| Soleron said: The quiz is mostly specific numbers that no one who hasn't seen the talking-point news article could guess. I was expecting a test on the bill contents and consequences; most of THOSE questions are guessable from content, i.e. would a quiz guy put an All Of The Above if he wasn't going for an ideological stab with it. Conclusion: American news websites are stupid. All of them. -- lol at there even being a religious exemption on the bill, or that the religious liberty argument about healthcare is even an issue that can make it to the Federal courts. |
It's more to see who would pick all of the Above. All of the above can be good trick answers.
That said, among media scholars and such... believe it or not the Chrstian Science Monitor is generally seen as one of the most unbiased news sources out there... in general.
Partially because it was specifically founded to combat the scandal based journalism of the era it was founded in.
When you read there articles you generally not they take extreme care to phrase everything in nuetral broad terms and go out of there way to give both points of view. It's why it's highly respected even by people who are usually sceptical of american media.
For example... this crazy guy who thinks newspapers are controlled by the jewish media.
"All this leaves only one national daily newspaper, The Christian Science Monitor, published in Boston but circulated nationally, with truly objective coverage of the Middle East. The reason is obvious from the title. It is operated, at a loss, by a well-established Protestant denomination and therefore is not answerable to Jewish owners and is not dependent upon Jewish-owned businesses for even a portion of its advertising."
I'd put the CSM up against any news agency from NPR to the BBC to whatever when it comes to unbiased coverage. At least so far as the "Walter Cronkite" type journalism nonbias goes.
The closest you ever get to anyone criticisng it, is someone dismissing it off hand because of it's name.
