as being a right-wing nut."
- Newsweek Washington Bureau Chief Evan Thomas.
FACT 2.
Whether you agree or not there is a media bias as this UCLA study indicates of the 20 major media outlets studied, 18 scored left of center,
with CBS' "Evening News," The New York Times and the
Los Angeles Times ranking second, third and fourth most biased.
FACT 3.
"An Obama Tilt in Campaign Coverage" by Deborah Howell Ombudsman
The Post provided a lot of good campaign coverage, but readers have been consistently critical of the lack of probing issues coverage and what they saw as a tilt toward Democrat Barack Obama.
My surveys, which ended on Election Day, show that they are right on both counts.
"The op-ed page ran far more laudatory opinion pieces on Obama, 32,
than on Sen. John McCain, 13.
There were far more negative pieces (58) about McCain
than there were about Obama (32), "
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/07/AR2008110702895.html?sub=new
Fact 4.
Biased news study
by http://www.journalism.org/node/13309
Obama's coverage: 36% positive, 29% negative, 35% neutral,
McCain's coverage 14% positive, 58% negative,28% neutral.
"In the news media, that tumultuous week played terribly for McCain, the second bad one in a row. While Obama enjoyed more than a 5:1 ratio of positive to negative coverage that week, McCain’s was the reverse. A mere 11% of his stories were positive while 50% were negative. Another 40% were neutral.
So if you are objective, logical and rationale readers,
and you hear statements like:The MSM's slavish ("my leg tingled when I heard Obama" Chris Matthews) THERE IS AND HAS BEEN A MSM bias!
Advertising sells right? Well people usually flip the commercials for the content and in the above FACTS the content presented Obams as the Messiah
and McCain/GOP the bad guys!
Any of you who ignore these studies of biased MSM have been drinking the kool-AID of Jim Jonesville!!!

Lee of FL 7:36PM November 14, 2008

Shouldn't Kool-Aid be getting royalties every time a journalist, news commentator, or Rush uses the term Kool-Aid? And when will Kool-Aid be re-stocking the ever popular Obama Kool-Aid? I haven't been able to find it anywhere.

Mia of WI 3:52AM November 14, 2008

Fox News itself has peddled the idea that all mainstream media is liberally biased. The McCain camp only gave interviews to conservative-leaning outlets--including Faux--I mean Fox News. Remember, this is where "Obama's Baby Mama" originated, along with the Obamas' "terrorist fist jab." Fox News doesn't deserve a lot of things, but it does deserve props for executing a brilliant marketing campaign for disgruntled Joe's looking for a hip bar to cry into their beer.

Mia of 3:43AM November 14, 2008