Conservative News Sites Are ‘Too Biased’, Says Panelist
[poll id="2"]Last week several of my colleagues and I met up at a regional luncheon for journalists, and during the panel discussion on Modern Media Ethics one younger woman from St. Paul, Minnesota, made a very troubling accusation, and it it surely one that I heard before:
“To all you right wing panelists, I want to say you’re the most biased pricks on the planet”. She then walked out.
What set her off was a discussion we had about the current economy. One of the gentleman was a correspondent for Fox News’ affiliate in the Twin Cities, and we basically teamed up and let another panel member have it for trying to promote Obama’s stimulus package.
Obama is obviously hurting our country, causing division among races and the unemployment rate has jumped up to 8.5%. American businesses are being forced to close and last week Obama made fascist threats against GM and Chrysler, two of our most important car companies, saying he’d force them into bankruptcy if they didn’t comply to his demands of letting the government own and command their operations. Laissez-faire anyone?
If George Bush was in office, the liberal media would be calling for his impeachment or worse by this point. But now we have people demonizing us traditionally Republican, albeit unbiased Republican, newscasters and journalists for holding President Barack Obama accountable for the promises he made when leading this nation?
Obama is a man who has pledged to give $1 billion to Palestine, a nation where anti-American Hamas terrorists run the show, while we have American children without healthcare and elderly without food and medicine. This is Obama’s America and it it needs to be reported.
Still, our liberal antagonists continued to swear we were biased and one speckled hair fellow from the NBC affiliate suggested that if we really wanted to come off as non-biased, we needed to give and I quote ‘us unbiased liberals’ a true chance to lead discussions and voice opinions in response to our tv and radio shows, and our columns as well.
Fox News has already had this in the works and responded by fully launching My Fox Nation with a few extra features to show our misguided colleagues that no, we do not suppress the truth.
In this news company we’ve always allowed visitors to freely leave comments, generally unabashed for the most part, so as to show we support free speech and communication within reason. We will also take this a step further and if people truly want it, will give them the ability to share ‘article links’ to news they think is pertinent and shows both sides of a story.
Our hope is that through it all, you realize the truth; we are not biased and we simply report the truth as it stands.
So please, let us know your thoughts in the poll I have included. Should this news community, along with our affiliatesallow open posting of links to articles to contest or support our reports, where the votes of the visitors will influence which articles are deemed worthy of prominence?
Let us know in the poll. It can be an interesting social experiment, to say the least, and if the correct amount of support arises I am sure our respective executives will let us try it out.
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Author: Karen Gray
Karen Gray is a student of journalism at LMU and international events columnist for the CW.
I’ve done volunteer work with my local Christian radio station and have heard the same things as well. I think people get confused when trying to discern opinion from reality, and yes, it happens on both sides of the coin form time to time. That’s not to see liberals are far worse, screaming ‘intolerant’ when one may disagree with their viewpoints but saying ‘progressive’ when one does agree.
Isn’t it all relevant to the subject at hand and opinion on the facts to back up a belief system? I find many liberals tend to bend the truth to fit their opinions and so if anything, they need ‘quality controls’ to make sure they aren’t the ones sullying the facts with their points of view (I think that’s what the gentleman you alluded to was trying to say, in a subtle manner).
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Of course conservative sites are biased. That’s why they are “conservative”. Liberal sites are biased too. The problem I really have is that conservative sites pretend that only they provide the “unvarnished truth”. Bullocks. They distort every news story to help push their conservative agenda just as the liberal sites. They pick the stories that help them, ignore the ones that don’t.
Just look at the reporting these sites have done in the last eight years. When we desperately needed a press to question and hold accountable an out of control administration, the conservative sites folded. Sure, the government grew more in a republican administration than almost any time in the past 50 years, but since it’s a republican administration, it was okay.
Now, look at the conservative reporting on the new defense budget. The pentagon saw an INCREASE in their budget, but the conservative sites are claiming the defense budget was gutted. Hardly sounds like the “unvarnished truth”, now does it.
