the2real4mafol said:
Kasz216 said:
DarkThanatos said:
the2real4mafol said:
DarkThanatos said:
I'm referring to the factcheckers that are reported over here in the UK.
Where as a general rule we are unbiased towards American elections :P |
I'm not so sure this time, not after Romney said we were not ready to host the olympics (just before the olympics) and yet we hosted one of the best olympics ever. That really pissed off our media and some of us. We are America's closest ally, and yet if Romney became president he would just write us off like that, on a regular basis. Our government don't criticise theirs, so a potential presidential candidate should not be saying stuff like that.
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Even so, our news broadcasting (BBC) is up there with the least corrupt/biased out there. Even though Romney is unpopular in the UK because he is a complete tool- the news would still report the facts.
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Not really... and definitly not when talking about US politics.
The BBC is very pro-statist, anti-spending and willing to show heavy bias as soon as anything that effects them might pass.
As can be seen by their huge swing against the conservatives as soon as it became aparrent they were for trimming the BBC budget a little bit.
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couldn't we say that all news channels are biased in some way against something? It just seems some of them at better at hiding bias than others. Personally, i can't think of one news channel that is completely unbiased. Although, I think the arab Al Jazeera is pretty close to it
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Sure. Although i'd argue there are a few specific kinds of bias.
It would be best if news sites had websites that listed each reporter's and higher ups political beliefs.
I mean intentional bias isn't really a problem. It's easy to spot. Harder is the unintentional bias, where people think they are being even handed about something, but actually aren't because their own views are off center. (and they don't see their views as such.)
Or that they don't know what mainstream views are.
In general, it's been shown for example, that American media on average actually thinks the "middle" is a fair bit more left then where the middle actually is.
Fox News is horribly biased... but it's actually less biased then you'd think, due to most news being slightly leftwing biasd.
