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Post by Cornflake on Oct 25, 2014 10:45:51 GMT -5
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Post by Lonnie on Oct 25, 2014 11:36:42 GMT -5
Not sure about this study... I agree that yes, people are exposed to news from diverse sources, but the real question is, who do they believe, what do they retain? FOX News' own tagline is an indicator of what I'm getting at: FOX News - we report, you decide." Decide what, whether it's true and accurate or not?
Yes, I listen to FOX sometimes... when I want a laugh. NPR and the BBC get it right. I listen to right-wing talk radio, too. Rush Limbaugh is a pretentious gasbag who wouldn't know the truth if it bought him dinner...
Sure, I listen to NPR and BBC sometimes... when I want a laugh. FOX gets it right. I listen to left-wing talk radio, too. Ed Schultz is a pretentious gasbag who wouldn't know the truth if it bought him dinner...
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2014 12:47:05 GMT -5
I'm very conservative, both from a behavioral and political perspective, and I'd rather ram a rusty fork in my eye than listen to or watch Fox.
My preset radio news channel is NPR, and I float over to Ahram English or to newsman.jp or KGS Nightwatch for a change up. CNN Online remains my main source of news, mostly because it's like watching an editorial train wreck happen.
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Post by millring on Oct 25, 2014 13:09:30 GMT -5
I'm very conservative, both from a behavioral and political perspective, and I'd rather ram a rusty fork in my eye than listen to or watch Fox. Me too. I doubt the story too, but I admit that FOX and right wing radio has changed the world, and not for the better. There was a Pew poll that recently showed that left wingers are inclined to unfriend those whom it turns out they don't agree with on facebook. Right wingers, on the other hand, tended toward only insular friendships to begin with. That's the opposite of the way it always was before Fox and right wing radio. The right always used to know the left far better than vice versa because the right still had to get its news from left wing sources. Once Fox came along, the right actually became insular and a bit stupid about it. |
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Post by dickt on Oct 25, 2014 13:17:24 GMT -5
Nope I don't tend to unfriend people I disagree with on FB. I tend to unfriend people who persistently parrot Breitbart smears and the like.
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Post by Chesapeake on Oct 25, 2014 14:11:58 GMT -5
The only person I've ever unfriended was a guy (a fairly prominent bluegrasser in the DC area, and an obsessive FB poster about politics) who insisted on referring to people he disagreed with as "swine." At first I thought he was self-lampooning - and I finally asked him if that was the case. He said no. So I unfriended him, not based on whether I agreed with him or not, just because I don't like people who demonize other people. (Or, in this case, piggify.) Or clutter up my screen with epithets.
Edit: Anyway, his views were boringly predictable. Not much original thought going on between those ears.
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Post by fauxmaha on Oct 25, 2014 14:21:09 GMT -5
There is a certain vanity to all this...the notion that if those who disagreed with me would just avail themselves of the information I have, then they would change their views.
As for Fox News, their commentary is obviously well right of center, but I'd put their straight news reporting up against any. They have some of the best people in the business.
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Post by Doug on Oct 25, 2014 14:29:01 GMT -5
If you use any of the general news sites they just link to specific news sites giving you a fairly wide scope. (Google News, Yahoo News, even Drudge) I do find that Drudge tarts up the headlines for the links more than Google but all of them do that to some extent.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2014 18:11:42 GMT -5
As for Fox News, their commentary is obviously well right of center, but I'd put their straight news reporting up against any. As I see it, Fox have trouble keeping their craven lying, editorialising and fear-mongering idiocy separate from their straight news reporting. |
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Post by Doug on Oct 25, 2014 18:43:49 GMT -5
I don't generally go to fox news except as a link to an individual article but looking on their home page.http://www.foxnews.com/
I see 4 headline stories and about 20 other stories in the breaking news section and none of them seem editorializing. Down the page out of the "NEWS" section sure.
Checked nbc news and they are covering the same big story, in more depth. And a few of the other stories that fox news has but not as many or in as much depth.
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Post by fauxmaha on Oct 25, 2014 19:15:41 GMT -5
As for Fox News, their commentary is obviously well right of center, but I'd put their straight news reporting up against any. As I see it, Fox have trouble keeping their craven lying, editorialising and fear-mongering idiocy separate from their straight news reporting. Really? Have you watched Shepard Smith's nightly news show every night for a month straight and compared it to, for example, Brian Williams on NBC? I think Smith's is the most fact-filled, non-biased nightly news show in the US. Do they even broadcast Fox News in the UK? |
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Post by Doug on Oct 25, 2014 20:05:02 GMT -5
I looked at the web page no one watches news on TV anymore so nothing either of them put on TV matters.
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Post by Chesapeake on Oct 25, 2014 20:48:27 GMT -5
There is a certain vanity to all this... And the real vanity is in thinking anybody really gives a shit about what we think. |
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Post by Chesapeake on Oct 25, 2014 20:53:23 GMT -5
That's why I don't post about politics on FB - or at least I don't initiate threads. I do a lot more here because it's, um, fun and stuff.
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Post by Cornflake on Oct 25, 2014 21:19:06 GMT -5
I'm friends with a lot of kinfolk on Facebook, 80 percent of whom disagree with me about politics. And religion. I mostly stay away from religion and almost entirely steer clear of politics there.
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Post by Village Idiot on Oct 25, 2014 21:56:56 GMT -5
I drive around a lot, and I listen to three radio stations. Two are local. One I listen to for farm reports (I'm not a farmer, but we do own land), the other does a good job delivering local news and weather. The other station I listen to is NPR. Hate to say it, but listening to all three stations all day (I average 130 miles driving a day) NPR does seem to be the most balanced in terms of what is happening in the world. Honestly, I do not see side-taking with National Public Radio.
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Post by Village Idiot on Oct 25, 2014 21:57:00 GMT -5
I drive around a lot, and I listen to three radio stations. Two are local. One I listen to for farm reports (I'm not a farmer, but we do own land), the other does a good job delivering local news and weather. The other station I listen to is NPR. Hate to say it, but listening to all three stations all day (I average 130 miles driving a day) NPR does seem to be the most balanced in terms of what is happening in the world. Honestly, I do not see side-taking with National Public Radio.
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Post by Cornflake on Oct 25, 2014 22:22:54 GMT -5
Methinks they bend over backwards to avoid it, VI.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2014 22:56:25 GMT -5
How can you not like a station that brought both Car Talk and Wait Wait Don't Tell Me?
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Post by epaul on Oct 25, 2014 23:12:28 GMT -5
I have noted some bias in NPR.
Recently, I tuned in partway through a NPR program reporting on the importance of funding non-commercial public interest radio in order to create a more informed citizenry. I thought they were being a little biased in their reporting on this subject. Amazingly, they actually stopped and asked for contributions from the public right in the middle of the program. They even offered prizes if you would commit to making regular contributions that added up to a certain amount. And people were actually calling up offering pledges, during the actual program reporting on the funding of public radio, you could hear the phones ringing and people talking. They even kept a running tally of the contributions as they poured in, going so far as to say they would stop their reporting on the story if a certain goal were reached by a certain time. Is that ethical journalism? Stopping the story if you get paid off? I don't know what program that was, but it certainly wasn't up to NPR's usual professional standards. The journalism was worrisome. Even worse, it was kind of tacky.
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