Originally posted by sigma: Fox tends to give multiple views, but I won't go so far as to say that it doesn't have a particular slant. It definitely favors a more conservative view-point.
As I said, depends on which program you're watching. Fox news is DEFINATELY better presented. I can't count how many times the broadcast networks presented the "story, evidence, comments" for one side of an issue, while completely leaving out any contrary evidence or substantive rebuttals.
You don't even have to go into any particular story, just look at the coverage of Iraq over the last year. Forever focused on death, desctruction, chaos, and "widespread dissent". No coverage of the good things happening there, no mension that the larger dissenting group is lead by a mullah that has recently returned from exile in Iran for his extreme views, and the fact that many of his followers are Iranian & Syrian.
Almost a year ago, CBS did a poll of the Iraqi people that showed 68% wanted the U.S. to maintain a long term presence in Iraq. That poll got burried on their web site and was not reported in ANY of their news outlets, but at the same time the news reports were quoting politicians & "intillectuals" who indicated that the mojority of Iraqi people thought they were better off under Hussein and wanted the U.S. gone. Remember that?? They had direct evidence to the contrary gathered by their own staff but CHOSE not to report it.
Just last month, the Washington Post printed a story about the UN being notified of radio active stainless steel showing up in Europe for recyling. The IAEA tracked those shipments back to Iraq, and had satellite pictures of ENIRE buildings in suspected nuclear, chemical, & biological facilities dismantled & missing in the months before the war began. Not one broadcast news network picked up the story. The Post even had copies of IAEA letters & reports to back up the story.
That's a major deal. Things like that make the entire broadcast news industry suspect in my view.