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I find it amusing that Fox promotes itself as fair and balanced and the truth when there are in fact myriad examples of conservative news correspondents distorting, obfuscating, and outright lying. Be objective, present both sides of the issue in a factual manner and let the public decide for themselves. Bill O, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck – these people don’t present an objective viewpoint. They present and highly biased and distorted one. I also find it amusing how hypocritical they. Action taken under Bush they cheerlead, when Obama does it is tyranny and oppression. The sad truth is they are partisian beyond reason.
Fox News went so far as to sue for the right to lie:
“In February 2003, a Florida Court of Appeals unanimously agreed with an
assertion by FOX News that there is no rule against distorting or
falsifying the news in the United States.
“Fox” argued that, under the First Amendment, broadcasters have the right
to lie or deliberately distort news reports on public airwaves. Fox
attorneys did not dispute Akre’s claim that they pressured her to
broadcast a false story, they simply maintained that it was their right to
do so.”
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“Laissez-faire”
Just for the record, Obama isn’t “forcing” the auto companies into bankruptcy. He is threating to not give them any government money.
If this country truly had a free market, the auto industry as well as the financial industry would have gone under long ago.
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If you don’t understand that saying things like “Obama is obviously hurting our country” indicates bias, then you’re blind to your own slant. What may seem obvious to you is not to others, and trying to pass off your opinions as truth is what makes you seem so untrustworthy.
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Y’all liberal commies got to stop messing with Amerifreedom! Stop yer homogay mansexualness from hurting outstandin upright netweorks like FOX
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This thread is now about dragons
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Absolutely predictable and ridiculous. What I hate most about any conversation with a self proclaimed ‘liberal’ is how they are always so sarcastic and have a chip on their shoulders. If it was up to the Democrats our country would be broke and living under countless terror attacks since they don’t know the first thing about fiscal responsibility, diplomatic assertiveness with fairness and the need to preserve the American heritage of this country. Liberal media is very biased and our nation will be a lot better off when they stop clogging up the airwaves with their nonsense.
What also irks me is how they have these little characters on a comedy channel, of all places. Jon Stewart, Steven Cobair and Keith Olbermann (a former late, late night sports commentator)are the ilk of people from who they would accept news as the truth. It’s scary. There are people who let their voting habits be shaped by misinformation from comedians, then they get mad at the legit news channels that objectively present the facts.
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? What is site? is this americans how think?
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BULL FUCKING SHIT! This site alone proves that right wing hitler crazy Flanders people are not bias.
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Right on !! Damn I’m getting addicted to your news.
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Creationists and fact dine at separate tables.
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looks like a homogay mansexual dragon trying to fagitize fellowfolk you socio-commie freedom subverter
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I do not understand this “homogay” term. It makes no sense. “Homo” means “same”, and “gay” means homosexual (or happy), so essentially what “homogay” means is “same homosexual”, or “same happy”.
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Pete’s Dragon = Pedodragon.
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Hear hear! pussy liberals can go have homomansexual america hating parties, but leave the big boy stuff to the republocanz!
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It’s Colbert, not Cobair.
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Thankk you Chuck
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Sad thing is, Stewart and Colbert make more sense than any conservative newscaster I’ve EVER seen.
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Only the stupid ones.
It’s okay though, the stupidest of them are the oldest, and they are finally starting to drop dead, after holding the progress of the country back for so long.
The youth is going to wash all of this shit away with the flood. Democrats and Republicans both. If republicans want any chance of doing anything in the future, they need to stop trying to legislate people’s private lives. There are a lot of independents who vote democrat only because the republicans in office now are pure evil.
We don’t like choosing the lesser of two evils. We want a candidate to come along who isn’t a homophobic asshole, but also understands the importance of the 2nd amendment. How is it that these two traits seem to be mutually exclusive?
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LOL, sad thing is, that’s probably what all of the nuts on this site think of that movie.
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