| richardhutnik said: Anyhow, what happened with Fox News (my take here) is that it picked up that being partisan would draw a specific demographic and to keep feeding it a certain line would cater to a certain group. With some success of that, MS's Need Barack Channel (MSNBC) ended up doing it from the left. Running news 24/7 leads to a need to feed itself with eyeballs, or else it ends up not being able to keep itself afloat. I think 24/7 anything is going to lead to this. I have seen heavy BS in all-sports coverage also, where they make up stories, refute it, and generate a week's worth of news out of nothing before they opened up their mouths. |
But is that necessarily a bad thing? I think the journalism of Fox News and MSNBC could be improved upon, to say the very least, but is it really worse to be flamboyantly biased than it is to be just as biased but couch it in dreary j-school prose such that people who don't know better will just assume that it's the cold hard truth? Personally, I always feel like the former are at least marginally less insulting to my intelligence than the latter and their ridiculous "if I don't tell you I'm biased, you can't know that I'm biased!" mentality.
