| coolbeans said: Shouldn't these protests just show questions like "Which news channel is most bias?" should be taken as being completely arbitrary? This is just coming from what I've seen/heard from talk radio and TV: Left (CNN, Left radio on Sirius, MSNBC, etc.) on Tea Party: Gun-toting radicals filled with rednecks that'll want to overthrow the government by force. Expect everyone from Glenn Beck's rally to rush towards Captiol Hill/White House with rifles in hand. *Fine over-exaggeration* Left on Occupy: The most peaceful, influential movement of the 21 century (so far) that will save the country. Right( Fox News, Patriot on Sirius) on Tea Party: *See Left on Occupy* Right on Occupy: Left-elitists, hippies, blah blah blah Any late U.S. citizen (came here when they were an adult) has always noted how opinionated EVERY single news outlet in this country is, even NPR. I think it's time for people to wake up to this reality: If you're going to watch/listen to the news, anticipate at least 1 headline to be swaying your opinion. |
The norm is to want to shape something to fit one's perspective on the world and sell it to your target audience in such a way that you end up maintaining your readership. Currently, everything Newscorp is an all out media war against everything Occupy. On page one of the NY Post was a link to an editorial that was entitled "Enough". A day or two before, front page, they ran an article on how Occupy is costing jobs in NYC.
The entire thing is an attempt to sway opinion. Newscorp is Rupert Murdock's mouthpiece used to sway public opinion. That is what happens. And then one can say, "go to new media" which ends up being blogosphere rumor mongering, taking one point, playing the telephone game and having it morph into some zero-point "truth".
